#frsos

[shittyclive]

is it still valentines. are we still rocking with valentines.

well some lovely wishes from vincent and ummmm....... uh... wh.. who invited this rat woman-

[all-things-are-nothing-to-me]

A must read for all of the kiddos getting into organizing rn. Read and print the whole thing here.

[madamepestilence]

If you still support Biden after this massacre and you still tout that Trump is magically worse despite all the evidence presented that Biden is clearly willing, as Commander-in-Chief of all branches of the United States military and President of the United States,

to directly participate in a genocide, allowing a message on the official White House website directly congratulating and commending Israel for performing a massacre of 200+ Palestinians and the injuries of 400+ more Palestinians,

under the guise of a, "rescue mission," for a literal handful of captives, in which Israeli Zionist media directly thanks the US for its assistance, in which they directly admit the US military was involved,

in which Biden directly said, "There is no genocide happening in Gaza." on live TV like some sick combination between 1984's Ministry of Truth and Avatar the Last Airbender's There is no war in Ba Bing Se,

with soldiers having been disguised as doctors and humanitarian aid workers, in which the US is attempting to sanction the ICC and ICJ for their actions against Israel, in which the US is one of the only remaining countries defending Israel,

You are a fascist. Own it or drop it.

You do not care about freedom. You do not care about democracy. You do not care about societal change. You do not care about black and brown people. You do not care about the Muslims, Jews, and Christians in Palestine. You do not care about the global South.

You have two choices: own up to the fact that you're a fascist and don't bother voting, or fucking decolonize your ideology and work for a better future.

Biden is not the only option, you're just a fucking fascist. There are other Democratic candidates. There is Cornel West, the best option for the election. There is Jill Stein, the most likely to gain enough ballot access to win the election.

Prove to me you're not a fascist, you piece of shit.

Join a Socialist or Communist organization, like Communist Party USA, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, Freedom Road Socialist Organization if you want to do underground work, Socialist Rifle Association if you want to learn how to fight, Unity-Struggle-Unity if you want to revolt on the date of the next US economic crash.

Hell, join a more liberal party if you're scared, like Democratic Socialists of America, or the Green Party.

The Democratic Party has shown its true colours, and it's fascism.

Become the better red. Become a Communist.

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

New Orleans Eyewitness Report Back: LGBTQ Rights in Cuba

Thursday, June 22 - 6:00 p.m.

Parish Hall, 2533 Columbus St., New Orleans, LA

In May, a solidarity delegation organized by Women in Struggle traveled to Havana to bear witness to the achievements of the LGBTQ community there.

We saw the fruits of the new Families Code, a groundbreaking law advancing equality for all families, women, LGBTQ people, disabled people, and elders. Come learn about the country with us!

[feral-catgirl]

part of the reason american labor sucks so much is that most people are incapable of identifying and separating the revolutionary proletariat from the labor aristocracy.

this failure of analysis and investigation results in both the economism of the DSA and various ML orgs failing to actually lead workers and instill communist politics among them (bc they default to platforming yellow union leadership instead of acting as a political vanguard) on one hand, and the patent stupidity of third worldists abdicating the responsibility of trying to organize towards revolution in the imperial core at all (because they believe it impossible on the grounds that there is no revolutionary proletariat) on the other.

its patently obvious in the way people will take statements from union leadership as indicative of the voices and desires of the rank and file, whether its professing support for contracts that actually fuck over huge swathes of workers (as with the recent teamsters contract throwing part timers under the bus) or condemning reactionary positions as indicative of the positions if the rank and file (ie. people criticizing SEIU/workers united for both-sidesing palestinian resistance and israeli genocide but ignoring that statements from rank and file and small locals are overwhelmingly supportive of palestine).

it is fully impossible to build red unions and properly organize people towards a politically motivated general strike without acknowledging and understanding the composition of the unions and the contradictions between racist, anticommunist, antiworker union bureaucrats and the overwhelmingly dispossessed and disaffected rank and file workers who in many places are independently seeking out communist political education themselves that any large org fancying itself a “vanguard” would be providing already were they not incompetent and ineffectual.

[mxinevitable]

Hey y'all you should read this if you're in the movement

Red Flags: Before You Join That Org…

You NEED TO READ THIS IF YOU ARE CONSIDERING JOINING A POLITICAL ORGANIZATION

[connorthemaoist]

By Ramón Mercader | kites-journal.org

1 April 2024

During a recent central committee meeting, held via zoom, leaders of Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) discussed how to build off of the great success of their letter-writing campaign thanking pro-Israel Chicago mayor, Brandon Johnson, for his belated support for a nonbinding city council ceasefire resolution passed after more than 25,000 Palestinians had been killed by Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. While very proud of themselves for the letter-writing campaign, along with their advocacy for a toothless civilian police review board and other paltry reforms in Chicago, FRSO leadership was not content to run cover for the bourgeoisie at the local level, and wanted to do so on the national political stage. They saw an opportunity in the widespread frustration with the Democratic Party’s choice of Joe Biden as its 2024 candidate and fear that the far more energetic and popular Republican candidate, Donald Trump, would trounce Biden at the polls in November. In accordance with the mass line—or at least FRSO’s interpretation of it—FRSO leadership decided that the best course of action would be to unite with the broad criticism of Biden as being too old to run for a second term and propose a different candidate, one a year older than Biden and even more decrepit than him, but who would do a much better job steering rebellious Black proletarians and protesters for Palestine back into the fold of bourgeois-democracy: Jesse Jackson.

Putting Jesse Jackson on the ballot was a logical choice for FRSO, as they and their predecessor, the Revolutionary [sic] Workers Headquarters, had been ardent supporters of his 1984 and 1988 presidential runs, with the Jackson campaigns serving as a sort of 1980s after-party to their celebration of the 1976 counterrevolutionary coup that ended socialism in China. With Jackson, FRSO saw in the 1980s and sees today the ideal presidential candidate around whom to build a strategic alliance—of union bureaucrats, nonprofit organization activists, and local Democratic Party politicians—aimed at diverting protest and rebellion into electoral politics. FRSO considers replacing Biden on the ballot with Jackson an urgent task, given that so many people in the US right now have lost faith in bourgeois politics when police brutality remains rampant despite all the calls for and enactment of reforms and with even the most supposedly progressive Democrats in office failing to do anything to stop Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. In a quite good statement issued by its central committee, FRSO proclaimed that “given the present, growing crisis of legitimacy for the bourgeoisie, Jesse Jackson is the right stuff for US imperialism.”

[thescoutgaymer]

Pffhsshhtt

Whorven is that?

WAITSEH CAN CUT MY PAY?? DJCJXK FUCM

Uhh ish fine... I got ma pals soldier ajdn emdoonmnan!

Wait

Wjeat are they?

Who needs sleepnwhen ya have toness of driksks andddddd

friends???

[read-marx-and-lenin]

do you have any tips for someone who just joined an org (frso) for the first time ?

Your first priority should be to learn as much as you can from the organization. Listen, observe, and ask questions, and develop a strong understanding of the organization's activities and positions and how they relate to other parties and tendencies and to the broader context of working class organization in the United States.

[phosphorshy]

these horses so trans fr

so true

[shittyclive]

look at my guy.

[all-things-are-nothing-to-me]

Fuck the DNC, Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, the PSL, RCA, FRSO and all cops!

[fishingcatz]

thinking about making the plunge and joining the FRSO

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

New Orleans participants of the delegation U.S. Friends Against Homophobia and Transphobia gave a report back on their recent experiences in Havana. This forum was part of the National Network on Cuba’s #OffTheList Action Weekend.

Verde Gil Jímenez — a young communist, transmasculine organizer from Cuba — joined the panel live and gave the following presentation.

[chaosmenu]

thoughts on march on the dnc

if you go to a march that is explicitly stated to be open to everybody, peaceful, and family friendly and you try to escalate it into a militant action while boxed in by the cpd I AM TAKING SHIT OUT YOUR HOUSE!

frso did an incredible job organizing this event especially when it comes to keeping everybody safe and out of prison on top of getting such a huge group of people to participate. out of the entire sect of major american socialist organizations they are the ones doing the most work in comparison to the amount of members they have. i remember them posting the call to shuttle people from fucking tampa florida over to dc for the march on the rnc and they made it happen then so im not surprised they showed up for the dnc too

who cares about the anarcho brat guy

[quicksilverserpent]

If the enemy is never attacked how can you expect them to ever weaken? Without one little wound after another inflicted again and again constantly how will they die a death by thousand cuts? If you leave it to the worsening international situation to handle that you're just resigning to your own pointlessness when there's important work you could be doing. We do desperately need to get organized but what has our past party building produced but embarassments? Does anyone seriously trust the likes of FRSO or the PSL to do whats required when the time does come? Are we going to get better or are we just going to get more cringe inducing opportunists unserious career activists and sex pests? Quality organization is built in and through the struggle by the lessons it teaches not by avoiding it.