PSL

Claudia De la Cruz and Karina Garcia are running for President and Vice-President of the United States on the ticket of the Party for Socialism and Liberation.

Claudia de la Cruz was born and raised in the South Bronx, New York to immigrant Dominican parents. As a teenager, she regularly participated in campaigns calling for an end to the U.S. blockade in Cuba and calling out police terror. While completing her degree in forensic psychology at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, a City University of New York college, de la Cruz helped create Palenque. Palenque was a group focused on bringing together young people to study the history of struggles and resistance by marginalized groups. During the Iraq War, de la Cruz organized some of these members as well as church members to rally against the war. She also helped found Da Urban Butterflies, a youth leadership development project for women from Washington Heights and the Bronx. Later on, de la Cruz co-founded The People’s Forum in New York City, a place dedicated to making space for working-class people. De la Cruz is also a mother and a pastor for the United Church of Christ, a Christian denomination that has historically been involved in social justice work.

Karina Garcia grew up in East Harlem, also known as El Barrio, in New York, as well as California. She attended Columbia University on a full scholarship and organized fellow students to speak out against the U.S. invasion of Iraq and to advocate for immigrant rights. After completing a degree in economics, Garcia became a high school math teacher in New York City. During that time, she advised a student group on issues like police brutality and school budget cuts. In 2012, she took up an organizing position at the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice. She is also a mother and writer for Breaking the Chains, a feminist and socialist magazine under the PSL.

The Party for Socialism and Liberation is comprised of leaders and activists, workers and students, of all backgrounds. Organized in branches across the country, their mission is to link the everyday struggles of oppressed and exploited people to the fight for a new world.

The Party for Socialism and Liberation believes that the only solution to the deepening crisis of capitalism is the socialist transformation of society. Driven by an insatiable appetite for ever greater profits regardless of social cost, capitalism is on a collision course with the people of the world and the planet itself. Imperialist war; deepening unemployment and poverty; deteriorating health care, housing and education; racism; discrimination and violence based on gender and sexual orientation; environmental destruction—all are inevitable products of the capitalist system itself.

For the great majority of people in the world, including tens of millions of workers in the United States, conditions of life and work are worsening. There is no prospect that this situation can or will be turned around under the existing system.

The idea that the capitalists’ grip on society and their increasingly repressive state can be abolished through any means other than a revolutionary overturn is an illusion. Equally unrealistic are reformist hopes for a “kinder, gentler” capitalism, or solutions based on economic decentralization or small group autonomy. Meeting the needs of the more than 6.5 billion people who inhabit the planet today is impossible without large-scale agriculture and industry and economic planning.

The fundamental problems confronting humanity today flow from the reality that most of the world’s productive wealth—the product of socialized labor and nature—is privately owned and controlled by a tiny minority. This minority decides what will be produced and what will not. Its decisions are based on making profits rather than meeting human needs.

There are really only two choices for humanity today—an increasingly destructive capitalism, or socialism

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  • Coolkidbozzy [he/him]
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    1 hour ago

    Fuck it just asked my work crush/friend out for dinner tomorrow, maybe I'll reveal my feelings. That'll distract me from the election no matter the outcome of the reveal

  • Mokey2 [none/use name]
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    2 hours ago
    mokey listens

    We listening to Bill evans again

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yevo49R1o4I

    I noticed that when Bill Evans is doing the block chords he's not really acrobatic melody wise.

    Bill evans starts his solo with small measure long phrases.

    It's building really slowly, and he'll shrink back before he builds too much.

    This time I decided to focus on what the larger form is:

    8 Bar Pseudo Latin Intro

    Head in, melody stated twice.

    7 Choruses of Bill Evans soloing

    1. Philly Joe takes up the first three measures of Bill's solos but that's a normal Philly thing. Bill is doing little one measure phrases and not playing lines. Sam Jones is always making the 9th measure clear, outlining the form.

    2. The phrases start getting longer.

    3. Bill Evans plays a little phrase that repeats multiple times throughout the piece.

    4. The solo starts picking up here in intensity. The lead into the next chorus is definitely noticeable

    5. The second half of this chorus he plays soemthing that he'll repeat going into the trading section with Philly Joe

    6. Trading Eights with Philly Joe

    7. Trading Eights with Philly Joe

    8. Trading Eights with Philly Joe

    9. Trading Fours with Philly Joe

    10. Trading Fours with Philly Joe

    11. Trading Fours with Philly Joe

    Head out, melody played twice.

    Pseudo latin thing out.

  • M68040 [they/them]
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    3 hours ago

    Tucker's whole "Dad's home and he's pissed" spiel is a strong argument for the legalization of patricide

  • PurrLure [she/her]
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    5 hours ago

    Youtube has been flooded with political ads this month (and before you say it, I watch youtube on my TV sometimes so I can't skip with adblocker).

    I think the funniest one is where they get a bunch of pudgy thumb cops to talk about how weed KILLS CHILDREN, so you should i-voted against it. Because if anyone is going to be honest to you about weed, it's cops.

  • RION [she/her]
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    5 hours ago

    Watching okay-okay play the Silent Hill 2 remake

    I want Maria to fix me crush or make me worse or w/e

  • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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    5 hours ago

    So, Decoy Octopus in MGS was doing blackface and I don't think anyone ever brings it up.

  • Dolores [love/loves]
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    6 hours ago

    critical support to dushanbe city employees taking 1 million dollars from the asian development bank and proceeding to not meet a solitary target set by the investors

    improved knowledge and skills in corporate governance, utility management, and public–private partnership (2022 baseline: 0)

    soviet-chad yeah hows about i go back to tightening water pipes instead of listening to you blowhards about PPP

  • Luna [she/her]
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    5 hours ago

    Anybody know why Hexbear might be running better in Brave compared to Librewolf/Arkenfox? Could it be a cache issue?

  • Hohsia [he/him]
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    8 hours ago

    Not to mess with the lathe, but with the way my boss and other people in my company are becoming increasingly tech bro brain poisoned (and taking 10 minute lunches), I can see a reality where workers use fucking feeding tubes

    It sounds really, really absurd, but these people are obsessed with productivity to a terrifying degree. Damn I wish I had a union

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      7 hours ago

      : p

      Fordism with GNC Nutrition Characteristics.

      No matter how weird people get about it, no matter no many noophagus mushrooms they consume, no matter how raw their water is, humans are still going to hit a wall at 4-6 hours. Sure, a lot of physical jobs you can dope people up on stimmies and run them til the collapse, then replace them. But that doesn't work for most computer touching jobs.