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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I fucking hate Europe. I just had a great job interview which I nailed for an electronics-related company, but of fucking course there are military projects. The conditions are good, but I don’t think I can accept a job related to the military field seeing what Europe has been doing in Palestine
Going to the polymarket, anyone need me to pick up any poly people while I’m there?
Ghost Dog: the way of the samurai fucking rocks
The trueanon subreddit sure loves to throw around ableist slurs huh
Modern day Snow White where she washes the apple before eating it cause all apples are coated in poisons now anyway.
I had an idea for a work of fiction, a narrative of a “lab leak” type scenario told as a series of technical and government reports.
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I’m p sure calling it “Lunar” New Year erases the fact that it’s the Chinese calendar setting the date of Feb 19th (Vietnamese calendar is based on Chinese), and erases the other lunar calendars used throughout the world today (Muslim calendar is most prominent of those). Both of those erasures are really convenient within the western propaganda symbology.
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Our manager decided to take a vacation this week so I’ve been existing on Teams with 700 tabs and a million discussions open assisting my very boomery coworkers on how to get anything done and I’m reminded what a beast pure hyperfocus is. What it’s costs are.
I feel a little nauseous, my heartrate is elevated, I didn’t eat or drink all day, my neck hurts and I have a headache. I’m mentally moving towards a crash after such a high energy fast-paced 8 hours and my eyes hurt. With nothing physical included this just kind of destroys me, I’m very very wired, but completely exhausted at the same time.
And no, I get no extra wages for doing any of this. But my co-workers love me.
