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October 2020
Online Study group: Transforming rage about racism, national oppression and state brutality into permanent change
Black and Indigenous Lives Matter! Transforming rage about racism, national oppression and state brutality into permanent change The cry “Black Lives Matter” is reverberating across the globe. Huge, ongoing street protest is showing that the systemic racism which led to the brutal police murder of George Floyd knows no borders. Australian protests have put attention on the epidemic of Indigenous deaths at the hands of police and prison authorities. The similarities — right down to the plea, “I can’t breathe!”…
Find out more »Women’s March & Mass March to Defund the NYPD, Tax the Rich and Stop the Layoffs
This Saturday, October 17th join Freedom Socialist Party and Radical Women for the Women's March to protest the Supreme Court nomination and the Mass March to Defund the NYPD, Tax the Rich and Stop the Layoffs. Hit the streets for a day of united action against the right-wing agenda to rollback women's rights, ramp up racist policing, and force through austerity job cuts. All these attacks are connected- and we must come together to fight against them. Both marches are…
Find out more »Socialist and Labor Contingent to Protest Proud Boys
Saturday, October 17th, 11:30 am Mission High School steps 3750 18th St. (near Dolores) The Proud Boys have called a rally to take place in Dolores Park in SF this Saturday, 10/17. They are supposedly protesting Twitter, who shut down their accounts, but this is certainly a reaction to protests against police brutality, especially targeting the liberal/left-leaning Bay Area as they have done in the past. Unionists and community activists are mobilizing to say NO to the Proud Boys, NO…
Find out more »Online discussion – U.S. elections 2020: What will it take to deliver for workers and the poor?
In these times of Black-led rebellion, with pandemic, economic and environmental crises coming to a head, it’s no surprise that passions over the presidential election are running high. It is natural to want Trump, a reactionary president aspiring to dictator status, gone from the White House. But these systemic problems aren’t caused by one individual. While the election outcome is impossible to predict, racial injustice will not go away under Biden or Trump. Neither will economic hardship and vulnerability. Nor…
Find out more »Socialist Feminist Contingent in the Women’s March
Women hold up the world, and they can tear down capitalism! Join the Freedom Socialist Party and Radical Women at the Seattle Women's March at Seattle City Hall.
Find out more »Feminists of Color Speak Out
Feminists of Color Speak Out: Women must control our fate – our bodies! our lives! our political destiny! In addition to racist police violence and a deadly pandemic, women face the brutality of forced sterilization and the loss of access to birth control and abortion. Hardest hit are immigrant women in ICE concentration camps, Indigenous women, and women of color. Join socialist feminist immigrant rights fighter Yolanda Alaniz and Indigenous feminist community organizer Brenda Gutierrez in a discussion of what…
Find out more »Online discussion: Fighting as one for democratic rights
Federal cops arresting BLM protesters in Portland. Mail sorting machines shut down and blue mail drop boxes disappeared. Latinx names erased from voter rolls. While the pandemic rages on, especially in communities of color, and the economy crumbles, the attacks on basic democratic rights escalate and the cheerleader of the ultraright in the White House tries to steal the 2020 presidential election. Mobilizing and fighting as one for racial justice, working-class economic survival, climate healing, health care and the rights of…
Find out more »Online radical reading group – Challenging the capitalist status quo: State and Revolution
A tidal wave of protest against racist police violence coinciding with a deadly pandemic and the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression are 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 it take to transform protest…
Find out more »Online study group – Challenging the capitalist status quo: State and Revolution
A tidal wave of protest against racist police violence coinciding with a deadly pandemic and the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression are 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 it take to transform protest…
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…
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