Liberation Road

Organizing tools

A hallmark of our organization is our commitment to revolutionary Marxist methods of work: how we do what we do. Drawn from the experiences of socialists, communists, and freedom fighters the world over–from Lenin and Mao, to Amilcar Cabral in Guinea-Bissau, to the Black Panthers right here in the US–we’re trying to figure out the best way to organize the mass movement that we know it will take to bring about socialism. The tools here reflect our work to figure out how inspirational revolutionaries attempted (and sometimes failed) to win.

A Note to Socialist Union Staffers: Build Working Class Power!

July 9, 2017 /

Many of our friends and members hold staff positions in unions. In some cases, comrades who were rank and file union members lost their jobs due to plant closures and layoffs and migrated into staff jobs. In the 1990s, the

The Mass Line: What It Is and How to Use It

July 9, 2017 /

While organizing people on the bus, I met a Black janitor who was very supportive of our work to fight for better buses and lowered fares, but thought that “immigrants” caused the bus fares to cost more. Instead of agreeing

Is My Union Gomperist?

July 9, 2017 /

(This piece was published in 2009) The American Federation of Labor (AFL) leader for most of the early 20th century was Samuel Gompers, an English immigrant cigarmaker. His strategy and method of unionism was so well-established that it has since

Organizing tools

A Note to Socialist Union Staffers: Build Working Class Power!

The Mass Line: What It Is and How to Use It

Is My Union Gomperist?

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