#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.”

[vilecrocodile]

personally i would stay away from PSL. im sure chapters vary, but its absolutely not just the top thats shit. though i had a few valuable experiences, for the most part i look back on my membership as a big waste of my time, energy, and money. i would not reccomend it, particularly to anyone young and financially/demographically vulnerable

ive found issue-based organizing to be by and large more valuable and productive, especially for meeting like-minded communists. just my personal experience.

also ok my followers are like more than half usa/canada— DOES ANYONE KNOW OF ANY GOOD ORGS? PLEASE? i wanna get organized for new years but all of them fucking suck

[mesetacadre]

how does one choose a group to get organized with? only recently really got serious with wanting to be a communist (silly phrase sorry) and in this time all ive seen is just unending talk about how the biggest/most established groups suck and have problems with sexual assault and misogyny and abuse and etc. i know the answer is to talk extensively with people i trust who have had experience with this but im afraid i dont really have those contacts. at most i can dm mutuals i havent talked to before.

i feel like the best option for me is to organize with a small tight knit group but that feeling is entirely vibes based and it seems like most groups like that dont really get anything done.

sorry to drop this on you as a tumblr blog lol. i promise to not make major decisions based off of ur sole response ❤️

Sounds like you're in the US which means it almost entirely depends on the state or city in which you live. It's very common for some org/party to suck almost all of the time except for a few state chapters. I know the FRSO is better than the PSL in some aspects such as not wasting massive amounts of resources in electoral campaigns, their internal structure is not as similar as to that of a cult, and it's more likely to be changed. Of course CPUSA should be avoided than the plague. But regardless you should talk with other US commies, maybe some of my followers/mutuals are willing to give you better pointers depending on where you are. I've also seen some people say it's better to start off with a small, local group and build off there, but that has its drawbacks, just like established orgs do.

[shittyclive]

look at my guy.

[thescoutgaymer]

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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.

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

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

[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.

[marxistlesbianist]

re: the vanguard party engaging in class struggle, what does that actually mean? im always kind of confused about what building class consciousness looks like outside of educating people and combating western propaganda

Labor union activities, protests and demonstrations, community survival programs (food banks, clothing drives, etc.), electoral politics (under certain circumstances), basically anything the working class can do to advance it's position.

All of these activities will still occur in absence of a vanguard party, but they are usually rather spontanious, directionless, and/or disconnected, making them relatively easy for the bourgeois state to smother. The role of the vanguard party is to first formulate an understanding of the specifics of class conflict in its respective society, second to use this understanding to identify the causes most important to the masses and the tactics most likely to achieve them, and third to engage in such actions and take note of how the movement goes. Rinse and repeat.

Many labor unions are started by partisans--especially in times of low class conflict--but then the union once seeded grows faster than the party that sowed it. The labor movement spreads as disgruntled but otherwise apolitical workers see that there is a way to address their pains and are inspired to follow it. The rise of class consciousness can be seen in the history of the labor movement as the proletariat progressed from fighting for shorter work days in individual factories to demanding a national minimum wage. Then, when the western labor movement was all but stopped in the 70s and 80s, the defeated proletariat lost much of its class consciousness, and stopped fighting so hard against exploitation.

The big drives toward the theoretical education of the masses usually occur during or immediately following mass action, as many people are more likely to be inspired to read Lenin after joining a protest.

If you are interested in a more thorough exploration of this topic, I highly recommend this article:

[dizzymoods]

FRSO publishing an article against the primacy of settler colonialism in america. How shall we deal with them?