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December 2020
Online discussion – The confounding 2020 election: analysis and next steps for action
Online public forum and discussion: • Why voters made the choices they did and the roles played by gender and race • “Lesser evil” politics – a winning strategy? • How workers can survive the pandemic and fight the deepening economic crisis Speakers: Annaliza Torres, Seattle FSP Organizer, Comrades of Color Caucus member, unionist, and anti-fascist stalwart; and Jed Holtz, New York City FSP Organizer and campaigner against the far right and police brutality. Hosted by Freedom Socialist Party –…
Find out more »Online Study Group: The State and Revolution
A tidal wave of protest against racist police violence coinciding with a deadly pandemic, the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, and environmental devastation is presenting social activists with urgent and profound political challenges. • How do we understand and expose the role of the police and legal system in sustaining white male supremacy and class exploitation? • What demands will most challenge the capitalist status quo, create meaningful change, and empower working and oppressed people? • What will…
Find out more »End Homelessness Now-LA Meeting
This is a working meeting to gather endorsements on EHN-LA's letter urging the city council, mayor, and top administrative officials to implement publicly-owned social housing as the solution to both homelessness and housing insecurity. The city council recently passed a motion asking city administrators to explore international examples of social housing and make recommendations for Los Angeles. Other cities and countries are way ahead of us in providing a lot of high-quality housing outside of the profit-driven commodity market. There…
Find out more »Revolutionary New Year’s Party: Celebrating Working-class Resilience & Resistance!
Although 2020 brought economic crises, a devastating pandemic, and continued police brutality, working people around the globe rose up and fought back! This zoom party will feature a look back at movement victories in 2020 and a look ahead to the coming year’s fightbacks. Hear reports of current organizing you can get involved with, enjoy some trivia and puzzle games, and soak in some socialist feminist determination as we get ready to face the challenges of 2021! Join us and…
Find out more »Online NYE Party – Celebrating Working-class Resilience & Resistance!
2020 brought economic crises, a devastating pandemic, and continued police brutality, but working people, led by Blacks, women, immigrants, and all essential workers around the globe, rose up and fought back! Celebrate this resistance and ring in 2021 online this New Year's Eve. Laugh at the “Ode to 2020,” toast the achievements of 2020, plot to continue the defiance in 2021, be a part of the “New Year's Eve Hat” contest (prizes will be awarded) and join rooms to socialize,…
Find out more »January 2021
Online Reading Group – “Their Morals and Ours” by Leon Trotsky
This online reading group will discuss Leon Trotsky's "Their Morals and Ours" which explains how morality is rooted in the interests of contending social classes, the working class versus the owning class. Participating in the revolutionary workers movement "with open eyes and an intense will – only this can give the highest moral satisfaction to a thinking being," Trotsky writes. Register for the event on Zoom Reading is available free on marxists.org
Find out more »Maintain the momentum of 2020: Deaths in custody must stop — learn how!
When cops in the U.S. shot George Floyd it made global headlines. Yet the all too frequent deaths of First Nations people at the hands of police and prison authorities do not generate the same level of media interest and community outrage. In 2020, many more people realised how wrong this is! Multiracial crowds marched in Indigenous led protests asserting that Black and Indigenous Lives Matter. There were outpourings of solidarity as people shared, tweeted, signed petitions, donated and demanded…
Find out more »Pin@y Power: Building Multi-Racial Working-Class Movements
Pin@y Power: Building Multi-Racial Working-Class Movements Forced to flee poverty in their motherland under U.S. exploitation, Filipin@s have relocated throughout the world and brought their legacy of uniting against oppression with them. Whether resisting dictatorships at home, or racial divisions in organizing with others in Hawaii and the U.S. mainland, they have a long history of building working-class solidarity. Filipin@s have forged multi-ethnic alliances during the Third World student strikes in the 1960s, organized farmworkers, and stood in solidarity with…
Find out more »Freedom Ride for Housing and Community Caravan and Livestreaming for Justice Now!
Services Not Sweeps, LA CAN, the Martin Luther King Coalition of Greater Los Angeles and many other organizations are collaborating on a Freedom Ride for Housing and Community Caravan and Livestreaming for Justice Now on MLK Day, January 18. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this is an in-car only event. Car Caravan starts at LA CAN, 838 East 6th Street at 10:00am and will converge on several locations throughout Los Angeles To join the Freedom Socialist Party Contingent, call 323-732-6416…
Find out more »39th Annual Seattle MLK Jr. Day Rally and March
March with Radical Women and the Freedom Socialist party at this year's event sponsored by the MLK Jr. Organizing Coalition. Workshops are being held online this year from Jan. 12-16. Details at SeattleMLKCoalition.org. Meet at Garfield High School, 23rd and Jefferson Volunteers needed! Call 206-722-2453 to help make signs and prepare for the day.
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