Over the past year, Freedom Road Socialist Organization has undergone a period of dramatic growth, and we have emerged as one of the largest revolutionary organizations in the United States. We have been in the forefront of the fight against police crimes. We have systematically developed our work in the labor movement. And we have worked hard to build the movements for African-American and Chicano liberation. We have hundreds of cadre who are working day and night to build the people’s struggle and we will soon have more than 1000 members. FRSO is truly national in scope.

We have arrived at a crossroads. To continue this pace of development we need your help. We are going to establish a national office and we are going to have some full-time staff who are devoted to building FRSO. We will increase our capacity to build a revolutionary movement that is capable of engaging the class enemy and waging a serious fight for working class political power: socialism.

To do this takes money and everyone can play a role in this. Urge your comrades and friends to give all that they can to the FRSO Spring Fundraising drive. Congress and the president just approved stimulus checks for most of us. Please consider contributing your stimulus check to FRSO.

Our organization is no stranger to struggle and sacrifice. Starting with the raids in 2010, the FBI waged a multi-year campaign aimed at part to destroying FRSO. They failed, and we are now on the threshold of making a great leap forward.

The economic crisis, the failure of government and the for-profit health care industry to deal with the pandemic, along with the great rebellion that has shaken this country after the police murder of George Floyd are all indicators that great change is coming. Monopoly capitalism is a failed system, and it has entered a period of accelerated decline.

Some people say real change is impossible. Burning police stations and millions of people in the streets this past year suggest otherwise. We want to abolish capitalism and replace it with socialism. This not some dream; it can be a reality if we work – and fight – for it.

To do that we need to expand the fighting capacity of FRSO. Your the contributions, the bigger the better, will help us do exactly that. Go to donate at frso.org.

Great things are ahead! The future is bright! Contribute to the FRSO Spring Fundraising campaign!

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We are launching a fundraising drive to build this newspaper. We urge you to contribute. Already, supporters of Fight Back! in Chicago have gotten the jump on this campaign, raising several thousand dollars. We are confident that supporters in other cities will match their efforts.

Over the past 4 years, Fight Back! has been on the front lines of the people's struggles. From the battle for decent schools in Los Angeles, to the picket lines in Alabama and the demonstrations against police brutality in Chicago, Fight Back! has been there. Our correspondents around the U.S. bring you accurate and clear coverage of the fights for justice, peace and equality.

Because of the solid efforts of our readers, distributors, photographers and writers, Fight Back! has grown steadily in size, scope and quality. When we began publishing four years ago, Fight Back! was a regional newspaper, primarily distributed in the Midwest. We are now a nationwide paper with readers or distributors in every region of the country. Our technical staff has worked hard to steadily improve the quality of the paper.

The paper has grown in size, and Lucha Y Resiste! has steadily expanded. It is our goal to publish all the articles in Spanish and English at the earliest possible date.

Over the past two years, we have regularly sent teams of Fight Back! distributors to nearly every major national demonstration, where they assist local distributors and help to find new subscribers. We will be doing this again at the critical anti-war demonstration that will take place in Washington D.C. on April 20.

It's worth noting that as the paper has grown, it has become an important source of information for people in other countries who want to learn more about the struggles of working and oppressed peoples here. In the weeks before we went to press with this issue, contributions and subscriptions came in from as far away as Australia and Brazil.

As the paper has developed, our expenses have increased – and that is where you come in. Printing costs money. Shipping papers around the country costs money. And the post office doesn't give us a break either. Often, we have more material than we can publish. Our layout editor tries to fit it all in, but we have hit the point where we need to publish more pages each issue.

We believe that Fight Back! is especially important right now. The Bush Administration, along with the rich and powerful that stand behind it, has launched a war on the world. There is no other way to describe it. Working people and oppressed nationalities in this country are catching hell, and so are the people of Afghanistan, Palestine, and nearly every other place you can think of. And we all share a common enemy – the White House and Wall Street. Every issue of Fight Back! drives this point home.

Not so long ago, a boss of a Chicago hospital wrote us to complain about our coverage. Knowing that he is someone who consistently attacks clinic employees, we have to admit that we are glad that he's mad. It means we are doing something right. The same applies to a corrupt teamster official who bellowed at a union meeting that Fight Back! was the “worst paper in the world.”

We realize that we have a way to go before the exploiters and oppressors that run this country also judge this newspaper to be the “worst in the world.” But we are trying. And you can help us.

Contribute to the fundraising campaign.

Mick Kelly, for the editors of Fight Back!

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