Introductory Writings
Think socialism is an impossible pipe dream, especially in the U.S.?
Read what socialist feminists have to say on this question.
One Hemisphere Indivisible: Permanent Revolution and Neoliberalism in the Americas [PDF 389kB]
An investigation of anti-imperialist upsurge in Latin America and its effect on U.S. workers. The author, Guerry Hoddersen, pays tribute to the leadership of women in Central and South America, and to people of color and immigrants firing up labor in the United States today. Hoddersen is the International Secretary of the Freedom Socialist Party and has traveled and spoken often in Central America to develop relationships with feminists and revolutionaries. This book can be ordered from Red Letter Press.
Strong Medicine: Toxic Capitalism and the Socialist Cure
Journalist Megan Cornish writes that the devastation caused by the World Trade Organization and the World Bank, as well as deadly war zones in Iraq, Palestine and Colombia, prove that capitalism doesn't work for the majority of the world's people, including the majority of Americans. But would socialism in the U.S. look like Stalinism in the USSR? Find out how education, culture, technology, and democracy would be improved under a U.S. socialist system.
Socialism for Skeptics
FSP founder Clara Fraser answers basic questions and skewers
the myth of freedom under a system based on theft.
More Socialism for Skeptics
Fraser takes on those who say planning an economy is a ridiculous idea and that the chaos of the free market is best.
How Long, Oh Lords, How Long?
Will women and gays and people of color be forced to put their needs on the back burner after a socialist revolution? No way, says Fraser.
On the Dialectics of U.S. "Backwardness"
Fraser answers skeptical Latin American leftists who claimed the U.S. working class was too privileged and bought off by the crumbs of imperialism to make a revolution.
Where Matters Stand With Me
Gloria Martin, woman worker and pioneer feminist revolutionary, tells it like it is. A lifelong foe of racism and a political bridge between the Old and New Left, Martin was the mother of eight children, an early leader of the Freedom Socialist Party and the author of Socialist Feminism: The First Decade.
Why We Left the Socialist Workers Party
The founders of the Freedom Socialist Party issued this statement in1966. Known as the Kirk-Kaye tendency, they had significant differences with the SWP leadership over party democracy, women’s liberation, the need for a revolutionary integrationist policy in the Black struggle, principled participation in the anti-Vietnam war movement, and solidarity with the Chinese revolution.
From Russia with Love: Trotsky’s Theory of Permanent Revolution
Freedom Socialist editor Andrea Bauer infuses Trotsky’s theory of radical social change with a class-based feminist understanding: “…no matter how rotten a social system is, it doesn’t change by itself. It has to be changed. People have to change it. And the people who suffer the most from the status quo are the people who can and must change it. In our historical era, this means the working class.”
The American Revolution and Trotskyism
Writer Robert Crisman outlines the importance of revolution on U.S. soil as the pre-condition for successful revolutions in the rest of the world.
If America Should go Communist
In 1934, Leon Trotsky, co-leader of the Russian Revolution, imagined how socialism might look in the U.S. "Soviet America will not have to imitate our bureaucratic methods. America is much wealthier and would have little difficulty in supplying its entire people with the necessities of life. Moreover, your needs, tastes and habits would never permit a bureaucracy…"
