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

Excerpts:

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??

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    5 months ago

    If there's no mechanism to rid the party of this moron then I don't see why there are any comrades still organising through it. If the existing leadership won't get rid of him then the whole bunch are reactionary. How many decades of dedication is it going to take for any group of real and dedicated communists to root them out? It's a lost cause.

    People gotta sit down and ask themselves exactly how long it will realistically take to achieve and whether that's a timeline worth doing or whether it's better to be organising through alternatives.

    • notthenameiwant [he/him]
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      5 months ago

      CPUSA was literally half (or more than half on the high end) feds in the 60s. You can't fix that.

    • thelastaxolotl [he/him]
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      5 months ago

      sadly there is no democratic mechanism to get rid of him

      WHEREAS the perversion of democratic centralism that prevents full discussion of proposed resolutions and limits new resolutions to those that have been pre-approved by leadership places revisionism and opportunism fully in command of the party apparatus, LET IT BE RESOLVED that the convention rules be amended to: i) permit each speaker to hold the floor for 10 minutes, ii) adopt in full Robert’s Rules of Order to govern procedure, and iii) be explicitly permitted to offer new resolutions on the convention floor.

      WHEREAS the revisionist drift of the party for the past fifty years has caused it to fall away from the masses, tail the Democratic Party, and lose its character as a proletarian institution, LET IT BE RESOLVED that this convention hereby enacts a self-denying resolution which shall disbar any present members of the National Committee or anyone who has served on the National Committee in the past decade from appearing on any slate before this convention or being elected or appointed to the National Committee or its subcommittees for at least four years and LET IT FURTHER BE RESOLVED that any candidate for the National Committee shall be required to take an oath of commitment to the proletarian revolution before the convention prior to being placed on the slate.

      Also Joe sims and his friends are the owners of the all the assets of the CPUSA

      Lastly, however, and most critically, the millions of dollars of resources controlled by the leadership of CPUSA isn’t owned by the party. In fact, the party, as an entity, has no legal recognition in any state and is not federally registered as anything. Each state “party” is an “unincorporated club.” This means that the party is, under bourgeois law, incapable of owning any property or money. So who owns all of these things?

      Individual party leaders. John Bachtell runs Longview Publishing. Advance Realty is run by Libero Della Piana, who is also the managing director of the Drug Policy Alliance, an NGO. The party launders its money through a number of NGOs, of which the Drug Policy Alliance is only one. By maintaining them primarily in NGOs, which receive grant money, the assets are required to report directly to their federal backers and managers exactly what every penny is spent on. Even further, party leaders employ their own significant others and children in those NGOs, from which they draw a salary. John Bachtell lives from the donations of party members to People’s World, even though the party does not own, control, or manage its own newspaper.

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        5 months ago

        Extremely well written link.

        This seems like a lot of effort when the people that aren't revisionists could simply migrate to another ML party that isn't clearly fucked up procedurally in so many ways. What's the point in spending one to three decades fighting this out and waiting for these people to die when people could simply move.

        All this agitation and trying to fight things out procedurally and for what? What's the outcome going to be? The outcome will be that these people stay in place until they're dead and they get to appoint whoever follows them so those people are almost certainly going to be exactly like they are.

        Fighting in CPUSA appears to be a dead end to me. The mechanisms are what matter here. Really lay out to yourselves how many decades this will take vs how immediate moving to another party would be. It's really fucking obvious what the correct path is.

        • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]
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          5 months ago

          All this agitation and trying to fight things out procedurally and for what? What's the outcome going to be? The outcome will be that these people stay in place until they're dead and they get to appoint whoever follows them so those people are almost certainly going to be exactly like they are.

          It seems like they're going to just appoint their failchildren at this point since the finances are entirely controlled by a few families.

          • Awoo [she/her]
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            5 months ago

            Yeah which is exactly why there is no point in fighting it. The problem can't be resolved without a mechanism and one simply does not exist. It's an organisational dead end.