SNV Special Report: Solidarity Can Win Liberation For All!

Special Report Uploaded (5/8/2025) (PHOTO: Still from video of Stop the Attacks on Queer and Trans Rights! FRIDAY, JULY 14, 2023) In this special report we here two speeches. At the beginning we here a speech from Jae who is a member of Twin Cities Coalition for Justice for Jamar (TCC4J: https://sites.google.com/view/tcc4j/home) and Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO: https://frso.org/) which was recorded at Stop the Attacks on Queer and Trans Rights! FRIDAY, JULY 14, 2023 (You can watch a full video of speeches here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPCwmPyYBUg&t=729s). At the end of this report we hear a speech from Monique Cullars Doty who is with Black Lives Matter Minnesota (https://www.facebook.com/BlackLivesMatterMN). Sandwiched between these two speeches are thoughts about liberation including some quotes and thoughts from: Eros and Civilization (1955) by Herbert Marcuse: https://ect.humspace.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Marcuse-Eros-and-Civilization-pp.-9-95.pdf The roots of gay oppression (International Socialism, Spring Issue 1989) by Norah Carlin: https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/isj2/1989/isj2-042/carlin.htm Queer in a Lean World (Against The Current ATC 89, November–December 2000) by Alan Sears: https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/atc/965.html Rebel Girl: The Price of Assimilation (Against The Current ATC 99, July–August 2002) by Catherine Sameh: https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/atc/1188.html The Bolsheviks and the Sexual Revolution (Irish Marxist Review 2017) by Sean Egan: https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/irishmr/vol06/no17/egan.pdf And we cover some news items from the past few months including: Trans rights: The Cass Review one year on 01/05/2025: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/articles/138344/01-05-2025/trans-rights-the-cass-review-one-year-on/ “An Anti-Trans Fever Dream”: HHS Publishes Attack on Gender-Affirming Youth Care Experts immediately slammed the report, which does not disclose its authors: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/05/hhs-trans-youth-gender-care-report/ The inconvenient paradox of the war on trans rights that the GOP hopes we don’t notice: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/05/the-inconvenient-paradox-of-the-on-trans-rights-that-the-gop-hopes-we-dont-notice/ In battle against transgender rights, Trump targets HUD’s housing policies: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/in-battle-against-transgender-rights-trump-targets-hud-s-housing-policies/ar-AA1EatCR?ocid=BingNewsBrowse Why the far right exploits transphobia: https://socialistworker.co.uk/alex-callinicos/alex-callinicos-why-the-far-right-exploits-transphobia/ Maine wins major court victory about trans rights against president: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/05/maine-wins-major-court-victory-about-trans-rights-against-president/ Fighting for trans rights in the era of Trump: https://socialist-alliance.org/our-common-cause/2025-03-10/fighting-trans-rights-era-trump Gen Z is Out of the Closet – Now, Into the Streets!: https://www.socialistalternative.org/2025/03/15/gen-z-is-out-of-the-closet-now-into-the-streets/ ‘We struck for trans+ rights, you can do it too’: report from Australian socialist: https://socialistworker.co.uk/international/we-struck-for-trans-rights-you-can-do-it-too-report-from-australian-socialist/ Denver celebrates International Workers Day with rally and march: https://fightbacknews.org/articles/denver-celebrates-international-workers-day-with-rally-and-march