The Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) is a communist political party in the United States. FRSO formed in 1985 as a merger of several Maoist-oriented New Communist movement organizations.
In 1985, the Proletarian Unity League and the Revolutionary Workers Headquarters merged to create FRSO. In 1986, FRSO fused with the Organization for Revolutionary Unity. In 1988, FRSO absorbed the Amílcar Cabral-Paul Robeson Collective.
FRSO's component groups believed that ultraleftism was the US New Communist movement's main error. Merging under the FRSO banner, these groups hoped to consolidate the movement's remnants in a single organization and move beyond the sectarianism that marked the previous decades.
1999 split
In response to the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, FRSO began to develop two distinct positions on socialist countries. The "Left Refoundation" group, aligned with democratic socialism, argued that these events resulted from a deep crisis of Marxism. The "Fight Back!" group, aligned with Marxism-Leninism, argued that these events resulted from revisionism rather than failures within Marxism. These divisions grew during the 1990s. In 1998, the Left Refoundation group wrote an internal document, "Theses on Left Refoundation", and requested an organization-wide discussion.
Both factions claimed the name "Freedom Road Socialist Organization". In 2006, the Left Refoundation group renamed itself to "FRSO/OSCL", combining the English and Spanish acronym. In 2019, the Left Refoundation group renamed itself to Liberation Road.
Publications
FRSO's main publication is the website and monthly paper Fight Back! News (FB!N) and its Spanish section Lucha y Resiste.
The 9th Congress of FRSO, held in spring 2022, came at a critical juncture in the development of the people’s struggle and the accelerating decline of monopoly capitalism in the U.S. As the call to the congress states, in the recent period “we have seen a level of struggle that is unprecedented since the 1960s. The great rebellion following the murder of George Floyd, which was both broad and militant, signals the shape of things to come. It can be said the burning police stations helped illuminate the road to freedom. The fight against police crimes led to a resurgence of the African American national movement.”
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Im 22 and unemployed and I don't know what the hell to do with my life
if i was under 25 and in the states my plan would be to get as many student loans as possible and then use my degree to leave the country and never come back
Get into salting for unions (you may have to learn a trade unfortunately)
I went to university at 21, I have a friend who started at 24. I have another friend who joined the trades as an electrician at 23. It’s normal and ok to still be figuring it out at that age. Don’t let anybody make it feel otherwise. Do what you’ve gotta do to get by while you put the pieces in place, and try your best to follow either your passion or your interests while forming your path. You’ve got options, you’re young, and life has so much in store for you.
Unless you're gonna inherit millions of dollars or you're disabled enough the government will support you, you've unfortunately gotta start by finding a job that you can do long term without losing your mind. The sooner the better because you're gonna need to start tucking some money away if you don't want to work till the day you die.
If you're the kind of person who doesn't mind doing hard work as long as there's something to show for it, pick a trade. If you're the kind of person who wants easy work, get a security license.
Idk how you get a bullshit office job or I'd tell you to do that, because that sounds like the lowest effort:money ratio.
(Generalize my suggestions if you aren't a fellow Burger-lander.)
Are you in a decent sized city? Do you have transportation or can easily get around the city where you live? You might check around for Temp Placement Agencies.
Might not be the greatest jobs, but you'll be able to add things to a resume/job application with little expectation that you are going to be stuck in a particular job long time.
Local government agencies like to hide their jobs in bespoke websites. As an example the United States Postal Service has two separate bespoke websites where it posts job openings and the postings aren't shared between the sites. Pretty much never will see anything listed on the "normal" job posting websites. The same probably goes for any other local government job. Hell, I got a shitty paying but rather cushy office job at the USPS that I worked at for about 3 years because nobody knew there was this cushy job until the local postmaster put physical flyers about the job in their post offices.
I know that it feels like you are supposed to have a plan for your future life, but a big secret is that... you don't. The pressure to have your shit figured out is (in my humble opinion) designed to push you into getting yourself into very bad situations for the befit of others. Its okay to not have a plan for your life where you are trying to "be something" right away (if ever).
I was 28 when i started insulating