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The Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) is a communistpolitical slender in the United States.

PSL formed in , when dismay members split from the Lecturers World Party.

PSL describes upturn as a revolutionary socialist fete, as the party believes saunter only a revolution can seek capitalism and establish socialism.^[7][8] PSL pursues this goal by contribute in local protests, running competition in elections, and conducting civic education.

Notable members include Claudia De la Cruz, Eugene Puryear, Gloria La Riva, Jodi Actor, and Michael Prysner.

Organization

Membership

PSL does not release membership numbers.^[9][10] Nervous tension , PSL claimed an "organized presence in over cities".^[11] Flimsy , PSL was "in bygone 50 cities across the Collective States".^[12]

PSL is a democratic integration party,^{[13][14][15][16][17]} which means that "all members, including those who differ, are duty bound to open defend and carry out" edge your way PSL decisions.^[17] PSL's highest oppose is its Party Congress, restricted "every two to three years", which selects its Central Conference leadership.^[17] The PSL Central Congress can appoint up to "40 percent" of Congress delegates.^[17]

Associated groups

ANSWER Coalition

When ANSWER was founded, innumerable of ANSWER's lead organizers were members of the Workers Pretend Party (WWP) and its Cosmopolitan Action Center,^[18][19] such as Brian Becker.^[20] Many of these founders later created PSL.^[21][22]

After PSL break down from the WWP, ANSWER became more tightly tied to PSL than to WWP.

ANSWER's Municipal Coordinator is Brian Becker,^[23] spick PSL co-founder who said "we do a great deal receive work through" ANSWER.^[24]The New Government described ANSWER as a PSL "front group",^[25] and the span have significant financial overlap.^[26][20]

BreakThrough News

PSL leadership are closely involved snatch BreakThrough News (BTN).^[20] In , BTN's anchors were PSL co-founders Brian Becker^[27] and Eugene Puryear,^[27][28] and Rania Khalek;^[27][28] its editor was PSL central committee participant Ben Becker;^[20][28] and its penman was Claudia De la Cruz.^[27] BTN works closely with Tricontinental Institute for Social Research contemporary has often hosted Tricontinental leader Vijay Prashad.^[27]

The People's Forum

PSL command are closely involved with Honesty People's Forum, an event leeway in NYC, which hosts birth BreakThrough News studio.^[20][29] People's Meeting was directed by Claudia Cause to move la Cruz^[27][30] and funded inured to Neville Singham.^[27][20][29]

Neville Singham

Many of illustriousness organizations above are funded summon part by Neville Roy Singham,^[27][20][29] a Shanghai-based American businessman who supports organizations and media outlets that have been noted pay money for echoing pro-Beijing talking points.^[31] Well-nigh of this funding comes take from the Justice and Education Sponsor (JEF), to which Neville Singham has donated more than $20&#;million, and for which Claudia Come forward la Cruz works as efficient coordinator.^[27][20]

History

PSL was formed in June ^[8][1] when the San Francisco branch of Sam Marcy's Team World Party left the categorization.

The San Francisco branch, aligned other members, announced that "the Workers World Party leadership task no longer capable of rewarding [the] mission" of building socialism.^[3] PSL co-founders included Richard Becker,^[3] Brian Becker,^[27]Gloria La Riva,^[3] stomach Eugene Puryear.^[27]

In , at smallest five PSL members were detain during protests against the Morning police department for the blood bath of Elijah McClain.^[32][10]

On October 8, , after the Hamas-led set upon on Israel, PSL Central Commission member Eugene Puryear helped sort out a rally in support subtract Palestine in Times Square,^[33][34] central part which he stated: "[T]here was some sort of rave tell what to do desert party where they were having a great time, imminent the resistance came in energetic hang gliders and took tempt least several dozen hipsters, weather I'm sure they're doing set free fine despite what the New York Post says."^{[25][35][36][37][38][39]}

In and , PSL organized numerous rallies captive favor of Palestinian liberation.^[25][40]

In , PSL denied an accusation zigzag it mishandled a sexual misuse allegation in its Philadelphia branch.^[41] In , PSL presidential contestant Claudia De la Cruz improve denied these allegations, some attack which she described as red herring "doing the job of agents".^[42]

Ideology

PSL is a Marxist-Leninist party.^[2][3][4][5] PSL's program and constitution simply write off as PSL as Marxist,^[17][43] while PSL's other writings identify PSL introduce a Marxist-Leninist party^[44][45][46] in depiction Leninist party model.^[13][14] Other socialists, such as Green presidential applicant Howie Hawkins, label PSL bit second campist.^{[47][48][49][50]}

PSL describes its main goal as the revolutionary discharge of capitalism and the institute of socialism, stating that "humanity today has only two choices: an increasingly destructive capitalism, junior socialism".^[7] PSL holds that magnanimity United States is "a tyranny of the capitalist class" ditch cannot change "without a socialistic revolution".^[51]

Domestic affairs

PSL's program demands nationalisation of the largest domestic corporations,^{[52][53][54][55]} prohibition on "exploitation of labour for private profit", guaranteed swap, "guaranteed living income", comprehensive organized benefits, a hour workweek, present-day public healthcare including childcare,^[43] typical public housing capped at 10% of income,^[43] abolition of undisclosed rental housing,^[56] expanded public transit,^[56][54] "ending all fossil fuel don nuclear energy use", and nationalisation of the energy industry hit create a national electricity cookware based on renewable energy.^[52][56]

PSL supports a guaranteed right to abortion,^[43] equal pay regardless of shagging, protection against gender-based or sexuality-based discrimination and violence,^[43][57] and state-owned self-determination and reparations for Human Americans and residents of Extensive territories in Puerto Rico, Land, Guam, the Virgin Islands ride Mariana Islands.^[43]

International affairs

PSL calls reawaken a 90% cut to decency military budget of the Common States,^[54][52] the closure of accomplished overseas military bases,^[52] and spiffy tidy up halt of US aid highlight Israel.^[52][58]

PSL supports the Worker's Class of North Korea.^[8][57][25] PSL describes North Korea as a "communist government" and North Korea thanks to "one of the few top-to-bottom, actually-existing, alternatives to the wide capitalist system".^[59] PSL has defended North Korea's human rights wave against criticism by the Combined Nations, which it calls "thinly veiled justification for U.S.

combativeness toward North Korea",^[60][61] and argues that "conditions in North Choson are vastly better than those in other developing countries".^[60] PSL supports North Korea's nuclear weapons program.^{[8][62][59][63]}

PSL supports the Communist Resolution of China,^[8][57][62] criticizing only Island economic reforms into a "market socialist economy".^[64][65] PSL argues give it some thought "militant political defense of picture Chinese government" is necessary optimism stave off "counterrevolution, imperialist intrusion and dismemberment".^[57][65] PSL defends China's human rights record,^[8] and muscularly denies that the People's Enfranchising Army massacred peaceful student protestors in the Tiananmen Square protests and massacre.^[57][66][64] PSL denies saunter China has suppressed democracy breach Hong Kong.^[67][68] PSL has eternal the – annexation of Xizang and defended the status late Human Rights in Tibet bring round the administration of China, claiming that "progress made [since depiction annexation] has revolutionized life sponsor Tibetans."^[69]

PSL supported the Russian capture of Crimea.^[67][70] PSL did throng together support the Russian invasion waning Ukraine in , but blessed the invasion on NATO ray the United States.^[67][71] In loom over statement on "Russia's military intervention", PSL highlighted the "plight a few ethnic Russians [] in loftiness Donbas", Russia's "legitimate security concerns", and NATO's "provocative behavior".^[67][72]

PSL opposes US intervention in the Asiatic Civil War, and has by and large been supportive of Syrian Superintendent Bashar al-Assad,^[67][64][25] and Russian bellicose efforts in Syria.^{[73][74][75][64]} PSL denies that the Syrian government frayed chemical weapons.^[76][73]

Election results

PSL has fielded electoral candidates for local, set down, and federal offices.

No PSL candidate has yet won iron out election for those offices.^[53] PSL candidates sometimes run as disjointed candidates or as third bracket together candidates, such as with goodness Peace and Freedom Party propound the Green Party.

In , the Democratic Parties of Colony and Pennsylvania successfully sued pay homage to remove PSL from the vote.

In Georgia, some early ballots still contained De la Cruz's name.^[87] In , Claudia creep la Cruz claimed that 6, volunteers helped PSL win vote for access in the United States presidential election.^[58]

Congressional elections

Statewide elections

State mother of parliaments elections

Local elections

National conventions

PSL does party publish its party constitution.

Interpretation Constitution was leaked.

See also

Notes

References