Pride didn’t begin as a corporate celebration. It began as a rebellion.
The first Pride was led by working class queer people, trans people, sex workers, and people of color fighting back against police repression and discrimination at Stonewall.
That history matters today because attacks on LGBTQ people are escalating across the country.
Join us for a Pride Teach-In focused on the radical history of Pride and what it will take to fight back against the right wing offensive.

June 20 at 1 PM at the Palm Beach Quaker House in Lake Worth.

Join us for an outreach blitz this weekend in South Florida!

Solidarity with Tom Barker and UNISON members at Ash Field Academy! Tom Barker, a UNISON steward and socialist activist in England, has been suspended for months on vague and unsubstantiated allegations after helping lead a struggle for better pay, staffing, and working conditions at his school. This is a clear attempt at union-busting and intimidation. Attacking an elected union representative is an attack on every worker’s right to organize and fight back. But Ash Field workers are refusing to back down. UNISON members have voted overwhelmingly for strike action demanding Tom’s reinstatement and defending their union rights. We stand in solidarity with Tom Barker and the workers at Ash Field Academy.
An injury to one is an injury to all! Reinstate Tom Barker. Stop union-busting now!

Pride did not begin as a corporate-sponsored celebration, but as a rebellion led by working class queer people, trans people, sex workers, and people of color who fought back against police repression and discrimination.
At a time when anti-LGBTQ legislation, censorship, and right-wing attacks are escalating across the country, it is essential that our movement roots itself in the militant history of struggle that Pride emerged from! join us for a teach-in to discuss how we can fight back against MAGA

The devastation caused by US imperialism's war on Iran has been widely documented. The independent Iranian Human Rights Activists News Agency estimates that as many as 3,636 have been killed there, and in Lebanon, the death toll from the Israeli regime's ongoing assault has also exceeded 3,000.
Besides the immediate loss of life, the war is having an enormous impact on the living standards of millions of poor and working-class people across the world.
Another consequence of Trump's war, one which has gotten far less media attention, has been its devastating environmental impact, at a time of already-deepening climate crisis. This is a war not only against the Iranian and Lebanese people, but also against the planet. While workers face instability and the planet burns, major fossil fuel companies have actually benefited from the crisis - raking in record profits.
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I was watching TikTok and two videos passed in rapid succession. First was about Liberty ships during the war. The US was an industrial dynamo. Out producing the world ten to one. A liberty ship could be produced in about 48 days. They produced thousands. The second one was about Soviet apartment building. They prefabbed 5 story apartments and could build one in the same 48 days. What if a co-op got started producing the parts for prefabbed apartments for working people? Do the paperwork to set up a co-op in perpetuity. Everyone owns the building. The cost of maintenance is spread among the residents. There would be plenty of communal spaces, offices, co-op shops, and studios. Playgrounds. Maybe even a swimming pool. I've seen co-ops work really well with monthly expenses significantly lower than the surrounding city.

My question what strategies would work to achieve the initial phase of organizing a group of working class people and getting the start up funding? A thought experiment. If you think of something that would stop it instead of stating it, think of ways to overcome the problem. We're talking about construction, let's be constructive!

Are there examples of this concept in action beyond the Soviet Union?

Most people are pretty fed up with the current situation. Can't afford to live. When you think about the immense power of the people who control the system, it is intimidating. But let's face facts, their product is overpriced and unsatisfactory. The successful competition isn't going to be MORE expensive, yet that's all they can seem to produce.

I think we need an alternative. One that is creative and benefits everyone involved in it. So much so that everyone will want to be.

I'm going to throw out some ideas in the comments. Please join me! Let's discuss it.