Freedom Road Socialist Organization

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Freedom Road Socialist Organization is an organization formed by the unification of three smaller groups in 1985 — the Proletarian Unity League, Revolutionary Workers Headquarters, and the Organization for Revolutionary Unity. In 1988, the Amilcar Cabral - Paul Robeson Collective fused with Freedom Road, and in 1994, they merged with a larger organization — the Socialist Organizing Network. Beyond Leninism, the FRSO also supported the right of oppressed nationalities within the United States, including Hawaii'an, Black, and Chicano peoples to have national self-determination. In 1999, the group split into two when one grouping, the "Left Refoundationists", decided that the socialist experience of the 20th century was basically bankrupt. Upon settling on the concept of "Left Refoundationism", (a theory which espouses the willy-nilly merging of all and sundry authoritarian socialist parties), they began to advocate for a kind of "super group" consisting of a grab bag of various statist ideologies. The other grouping, known as "Fight Back!", continued on their path as a "traditional" authoritarian Leninist organization. Ironically, it is "Fight Back!" which has made the most gains in size and influence in the decade since the split occurred.

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• Freedom Road Socialist Organization (Fight Back) [[1]]
• Freedom Road Socialist Organization (Left Refoundationist) [[2]]

This page is part of the Field Guide to the Left.