Why I Joined

Learning what it means to be a leader

April 2021

Nancy Reiko Kato on how engaging with the Freedom Socialist Party and learning about Marxist theory and working-class history “gave me the confidence to turn theory into action.”

Fred Hyde — on a mission to change the world

February 2021

Profile of a revolutionary lawyer and unionist, offering inspiration for Hyde’s own generation of baby-boomer activists and for newer rebels waging the good fight.

FSP speaks to all of me as a working-class Chicana

August 2020

MEChA activist Christina López gave up on politics during Clinton’s presidency. But after getting involved with FSP and RW, she “finally understood why the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.”

Pastrami, passion, and politics

April 2020

Steve Strauss allies with FSP because “it grasps in its bones” that a revolutionary party develops leaders from the ranks of the most oppressed.

“When my world opened”

August 2019

“I was too busy already. Married. Me, an activist? A thinker, a doer? An organizer?” Bay Area poet Nellie Wong describes her journey into radical politics.