Right guy is a PCUSA member or (ex PCUSA member?) maybe @Alaskaball can clarify, who ran for state office under the party, idk if this twitter user is affiliated with the org, but they claim to be, this was before Maupin got exposed, but I feel like you should know better than to be chummy with Caleb Maupin's weird org regardless of the abuse not being public given all the patsoc stuff.

same twitter user tweeted today

Glad too see many former CPI members joining the ranks of PCUSA, already proving themselves valuable Comrades.

Did any of this get okayed by the party? Is the PCUSA recruiting CPI people ? I feel like that's a recipe for disaster, if you were part of CPI the last thing you should do for at least a few months is join a new org.

S4A video on the guy, seems like a person you really wouldn't want in your org (especially considering it's only a few hundred people), stole money from the IWW and joined the US military "for the money"

    • Alaskaball [comrade/them]A
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      2 years ago

      On the IWW question, Helali stole nothing, he requested a loan from the chapter to help fund his trek to Iraq to fight with the YPJ against DAESH from the Boston IWW General Membership Branch during a short period of time where its charter as a legitimate branch of the IWW was suspended by the IWW’s General Executive Board (GEB). The IWW’s GEB ruled against it as illegitimate regardless of the fact the loan had approval before the Boston charter was suspended and demanded an immediate return of the “stolen” funds while Helali, an ethnic Kurd, fought with the YPJ in Syria between January 2017 and September 2017. Side note, he also participated in the assault on Raqqa, the capital of ISIS’s “caliphate”, so he wasn’t just there to “avoid legal action”. When he returned to the U.S, he repaid his loan that he "stole "from the IWW

      Also including more context.

      In January of 2016, the General Administration of the IWW was made aware of conflicts developing in the Boston General Membership Branch (GMB). As a result, on February 8, 2016, the General Executive Board (GEB) struck a committee to audit the "practices and culture" of the Boston GMB. The Boston GMB met on February 14, 2016, and a conflict erupted during this meeting, resulting in the formation of two separate groups, or factions, which would go on to meet separately. As a result of this dispute and various controversies surrounding it, the GEB suspended the Boston branch's charter on April 7, 2016. Branch officers were notified via email by GEB Chair Michael Garcia on April 8, 2016. The branch charter was reinstated on September 9, 2016.

      The only reason why the IWW considered it illegitimate was because the Boston branch had divided into factions at the time and most likely threatened to disintegrate the Boston branch leading the main branch take drastic measures regardless of whatever agreements there was made beforehand, nor whatever emergencies would arise in the period between April and September. Adding in Helali's statement as well gives a much better understanding to what occurred in the months of April and May when the checks were disbursed.

      I once again reiterate that at this moment I am out of the country in Rojava. I gave FW (fellow worker) Max Perkins funds since they underwent another operation and were in bad shape with the resurgence of the cancer and increasing difficulty walking. I also reimbursed FW Genevieve Butler for outstanding payments that she was due by the branch for her receipts. Additionally I consulted about making a donation to a cause or revolutionary effort. Some even thought it would be a good idea to take the money for other organizing efforts in Boston. In the end, I decided to donate money to the ongoing revolutionary efforts here in Rojava.

      Quite frankly I think both the IWW General Executive and Helali to both be in the right. The only reason why there was a technical "wrong" is because of a factionalist element that disrupted the Boston branch enough to force a reaction from the main branch. I hardly find it ethically wrong to render medical aid to a comrade, financially settle outstanding payments to a standing member that may need that money for more important things, or materially supporting the Rojava socialists in their fight against ISIS.

      And onto your final line. I'll keep it simple by saying the people that actually ran the discord, youtube, and made statements/propaganda were the people that stole the discord, youtube, and other platforms that were used to make statements/propaganda. I am quite serious when I say that the current membership are all people that actively participate in their local communities to materially aid the people and build political coalitions with other local groups. We quite luckily had our political dead wood throw themselves out for us instead of staying dormant like a benign tumor that has yet to metastasize. I'll take 100 dedicated people that'll both participate in administration work and work the streets to make a positive material impact on their local communities than a thousand armchair windbag theorists who waste their day bickering all day on twitter like modern philosophy majors over arcane metaphysical interpretations over the meaning of individual words.