April 2020
Online Study Group: How 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 »August 2020
Town Hall: A New Vision for Housing Justice
Los Angeles FSP is active in End Homelessness Now-LA, a broad-based community campaign that calls on City and County governments to transform all of their vacant and underused properties into permanent, supportive, public housing. Please join us on Facebook Live for an informative Town Hall. Today, at least 70,000 people are unhoused in Los Angeles County, and many more are on the way, as unemployment rages, and protections against evictions evaporate. This catastrophe--compounded by COVID-19, devastating racism, and economic collapse--reveals…
Find out more »September 2020
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 »October 2020
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 »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 »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 »February 2021
Online study group: The United Front—a powerful strategy for defeating the ultra-right onslaught and winning survival reforms
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. In this online discussion, we will • Analyze the united front model of solidarity in action; • Study how united fronts for survival and against fascism have won significant gains, while failing to form them has resulted in painful defeats; and • Apply…
Find out more »Online study group: The United Front—a powerful strategy for defeating the ultra-right onslaught and winning survival reforms
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. In this online discussion, we will • Analyze the united front model of solidarity in action; • Study how united fronts for survival and against fascism have won significant gains, while failing to form them has resulted in painful defeats; and • Apply…
Find out more »March 2021
Online study group: The United Front—a powerful strategy for defeating the ultra-right onslaught and winning survival reforms
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. In this online discussion, we will • Analyze the united front model of solidarity in action; • Study how united fronts for survival and against fascism have won significant gains, while failing to form them has resulted in painful defeats; and • Apply…
Find out more »Online study group: The United Front—a powerful strategy for defeating the ultra-right onslaught and winning survival reforms
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. In this online discussion, we will • Analyze the united front model of solidarity in action; • Study how united fronts for survival and against fascism have won significant gains, while failing to form them has resulted in painful defeats; and • Apply…
Find out more »Online study group: The United Front—a powerful strategy for defeating the ultra-right onslaught and winning survival reforms
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. In this online discussion, we will • Analyze the united front model of solidarity in action; • Study how united fronts for survival and against fascism have won significant gains, while failing to form them has resulted in painful defeats; and • Apply…
Find out more »Online study group: The United Front—a powerful strategy for defeating the ultra-right onslaught and winning survival reforms
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. In this online discussion, we will • Analyze the united front model of solidarity in action; • Study how united fronts for survival and against fascism have won significant gains, while failing to form them has resulted in painful defeats; and • Apply…
Find out more »Online study group: The United Front—a powerful strategy for defeating the ultra-right onslaught and winning survival reforms
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. In this online discussion, we will • Analyze the united front model of solidarity in action; • Study how united fronts for survival and against fascism have won significant gains, while failing to form them has resulted in painful defeats; and • Apply…
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