Thread by @LowCountryBK369

Well, well, well. LOOK at that.

Christmas has come early!

Far left Socialist "Carolina Federation" offshoot, "New Hanover For All," has released their candidate endorsements.

Carolina Federation is operationally tethered to Liberation Road (formerly known as Freedom Road Socialist Organization/FRSO), and acts as a "state-based initiative aligned with its strategic goals."

"Last week, our members came together at the culmination of a rigorous endorsement process.

We are excited for a primary ballot that features values aligned candidates who will fight for our students and our families and are committed to working to co-govern alongside our community organizations."

Pay attention to that last sentence.

This is a thread.

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New Hanover For All >> Carolina Federation >> Liberation Road (formerly known as Freedom Road Socialist Organization/FRSO).

And what are their goals?

📍"Strategic Alignment"

• Liberation Road’s 2022-2025 strategy explicitly highlights the need to "build state-based independent political organization and power" in the U.S. South to combat what they term the "New Confederacy."

The Carolina Federation serves this purpose in North Carolina.

📍"Leadership and Collaboration"

• Key figures associated with Liberation Road, such as Whitney Maxey

📍"Network Integration"

• The Carolina Federation works alongside other organizations often associated with similar leftist, progressive, or socialist, and social justice coalitions within North Carolina.

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Let's break down what "committed to working to co-govern alongside our community organizations" ACTUALLY means.

Translated, it means, "These candidates have pledged to align with far left Socialist-aligned organizations, at the local (county) and state level, to govern in such a way that their decisions will prioritize alignment with the Socialist agenda."

That's problematic for a multitude of reasons. Those organizations do not represent the values of all ~184,533 registered voters in New Hanover County. 

The current breakdown of registered voters by party affiliation is as follows:

•Unaffiliated: 79,435
•Republican: 54,871
•Democratic: 48,744

Liberation Road has "historically focused on building "21st-century socialism" through deep engagement in labor, racial justice, and electoral work in the South."

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What are some "key components" of the NH4A "platform?"

📍Economic and Corporate Reform

• Redistribution of Ownership: They advocate for the democratization and redistribution of economic ownership and political power.

(That would be EQUITY: redistribution of wealth and resources; "to each according to his need" aka MARX.)

📍 Dismantling Corporate Influence:

• "Corporate Power is the Problem," thus they seeking to dismantle policies they view as "favoring corporate control over government and the economy."

📍Housing Justice

• Housing as a Human Right: NH4A advocates for housing to be treated as a human right rather than a commodity.

(Think "housing trust fund")

• Affordability and Stability: They support policies that "create permanent, affordable, and safe housing options, specifically targeting the shortage of affordable units in New Hanover County."

📍Racial and Social Equity

• Structural Systemic Change: NH4A pushes for laws that "break what they define as systems of racism and privilege."

(SYSTEMIC racism refers to the SYSTEM of Capitalism, not melanin related offenses, to be indelibly clear. Anytime you see the word "privilege," it is CODE for Capitalism. If you see the word in the same sentence as "racism," when THEY say it, this is what it means. Their words, not mine.)

• Solidarity and Repairing Harm: They advocate for policies that "build solidarity across race, class, gender, and immigration status, focusing on "repairing harm" caused by historical injustices."

(THAT WOULD BE THE ENTIRE SOCIALIST AGENDA: RACE equity (Critical Race Theory), GENDER equity (Gender Ideology aka allowing boys to play on girls' teams, reversal of existing fuel stops in public schools, "protect trans kids" etc., Pro-Illegal Immigration, PRO Anti-ICE resistance, ANTI-Capitalist, ANTI-private property ownership.)

📍Political Power Building

• Independent Political Movement: they advocate for a "permanent organization" ‼️ that builds a *committed voting base to shape public debate* and elect politicians aligned with their DNA principles

‼️Translated: consolidation of power into one "collective governing body," all run by Socialists (of course), to include the abolishment of the electoral college.

• Grassroots Leadership: They prioritize the development of local leaders who can advocate for an economy where "all North Carolina's people and places thrive together." (ALLYSHIP)

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Again, NH4A's work is operationally linked to the Carolina Federation which is an arm of Liberation Road, formerly known as the FRSO, a far left Socialist op dating back to the 60's.

Other "community partners" *collaboratively* tethered to this matrix are the People's Alliance, Durham People's Alliance, the DSA (Mamdani, Omar, "the Squad"), Indivisible (No Kings, May Day, Hands Off) and anti-@ICEgov resistance groups like SIEMBRE NC.

The DSA, Indivisible and SIEMBRE NC are *extremely active* in New Hanover County.

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And the scariest part of all, the HISTORICAL context.

Liberation Road does not have a direct tether to the Weather Underground Organization (WUO), but the two orgs share historical roots in the New Communist Movement (NCM). 

Both LR + WUO emerged from the fragmentation of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in 1969.

• Weather Underground formed as a militant faction of SDS, while the groups that eventually formed Liberation Road (as the Freedom Road Socialist Organization) were part of the "above-ground" Marxist-Leninist movement that also grew out of SDS.

• Liberation Road was originally founded in 1985 as the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) through the merger of several groups from the New Communist Movement, such as the Proletarian Unity League and the Revolutionary Workers Headquarters.

LR consolidated remnants of the Maoist-oriented NCM who rejected the "ultra-left" and violent tactics adopted by the Weather Underground.

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📍Key Differences in Ideology and Strategy

• Tactics: Weather Underground was known for guerrilla warfare and bombings in the 70's.

• Liberation Road focused on above-ground mass organizing, labor work (think UNIONS), and building a "revolutionary party" through social movements (known as "social justice" today).

• Revolutionary Marxists within the tradition of Liberation Road saw Weather Underground’s tactics as antithetical to "the struggle" of "the collective."

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• Focus on the South: Liberation Road (and its affiliate, Carolina Federation) strategically focuses on the South and the struggle against "national oppression," which it identifies as a pillar of racial capitalism.

(THERE IT IS!)

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(Liberation Road and the Weather Underground divided the radical left after the 1960s "student movement" collapsed.)

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My final word: if these NH4A candidates have "committed to co-governing" with these far left, radical, anti-Capitalist, SOCIALIST and COMMUNIST organizations, you do NOT want them on the New Hanover County Schools Board of Education and you do NOT want them occupying a single seat on the New Hanover County Board of Commissioners.

PERIOD.

Do with this information what you will, I'm out. Happy Friday. 🫡🇺🇸

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