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Road Signs

Welcome to the Road Signs page! Liberation Road’s regular dispatch to engage broader audiences on questions of domestic and international political analysis of the current conjuncture, strategy, and practical tensions, challenges, and contradictions that arise in organizing work.

Road Signs has five topic areas that we will rotate posting articles on:

US Politics — assessments of domestic current events grounded in Liberation Road political line and strategy

Dear Comrade – an advice column section where organizers can get practical and theoretical questions answered by some of our cadre

World News — addressing the international conjuncture and relating it to what people are experiencing domestically in their analysis of political conditions and organizing work

Throwbacks — Writings from our archives and those of other left movements, as well as foundational revolutionary texts, along with brief framing about their relevance in the present moment

Field Notes – These articles would be messages from the front lines of Liberation Road cadre’s organizing work that is rooted in our current strategy

The Left and Jesse Jackson

October 1, 2020 /

With less than a month to go before the 2020 US Presidential Election, it’s worth taking a look back at some analysis of elections past to see what we might learn for the days ahead. This article from the November/December

Grassroots Political Organizing

September 23, 2020 /

This article was written by a Latinx organizer on the frontlines in the South. Why I work with a Grassroots Political Organization My full-time job is as a K-12 educator, but I took a part-time position with a grassroots political

The 2020 Elections – A Left Perspective

September 16, 2020 /

The stakes of this 2020 electoral cycle continue to be ratcheted up and this national election will be one of slim margins in the electoral college. Whether we are located within red or blue states, people we encounter and influence

Dear Comrade – Impacting the Elections

September 9, 2020 /

Dear Comrade, What would you tell a voter who lives in a state with little sway in the presidential election, either because their state is pretty securely red or blue or because their state doesn’t get many electoral college votes?

The Invention of Whiteness and Oppressed Nations

July 30, 2020 /

Racism, capitalism, and patriarchy are the results of various historical processes. The latest surge in the Black Lives Matter movement creates an opening to take conversations about white supremacy and capitalism out of the realm of the subjective and abstract.