The PSL split from a party that was, many decades ago, a Trot party. But the PSL itself has never been a Trot party (split memes notwithstanding), and that history is pretty irrelevant to what the party is today.

The PSL doesn't really bother to have "a line" on Trotsky or Stalin. Rather, it correctly eschews that "great person" framing of history and instead analyses the historical material conditions of the Soviet Union etc. It's certainly not "anti-Stalinist" like Trots always are; nobody is going to look at you strangely for speaking positively of Stalin.

It seems like they put a lot of effort into presidential runs and that doesn't seem like a very good use of time?

The presidential runs aren't an attempt to gain power by being elected to office. They are a propaganda campaign to spread a socialist platform. The campaign process itself is an opportunity to have tens or hundreds of thousands of conversations about our socialist platform. The amount of votes in the election are an interesting metric, but not a key objective.

we see PSL folks at actions but we don't see them integrating as much into the logistics or trying to elevate the struggle.

This is actually absurd. The PSL has been organizing in the struggle for Palestinian liberation for decades. They were organizing demonstrations on October 8th while almost everyone else was still condemning Hamas. They've organized like 5 mass protests on Washington. I don't know what your local scene looks like, but the PSL is the most important socialist org that is organizing for Palestinian liberation on a national scale.

The PSL places a very high importance on anti-imperialism, and members are required to hold principled anti-imperialist stances and not be libs/regurgitate state department propaganda. This is demonstrated by the fact that the PSL (in coalition with other groups like PYM) were organizing protests in support of Palestinian resistance on October 8th while many other orgs are still arguing over whether to condemn Hamas to this day.

It's interesting how you only draw comparisons with CPUSA. You claim that it has "the most potential to be the groundwork for a future party." I would contend, however, that the is a current party that people can organize with today.

You're Marxist Leninists, yet you do not organize under the principles of democratic centralism. Why not? Do you intend to somehow transform the DSA into a democratic centralist organization? Do you really believe that the liberals, social democrats, and democratic socialists that comprise most of the DSA would just go along with that? You can't expect to just take the existing membership of the DSA and magically convert them into a committed Marxist Leninist cadre.

As it stands, the DSA are not principled anti-imperialists, as evidenced by their failure to take a principled stance in support of Palestinian resistance in the wake of Al-Aqsa Flood, or their anti-communist stances on Cuba and AES. This isn't a "past" issue, it's ongoing. How do you address that? Why is it the "correct" strategy to attempt entryism into the DSA instead of joining a real, existing Marxist Leninist party?

What about Simone Biles, Katie Ledecky, or LeBron James? They all seem pretty good at sports

@peoplesforumnyc on twitter:

BREAKING! Tonight, the U.S. State Department released a statement announcing—in contradiction to the official Venezuelan election results—the far-right opposition candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia, as the winner of the Presidential election. This inappropriate and blatant meddling in the democratic electoral process of Venezuela is part of the U.S. government’s playbook for destabilizing and intervening in other countries for their own interests.

We saw a similar plot unfold in 2019 when the U.S. recognized “self-declared” Juan Guaidó as President of Venezuela. The U.S. has no place to determine or “verify” the election results of another country’s sovereign democratic elections.

Especially during the Trump presidency, the U.S. imposed hundreds of economic sanctions and coercive measures on Venezuela that were deliberately designed to create economic suffering, hunger, social instability and emigration. As the economic noose was tightened, hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans fled the country in an effort to find relief from this economic reality. Economic sanctions are a diabolical warfare that impose suffering and death on the population as a form of collective punishment by the United States and its principle allies in NATO. This policy has been imposed on Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, and other countries in the global south that have tried to chart an independent path.

The people of the world won’t stand for U.S. imperialism’s attempts to defy the democratic mandate of the Venezuelan people. Hands Off Venezuela!

Supreme Leader of Iran, Sayyed Ali Khamenei:

The criminal, terrorist zionist entity has brought upon itself the severest punishment with this attack.

Avenging the blood of Haniyeh is Iran's duty because he was martyred on our land.

A drone has exploded in the middle of Tel Aviv, less than 100m from a US consulate building. At least 8 settlers have been wounded with at least 1 death, and Netanyahu has reportedly cancelled his US visit in response. Yemen is claiming responsibility for the strike, which reportedly entered "Israeli" airspace from over the Mediterranean.

I'm sure there's a funnier outcome, but "Trump gets shot and Biden still is the one who dies" has got to be up there, right?

Threatening nuclear holocaust is not the own you think it is.

It's honestly sad how accustomed American liberals are to the idea that the government shouldn't be expected to do anything to tangibly improve people's lives.

Those different opinions being... using racist terms? Just to get that straightened up