a communist organization

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.

Our Latest Writing

Revolutionary Abolitionism: A Review of brian bean’s Their End Is Our Beginning

Ridding society of the police is both a practical demand in the struggle against oppression, and an integral part of socialist revolution. brian bean’s new book, Their End Is Our Beginning: Cops, Capitalism, and Abolition, is an excellent intervention in the debates on a future without state violence. As bean argues, the movement to abolish the police is really the movement to abolish capitalism.

Mamdani, the DSA, and the Reactionary Gravity of the Democrats

The history of leftist efforts to realign the Democratic Party demonstrates that strategies like the “dirty break” and the “party surrogate” are not ways forward for the left, but traps instead. Beyond sabotaging left Democrats like Zohran Mamdani and their proposed reforms, a greater danger is the party’s ability to absorb them. Instead, we need an independent socialist workers’ movement.

Should Socialists Support Zohran Mamdani?

Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the Democratic mayoral primary in New York City has caused excitement on the left due to his democratic-socialist politics and his support for Palestine. Such excitement has historically led to disorientation and disillusionment when reformist Democrats — such as AOC and Brandon Johnson — inevitably betray the left. Revolutionaries must retain our opposition to all Democrats and executives of the capitalist state.

The Campaign Against Denver’s Anti-Gay Coffeeshop Church

The Campaign Against Denver’s Anti-Gay Coffeeshop Church

Two years ago, the pastor of a small, fundamentalist, evangelical church called Recycle God’s Love opened a coffeeshop church in Denver’s Art District on Santa Fe Drive. The Drip Café immediately gained the attention of the local community for its anti-gay ideology,...

Our Perspective on Mass Politics

Our Perspective on Mass Politics

The ruling ideas of any age are the ideas of the ruling class. — Marx and Engels The consciousness of the working class has always been mixed. Acceptance of the dominant capitalist ideas is combined with resentment for and opposition to oppression and exploitation....

Our Perspective on Ruling-Class Politics

Our Perspective on Ruling-Class Politics

During the postwar boom, from 1945 through the early 70s, the ruling class in the United States was relatively united. “Politics stops at the water’s edge,” as the saying went. Foreign policy stayed the same no matter who was in office, while the US used its position...

Our Perspective on Palestine

Our Perspective on Palestine

Gaza The official number of Gazans killed by the Zionist entity since October 7, 2023 is over 50,000, many thousands of which were children and the elderly. The real number is very likely much higher. The respected British medical journal, Lancet, estimated in July of...

How to Fight Trump (And How Not To)

How to Fight Trump (And How Not To)

In a few short weeks, Donald Trump’s second presidential administration has quickly established new lows in reactionary cruelty and chaos compared to his first. With an entrenched far-right nationalist movement behind him in his MAGA minions, and more support from key...

Our Perspective on the Economy

Our Perspective on the Economy

Tackling a topic as big as the current state of the economy is not easy. One could write volumes about it and still only scratch the surface, and indeed many have done just that.  In order to avoid trying to boil the ocean, we will instead focus on a few specific...

Imperialist Blowback on Bourbon Street

Imperialist Blowback on Bourbon Street

In the very early morning hours of New Year’s Day, a rented Ford pickup truck driven by a United States military veteran barreled down a crowded Bourbon Street in New Orleans, killing fourteen revelers and injuring another thirty-five. After the truck disabled itself...

Jimmy Carter: War Criminal and Founder of Neoliberalism

Jimmy Carter: War Criminal and Founder of Neoliberalism

Earlier this week, Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, died at the advanced age of 100. The outpouring of tributes to Carter as news of his death broke reflected his great popularity. Though he was despised by the right-wing during his presidency,...

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