International solidarity was the theme of a meeting of Chinese and U.S. Communist Party leaders held on March 10. The International Department of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and the International Commission of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) held a bilateral me...
  • gammison [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    Split for >90 years lol. PSL is ultimately a split of dogmatic Trotskyist group (WWP) that basically wound itself backwards and became kinda ML and denounced all other Trotskyists. WWP split from the SWP (Which was in turn a split from SP USA, which formed from people expelled from CPUSA when Trotsky was thrown out of the comintern) in 1959 and ran by Sam Marcy till his death in the late 90s. PSL split from WWP in 2004.

    CPUSA meanwhile, well all the good people in CPUSA left either in the aftermath of '56, '68, or there was one last exodus in '92. There's been no one of note in the organization since then.

      • gammison [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        I guess, CPUSA is totally inconsequential. The largest DSA chapters have more people than their entire org, and I've never, ever, seen CPUSA people at tenant or labor organizing events or make any concerted effort to get inroads into labor.