Party for Socialism and Liberation
Party for Socialism and Liberation | |
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| Abbreviation | PSL |
| Leaders | Central Committee |
| Founded | June 18, 2004 |
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San Francisco, California Washington DC |
| Newspaper | Liberation News |
| Political orientation |
Revisionism Reformism Opportunism Dengism Social-imperialism Campism Marcyism |
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| https://www.pslweb.org/ | |
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The Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) is a revisionist and reformist party in the United States of America. It was formed in 2004 after it split from the Trotskyist Workers World Party, formed by Sam Marcy.
The party claims to be "Revolutionary Marxist", but its policies are nothing more than campism and reformism.
It views the People's Republic of China as "socialist" and argues that revolutionary anti-imperialists should militantly (and uncritically) defend China to stave off "counterrevolution, imperialist intervention and dismemberment", ironically only condemning its "Market Socialism".[1] The party also supports North Korea as "one of the few top-to-bottom, actually-existing, alternatives to the global capitalist system"[2], and also supports Russian imperialism thorugh the annexation of Crimea, although putting the blame of the Invasion of Ukraine on NATO and the United States.[3][4]
Affiliated Organizations and Persons
ANSWER Coalition
Breakthrough News
Breakthrough News is essentially the independent mouthpiece of PSL. co-founders Eugene Puryear, Brian Becker, and Rania Khalek serve as news anchors for the network. Breakthrough News hosts programs like "The China Report", a China apologia program where they defend Chinese social-imperialism and the latest developments of capitalism in China, and "The Socialist Program" hosted by Brian Becker, who likewise, upholds China as "socialist".
RT News
The members of PSL, like co-founders Eugene Puryear and Brian Becker (again), has been a talking head for RT news, a Russian state-owned news agency.[5][6]
See also
- Communist Party USA
- Democratic Socialists of America
- Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism
References
- ↑ Becker, Brian (May 31, 2007). "What do socialists defend in China today?". Liberation School. Party for Socialism and Liberation. In the face of this threat, it is the responsibility of all revolutionaries and progressive people to resist the imperialist offensive and offer militant political defense of the Chinese government—de-spite profound differences with the theory and practice of so-called "market socialism."
- ↑ Gowans, Stephen (February 23, 2013). "Why North Korea is developing nuclear weapons". Liberation News. Party for Socialism and Liberation.
- ↑ Becker, Brian (March 17, 2014). "Crimea Referendum: the hidden truth behind the U.S.-Russia rivalry". Liberation News. Party for Socialism and Liberation.
- ↑ (February 24, 2022). "PSL Statement on Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine". Liberation News. Party for Socialism and Liberation.
- ↑ RT News (October 5, 2018)"Paranoid Pence Takes Aim at China & Commies Takeover Philippine Universities"
- ↑ RT News (July 24, 2024)"Disgrace: Netanyahu to address a US Congress tied to the hip to Israel’s war machine (Brian Becker)"