Freedom Road Socialist Organization

Frantz Fanon and Revolutionary Anti-colonial Psychology

At a time when even Marxist analyses of imperialism were marred by Eurocentric thinking and economism, Frantz Fanon — Black psychiatrist and revolutionary fighter — opened people's eyes to the psycho-cultural aspects of colonialism and of the struggle against it.

Like Malcolm X, Frantz Fanon was born in 1925 and died before his 40th birthday. Fanon's birthplace was Martinique, a Caribbean island which held high status in the French colonial hierarchy. Coming from a middle-class family, Fanon initially conceived of himself as French, like many intellectuals from the colonies. At 18, Fanon left home to volunteer for the Free French Army, which fought to liberate France from Nazi occupation during World War II.

Children of Jerusalem

Aaron McGruder
The Most Dangerous Man Alive?

Who is this Mr. McGruder, and what makes him so formidable?

Aaron McGruder's weapons of choice are a pen, scathing wit, and the belief that words, images and a daily platform in the nation's newspapers are a lethal combination for effective social and political change.

The man's a comic-strip assassin.

New York Stone Cutters Riot against Prison Labor

 If you ever visit New York University in downtown Manhattan, you'll find a fakey little cobblestone walk right next to the school's information center across from the south side of Washington Square Park. It was built some years back in an effort to give the school a more historic accent and to offset the sterile ghastliness of its architecture. In the midst of that walk is a giant marble plinth that wouldn't have been out of place in Mussolini's Rome. Look to its peak and you'll see a chunk of carved stone from atop the original building that housed NYU.

Introducing Freedom Road Socialist Organization 

The Freedom Road Socialist Organization / Organización Socialista del Camino para la Libertad (FRSO/OSCL) is pleased to present the inaugural issue of our new magazine. We want to spell out here the goals of the publication in order to give you, our readers, a clear understanding of where we're coming from.