Welcome to the Liberation Road Newsletter
Welcome
…to the first of many posts from the comrades, friends and fellow travelers of Liberation Road, a socialist organization keen on mass struggle, study, left refoundation, and the revolutionary chutzpah of both the multi-racial working class AND the many oppressed peoples and nations.
It’s our 38th year!
In nearly four decades, we’ve helped write and produce Forward Motion, Road Signs, many pamphlets, and countless articles for various publishers. We are bringing you this newsletter now because history is rumbling. The neoliberal consensus is kaput. That common sense of billionaire bourgeoisie, generals, big politicians and think tanks which for a long time stabilized the global system of theft we call capitalism, hasn’t been working so well lately. Inequality that will give you vertigo, cinematic climate catastrophe, more forms of sickness and violence than cereal on the shelf—all are dissolving the foundations of our political status quo. The people, money, and ideas in the center that have bound the elite together since the late 70s will hold no longer.
Peril and Possibility
When the old falls down, when there is a crisis, when something new is possible, there is both great hope and great danger. The offspring of Adams, Calhoun, Jackson, Goldwater, Reagan– the white christian fascist movement, AKA the New Confederate political bloc, is strong. To defeat it will require a long-term, strategic effort from our bloc in favor of social democracy, racial justice, bodily autonomy and democracy. We live in interesting times—full of peril and possibility.
What is even happening?!
When the urgency to act feels greatest, grounded critique, analysis, and learning are most important. Who are our friends? Who are our enemies? What is the path to stop the planet burning, to free the land, to return industry to all who work, to rewrite our constitutions, to guarantee freedom to live, move, to love, to control our bodies, to speak, to thrive?
But also, what about that new Graeber book, the Barbie movie, that moon landing, and that alien thing? What about Valentine's Day and cats, and the BLA? Grilled octopus, Harry Belafonte, and skin care? Let's talk about it. We hope you stick around.
- your friendly Liberation Road Newsletter editorial team