Living in the States has me genuinely frightened. I’m not so naive as to suppose it’s not always been rough, but it’s clear we’ve entered a qualitatively different era. The moderate wing of fascism has died, and barbarism is all that remains.

I want to fight back in a substantive way, even if it’s small. I want to participate in institutions which protect the vulnerable, myself included. I don’t want to lock my doors and peek out the windows, but I know better than to engage in adventurist, individual “resistance.” I also don’t want to be in a social club where we sit and congratulate each other on having the right opinions. I’m past wanting to be on the “right side of history,” where I content myself with personally disagreeing with the nightmare we live in. Something needs to be done; the window for taking action is swinging shut.

I have almost no experience in organizing. I’ve attended a handful of protests which mostly felt like a venting of frustrations for everyone there. I’ve associated with a few comrades who had good intentions, but never accomplished much. That’s about it.

How do I actually go about being a part of something effective?

  • albigu@lemmygrad.ml
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    5 days ago

    Lots of typical US individualism and non-answers in this thread. Freedom Road Socialist Organisation and Party for Social Liberation both are principled ML organisations. The former has a competent agitation platform on Fight Back News and the latter organised lots of protests with their A.N.S.W.E.R. coalition recently and is an actual party. Yes both have their problems.

    But both have contact and join forms on their websites, and communist organisations are always starved of active members so any help will be appreciated and they’ll probably know how you could do something in your area. Try to contact/join both, that way if either takes too long you guarantee a higher chance of response. Read both their programmes. And don’t be sectarian.

    If you’re feeling spicy there could also be an SRA chapter near you. Besides that if you ever go to any protest or action, try to ask around which organisations people are part of and hang out with the most dedicated ones. Even if they’re in something like the DSA, you don’t need to join them to work with them. And again, communists orgs are always starved of good members who want to do something.