The Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) is a communist political party in the United States. FRSO formed in 1985 as a merger of several Maoist-oriented New Communist movement organizations.
In 1985, the Proletarian Unity League and the Revolutionary Workers Headquarters merged to create FRSO. In 1986, FRSO fused with the Organization for Revolutionary Unity. In 1988, FRSO absorbed the Amílcar Cabral-Paul Robeson Collective.
FRSO's component groups believed that ultraleftism was the US New Communist movement's main error. Merging under the FRSO banner, these groups hoped to consolidate the movement's remnants in a single organization and move beyond the sectarianism that marked the previous decades.
1999 split
In response to the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, FRSO began to develop two distinct positions on socialist countries. The "Left Refoundation" group, aligned with democratic socialism, argued that these events resulted from a deep crisis of Marxism. The "Fight Back!" group, aligned with Marxism-Leninism, argued that these events resulted from revisionism rather than failures within Marxism. These divisions grew during the 1990s. In 1998, the Left Refoundation group wrote an internal document, "Theses on Left Refoundation", and requested an organization-wide discussion.
Both factions claimed the name "Freedom Road Socialist Organization". In 2006, the Left Refoundation group renamed itself to "FRSO/OSCL", combining the English and Spanish acronym. In 2019, the Left Refoundation group renamed itself to Liberation Road.
Publications
FRSO's main publication is the website and monthly paper Fight Back! News (FB!N) and its Spanish section Lucha y Resiste.
The 9th Congress of FRSO, held in spring 2022, came at a critical juncture in the development of the people’s struggle and the accelerating decline of monopoly capitalism in the U.S. As the call to the congress states, in the recent period “we have seen a level of struggle that is unprecedented since the 1960s. The great rebellion following the murder of George Floyd, which was both broad and militant, signals the shape of things to come. It can be said the burning police stations helped illuminate the road to freedom. The fight against police crimes led to a resurgence of the African American national movement.”
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Vent post: last week, a big ass truck plowed into my car in the snow. The truck was fine, but totally fucked up the side of my car. The dude was nice enough, admitted fault, and we exchanged info (I opted to NOT call the police, because, fuck that).
Now his insurance has admitted fault, got me a rental, yadda yadda but they claim that the cost of the damage (13k) is more than the value of the car. Similar vehicles to mine are selling for $20,000...but they are trying to give me a check for <$8,000. I told them I am in a chapter 13 bankruptcy, and giving me a check would be the same as giving it to the court...I told them this is the ONE thing I own, I jsut want it fixed, and they just keep brushing me off like I am nothing. This is so infuriating. My friends are telling me to get a personal injury lawyer and try to get more money. I don't want more money, I just want my fucking car back. Now State Farm is offering $4k and I can have the car as is with a salvage title. This country fucking sucks so god damn much.
They always low ball first offer. You absolutely can get more out of them and should at least get a lawyer consult (maybe a couple sometimes consults are free sometimes they charge), but bear in mind that it might not be worth your while with litigation costs if it goes that far. You might end up with more money (even if it goes to your creditors) if you take the offer.
My first car got swideswiped by someone leaving, and not paying attention, from a parking lane while I was driving. It was drivable but because panels cost so much even 10 years ago and my car was very very old it was a write-off. I still drove it around for a while but I got stopped by the cops every time I drove it 😭 not kidding, literally every time I drove my beat up to shit car I would get pulled over. Comparable for used cars are also all over and quite high so you probably should be getting more for your car - unfortunately chances are it is a compete write off just because of how expensive everything's got.
That does suck a lot, you must be feeling squeezed. The court or the trustee or whatever might let you keep the write off cheque or settlement because chances are you need a car and you wont be making payments without transportation, right? They might decide to clawback some of the cheque and let you keep some to buy a "reasonable" vehicle... anyway this is a situation where you should talk to a lawyer to help you navigate it all.
Yeah, I am waiting to hear back from my bankruptcy lawyer, I don't even want to mention that there might be a cheek to the trustee yet until I get that settled. It's jsut a massive headache, because state farm is straight up lying to me, and, if I were not hounding them, I would be under the impression my car was being repaired (it's what their website says).