The following is the speech given by Jess Sundin, a leader of Freedom Road Socialist Organization, at the FRSO-organized May Day celebration in Minneapolis on May 3. Greetings! And happy May Day, to all the sisters and brothers, comrades and friends gathered here. This day, International Workers Day, is celebrated […]
Minnesota FRSO May Day celebration: “We are up against a real monster, a system called capitalism”
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By Freedom Road Socialist Organization President Obama’s second term will mean more wars, cutbacks at home and attacks on our civil liberties. Obama has expanded U.S. military intervention in the Middle East – with the ongoing war and occupation of Afghanistan, merciless drone attacks killing thousands in Pakistan and Yemen, […]
By Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Florida District In the November elections, Florida will be a major battleground in the people’s fight-back against budget cuts, the war on women and the struggle to protect the public education system. Eleven constitutional amendments will appear on the ballot for Florida voters. Every one […]
By Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Minnesota District On Nov. 6 Minnesotans will join with the rest of the country to vote on Election Day. But in Minnesota there won’t just be politicians on the ballot – there will also be two proposed constitutional amendments to vote on. If the majority […]
By Freedom Road Socialist Organization Three years after the recession officially ended, economic hard times continue. Financial ruin haunts many working people. One in three children live in families where neither parent has full-time year round employment. Outrageously, bankers are still taking bonuses after taxpayer-financed bailouts. The wealthy 1% are […]
By Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Milwaukee District Milwaukee, WI – Nearly a year and a half ago, Walker announced his plan to eliminate the right to collective bargaining for public employees and to stop in-state tuition for undocumented students. The response to these attacks were enormous. Mass mobilizations of workers […]
By Freedom Road Socialist Organization All around the U.S., people are taking action to denounce the racist murder of African American teenager Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida. We demand justice! On Feb. 26, Trayvon Martin was walking home after purchasing candy from a local store. George Zimmerman called 911 to […]
By Freedom Road Socialist Organization On Sept. 17, 2011, a group of protesters gathered in Zuccotti Park in New York City. Their intention: to expose Wall Street greed and corporate domination over the lives of working and middle class people, the 99%. Almost immediately, police responded to the protesters with […]
By Freedom Road Socialist Organization The United States and its Western allies, along with reactionary pro-U.S. Arab regimes in the Middle East, are doing everything in their power to bring down the government of Syria. They have imposed sanctions that harm the Syrian people. They interfere in Syria’s internal affairs, […]