Why you should read this document

This document outlines a strategy that needs to be pursued by a conscious, coherent, and consolidated bloc of left and progressive forces rooted in powerful mass movement organizations. And yet one of our key strategic diagnoses is that this very bloc—while it exists in embryonic and uneven form—is still too fragmented, too incoherent, and too weak to carry out the tasks that this period demands. In a sense, this document is at once an orientation, an invitation, and a provocation: a call for the emergence of a more unified and capable left-progressive bloc that can rise to meet the magnitude of this moment. To phrase it sharply, this strategy is written for a collective mass left that has not yet cohered.

This strategy is therefore intended for those actively trying to build that left-progressive collective political subject. It is for the mass leaders, organizers, and strategists working to translate scattered resistance into coordinated motion within and across movement sectors; working at the local, state, and national level; engaging in defensive fights and strategic counter-offensives. We offer it as one contribution to a larger project: developing the collective will and political discipline necessary to forge a genuine mass left.

For cadre members of Liberation Road specifically, this document is intended to guide our collective work over the next three-year period—helping us assess the terrain, determine where and how to intervene, and coordinate our contributions to the broader aims of our movements. Sections I through IV of this document have a dual function: to help orient both our cadre narrowly, and left and progressive forces more broadly. In contrast, section V outlines tasks for Liberation Road cadre specifically— aimed at helping our cadre apply these overarching objectives to specific red work and red mass work interventions they can pursue through geographic districts and national work teams and commissions.