The Liberation Support Movement (1968–1982): International Solidarity in Action (w/ Steve Goldfield)

In this episode, I speak with Steve Goldfield, who is an elder of the anti-imperialist and Marxist-Leninist left about the organization he was a part of in the 1970s and 80s called the Liberation Support Movement (LSM). LSM (1968–1982) was a North American, Marxist-Leninist solidarity group whose main mission was to cultivate U.S. and Canadian support for African liberation movements, forging direct partnerships with revolutionary organizations in countries like Angola, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. We discussed some of LSM’s cadre organization work in North America, which included raising funds for these revolutionary organizations, sending printing equipment, and sending medicines and clothes, alongside other theoretical and ideological work. We also discussed comrade Steve’s solidarity trips to different parts of Africa and West Asia, where they did work interviewing African revolutionaries and publishing these interviews. We looked at how the LSM internally organized itself and what lessons can be drawn from their example in today’s context, as well as how Steve thinks about how the state of capitalism and imperialism has changed today from the time of the LSM, and how resistance to them is shaping up today.Liberation Support Movement's digital archive (including pamphlets, transcripts of interviews with African revolutionaries, etc.): https://africanactivist.msu.edu/organization/210-813-777/Journal of International Solidarity LinksPatreon: https://patreon.com/internationalsolidaritypodcast/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/journalofintlsolidarity/ Substack: https://intlsolidarity.substack.com/