Joe Simps for the D biden-horror : CPUSA co-chair Sims: Fighting fascist threat a top priority Peoples world Article

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CHICAGO – “The battle lines are clear. We’re fighting a fascist danger at home and a genocidal war abroad. And to defeat the danger at home, we’ve got to defeat the war abroad.” CPUSA co-chair Joe Sims gave this warning on June 7, as he keynoted the 32nd National Convention of the Communist Party USA.

Sims also spoke of the “raw racism at the very heart of MAGA,” and added, “Immigrants are a special target.

“First, they tried the wall,” Sims said of Trump’s scheme to keep migrants from entering the U.S. across the Mexican border. “Then the Muslim ban, now they’re planning concentration camps. That’s right, we said it. And if they come for immigrants in the morning, they’re damn sure coming for us at noon.

But we’re not at fascism yet, of course, Sims said. And that moment of respite – for however long it lasts – means that for now, “There is room for struggle. Let us use that space to fight for a ceasefire in Gaza and for an end to the war in Ukraine. Let us use it to stop the expansion of NATO, end the blockade of Cuba, and bring the Cold War against China to a close.

He then turned to the historic question the Communist movement has always asked, “What, then, is to be done?”

you are not him dennis-stare

As Sims spoke to wild peals of applause, he said, “On the one side, there’s the ruling class forces of white supremacy and MAGA pulling the country apart. On the other, there’s the working-class forces of democracy pulling the country together.”

Link to @Alaskaball@hexbear.net take on Joe Sims tailism

SSettler KKKolonial Unity amerikkkaunityisntrael : The Communist Party of Israel greets CPUSA’s 32nd Convention twitter

In which the CPI blames Hamas for the Gaza war, denounces the Operation Al-Aqsa Flood (i guess palestinians just have to get used to dying) and washes the hands of the israeli state by claiming that its netanyahoo the problem and not the State of ISSael itself

how do you manage to be on the Right of the DSA??

    • Chapo_is_Red [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      33·
      17 days ago

      DSA has major problems. However, in its defense, I’ll quote myself from another comment in this thread:

      In contrast to my perception of CPUSA, DSA hasn’t devolved into false demcent (i.e. “bureaucratic centralism”). While DSA has big problems (and needs more centralism), it does actually have sufficient internal democracy necessary to engage in two line struggle, because of that it has the potential (however small) to build consensus among the US left cross-tendency.

      You cite actions taken by significant elements of DSA that are bad. I agree this is concerning. However, structurally DSA has greater capacity to critique this due to its internal democracy (which still needs improvement). I’m not sure any other left formations in the US have this capacity developed to the same level.

      • jack [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        12·
        16 days ago

        The lack of any centralism alongside that internal democracy leads to two major structural issues:

        1. An obsession with democratic forms and process that impede the org’s ability to respond quickly to changing situations. My local DSA, with whom I have a good working relationship as a PSL member, has to go through an approval vote process for every single action and endorsement. They have failed to carry out this vote on time on multiple occasions, thereby missing the opportunity to participate.

        2. Self-sabotaging factionalism. DSA is formed of many formal internal factions with often diametrically opposed political objectives. These factions can and do openly oppose and defy the democratic decisions of the organization. They create hostility and tension between comrades and prevent the organization from holding or carrying out a political line. And by allowing such open opposition, the democratic decisions have no enforceable weight, and thus the democracy exists only in form, not in practice.

        My local DSA is full of good comrades doing good work, but the organization hinders that rather than empowers it.

    • oregoncom [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      31·
      17 days ago

      My impression is that their party leadership is a little lib but DSA has actual young people pushing it to be more radical. I know people my age in YDSA but today at a rally when I saw a CPUSA guy and started making fun of him none of my friends knew what CPUSA even was. And they were literally all socialists involved in other orgs.