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.
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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.”
Featured Speakers
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.
Recommended Material
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“Trump Again?! WTF? A Marxist Analysis of the US Election Results” by Firebrand
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“The Democrats Couldn’t Beat Trump with Hot Air and Coconut Trees — An Organized Working Class Can” by Jimena Vergara and Sybil Davis
Our Latest Writing
On the Ground with the Student Intifada
Auraria Campus, Denver Report by James Radek A protest encampment in solidarity with Palestine was established on Thursday, April 25 on Denver’s Auraria Campus, which is home to the University of Colorado Denver, Metropolitan State University, and Community College of...
Solidarity with Jodi Dean, and with All Victims of McCarthyist Attacks on Intellectual Freedom
On April 13, 2024, the President of Hobart and William Smith Colleges in New York state summarily dismissed Jodi Dean, professor of politics, from her teaching position at the institution. The dismissal is ostensibly temporary, pending an investigation into claims...
What Is Fascism? Strategy and Tactics in the Struggle Against the Far Right
Fascism arose in the 20th century as a capitalist response to its own crises and the increased threat of the communist movement after the Russian Revolution. Fascism is a symptom of capitalism in decay, and is especially centered on the ruined petty bourgeoisie and...
Out of the Voting Booth, Into the Streets: Revolutionaries and Electoral Politics
According to the dominant view on the broad liberal-left, to achieve progressive change we must elect officials with progressive politics. Liberalism claims we can eliminate the problems inherent in capitalism without eliminating capitalism itself, and by using the...
Neither Dogmatism nor Eclecticism, But Marxist Dialectics
Marxism represents a complete and vigorously materialistic world-view. A complete world-view differs from an eclectic one in that each of its aspects is connected in the closest way with all the others, and therefore one cannot with impunity eliminate one of them and...
A Communist Military Veteran on Aaron Bushnell, Imperialist War, and Resistance
My radicalization began with my time in the military. I served 10 years as an army infantryman. The simplest job description for an infantryman is someone who engages in ground combat. I grew up a poor trailer-trash kid from a small town in Wyoming. As soon as I...
Aaron Bushnell: Martyr for Palestine
Last Sunday, February 25, Aaron Bushnell, a 25-year-old active-duty airman in the United States Air Force, set himself on fire in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington DC, in what he called “an extreme act of protest against the genocide of the Palestinian...
What Will It Take to Liberate Palestine?
A free Palestine from the river to the sea is the demand that has been taken up by the unprecedented global protest movement in the wake of Israel’s brutal war and genocide in Gaza. Most sincere supporters of the Palestinian cause can understand why the dismantling of...
Palestine, Revolutionary Morality, and Liberation: A Reply to La Botz and Shalom
The current debate in Tempest between Dan La Botz and Stephen R. Shalom on one side, and Jonah ben Avraham and Sean Larson on the other, is an important one for the left. La Botz and Shalom have claimed ben Avraham and Larson are too soft on October 7. The latter have...
Central Ohio Revolutionary Socialists Suspended Over Palestine
Our comrades in Central Ohio Revolutionary Socialists are facing outrageous repression from Ohio State University, who suspended their campus chapter in December on grounds that their activities in support of Palestine “pose a significant risk of substantial harm.”...
The French Turn, the DSA, and Revolutionary Regroupment
In March 2020, several longtime members of the Democratic Socialists of America published an essay entitled “The Dangers of Factionalism in DSA,” warning about the dangers of entryism by organizations such as Socialist Alternative. Using the example of the “French...
Why We Support Palestinian Armed Resistance
In the wake of the events of October 7 and the genocidal aftermath, there is a growing divide on the left between those who unconditionally support the right of Palestinians to fight back against their oppressors, and their critics. Support on the left for resistance...
Palestine, Prisons, and Settler-Colonial Incarceration
A political prisoner is typically defined as someone imprisoned for their political activity, or who is imprisoned on an official charge that is sometimes unrelated to their actual activity. While the exact meanings of the term are contested, conventionally it refers...
Support Palestinians When They Fight, Not Just When They Die
In October, inmates of the Zionist state’s de facto concentration camp in the Gaza Strip executed a desperate, yet powerfully courageous, escape. The scene shocked the world. Just four years prior, Palestinian protesters had tried week after week for nearly a year to...
Ilan Pappé’s Ten Myths About Israel: A Comprehensive Dismantling of Zionist Ideology
The ongoing genocidal annihilation of Gaza and the racist pogroms in the West Bank, both conducted by the Israeli apartheid state with the full support of its imperial sponsor, the United States, have rightfully provoked the rage of tens of millions across the world....
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