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	Society Politics Socialism Organizations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Socialist Action (U.S.) - This group is in sympathy with the United Secretariat of the Fourth International (USFI) and identifies with the minority tendency within the USFI.
		Socialist Alternative (Australia) - Group split from the Australian International Socialist Organisation due to criticisms that the ISO is bureaucratic and undemocratic.
		Socialist Alternative (U.S.) - Publishers of "Justice" a newspaper for "Struggle, Solidarity and Socialism," Socialist Alternative is a Marxist tendency active in the Labor Party and in the trade union and student movements among others.
	www.iper1.com /iper1-odp/scat/id/Society/Politics/Socialism/Organizations (1608 words)

	American Red Groups (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Freedom Road Socialist Organization: Like Solidarity, the group known as Freedom Road was an organization formed by the unification of three smaller groups in 1985 —; the Proletarian Unity League, Revolutionary Workers Headquarters, and the Organization for Revolutionary Unity.
		Freedom Socialist Party: The founders of the FSP were originally the Seattle branch of the Socialist Workers Party.
		Socialist Party USA: The Socialist Party USA is one of the heirs to the Socialist Party of Eugene V. Debs and Norman Thomas.
	reds.linefeed.org /groups.html (6783 words)

	New Communist Movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Some former members subsequently developed local organizations that continued the trend, and they attempted to find theoretical backing for their work in the writings of Lenin, Mao and Stalin.
		Similar to the New Left's general direction in the late 1960s, these new organizations rejected the post-1956 Communist Party USA as revisionist, or anti-revolutionary, and also rejected Trotskyism and the Socialist Workers Party for its theoretical opposition to Maoism.
		These organizations addressed problems of sexism and racism, partly by voicing adamant support for self-determination and identity politics, and felt that they were dealing with problems they were of the opinion had not been addressed in the groups of the 1960s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Communist_Movement (936 words)

	Freedom Road Socialist Organization (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		FRSO has created audio files of some of the classics of Marxism-Leninism.
		Statement from Freedom Road Socialist Organization on the Death of Schafik Hándal
		Freedom Road Socialist Organization is a Marxist-Leninist organization in the United States.
	www.frso.org (437 words)

	RED VOCABULARY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Democratic Socialists are opposed to both Communism and capitalism, feeling that both systems have failed to emancipate the workers of the world from exploitation.
		Perhaps the earliest large Democratic Socialist movement in America was the Socialist Party of America, which was founded in 1901 by Eugene V. Debs and his comrades.
		Socialist Feminists, who include Susan B. Anthony and Gloria Steinem, believe that the chief cause of femal oppression is the capitalist system.
	reds.linefeed.org /vocab.html (4786 words)

	Google Directory - Society > Politics > Socialism > Organizations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This organization was formed in 1938 and is inspired by the ideas of Irish socialist leader and republican James Connolly.
		This is the U.S. section of Communist Organization for the Fourth International (COFI) and was formed in 1976 after its members were expelled from the Revolutionary Socialist League which, itself, was a split from the International Socialists.
		Internal documents from the conflict between the Socialist Workers Party and the International Socialist Organization as well as from various internal conflicts within the SWP and other IS tendency groups.
	www.bush2004.com /directory/politics/Socialism/Organizations (1798 words)

	Freedom Road Socialist Organization - who we are (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		To put that history in context, the tree is being expanded --in breadth, to cover the full range of groups making up what has been called the new communist movement, and chronologically, to dig deeper into the historical roots of that movement.
		And finally, this family tree is intended to serve as a contribution to the understanding of how revolutionary socialist organization develops, flourishes and, sometimes, declines, and revives.
		Those FRSO members who are veterans of that period feel we have an obligation to pass on what we can of what we have learned so the new generation of revolutionaries, in Freedom Road and elsewhere does not have to reinvent the wheel all over again.
	freedomroad.org /content/category/6/94/64 (478 words)

	Feral Scholar » Filiberto Ojeda Rios - Presente
		The Freedom Road Socialist Organization extends its solidarity to the comrades of the Ejército Popular Boricua (Los Macheteros) who have lost a heroic leader and to the nationalists, revolutionaries and socialists gathered in the Frente Socialista of Puerto Rico who have played a crucial role in mobilizing the protests.
		Finally Freedom Road urges all revolutionaries and socialists in the US (and we include ourselves in this) to shake off the too-common neglect by folks here of the Puerto Rican struggle and to do a few simple things.
		There are lessons in using contradictions, both among bourgeois political forces on the island and between them and their colonial masters, to advance the struggle, both in the electoral arena and outside of it.
	stangoff.com /?p=198 (916 words)

	Freedom Socialist Newspaper --Voice of International Revolutionary Feminism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This perspective was underscored by greetings to the convention from, among others, Australia's Socialist Alliance; the Revolutionary Youth Front of Guatemala; the Cuban Communist Party; Peru's Socialist League; the Socialist Workers League of the Dominican Republic; the European-based Anti-Imperialist Camp; and Soldiers of Solidarity, a movement of militant United Auto Workers unionists.
		Organizing in the labor movement, they stressed, needs to go beyond bread-and-butter issues to connect union activism with the broad spectrum of social issues, from the occupation of Iraq to healthcare and reproductive and gay rights.
		Audience members took to the mikes to agree that the key to union organizing is to concentrate on the fundamentals: helping workers to develop class consciousness, identify their true interests, and recognize the need for a revolutionary movement capable of creating a socialist alternative to the current morass of want, insecurity, and injustice.
	www.socialism.com /fsarticles/newspapr.html (3960 words)

	The Revolution in South Africa: An Analysis
		Although the organization seems to conceive of socialism as meaning nationalization of certain key industries and a mixed economy, its overall views on national liberation and democracy are basically sound.
		The organizations ranged from highly developed ones like the Natal Indian Congress to small tenants and sports groups, etc. It is not a highly organized, disciplined body and is held together by the immediacy of their current work.
		The organization's position on confiscation of property of the settler and imperialist bourgeoisie is not clear, and it would not be able to lead the struggle to the stage of socialist transformation of Azanian society.
	www.mltranslations.org /SouthAfrica/SApamphl.htm (20545 words)

	John Mundy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Minsky gave what he considered to be a brief history of the changes in education with the view towards explaining today's outrageous tuition levels, claiming that all of the many changes that have taken place in American education since 1945 are results of actions taken by the corporate elite.
		According to his view, during the period of the Depression conditions were ripe for a (Socialist) revolution.
		One of the mercantilist misconceptions many socialists and liberals hold is that there exists only a finite amount of wealth such that if one group gets wealthier, then it is automatically at the expense of another group.
	criterion.uchicago.edu /issues/ii2/mundy.html (873 words)

	Labor Standard 4 for web
		The longest existing socialist group in the United States is the Socialist Labor Party, whose roots go back to 1876 but which became transformed in 1890 under the leadership of an original but rigid thinker named Daniel DeLeon, and which for many decades has been little more than a rather static educational group.
		There is also the Freedom Socialist Party, predominantly concentrated in Seattle where its founding leader Clara Fraser lived, which gives admirable stress to feminist ideas, but — like the other groups mentioned here — tends to see itself as the exclusive source of revolutionary wisdom.
		Some of its founders were also expelled from the Socialist Workers Party in the early 1980s and hoped to draw together all supporters of the Fourth International in one organization — something which didn’t happen.
	www.laborstandard.org /Vol1No4/Left_Groups.htm (1634 words)

	The FRSO and the Mass Line
		The Freedom Road Socialist Organization is a U.S. revolutionary group, or actually, two revolutionary groups since it underwent a split in March 1999, and both halves decided to keep the same name.
		But before their split into two groups, FRSO did prepare two documents on the mass line which were used both internally and in study groups for people they work with, and also given to friends and interested people.
		Document: A Mass Line Study for Socialist Organizing by "Carolyn" of FRSO (Dec. 1998) — Guidelines for some study groups devoted to the mass line and related issues.
	www.massline.info /frso (1035 words)

	Repudiate sub-reformism; fight revisionism!
		This oversimplification of the problem of socialist transition toward communism is made to the point of caricature, as if the "Gang of Four" went about attacking workers instead of the policies of the central leaders they disagreed with.
		The FRSO that descended from LRS merged with the centrist elements supporting Hua Guofeng, who himself was the one who ended the campaign against Deng and allowed him back to power without a fight.
		There will be those who do not believe the Party in its historical experience with many similar people and organizations, but we should struggle with the non-believers in a general theoretical and historical way and not with reference to their own lifestyle to be examined case-by-case.
	www.etext.org /Politics/MIM/wim/cong/subreform.html (4853 words)

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		Some particular destructive tendencies are manifested when socialist cadre groups yell and badger to push their line or promote their members as speakers, rather than prioritizing who's the best speaker for the coalition's purposes.
		The organized forms this movement has developed, like the Direct Action Network, are some of the main organized voices of a new generation of activists.
		A model for this is being developed by the Black Radical Congress, an organization conceived as a pole for the revival of radical politics in the African American community.
	www.blythe.org /nytransfer-subs/2001act/FRSO:_Points_on_Building_the_Movement (4688 words)

	Critical Montages
		When the organization dissolved, the question of what kind of organizational form helps people to develop as well as relate to grassroots activities and cadre development was not resolved.
		The work done by diverse socialist organizations, as well as their former members, is far from insignificant, but what Feldman said remains true: we don't know how to break out of that.
		It would be good to create a lateral network of organizers and intellectuals who come from socialist milieux, regardless of their current and former organizational affiliations, to discuss politics, develop shared understanding, and work on some concrete projects together.
	montages.blogspot.com /2004/09/toward-re-founding-left.html (426 words)

	[Marxism] ISO: "For a Mass, Non-Exclusionary Antiwar Movement" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Unlike "boys," the "troops" are organized members of an imperialist military war machine, it has that connotation, whereas the connotation of "boys" was that these were just kids like any others you might see playing football or delivering your newspaper.
		But to the degree that found expression in a slogan, that slogan was "Bring the boys home now!" ("Boys" because in those days the armed forces were much more overwhelmingly male than now, the draft was male only, and we were mostly clueless about the feminist critique of patriarchal societies).
		At the end of the article the comrades present a very cogent summary of their points and the issues as they see them: * * * The time has come for an open and honest debate in the antiwar movement about what kind of movement we need and how we can build it.
	lists.econ.utah.edu /pipermail/marxism/2005-May/025599.html (1487 words)

	Freedom Road Socialist Organization - home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In early September 2005 labor activists in Freedom Road Socialist Organization / Organización Socialista del Camino para la Libertad (FRSO/OSCL) met for a weekend.
		The primary purpose of this meeting was to evaluate the momentous changes organized labor had recently faced and to identify some key challenges and opportunities for leftists working within the trade unions and other labor formations (e.g.
		This struggle had high and low points, as it spanned over 50 years of activism and organizing, and it deserves to be memorialized.
	www.freedomroad.org (1414 words)

	Statement from Freedom Road Socialist Organization (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Even when the U.S. does try to pin it on somebody, we know that there is a past track record of these accusations being false, for example the destruction of the pharmaceutical plant in Sudan.
		The road to every U.S. war in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America, has been paved with lies.
		Freedom Road Socialist Organization P.O. Box 582564 Minneapolis MN 55440 USA www.frso.org info@frso.org
	www.lafn.org /~cymbala/fr_911.html (426 words)

	ulyanovist's Journal
		FRSO has expressed the intention of providing an online version of this book on their website, but has not yet been able to do so.
		According to this formula, the Weather Underground Organization and the IWW, say, are Right because they overemphasize action and practical experience, while the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee is "Left" because it mainly publishes articles, divorcing its social-democratic theory from social-democratic practice.
		The workers should not permit their meetings to be broken up or their halls to be wrecked, or their work to be interfered with, by Ku Klux Klanners or Silver Shirts or fascists of any type, or hoodlums, or reactionary thugs, but should organise a guard and protect themselves where it is necessary.
	ulyanovist.livejournal.com (8826 words)

	The Mass Line and Having a Mass Perspective
		Towards a new revolutionary organization in the U.S.A., one which will actually use the mass line to advance the revolutionary movement here.
		Freedom Road Socialist Organization [USA] — Documents by, or about, both of the groups calling themselves the Freedom Road Socialist Organization, which are related to the mass line.
		Documents from other Maoist parties and organizations around the world on the mass line and related issues.
	www.massline.info (487 words)

	The protestors who converged on Seattle for the meeting of the World Trade Organization did something really great – ...
		The Seattle demonstrations shined a spotlight on the agenda of exploitation and oppression that is being advanced under the banner of "free trade." There is no doubt that heat in the streets contributed to the collapse of this round of trade negotiations.
		The old Communist Party USA, with its many good activist and organizers, advanced the wrong slogan in their newspaper that the WTO needed to be "fixed." They may as well have raised the slogan "repair capitalism." In doing this, they were tailing behind the trade union bureaucracy.
		For socialists to say the "the country is being sold out," as if all classes have a common interest, is ridiculous.
	www.wpb.be /icm/2001/01en/USA_FRSO.htm (2944 words)

	Socialist Party of Michigan: Links / category / Youth and Student Groups
		The campus progressive network is a state-wide student activist organization spaning colleges and high schools, uniting students behind radical causes ranging from the anti-war movement to the labor movement.
		SustainUS is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization of young people advancing sustainable development and youth empowerment in the United States.
		Through proactive education and advocacy at the policy-making level and at the grassroots,we are building a future in which all people recognize the inherent equality and interdependence of social, economic, and environmental sustainability.
	www.spmichigan.org /links.php?cat.12 (232 words)

	Activists of Color in the New Movement
		This article was first published in Freedom Road's pamphlet, This Globe is OURS: Uniting the People against Imperialist Globalization.
		In recognition of the overwhelming whiteness of the new movement against imperialism that got its media debut last fall in Seattle, activists of color are coming together to consciously change the face of the movement.
		Amadee Braxton is a member of the Nationalities Commission of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization and an activist with the Black Radical Congress.
	colours.mahost.org /articles/braxton.html (1504 words)

	The Green Menace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Fallen from the vine of the Green Party in Germany, planted in the dark socialist earth of the American Left, and watered with rampant anti-Americanism, the Green Committees of Correspondence took root in 1990 and adopted their first national Platform.
		Having captured nearly 3 percent of the national vote in the 2000 presidential elections under the banner of Ralph Nader, and having recently captured 170 offices in state and local election in the November 2002 cycle, the Greens have become by far the largest independent or third-party in the United States.
		In her booklet "I, Senator" (modeled after socialist author Upton Sinclair’s book "I, Governor of California") Benjamin describes a fantasy world in which she has been a senator for twelve years and has spearheaded the Green Party to wins across the nation.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/Printable.asp?ID=7165 (1518 words)

	Bay Area Socialist Party Local
		He is a co-editor of The Year Left: An American Socialist Yearbook and author of Prisoners of the American Dream and City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles,in which he recounts the story of Los Angeles.
		Socialist Unity held a meeting to discuss the California recall on September 4 at the Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library in Oakland, CA.
		This was not an open event: attendance was limited to members of the participating Socialist Unity organizations (Committee of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism -CCDS, Democratic Socialists of America -DSA, Socialst Part- SPUSA, and Solidarity).
	www.sp-usa.org /basp/upcomingevents.html (614 words)

	Pottawatomie Creek
		SAFE is a grower-led organization that merely pledges to follow existing labor laws, laws that allow workers to toil in extreme poverty and unsafe conditions.
		Close examination of SAFE's website reveals that the organization purported to represent the interests of tomato pickers is the Redlands Christian Migrant Association (RCMA), a child-care agency that receives regular and generous donations from the growers association.
		Fightback's slip into revisionism, grounded in their refusal to accept in any way the crisis of socialism, is yet another real world example of how a "culture of appreciation" for Stalin can lead to really bad line.
	pottawatomie.blogspot.com (2713 words)

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