🇵🇸Hundreds of PSL members traveled from all across the country for the National March for Palestine in Washington DC, and while this powerful demonstration has concluded, the fight to stop Trump and Netanyahu’s new stage in the genocide is just beginning!
We’re returning to our cities more energized than ever to fight for an arms embargo, an end to the repression against the students, and a free Palestine from the river to the sea!
During the speeches I saw Norm Finkelstein in the crowd
Damn, I missed the chance to meet Hasan AND Norman Finkelstein?
At least I met Madea Benjamin yesterday
I wish you luck on your spring offensiveI wonder how long it will take for the Trump admin to outlaw PSL and send all it’s members to an El Salvadorian concentration camp
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Yeah sorry I’m just doomer rn because I saw that insurrection act thing
Anyway it was great to see this post, gives me some hope
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hey comrade, i know you already apologized, but i still want to point to this post as an example of why i take such issue with casual DoomJerking:
Yeah I’m sorry
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Reading about operation gladio def makes me paranoid about what America would look like if a communist party ever became a threat. The cope I have is that:
- The current far right don’t know what an actual socialist is. They think liberals are socialists.
- The defunding of state institutions means less funds for undercover operations. Though I suppose they could be delegated to the police, which would be less organized and subtle
I think I would be more afraid of a purging of communists under Biden than Trump
Though I suppose they could be delegated to the police, which would be less organized and subtle
Normal cops are not capable of usefully infiltrating PSL. Our vetting is thorough, expectations for commitment are high, and our democratic centralism is impossible for a single shithead to derail - you’ll just get booted if you always gum up the works. And the amount of time you’d need to be in to get any useful secret intel beyond “wow these communists sure have a lot of planning meetings and public events” is literally years. We have worked very hard to build a hard organization and actively study the tactics of COINTELPRO and other state disruptive strategies.
Normal cops are not capable of usefully infiltrating PSL. Our vetting is thorough, expectations for commitment are high, and our democratic centralism is impossible for a single shithead to derail - you’ll just get booted if you always gum up the works. And the amount of time you’d need to be in to get any useful secret intel beyond “wow these communists sure have a lot of planning meetings and public events” is literally years. We have worked very hard to build a hard organization and actively study the tactics of COINTELPRO and other state disruptive strategies.
This is really hopeful to hear
Yea I meant that cops would be way less effective than the FBI
Became a threat again.
Because the black panthers were enough of a threat to jail and murder a bunch. Similarly they put CPA leaders in prison during the red scare. And before that killing and arresting various IWW leaders.
THAT’S MY PARTY
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This is cool but I mean it feels like we’re past the point of marching and protesting when things are the way they are, no? Don’t take this as an endorsement to do some dumb adventurism either. Yesterday I had to delete one of my comments because it was spicy and any fed could use it against me.
Well PSL does much, much more than just protest. These are old-school demonstrations to show numbers, flex organizational muscle, create political unity, and bring new people into the movement. But most of our day-to-day work is not doing rallies.
Ah that sounds better then, the doomer side of me anymore feels like protesting is a waste of time when fascism is right here.
Protesting is the last step before building barricades
Big national mobilizations like this a really useful for cadre building, too. To pull this off, the party needs:
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Media apparatus to effectively communicate it
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The logistical capacity to move thousands of people from across the country to a single location
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The production capacity to print the high quantity of materials, including a lot of specialty items like the list of names of martyrs
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The communication infrastructure to coordinate thousands of people on the day of
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The technical know-how to setup, operate, and tear down stages and AV for speakers and other infrastructure
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The ability to mobilize other orgs in coalition on our political line
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The discipline and safety skills to quickly and efficiently march thousands of people across one of the highest security cities on earth
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An internal political education apparatus to make all party members effective political communicators to the non-party attendees
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The photography and media production to demonstrate it effectively afterwards
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The managerial apparatus to coordinate all of the above into a single day of action
This is a massive operation with literally hundreds of party members all carrying out specific, designated roles, including a lot of specialty technical skills. We’ve done a bunchv of these over the past two years, and every one we’ve gotten more efficient and built essential skills in a huge number of cadre. That creates a more disciplined and unified political organization better fit for the task of making revolution.
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The march’s organizers are predominantly lib (“Hands off NATO!” but no word about Palestine) but it is still a good opportunity to capitalize, as seen here.
This is actually a separate march at the same time.
Yeah and those backstabbing libs knew exactly what they were doing organizing it the same day
Damn. I got got
Oh ya, then I haven’t heard a thing about this one. I’ve seen all the focus on the other march.
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Different march
I like that they’re holding protest signs with actual demands and party logos compared to the liberal protest signs which all have unique memes and one liners like a novelty tshirt.
LET’S FUCKING GOOOOOO
Woohoo, keep fighting the good fight
From the river to the sea, Palestine must be freed!
I really want to join, I just don’t really know how. I should probably start going to more of the marches and actually talking with people instead of just showing up and chanting.
Oh damn is that Eugene Puryear? Solid dude from what I’ve heard.
A party founder!
Honestly, what kind of a march would it be without PSL leading it?
It just wouldn’t be the same without the abundance of signature signs with the vespid color scheme.
