Red Flag Boston

02/02/2023

Justice for Tyre Nichols! Speakout and March

Wednesday February 8, 5 PM
Meet at Alumni Plaza at Salem State University for an open mic to speakout against police violence — for Tyre, for Tortuguita, for Sayed Faisal. We will then march to downtown Salem.

The brutal murder of Tyre Nichols by Memphis police was not an isolated incident resulting from a few bad cops; it was the latest consequence of the racism and wickedness inherent to the American policing system as a whole.

Although Tyre's murderers have been fired and indicted, that's not enough. 2022 was the deadliest year for police killings in the last 10 years. Locally, Cambridge Police recently murdered UMass Boston student Sayed Faisal.

26/07/2022

Massachusetts isn't a "safe" state for abortion rights.

"Your Options" is one of over *30* crisis pregnancy centers in the state. These fake clinics peddle lies and intimidate pregnant people into not aborting their fetuses... and they are part of the national far-right anti-abortion movement.

Join us on Saturday July 30 at 5 PM to protest the Your Options "Clinic" at 103 Broadway in Revere — the start of a campaign to get this center that attacks women and trans folks' healthcare to close.

03/06/2022

Officially over *200* people have registered for tomorrow's conference!! Revolutionary Socialism Conference 2022

Join us to discuss revolutionary socialism and the issues of the day with radicals across the country and around the world!

From building anti-imperialism to defending abortion rights and trans folks... from building an alternative to socialist reformism to fighting the far right... if you're on the left and think we need more than the milquetoast Democratic Party, you owe it to yourself and the movement to attend!

You still have time to register: https://rsop.online

Conference starts at 12:45 Eastern on Saturday!!

02/06/2022

Life as we know seems doomed. Already we've passed threshold after threshold for profound warming of our planet. But that doesn't mean we can't save the planet, or our species. Unfortunately, capitalism is trying convince us that "buying green" and "carbon offsets" are the solution.

Can we stop capitalism's death drive before climate change devastates our lives even further? What kind of world will the revolution have to transform? How can we learn for Indigenous and global movements as part of building a revolutionary approach to climate justice?

Join us at the Revolutionary Socialism Conference (https://rsop.online; June 4-5) to tackle these and other questions. We will be joined by Tina Trutanich (Revolutionary Socialist Organizing Project and Tempest) and Christine Marie (Workers Voice)

We hope you join us for this panel and the whole free 2-day conference!
Learn more and register for free today: http://rsop.online (Spanish translation available)

01/06/2022

We’re in a critical moment in the struggle of bodily autonomy. The unaccountable Supreme Court threatens to completely overturn Roe v. Wade. The right-wing protects the gun rights of mass shooters, while preventing trans kids safe and supportive upbringings. The right wants to arm teachers, but says these same teachers are “grooming” children by “saying gay” in the classroom.

We need a movement, one that inseparably links the struggle for abortion rights with trans liberation. But the NGOs and Democratic Party have already given up the ghost. They’re continuing to use abortion rights and LGBTQ issues as a bludgeon to drum up votes… and continuing to take **zero** action to actually defend and advance these rights. So, how can revolutionaries navigate this terrain? And how does the struggle for abortion and trans liberation connect to the fight for socialism?

Join us at the Revolutionary Socialism Conference 2022 (https://rsop.online; June 4-5) to tackle these questions. We will be joined by Mary Nicole Reeves (Denver Communists, Revolutionary Socialist Organizing Project, Revolutionary Socialist Network), Madeleine Freeman (Left Voice), and Noelle T. (Marx21 US and Portland Democratic Socialists of America).

We hope you join us for this panel and the whole free 2-day conference!

Learn more and register for free today: https://rsop.online (Spanish translation available)

27/05/2022

For four decades, bosses have carried on a one-sided class war against us. Wages have stagnated or shrunk, while bosses have given themselves multi-million-dollar bonuses. Inflation runs rampant while profits (if not profit rates) are up. Now, the stormy clouds of economic crisis are fast approaching from the horizon.

But workers are striking back. Across the country, Starbucks and café workers are winning unions. Amazon workers are fighting and, starting in Staten Island, winning. Striketober and meme-worthy texts to bosses still live in our recent memories… so how can revolutionary socialists intervene in this new environment? How can we build a working-class movement for unions, higher wages, and ultimately socialism?

The Revolutionary Socialism Conference 2022 (https://rsop.online; June 4-5) offers "Capitalism in Crisis, Workers in Resistance" for figuring out these very questions. We will be joined by workers on the frontlines of the class war.

We hope you join us for this panel and the whole free 2-day conference!

Learn more and register for free today: https://rsop.online (Spanish translation available)

26/05/2022

We live in a gross and glaring contradiction: radical and revolutionary consciousness is growing en masse (especially among millennials and zoomers), but revolutionary *organization* is far too small. Movements and revolts burst onto the scene… but without a large revolutionary party, these rebellions get channeled back into streams and strategies that are safe for the system. All this while war, climate change, and fascism loom.

To truly be a revolutionary, we need organization. Only then can our ideas have real impact on the world. But what type of organization do we need? How do we keep from repeating the mistakes of the past — the anti-democratic leaderships, the silencing of dissenting and oppressed voices, and the isolationism of countless socialist sects? How do we get from where we are today to a truly mass revolutionary alternative — or at least, how do we get started?

Join us at the Revolutionary Socialism Conference 2022 (https://rsop.online; June 4-5) to tackle the key question facing revolutionaries today. We will be joined by James Radek (Denver Communists, Revolutionary Socialist Organizing Project, Revolutionary Socialist Network), E. Reed (from our own Boston Revolutionary Socialists, RSOP and RSN), and Mick Armstrong (Socialist Alternative - Red Flag, author of "The Fight for Workers’ Power" and "From Little Things Big Things Grow")

We hope you join us for this panel and the whole free 2-day conference!

Learn more and register for free today: https://rsop.online (Spanish translation available)

25/05/2022

As revolutionary socialists, we’re abolitionists. We’re freedom fighters against the structures of oppression and domination — settler-colonialism that steals land and kills people; border regimes that control and repress labor; capitalist police and prisons that divide workers and disrupt Black and Brown communities.

But “abolition” is a word that can mean a lot. When we say “abolish the police,” can we achieve that under capitalism and simply redirect funds to social services — or do we need a revolution? When we say “abolish ICE,” are we just replacing ICE with a more limited INS, as some propose¹ — or can we abolish borders? When we say “land back,” how can we win Indigenous liberation?

Join us at the Revolutionary Socialism Conference 2022 (https://rsop.online; June 4-5) to discuss these very questions! To lead off the discussion we have brian bean (Rampant Magazine and Tempest, author of the “The Socialist Case Against the Police,” co-editor of “Palestine: A Socialist Introduction”), Tristan Taylor (Left Voice and Detroit Will Breathe), and Steve Leigh (Seattle Revolutionary Socialists, Revolutionary Socialist Organizing Project and Revolutionary Socialist Network).

We hope you join us for this panel and the whole free 2-day conference!

Learn more and register for free today: https://rsop.online (Spanish translation available)

[1] AFSC.org, “What you need to know about the call to abolish ICE”

24/05/2022

Many people on the Left celebrated the election of “The Squad”. But a few years in, what do we have to show for it? We’ve seen AOC vote to fund ICE, not abolish it.¹ We’ve seen them back spending bills that give more money for U.S. militarism, and refuse to stand against coup-mongering in Venezuela.² Just recently, AOC, Cori Bush, and others joined the chorus for devastating sanctions against Russia.³

Far from leading a break from the Democratic Party and capitalist liberalism, socialist reformism has helped drive leftists back into the party with the mistaken belief it’s the only option to create real change. But even if we know the problem, how *can* revolutionaries navigate the rise of the new socialist reformism that seems everywhere?

In this panel at the Revolutionary Socialism Conference (https://rsop.online; June 4-5), Doug Enaa Greene (author of “A Failure of Vision: Michael Harrington and the Limits of Democratic Socialism”), Atlee McFellin (puntorojo magazine, Rupture.capital, & CounterPower/ContraPoder) and Coco Smyth (Central Ohio Revolutionary Socialists) will make the case for revolution, not reformism.

We hope you join us for this panel and the whole free 2-day conference!

Learn more and register for free today: https://rsop.online (Spanish translation available)

[1] LeftVoice, Jan 2019 “Abolishing Ice by Funding It”
[2] LeftVoice, May 2019 “AOC Lines Up with Pelosi, Bolton and Trump in Support of Coup Attempt in Venezuela”; LeftVoice, July 2019 “AOC Follows Pelosi, Trump’s Lead By Voting Big Bucks For Military”
[3] LeftVoice, Feb 2022 “The Squad Calls for U.S. Intervention in Ukraine”

23/05/2022

Internationalism has been the backbone of revolutionary socialist politics ever since Marx and Engels's call "Workers of the World, unite!" But what type of internationalism should revolutionaries fight for?

In this panel at the Revolutionary Socialism Conference 2022 (https://rsop.online; June 4-5), Blanca Missé from Workers Voice and Bill V. Mullen from Revolutionary Socialist Organizing Project will make the case for an internationalism that:
● Stands against ALL forms of imperialism — neither Washington nor Moscow, neither Beijing nor Brussels.
● Stands for the principled right of oppressed nations to self-determination, from Ukraine to Palestine.

In light of DSA Palestine Solidarity Working Group and others' struggle to hold DSA and Jamaal Bowman accountable to BDS... in light of the rise of apologism for Russian tanks and US arms among some sections of the Left... we hope you join us for this panel and the whole free 2-day conference!

Learn more and register for free today: https://rsop.online (Spanish translation available)

21/05/2022

Coming up in just 2 weeks! Register at the link below!

https://rsop.online/

20/05/2022

**Coming up in two weeks! More info/register: rsop.online**

Join revolutionary socialists from across the country and around the world to a free conference on rebuilding a revolutionary socialist movement in the United States.

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The Revolutionary Socialism Conference 2022 (RSC) is a two-day event of panel presentations and discussions concerning the most critical issues facing revolutionary socialists and the question of organizing the class struggle today. The RSC focuses on the development of revolutionary theory and practice as an urgently needed political focus and orientation that is distinct from socialist reformism that has become the dominant expression on the political left.

The RSC aims to bring together members of existing organizations, collectives, groups, coworkers, individuals, and all who want to engage and exchange with others who align with a revolutionary socialist outlook or are moving in the direction towards revolutionary socialist politics, activism, and organization. Another intention of the conference is to create the groundwork for facilitating communication, coordinating action, and establishing methods of collaboration between groups and individuals across the country and beyond borders.