The Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) is a communist political party in the United States. FRSO formed in 1985 as a merger of several Maoist-oriented New Communist movement organizations.
In 1985, the Proletarian Unity League and the Revolutionary Workers Headquarters merged to create FRSO. In 1986, FRSO fused with the Organization for Revolutionary Unity. In 1988, FRSO absorbed the Amílcar Cabral-Paul Robeson Collective.
FRSO’s component groups believed that ultraleftism was the US New Communist movement’s main error. Merging under the FRSO banner, these groups hoped to consolidate the movement’s remnants in a single organization and move beyond the sectarianism that marked the previous decades.
1999 split
In response to the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, FRSO began to develop two distinct positions on socialist countries. The “Left Refoundation” group, aligned with democratic socialism, argued that these events resulted from a deep crisis of Marxism. The “Fight Back!” group, aligned with Marxism-Leninism, argued that these events resulted from revisionism rather than failures within Marxism. These divisions grew during the 1990s. In 1998, the Left Refoundation group wrote an internal document, “Theses on Left Refoundation”, and requested an organization-wide discussion.
Both factions claimed the name “Freedom Road Socialist Organization”. In 2006, the Left Refoundation group renamed itself to “FRSO/OSCL”, combining the English and Spanish acronym. In 2019, the Left Refoundation group renamed itself to Liberation Road.
Publications
FRSO’s main publication is the website and monthly paper Fight Back! News (FB!N) and its Spanish section Lucha y Resiste.
The 9th Congress of FRSO, held in spring 2022, came at a critical juncture in the development of the people’s struggle and the accelerating decline of monopoly capitalism in the U.S. As the call to the congress states, in the recent period “we have seen a level of struggle that is unprecedented since the 1960s. The great rebellion following the murder of George Floyd, which was both broad and militant, signals the shape of things to come. It can be said the burning police stations helped illuminate the road to freedom. The fight against police crimes led to a resurgence of the African American national movement.”
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Companies will blatantly do shit that’s against labour laws and act like you’re the asshole for reporting them after they fuck you over.
Not reporting them while i worked there was the courtesy i extended them. Why the fuck wouldn’t I spite their asses after?
I finally got a job offer! It’s seasonal but I’m building my life back!
Hey adulthood, I heard you’re pretty strong! Let’s fight!
-29C, close to midnight. The moon and the stars and frosty forest.
The radiologists who rented out the restaurant i work at last night are now my favorite customers ever. They dropped 8k just to rent the place out and get food, I think it covered some drinks. 30% gratuity on the 8k already in the tip pool, so that’s nice. Then, it turns out that radiologists fucking PARTY and after I left the guy organizing and bankrolling the event dropped an extra 20% tip so they could stay super late and keep partying. They left at almost 1 am, we typically close at 10pm. In addition he made sure there was 20% tips on the extra liquor. So thats over 4 grand in in tips. To feed 65 people, and it meant we were closed on a Friday so it was probably half the amount we’d normally have to feed and they ordered days ahead so we had an easy attack plan. It’s too bad the fucking owner was there or we could have hooked them up harder. She ended out telling the chef thst next time they should get 9 inch pizzas instead of full size cause they had leftovers. Like, bruh, they dropped 8 fucking grand. Let em bring home some hangover pizza.
liberals would have you believe that Chinese citizens live in mortal fear of their government and yet your average uncle will smoke directly in front of NO SMOKING signs listing a 200 RMB penalty in full view of uniformed personnel with impunity
“authoritarian” my fucking ass
It’s cool that crypto guys are exactly as dumb as you’d think
I fucking hate how USCIS/the US in general refers to us as “aliens”
It’s so fucking dehumanizing and they know what theyre doing using that outdated term
made some bread
i’m a beginner baker so it’s nothing terribly special but i’m especially happy with this one since it’s the best tasting loaf i’ve made so far, but also because i think i’ve nailed down a recipe and process for making a loaf that requires very little effort or thought (autolyse and cold ferment do the heavy lifting) to make something breddy gud
The trueanon subreddit sure loves to throw around ableist slurs huh
The Epstein files are horrific and I don’t want to downplay that, but at least they eternally BTFO /pol/. Whenever some /pol/ chud says anything now you can just completely disregard it as an Epstein psyop. I do genuinely think this revelation will shift the discourse a little. Should at least make them too embarrassed to infest other places.
i honestly was not expecting Blackshirts & Reds to be so breezy and readable. somewhat 101, but i am happy to be finally diving into actual theory instead of just absorbing stuff through ADHD osmosis
thank you welsh underground network whoever you are
I read some of the new Epstein files, specifically the journal of a victim.
The USA is Satan’s embassy on this planet and a nuke for every square kilometer is not enough.
I cannot stress enough how much the rich have the mindsets of children. Seriously, I can’t be the only one who’s noticed this and there’s probably theory lying about addressing this.
As decades go on, it’s absolutely blowing my mind how much lower rich people’s pain threshold is. What would just be all in a day’s work for them in the 70s is WAY too much for them now. Even getting a job, the rich whine about how they have too many choices and how they’re soo scawed widdle babbies everyone wants to work for them and they can’t keep up! Dude, you want to be the businessman? You want “traditional roles” how about you hold up your end of the bargain and be a boss. Assign me work to do. Stop waiting on me to order one of your friends to order you to hire me and then I explain the job I want to you and train myself for you. Thanks for at least showing your ass the world would be a much better place without the aristocracy. Useless pigs.
Elon Musk is the worst offender, literally a masterclass on how fascism is just losers acting on their own emotional impulses: ethics be damned.
