Everyone's always talking about PSL, SRA, DSA, RR, CPUSA, and I'm just over here like "I just wanna grill for god sake!"
There's a million little random leftist organizations with slightly different goals and ideologies, but which one should someone looking to, in the words of Father Matt, 'log the fuck off' go to? Which ones are crank warehouses? Which are honeypots? Which are full of libs?
Bitch and complain about your least favorite orgs and shill for your favorites here. Reply to others telling them that their org is full of libs and FBI agents. Etc.
EDIT: also anyone with a specific recommendation in the Quad Cities area in Iowa/Illinois definitely drop me a line
I'm a wob. Locally we're actually doing some pretty cool stuff. The branch was mostly a book club up until a couple years ago when membership rose sharply. It became an org for people in other orgs, we have actually done some amount of real impactful hot shop organizing.
Other local branches do really good stuff near me. PDX IWW has done a lot of really good work, they've had a lot of victories, actually stood up to a real corporate boss and established a union at a burger chain.
The headquarters is nothing but larpers. It's parlamentary style gridlock all the time, they're truly just coasting off a bunch of dead heroes and sitting on your dues money and doing fuck all with it. My roommate was a convention delegate this year and there was a lot of really behavior from people who thought they were too radical to do anything useful for the org.