LeftRoots in the news
In These Times Magazine recently wrote a profile of LeftRoots, “Socialists of color to the front“: LeftRoots doesn’t see itself as the final home of this 21st-century socialism. Rather, it […]
LeftRoot’s journal about liberatory strategy
The introduction of the first-ever issue of Out to Win! LeftRoot’s journal that explores strategy to win socialist liberation from the perspective of leftists on the frontlines of movement struggles […]
LeftRoots hangOut: 2018 report-back from ENFF and MST in Brasil
In the summer of 2018, for the third consecutive year, LeftRoots had the great privilege to send some of its cadres to study with the Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) in Brasil. […]
LeftRoots hangOut: Report-back from women’s delegation to Vietnam
In December, 2017, three LeftRoots cadres—Merle Ratner, NTanya Lee, and Rose Brewer—got to spend a few weeks on women’s delegation to Vietnam, one of the few surviving 20th century socialist […]
Summary of 2018 LeftRoots Congress
Marking a key milestone in its development, LeftRoots held its first National Congress in Oakland, California from February 15 to 18, 2018. Roughly 200 LeftRoots cadres travelled from various corners […]
2018 Congress Day 3: Jonel
On February 15, 16, and 17, LeftRoots is holding its first national congress. Members from across the country are gathering to identify, discuss, and debate the key features of the […]
2018 Congress Day 3: Romeo
On February 15, 16, and 17, LeftRoots is holding its first national congress. Members from across the country are gathering to identify, discuss, and debate the key features of the […]
2018 Congress Day 3: Andrés
On February 15, 16, and 17, LeftRoots is holding its first national congress. Members from across the country are gathering to identify, discuss, and debate the key features of the […]
2018 Congress Day 3: Lydia
On February 15, 16, and 17, LeftRoots is holding its first national congress. Members from across the country are gathering to identify, discuss, and debate the key features of the […]
2018 Congress Day 3: Thomas
On February 15, 16, and 17, LeftRoots is holding its first national congress. Members from across the country are gathering to identify, discuss, and debate the key features of the […]
2018 Congress Day 2: Noelle
On February 15, 16, and 17, LeftRoots is holding its first national congress. Members from across the country are gathering to identify, discuss, and debate the key features of the […]
2018 Congress Day 2: Kat
On February 15, 16, and 17, LeftRoots is holding its first national congress. Members from across the country are gathering to identify, discuss, and debate the key features of the […]
2018 Congress Day 2: Najla
On February 15, 16, and 17, LeftRoots is holding its first national congress. Members from across the country are gathering to identify, discuss, and debate the key features of the […]
2018 Congress Day 2: Nora
On February 15, 16, and 17, LeftRoots is holding its first national congress. Members from across the country are gathering to identify, discuss, and debate the key features of the […]
2018 Congress Day 1: Jonathan
On February 15, 16, and 17, LeftRoots is holding its first national congress. Members from across the country are gathering to identify, discuss, and debate the key features of the […]
2018 Congress Day 1: Myrna
On February 15, 16, and 17, LeftRoots is holding its first national congress. Members from across the country are gathering to identify, discuss, and debate the key features of the […]
2018 Congress Day 1: Pam
On February 15, 16, and 17, LeftRoots is holding its first national congress. Members from across the country are gathering to identify, discuss, and debate the key features of the […]
2018 Congress Day 1: Zein
On February 15, 16, and 17, LeftRoots is holding its first national congress. Members from across the country are gathering to identify, discuss, and debate the key features of the […]
2018 Congress Day 1: Bryan
On February 15, 16, and 17, LeftRoots is holding its first national congress. Members from across the country are gathering to identify, discuss, and debate the key features of the […]
A pivotal moment in Charlottesville
The centuries-old battle against white supremacy in the United States claimed another life, another hero, this weekend. On Saturday, August 12, James Alex Fields murdered Heather D. Heyer as part […]
LeftRoots hangOut on the MST and ENFF
In the fall of 2016, three LeftRoots cadres—Alex, Paige, and Ying-sun—got to spend seven weeks studying at the Escola Nacional Florestan Fernandes (ENFF), the national school of Brazil’s Movement of Landless […]
LeftRoots Strongly Condemns the Rightwing Attack and Police Raid on the Movimento Sem Terra (MST) School
On the morning on November 4, 2016 police and military forces raided the National School Florestan Fernandes (ENFF), which is the leadership development school of the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement […]
‘Ideas for the Struggle’: required reading for activists in these challenging times
By Steve Williams, co-founder and National Secretary of LeftRoots. Ideas for the Struggle should be required reading for all organizers, political activists and would-be revolutionaries in these troubling and challenging […]
Baton Rouge, Falcon Heights, Dallas
by Linda Burnham July 11, 2016 A thick strand in the history of U.S. policing is rooted back in the slave patrols of the 19th century. Patty rollers were authorized […]
Five Things Leftists Should Know About Bernie Sanders
LeftRoots member, Jonathan Kissam, from Vermont, weighs in on the Bernie Sanders debate. The Bernie Sanders campaign has provoked widespread interest and debate on the U.S. Left, such as it […]
Fighting Class War While ‘Walking on Two Legs’
by Cynthia Peters, LeftRoots Cadre Member Much of the organizing in the U.S. is guilty of focusing on short-term outcomes, not thinking about how the work is developing the people […]
Revolutionary Black Nationalism for the Twenty-First Century: Interview with Kali Akuno
by Riad Azar and Saulo Colón Originally published in New Politics, summer of 2015. Kali Akuno served as the coordinator of special projects and external funding for Jackson Mississippi’s late […]
Organizing Transformation: Best Practices in the Transformative Organizing Model
By Steve Williams. Published by the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, New York Office, May 2015. Download the PDF here » With corporate profits rising along with the number of children living […]
Towards a Transformational Strategy
by N’Tanya Lee, Cinthya Muñoz, Maria Poblet, Josh Warren-White, and Steve Williams on behalf of the LeftRoots Coordinating Committee We are living in times of great instability and crisis. Everywhere […]
As Ferguson ‘Weekend of Resistance’ Begins, Organizers Weigh How to Turn a Moment into a Movement
With thousands descending on Ferguson today to demand justice for Michael Brown, a creator of #BlackLivesMatter thinks now may be the time to win long-term victories. BY JULIA WONG Originally […]
Why LeftRoots?
We need a radical and grounded Left LeftRoots is a national formation of social movement organizers and activists who want to connect grassroots struggles to a strategy that can win liberation […]
Socialism Is… Video from the Rosa Luxemburg Institute’s Mapping Socialist Strategies Conference
In August 2014, the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung—New York Office brought together 100 leaders of the Left from across the United States, Canada, and Europe for an “un-conference” on Mapping Socialist […]
No Shortcuts: We Need Strategy
By N’Tanya Lee and Steve Williams The need to develop a strategy that can cohere the different parts of our movement has never been clearer. Both of us have been […]
More than We Imagined: Activists’ Assessments of the Moment and the Way Forward
By N’Tanya Lee & Steve Williams More Than We Imagined is the final report of a year-long project called Ear to the Ground, co-directed by Steve Williams and NTanya Lee. […]
Gramsci Comes Home
by Spencer Resnick & Jonathan Bix Originally published in Jacobin Magazine, August 2013 Our long march through the institutions is not to reform them, but to transform the common sense […]
Demand Everything: Lessons of the Transformative Organizing Model
By Steve Williams Published by the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, New York Office, March 2013. Download PDF in English here » Download PDF en Espanol here » When protesters around the world […]
Puno en Alto! Libro Abrierto! / Fists, up! Books, open! On Anti-Intellectualism, Literacy Brigades, and Revolutionary Consciousness
By Maria Poblet Originally published by Organizing Upgrade, July 2012. I’m pretty sure the first time I heard the word “Anti-Intellectualism,” I said “that word is so elitist!” Luckily, I […]
From the Base: Revolutionary Left Community Organizing in the U.S.
By Josh Warren-White, September 2006 This paper, written in 2006, studies what was then a relatively new model of community organizing that is Left and revolutionary. The study looks at what […]
Lessons from Amílcar Cabral: Revolutionary Democracy, Class-Consciousness, and Cross-Class Movement Building
By Maria Poblet As a Left community organizer in the United States, working with oppressed and exploited people in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, I have benefitted greatly […]