Rafa Espinosa’s Lessons from Organizing Workers in UNITE HERE Local 2: Listen to the Workers and Never Forget Them! by Larry Hendel. Posted March 14, 2023. Rafael Espinoza, is a former League of Revolutionary Struggle (LRS) member, who spent decades fighting for immigrant and worker justice. The bulk of his work was in UNITE-HERE Local …
Organizing Women on the Job: The Lifework of Karen Wing Interview by Pam Tau Lee. Posted December 13, 2022 Introduction: Karen Wing is a longtime workplace organizer who started in restaurant work and then went to work in the post office and became Vice President of the San Francisco local of the American Postal Workers …
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Chapter One: Evolution of a Revolutionary By Joyce Nakamura. Posted December 12, 2022. Introduction I wrote this reflections piece as a lens into how I became a revolutionary and what being a revolutionary looked like in different periods of my life. During the period of the emergence of the New Communist Movement (NCM) and the …
Growing Up Raza in San Francisco By Joe Navarro. Posted Oct. 16, 2022. Back in the early 2000s when I was studying for my master’s degree in Mexican American Studies, I spoke in one of my classes about the influences in my life. Our classes studied different social issues that affected Chicanas and Chicanos and …
The Third World Strike at San Francisco State and its Legacy By Peter Shapiro. Posted September 19, 2022. For five months in 1968-69, San Francisco State College (now University) was the scene of a historic strike by students of color, supported by thousands of white students and a substantial minority of the faculty. Launched by …
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Imagine Revolution! By Alex. Hing. Posted September 5, 2022. A lot of discussion nowadays concern how dire a situation the planet, domestic and international politics, economics, the pandemic, and individual physical and psychological states are. It seems we recently crossed a line into a space filled with dread as it becomes more and more clear …
A Letter to My Younger Self By Jamala Rogers. Posted August 7, 2022. Hello Young Me, I’m writing this letter to you because there will be times throughout your life when you question the inevitability of good to triumph over evil. There will be times when you have doubts that the various movements are effectively …
Somewhere Over the Rainbow: Can Lessons from the Jesse Jackson Campaigns for President Help Us in 2022 and Beyond? By Eddie Wong with input from Bill Gallegos and May Louie. Posted July 27, 2022. The classic American song Over the Rainbow sung by Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz has an enduring appeal both …
Why Are You Still a Revolutionary? How Do You Keep Your Revolutionary Optimism in These Difficult Times? By Pam Tau Lee. Posted on July 23, 2022. The idea for this essay, “How Do You Keep Your Revolutionary Optimism in These Difficult Times?” arose during an intergenerational discussion between “Boomers” and “Millennials.” As a Baby Boomer …
Becoming a Chicano Marxist and Forming the August 29th Movement and the League of Revolutionary Struggle By Bill Gallegos. Posted July 16, 2022. The League of Revolutionary Struggle (Marxist-Leninist) was formed in 1978. I don’t remember the exact date, but I do know that by uniting my organization – August 29th Movement (ATM) – with I Wor …
