April 2020
Online Study Group: What Will It Take to Save a World in Crisis? Reform vs. Revolution
The global pandemic, impending economic collapse, and the survival of the earth itself at risk—with stakes this high, how do we focus our organizing? Can the course reversal we need be achieved through piecemeal reforms and voting in democratic socialists? Or will it take a complete transformation of the current capitalist system? In this remote access-study group, we’ll discuss the current crisis and concrete steps toward moving humanity through it. Historic debates over the relationship between battling for vital social…
Find out more »May 2020
Safety First – Not Profit: Frontline Essential Workers Speak Out
From healthcare providers to grocery clerks, to utility workers, people staffing essential services are being asked to sacrifice safety to reduce costs and protect profits. But there’s more than enough wealth to provide the equipment, procedures, and distancing necessary to stop COVID-19 and all other workplace hazards. Hear San Francisco Water Department plumber Amy Gray-Schlink and Amazon-Whole Foods shopper Sam Rubin describe efforts to fight for worker protections at their jobs, and what it will take to win. Add your…
Find out more »Poetry in the Time of the Pandemic and Other Earthly Ills
Join award-winning poets Nellie Wong, Genny Lim, Kim Shuck, Maw Shein Win, and Alice Rogoff reading a selection of their works. These five Bay Area poets will share their lifelong experience of current events past and present through verse. This is a live online event hosted on Zoom. After purchasing a ticket, you will be provided the registration link in email to complete details to join the webinar on the day of the poetry reading....
Find out more »July 2020
Demand Radical Reforms: A Discussion on Reining in the Police
Working people are rebelling against police repression and brutality throughout the world. The murder of George Floyd ignited another round of protests. Communities are unified in their demand for substantive change to rein in the terror that cops perpetuate. Calls are being raised to defund, disarm, abolish, and/or demilitarize the police, kick the cops out of the union movement, and create an elected civilian review board. What do each of these demands mean and what would they accomplish? Join the…
Find out more »Organizing Meeting: Stop Police Violence – Slash the SFPD Budget
Join with community members and activists to kick off a coalition that will call on the San Francisco City government to make major cuts to the police budget. By decreasing the cops’ allotment by half or more, the racist practices of the police can be reined in. Funds should be re-directed to provide jobs, housing, healthcare and education to the city’s most underserved communities. All are welcome. Come share your ideas for making police defunding a reality. Online meeting. Click…
Find out more »September 2020
Devastating Climate Change – Socialist Feminist Solutions to Save Mother Earth
The wildfires devouring homes and making the air unbreathable result from the climate crisis created by capitalism’s drive for profit. Big oil knew decades ago that carbon dioxide buildup would cause global warming and change weather patterns to cause devastation by drought, fires, storms and flooding. California’s yearly infernos are a consequence. Even the COVID pandemic can be traced to the planet’s rising temperatures. To save the Earth, conservation and individual solutions are not enough. Hear a Marxist feminist…
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 »November 2020
Beyond Biden: Working-Class Remedies for a World in Crisis
Trump was defeated. But Biden & Harris won't solve the multitude of problems that working people are faced with, from COVID and climate devastation to police killings of people of color. What will work, based on history, are mass movements. They have been the catalyst for working people's gains. Today this is truer than ever. Los Angeles FSP invites you to join this online discussion hosted by our Bay Area branch on how to build a revolutionary feminist groundswell in…
Find out more »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 »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 »January 2021
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 »February 2021
The United Front: Concept, Practice, & Historical Lessons
What kind of unity do oppressed and working people need today? Certainly not the Democrats’ version of bi-partisanship that will cause more repression and misery for the 99% while the 1% add billions to their bloated portfolios. The united front is a movement tactic in which political groups and activists collaborate against a common enemy or for any agreed objective, even if they are politically different in other ways. United fronts are a very effective method of advancing the growth,…
Find out more »April 2021
Online Earth Week Discussion: Environmental Destruction and the Ecosocialist Solution
Today’s ecological reality is that we are on the edge of a mass extinction, while corporations protect their bottom lines by pushing reusable bags, cups, straws, and “green” carbon offsets. Individual responsibility and greenwashed products are not the solutions we need. Addressing the full scope of the problem will take ecosocialist remedies, to change the system from the ground up – literally. Join us for a riveting discussion of real climate fixes from a socialist feminist perspective. The program will…
Find out more »November 2021
Study Group—Revolutionary Integration: Linking the Struggles for Black Freedom and Socialism
How can we get rid of systemic racism? In a study of Revolutionary Integration: A Marxist Analysis of African American Liberation and other readings, discussion will include the connection between the Civil Rights and labor movements, the need for radical Black leadership and role of women and LGBTQ+ folks and how to build a multiracial movement powerful enough to win fundamental change. Everyone welcome. Suggested donation: $2 to $5 per session or $20 - $50 for series. Register here to…
Find out more »January 2022
FSP Meeting – The Green New Deal: Is it Enough?
With global temperatures on the rise and wildfire, monsoons, and tornados wreaking havoc--is the Green New Deal enough to save the world from climate related disasters? Sam Rubin, Marxist geographer and disability justice activist, will summarize the measure's limitations. More importantly, they'll provide alternative solutions to the climate emergency and discuss ways to build a movement to save the planet. Also, learn about organizing around the 49th anniversary of Roe v. Wade and the plans to defend and expand reproductive…
Find out more »March 2022
“How Marxists Think” Reading/Discussion Group
This short piece is the focus of the first two sessions of a five-week series of readings and discussions based on Revolution, She Wrote, a collection of works by groundbreaking socialist feminist Clara Fraser. In "How Marxists Think," Fraser presents an overview of the method revolutionaries use to analyze and change the world, dialectical materialism. She uses accessible language and wit to describe the revolution in thinking that Marx and Engels brought about by combining dialectics, the philosophy of change,…
Find out more »April 2022
Revolution, She Wrote – Online Reading/Discussion Group
This collection of works by groundbreaking socialist feminist Clara Fraser will be the basis for a three-week discussion series. Participants will explore pieces by and about Fraser: April 5: “Suppressed Facts Behind the Khrushchev Revelations” looks at the betrayal of the achievements and potential of the Russian Revolution by the bureaucracy that arose amid scarcity and the hostility of capitalist governments. Provides valuable historical insight into Putin's war on former Soviet republic Ukraine. April 12: “Women: Motor Force of Soviet…
Find out more »Revolution, She Wrote – Online Reading/Discussion Group
This collection of works by groundbreaking socialist feminist Clara Fraser will be the basis for a three-week discussion series. Participants will explore pieces by and about Fraser: April 5: “Suppressed Facts Behind the Khrushchev Revelations” looks at the betrayal of the achievements and potential of the Russian Revolution by the bureaucracy that arose amid scarcity and the hostility of capitalist governments. Provides valuable historical insight into Putin's war on former Soviet republic Ukraine. April 12: “Women: Motor Force of Soviet…
Find out more »Revolution, She Wrote – Online Reading/Discussion Group
This collection of works by groundbreaking socialist feminist Clara Fraser will be the basis for a three-week discussion series. Participants will explore pieces by and about Fraser: April 5: “Suppressed Facts Behind the Khrushchev Revelations” looks at the betrayal of the achievements and potential of the Russian Revolution by the bureaucracy that arose amid scarcity and the hostility of capitalist governments. Provides valuable historical insight into Putin's war on former Soviet republic Ukraine. April 12: “Women: Motor Force of Soviet…
Find out more »June 2022
“Labor History — A Key to Unlocking Workers’ Power Today”
A nine-week discussion group on important past labor struggles. Goal: to provide insights about lessons that can be applied today to win against Amazon, Starbucks, and other private and public employers. Via zoom. Register at https://bit.ly/FSFD-Labor.
Find out more »“Labor History — A Key to Unlocking Workers’ Power Today”
A nine-week discussion group on important past labor struggles. Goal: to provide insights about lessons that can be applied today to win against Amazon, Starbucks, and other private and public employers. Via zoom. Register at https://bit.ly/FSFD-Labor.
Find out more »“Labor History — A Key to Unlocking Workers’ Power Today”
A nine-week discussion group on important past labor struggles. Goal: to provide insights about lessons that can be applied today to win against Amazon, Starbucks, and other private and public employers. Via zoom. Register at https://bit.ly/FSFD-Labor.
Find out more »July 2022
“Labor History — A Key to Unlocking Workers’ Power Today”
A nine-week discussion group on important past labor struggles. Goal: to provide insights about lessons that can be applied today to win against Amazon, Starbucks, and other private and public employers. Via zoom. Register at https://bit.ly/FSFD-Labor.
Find out more »