This family tree is a work in progress. So is the movement it maps. The tree centers on the organizational history of our group, the Freedom Road Socialist Organization. To put that history in context, the tree is being expanded --in breadth, to cover the full range of groups making up what has been called the new communist movement, and chronologically, to dig deeper into the historical roots of that movement.

Some lessons from the family tree of the new communist movement Dennis O'Neil
Discussion of lessons -- Introduction Dennis O'Neil
Exchange -- Max Elbaum 4/3/2000 Max Elbaum
Exchange -- Dennis O'Neil 12/01/2000 Dennis O'Neil
Exchange -- Max Elbaum 12/20/2000 Max Elbaum
The Trend Ethan Young
FT: Proletarian Unity League PUL Unity Work Team
FT: Organization for Revolutionary Unity Organization for Revolutionary Unity
FRSO founding statement Freedom Road National Executive Committee
FT: FRSO/SON Freedom Road Socialist Organization/Socialist Organizing Network
FT: FRSO Split The National Executive Committee
FT: "Fight Back" The National Executive Committee