Rising Majority

Rising Majority is close to Liberation Road.

Socialist core

From Executive Summary: Liberation Road's 2022-2025 Main Political Report.

To address these challenges, Liberation Road set itself the task across the past three-year period of helping to build a stronger, more coherent socialist “core.” This has not meant consolidating all who self-identify as socialist, nor excluding aligned forces who use other labels. Rather, the task has been to help bring together those advanced forces who are rooted in mass organization, committed to left coordination, and strategically clear on the tasks at hand.

Efforts to cohere this core have made some significant advances in terms of strategic alignment, if not yet programmatic and organizational coherence. While no single organization has cohered our inside/outside trend, there is increased alignment among formations like Liberation Road, North Star Socialist Organization (NSSO), Convergence, Rising Majority, Grassroots Power Project, and the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA’s) Socialist Majority Caucus (SMC) and Groundwork.

What’s needed now is not just shared vision, but shared practice, structure, and initiative to strengthen our movements’ ability to move from strategic defense to a coordinated counter-offensive. The question is whether we can forge a coherent, self-conscious “bloc” that doesn’t just resist New Confederate autocracy, but builds the power to defeat and unseat the New Confederacy and begin a process of structural transformation—both inside the terrain of the state and across civil society. The Third Reconstruction will not build itself. But it can be built—if we do the work to build it.

Leadership

Nikita Mitchell, 26 in 2020, is national coordinator of Rising Majority, formed in 2017 by the Movement for Black Lives, a coalition that includes Black Lives Matter. Rising Majority is led by Black people and people of color, and brings social movements together in an anti-racist, anti-capitalist Left for radical democracy.

Barbara Ransby is also a leader. Cazembe Jackson is National Membership Organizer at Rising Majority.

Members

Our list of organizations include:

• The Movement for Black Lives
• National Domestic Workers Alliance
• United We Dream
• U.S. Labor Against the War
• Scholars for Social Justice
• Black Lives Matter Network
• The BlackOUT Collective
• New Economy Coalition
• LeftRoots
• Grassroots Global Justice Alliance
• 350.org
• Center for Third World Organizing /Seeding Change
• Fight for $15
• Climate Justice Alliance
• MPower Change
• Southeast Asian Freedom Network
• Women's March
• Highlander Research and Education Center
• Dream Defenders
• Freedom, Inc.
• Black University
• Indigenous Environmental Network
• Black Women’s Blueprint
• Blackbird
• BYP 100
• Southerners On New Ground
• Youth Organizing Institute
• It Takes Roots
• Jewish Voices for Peace
• North Carolina Bloc
• R3 Coalition (Resist. Reimagine. Rebuild. Chicago)
• Working Families Organization
• About Face: Veterans Against the War
• Blueprint North Carolina
• BAYAN-USA
• Asians for Black Lives
• Black Alliance for Just Immigration
• Black LGBTQA+ Migrant Project
• Action Center on Race and the Economy
• Arab Resouce and Organizing Center
• Right to the City Alliance
• Detention Watch Network
• Equity and Transformation
• Chicago Torture Justice Center
• United for Respect
• ROC United
• NC Span
• ONE DC
• Freedom To Thrive
• Grassroots Asians RIsing
• HEAL Food Alliance
• Jewish Voices for Peace
• Seeding Change
• Southern Vision Alliance
• Black Visions Collective