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# Anticapitalist organizations
## What can we do?
Many think that fighting against capitalism feels a lot like throwing pebbles at a tidal wave. How can *I, alone*, do anything to stop all of the [injustices I see being committed?](https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/us_atrocities.md) We see our neighbors being picked up and [deported by ICE](https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/us_atrocities.md#latinos), [police murdering and imprisoning us](https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/us_atrocities.md#black-people), debts that lock us into [indentured servitude](https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/us_atrocities.md#workers-and-the-poor), [global surveillance of every minute detail of our lives](https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/us_atrocities.md#pervasive), endless [wars and imperialism](https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/us_atrocities.md#imperialism), ecological destruction, and [literal slave labor camps](https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/us_atrocities.md#prisoners). Our rents, food costs, and debts are going up, and our [incomes have stagnated.](https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/capitalism_doesnt_work.md) The media, and everything around us seems apathetic, complacent, and oblivious. Eight men currently control about half the world's wealth. Their share is growing daily, and will reach a conclusion obvious to anyone who's played monopoly before. With only our labor to sell, and the demand for that labor decreasing, things seem oppressively bleak.
Here's the thing: **You are not alone**. In fact, **we wage workers are the majority**. The ruling class of [absentee owners](https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/crash_course_socialism.md) make up a *tiny minority* of your city's population. Often invisible to us, is the fact that we as wage workers are *surrounded by comrades* who share our same basic interests. We are impoverished by an *imposed artificial scarcity*, a mal-allocation of the things we need to survive. World food production and housing *already surpasses our needs*, yet [1 out of every 7 US citizens needs to visit food banks to survive.](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/08/17/hunger-study-food/14195585/) In the [UK there are 10x more houses than homeless families.](http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/ampp3d/housing-crisis-10-empty-homes-5008151) Our healthcare and other social services, which are ample, are increasingly being privatized. We know that by simply organizing for *human needs rather than private profit*, we can solve our societal problems. We have but to shake off these mooching, leeching, capitalist parasites, like a dog shaking off fleas.
How do we get there, how do we win? **We join anti-capitalist organizations.**
Capitalists retain their power through the strategy of *divide and conquer.* [Scapegoating hasn't gone out of style;](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scapegoating) the tactic has always been to blame certain races, sexes, religions, activists, and transform them into demons causing all the world's problems, so people won't point their fingers upwards. The *isolating individualism* enforced by them pervades all aspects of our lives: we often live in isolated housing, we're actively told not to organize or form unions, the news tells us to be afraid of our neighbors... everything ( even human life ) has value only as a unit of *individual consumption.*
Anti-Capitalist organization always has, and always will be, our only hope, and the only real threat to Capitalist interests. Malcolm X keenly stated that the hand becomes a weapon only when our fingers are **joined together into a fist.**
Our task is the same as it always has been: to **agitate, educate, organize, and join leftist organizations in our cities.**
Our pessism or optimism is irrelevant: *we have no choice but to organize* for the overthrow of Capitalism; anything less results in a [destruction of the environment and our lives.](https://pics.onsizzle.com/in-this-hour-socialism-is-the-only-salvation-for-humanity-12219484.png) We have no time to waste, capitalists prefer our pacification and death, to our organized resistance. [The police state is here](https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/us_atrocities.md#pervasive), and no amount of [pacifist resistance](https://theredphoenixapl.org/2011/08/11/pacifism-how-to-do-the-enemys-job-for-them/) will threaten it.
## Notes
Lastly, for thosewho think that broadcasting a list like this ( potentially to our enemies ) harms the cause of anti-capitalism. Remember that:
- All of these organizations have ( or should have ) vetting processes in place for new members.
- These are all completely legal, *above ground* organizations. Many of them even do armed organizing where it is legal to do so.
- Socialists disdain to conceal our aims; Reactionaries are a vocal minority that are given a loudspeaker by the capitalist media, but workers and those that believe in worker power have always outnumbered them.
This list is a living document; it will be updated as necessary. Feel free to contact me to add to this, fork this list, or create your own versions.
## Organizations
| Name | Tendency | Contact | Locations |
|:---:|:---:|:---:|---|
| [Party for Socialism and Liberation](http://www.pslweb.org/) | Marxist-Leninist | [FB](https://www.facebook.com/pslweb/) [Twitter](https://twitter.com/pslweb)| US - Baltimore, Maryland; Boston, Massachusetts; Miami, Florida; New Haven, Connecticut New Paltz and New York City (Harlem), New York; Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Albuquerque, New Mexico; Sacramento, San Diego, San Jose, Santa Cruz, Los Angeles and the Inland Empire in California; Phoenix, Arizona; Seattle, Washington; Austin, Texas; Chicago, Illinois; Sioux Falls, South Dakota; and St. Louis, Missouri |
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| [Red Guards of Charlotte](https://redguardscharlotte.wordpress.com/) | Maoist | [FB](https://www.facebook.com/redguardscharlotte1/) | US - Charlotte, North Carolina |
| [Red Guards of Kansas City](https://kcmlm.wordpress.com/) | Maoist | [FB](https://www.facebook.com/itisrighttorebel/) | US - Kansas City, MO |
| [Red Guards of Pittsburgh](https://redguardspittsburgh.wordpress.com/2018/03/10/attn-pittsburgh-loose-lips-sink-ships-be-aware/) | Marxist-Leninist-Maoism | [FB](https://www.facebook.com/redguardspittsburgh) | US - Pittsburgh, PA |
| [Green Party](http://www.gp.org/) | Eco-Socialism | [FB](https://www.facebook.com/GreenPartyUS) | US |
| [American Party of Labor](http://americanpartyoflabor.org/) | Marxist-Leninist, Hoxhaism | [FB](https://www.facebook.com/americanpartyoflaborapl) | US |
| [Progressive Labor Party](http://www.plp.org/) | Marxist-Leninist | [Twitter](https://twitter.com/PLPchallenge) | US |
| [Peace and Freedom Party](http://peaceandfreedom.org/home/) | Eco-Socialism / Trotskyism | [FB](https://www.facebook.com/PFP.CA.Official/) | US |
| [Socialist Action](https://socialistaction.org/) | Trotskyism | [FB](https://www.facebook.com/socialist.action.1) | US |
| [Socialist Labor Party](http://www.slp.org/) | De Leonism | [De Leon literature](http://www.slp.org/De_Leon.htm) | US |
| [Democratic Socialists of America](http://www.dsausa.org/) | Democratic Socialism / Reformism | [FB](https://facebook.com/demsocialists) [Twitter](https://twitter.com/DemSocialists) | US |
| [Socialist Workers Party](http://themilitant.com/) | Multi-tendency (Communist) | [about](http://www.slp.org/De_Leon.htm) | US |
| [Liberty Union Party](http://www.libertyunionparty.org/) | Multi-tendency | [FB](https://www.facebook.com/LibertyUnionParty) | US |
| [Workers' Solidarity Alliance](https://workersolidarity.org/) | Anarcho-Syndicalism | [FB](https://www.facebook.com/workersolidarityalliance) | US |
| [Rose City Antifa](https://www.rosecityantifa.org/) | Multi-tendency | [FB](https://www.facebook.com/sometimesantisocialalwaysantifascist/) | US - Portland, Oregon|
| [Revolutionary Communist Party](http://revcom.us/) | Maoist | [FB](https://www.facebook.com/Revolutionary-Communist-Party-991523717554453/) | US |
| [Green Party](http://www.gp.org/) | Eco-Socialism | [FB](https://www.facebook.com/GreenPartyUS) | US |