Drastic new attacks on the right to abortion: women’s basic freedoms on the line
Women are facing the fight of our lives.
From livable city to company town: How Amazon and Boeing ate Seattle
In just a couple decades, billionaire businesses have intensified poverty, homelessness and dislocation in Seattle. This city has a long tradition of labor rebellion which it can surely revive.
History was made at the first national queers of color conference, 1979
From the archives of the Freedom Socialist, this article describes a milestone conference in D.C. hosted by the Coalition of Black Gays. It was attended by hundreds of Blacks, Chicanos, Native Americans, Asian Americans, whites, Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, Nicaraguans and Canadians — with radical politics and promise.
Socialists: we’re not all the same
Revolutionary versus democratic socialists • Why not run as a Democrat in elections • The point of a revolutionary party — vital discussion for all radicalized activists.
Anti-feminism, racism, bureaucracy — The meltdown of International Socialist Organization
An analysis of the roots of ISO’s disintegration, and an explanation of why feminism, anti-racism and a revolutionary party are key to principled radical organizing.
Latin American updates
U.S. returns to the “big stick” in Venezuela; in Mexico, maquila strikers spread demands for union democracy.
Exposing the roots of MS-13: Immigrant youth need jobs and education
Caribbean immigrant author explains why the U.S. is pivotal in creating youth gangs, and calls for a halt to the demonization and police violence against Latino gangs.
Christchurch, New Zealand: Rise in fascist terror cries out for urgent action
This statement by the Australian sections of Freedom Socialist Party and of Radical Women came out immediately after the March massacre of Muslins in New Zealand.
US Women’s Soccer team closes ranks for equal pay
This world champion, vastly popular squad of athletes is winning victories against astonishing sexist discrimination, and stirring others to do likewise.
A political awakening in the age of Trump
A graduate from the right-to-work state of Idaho, on why he joined the Freedom Socialist Party.
Book review: Revolution, She Wrote
Author Clara Fraser explains with attitude why her long-lived life was thrilling and fulfilled — because she’d been fighting for a better future for all. “The momentum of history, like the logic of science, is on our side.”
A witness to lasting ruin in Vietnam
A riveting report on visiting the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City. “Vietnam’s torment was part of a long line of capitalist conquests that continue to this day.”
Labor Weather Report, June 2019
April 2019 — Stop & Shop: win and loss. Over three thousand Stop & Shop supermarket workers in New England
Rainbow warriors needed!
On this 50th anniversary year of the courageous Stonewall rebellion, LGBTQ leadership is again needed on the frontlines against today’s bigots of reaction.
Defend Assange and Manning
Shame on the mainstream press for applauding the arrest of WikiLeaks journalist Julian Assange, and timidly reporting the re-jailing of trans woman Chelsea Manning for the “crime” of whistleblowing. Stop the war on freedom of the press!
All out for the planet
Hats off to the million students worldwide who protested global warming on March 15! Let’s follow the leadership of youth. It’s a battle we all need to win.
