Excerpts from a 1989 keynote speech by FSP co-founder Clara Fraser at a conference called “Parallels and Intersections: Racism and Other Forms of Oppression. Highly relevant to debates about intersectionality and identity politics today.
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Where Matters Stand With Me
Newly translated into Spanish, this rousing 1978 piece by Radical Women co-founder and longtime Freedom Socialist Party leader Gloria Martin is a testament to the logic of socialism plus feminism.
Mi manifiesto
Publicado originalmente en el “Boletín de debate de la Pre-Conferencia del Comité para un Partido Socialista Revolucionario (CRSP por sus siglas en inglés)”, por la cofundadora de Mujeres Radicales, Gloria Martin el 1º de octubre de 1978 A LOS 62 AÑOS, PUEDO REFLEXIONAR acerca de tantos años de discriminación y de amarga derrota frecuente por… Read more »
Strong Medicine: Toxic Capitalism and the Socialist Cure
Revisiting feminist author Megan Cornish’s talk at the Imagine Revolution Conference held in Seattle in November 2002.
Anti-racist politics finish first at 1968 Olympics
The little-known story of an Australian runner’s solidarity with U.S. Black athletes.
Get profits out of the energy industry
A statement from the write-in presidential candidate Stephen Durham during the Hurricane Sandy crisis of 2012.
Viva la Raza!
On the 50th anniversary of the walkouts by 10,000 overwhelmingly Chicana/o high-schoolers in Los Angeles, celebrate the Chicano movement with this 1977 editorial in English and Spanish from the Freedom Socialist archives.
George Bush: our CIA man in the White House
From 1989, after George H.W. Bush became president, a Freedom Socialist editorial that reminds people of his murderous crimes as CIA chief and warns of dangers to come.
United Front repels neo-Nazi threat
From 1990, the story of the successful 1980s fight to keep the Northwest from becoming an “Aryan homeland.”
Collapse of the Soviet Union? Only workers’ revolt can stave it off
Gorbachev, hat in hand, begging food from Bush and the bankers. Perestroika? Bleached bones in a pauper’s unmarked grave. The people in Moscow are hungry and sullen, all the grand prospects of the past five years gone. The reforms, the hope of the market — litter in the streets, buried in winter’s vast drifts. Hardline… Read more »
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