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Firebrand is committed to revolutionary socialism, internationalism, liberation from all oppression, and the political independence of the working class. We stand in the tradition of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, and Luxemburg. We intervene in social movements and labor struggles to the best of our ability, in order to advance those fights and win our fellow fighters to revolutionary conclusions.

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After the Election: The Fight Ahead and the Alternative We Need

Wednesday, Dec 4, 2024 at 8pm ET
on Zoom at: bit.ly/firebrandzoom

“Besides offering analysis about the long-term implications, revolutionaries need to prepare the ground now to organize a broad defense of our communities and movements. This mass defense will have to include movement radicals, those who abstained, and even many of those who, no matter how shamefully, held their noses and voted for one genocidal party or another. Only by organizing, and not at all allying with the liberal establishment, which utterly failed to stop Trumpism over the past four years, can we combat the right wing and advance our class.

Trump’s second presidency will present new challenges, sharpening the contradictions within the ruling class as well as between that class, the state, and ordinary people. This will give revolutionaries more opportunities to organize. We need to seize those opportunities and not be discouraged by Trump’s accession to office.”

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E. Reed (he/him) is a founding member of Firebrand and Firebrand Boston. He has been involved with the revolutionary socialist left since 2011 and is a former member of the International Socialist Organization.

Mark J (he/him) is a founding member of Firebrand.

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