We face the biggest economic crisis to hit working people since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Millions are out of work and collecting unemployment benefits, people are out looking for jobs, worrying about the day when the politicians stop the checks, and poor people are hitting the welfare time […]
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The 6th Congress of Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) was a great step forward for our organization. Since our last Congress in 2007, we have undergone a period of dramatic growth, in the course of building some important struggles. We are now in the process of consolidating those gains, and […]
2010 Main Political Report FRSO Sixth Congress Introduction The world has changed, and the pace of change is accelerating. From the mountains of Colombia to the jungles of the Philippines to the streets of the Middle East, and in the cities and town across the United States and Europe, something […]
2010 Main Political Report FRSO Sixth Congress Decline of American Power, Leftward Shift Define New Period For the past three years, the conditions shaping domestic politics in the United States have been marked by the economic crisis, a qualitative shift away from the free market capitalism of Ronald Reagan on […]
2010 Main Political Report FRSO Sixth Congress Introduction: The Current Crisis In December of 2007, the United States entered a recession. Nine months later, the failure of investment bank Lehman Brothers triggered a financial crisis that spread across the Atlantic to Europe. As the recession in the United States and […]
Long Term Decline of U.S. Imperialism After World War II, U.S. imperialism was top dog. The massive military spending of the United States during World War II pulled it out of the Great Depression of the 1930s, while the other capitalist countries and the Soviet Union were devastated by the […]
The 5th FRSO Congress is important to our understanding of the U.S. and the world, and how to change it. The last couple of years point toward the emergence of a new period, different than the last twenty-five years. The U.S. is being strategically defeated in Iraq. This hampers the […]
Introduction Since 2004, the international situation has continued to develop in a way that is extremely favorable for the world’s peoples to make gains. In fact, the imperialist centers have been dealt heavy setbacks. On a general level we can say that the four basic contradictions are sharpening–between imperialism and […]
As the crisis of imperialism sharpens, the U.S. government is responding by lashing out harder against national liberation forces. This is particularly true for national liberation movements that are fighting for self-determination and against U.S. imperialist interests. Freedom Road Socialist Organization stands in solidarity with all peoples fighting for national […]