AfroSocialists and Socialists of Color has relaunched our Standing Committees to strengthen AfroSoC’s foundation and ensure the success and vitality of our local chapters.

• Communications Committee: Supports national communications, including implementing our visual and narrative strategy, managing our communications assets including social media platforms, a monthly newsletter, moderating the Discord and more, and keeps our general membership informed on AfroSoC happenings. Highlights AfroSoC campaigns and milestones and popularizes socialism among BIPOC peoples and communities.

• Growth and Development Committee: Supports membership recruitment and retention nationally, including providing trainings, templates, and toolkits for new member onboarding, chapter development, and related activities. Assists local chapters in attracting new members, re-engaging inactive members, and sustaining political homes for BIPOC socialists in their geographic area  with a priority focus on organizing, mutual aid and power-building.

• Political Education Committee: Grounded in the Black radical tradition and internationalism, creates and distributes learning materials, workshop templates, resources and curricula that deepen our knowledge of socialist political thought and frameworks from BIPOC and allied revolutionaries and movements in the United States and abroad. Highlights the socialist roots of/contributions to BIPOC-led movements, including but not limited to abolition, labor and workplace democracy, reparations, decolonization and rematriation, feminisms of color, disability justice, and environmental & climate justice. Assists local chapters in planning and executing events (e.g. book/podcast clubs, teach-ins, political art showcases, etc.) and study cohorts.

In collaboration with the Executive Committee, these Standing Committees will support AfroSoC’s national infrastructure, facilitate political alignment, and help retain and engage membership across chapters and affiliates.

What’s the difference between Committees and Working Groups?
From time to time, National AfroSoC may launch working groups to focus on critical or time-sensitive tasks. These are the distinctions between committees and working groups:

• Standing Committees: Ongoing, permanent bodies organized around key functional or strategic areas, such as coordinating membership, communications, etc.

• Working Groups (WGs): Time-limited or project-specific bodies organized around discrete tasks, campaigns, or initiatives which are dissolved once their work is complete. Examples include coordinating annual budget requests, national elections, etc.  
  
  

Working Groups will be relaunched in the winter 2025/2026. More details will be shared at a later date.