Los Angeles FSP Organizer Karla Alegria-Gimeno describes her working-class origins and tells how she discovered political history and joined the battle for a better world.
Why I Joined
Desperately seeking socialism; also found feminism
Emma Allen explains how it all came together for her, leaving no one out.
“When my world opened”
“I was too busy already. Married. Me, an activist? A thinker, a doer? An organizer?” Bay Area poet Nellie Wong describes her journey into radical politics.
A political awakening in the age of Trump
An émigré to Seattle from the right-to-work state of Idaho recounts how the 2016 election “shattered my apathy.”
From anti-red to socialist
Nga Bui, daughter of Vietnamese refugees, on her path to the Freedom Socialist Party.
Finding a party to call home
“I think I’ve always been a socialist. Even when I identified as a liberal and was a registered Green, I felt our system was unfair and wrong.”
A union carpenter’s story
Retiree Patrick Burns has his “feet on the ground” fighting for union democracy, women’s rights, and more.
Sue Mi Ko – Why I joined the Freedom Socialist Party
I first came across the Freedom Socialist Party at an anti-war rally in New York City in the spring of 2011 where I got into a discussion with a party member selling the Freedom Socialist newspaper. We talked about fracking, an issue I was actively protesting at the time, and he suggested that we organize… Read more »
