Feeling helpless? Looking for ways to advance the working class? Start learning to organize!
Organizing begins with one-on-one conversations. It's the core of union drives, tenant organizing, electoral campaigns, and every other expression of working class solidarity!
When Malcolm X said to protect women with violence, he wasn’t just talking about individual filthy men who might put their hands on women. He was talking about protection from the state too. It is our duty to organize in self-defense against the repression we’ve been seeing.
Mobilizing =/= organizing
Both are necessary but one is not the other. Mobilization moves already politicized people and materials toward goals.
Organizing builds and maintains capacity, adding people and materials to the movement.
Here's my thing:
If your organization is not actively building dual power, it is not a "communist party," and it is not revolutionary.
All the rhetoric and theory and hammer and sickle aesthetics in the world means nothing if you are not providing materially for the community.
The greatest lie ever told by western "democracies" is that elections = democracy. The implication being that, as long as the people have the final say in who leads them, those people will act as their "representatives."
We know this process isn't working for the people.
I'm sure people must be aware that all civil rights are on the chopping block: gay marriage, contraception, extramarital sex, probably even interracial marriage.
What you might not be paying attention to is that the ultimate project goes far behind the civil sphere.
Ive never met a single communist party member on the shop floor or on the block. We caught PSL selling newspapers across from a houseless camp once. No supplies or nothing for anyone.
In cities big and small, tens of thousands of people took to the streets immediately after the Supreme Court’s decision to take away the right to #abortion.
Nine unelected judges won’t decide our fate. Stay in the streets!
If you invoke, for example, Ella Baker, Fanny Lou Hamer, MLK, Malcolm X, Claudia Jones, Marcus Garvey, Barbara Smith, Assata Shakur, Steve Biko, CLR, Huey Newton, Ida B. Wells, Charlene Mitchell, or some combination there of, be clear that THEY ALL BELONGED TO ORGANIZATIONS.
STRIKE ON PIKE!!! Join Starbucks workers TODAY, including at the original store at Pike Place Market, to demand that Starbucks end their unprecedented union-busting campaign, reinstate displaced workers, and bargain with us in GOOD FAITH! #StrikePlace
Decline of the United States is now clear.
1. Women's rights eroded with the overturning of Roe vs. Wade.
2. Violence on the streets guaranteed with concealed weapon allowance in New York.
3. Economic fortunes of people in the United States have no pathway for improvement.