Can’t Keep Quiet, this Time Gon’ be More than a Riot: Revolutionary Work In Our Times
— By Manju Rajendran
from July/August 2010 issue of LEFT TURN

Imagine a left that is united, vibrant, and relevant—a left so loving it becomes irresistible. We would organize to meet our communities’ needs while building movements to transform societies and build a better world, becoming more whole and valuing each other along the way. We would create revolutionary culture to nourish our souls, awaken our desire, and inspire new action. We would center the leadership of oppressed peoples...

The Future of “Revolutionary Work In Our Times” (RWIOT)
— Statement adopted by the Left Unity Commission of Solidarity (November 2009)

For 3 years now, revolutionary activists from social movements and explicitly revolutionary organizations have been building the Revolutionary Work in Our Times (RWIOT) project. The core organizations—Freedom Road Socialist Organization/ Organización Socialista del Camino para la Libertad, League of Revolutionaries for a New America, Left Turn, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, the New York Study Group, and Solidarity—and unaffiliated activists participating in RWIOT share commitments to cross-sector and cross-tendency dialogue, an intersectional approach to understanding and fighting oppressions, and a non-vanguardist attitude to the question of revolutionary organization in the 21st century...

RWIOT and Left Refoundation: Building a New Culture of the Left
— By Aiden Graham, originally published at freedomroad.org

This past August, two hundred self-identified revolutionaries gathered in Chicago for the Revolutionary Work In Our Times (RWIOT) Strategic Dialogue. Like the 2007 USSF workshop that sparked RWIOT and last year’s RWIOT Summer School , the driving force behind this year’s gathering was a yearning to deepen dialogue and relationships between revolutionaries from different traditions, social movements, and organizations. The project’s planning committee—composed of the New York Study Group, Solidarity, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM), the League of Revolutionaries for a New America (LRNA), Left Turn, and Freedom Road Socialist Organization/Organización Socialista del Camino para la Libertad (FRSO/OSCL) — reflected this exciting commitment to cross-organizational and multi-tradition dialogue on the Left...

Revolutionary Work in Our Times [article on 2008 Summer School
— By Stephanie and Karin, originally published at solidarity-us.org
Something took place in New Brunswick, New Jersey this August that you don't see everyday. A handful of revolutionary organizations came together at a summer school they had jointly planned. They treated each other as comrades, even across organization lines. They emphasized points of unity, instead of points of disagreement. And they decided to continue the process of working together and explore how to expand their relationship after the school was over...