While in Peoples Defense, I no longer am, I made sure our criticism was not attacking or insulting. DtS’ was and we can’t criticize another group for trying like DtS was after their experience in LA. So I take criticizing another organization very seriously. It was a pretty serious situation where they were organizing a lot of rallies marketing them as a militant front. We didn’t want them to go away. We just wanted them to confusing people with the wrong messaging and then those people show up expecting to really confront ICE. Then when PSL walked away it made us look really, really bad to the people from the community that really thought they were going to a vanguard action. That’s all I wanted to stop.
I can’t speak to any specific party actions or decisions happening on the other side of the country, but I hope and expect, if what you’re saying is accurate, that this was an error of communication and messaging that can be resolved. In my experience, the party takes public safety (especially from the cops) and good coalition relations very seriously.
Anyways, keep up the good work yourself in your community. I’m obviously very pro-PSL, but we know we aren’t a univeralist org that encompasses all possible paths of struggle at all times. If what you’re doing is productively building the revolutionary movement, then you are a comrade of mine.
Yeah I should have been more chilled on how I said my original comment. I didn’t say it in a very helpful way. Yeah it improved after all the criticism came forward but I still have a bitter taste. PSL even met with us about it. I hope they find their way. I just found their work to be repetitive with DSA. Different ideologies. But physical practice is similar between the two. That’s my beef. I’ll get over it.
While in Peoples Defense, I no longer am, I made sure our criticism was not attacking or insulting. DtS’ was and we can’t criticize another group for trying like DtS was after their experience in LA. So I take criticizing another organization very seriously. It was a pretty serious situation where they were organizing a lot of rallies marketing them as a militant front. We didn’t want them to go away. We just wanted them to confusing people with the wrong messaging and then those people show up expecting to really confront ICE. Then when PSL walked away it made us look really, really bad to the people from the community that really thought they were going to a vanguard action. That’s all I wanted to stop.
I can’t speak to any specific party actions or decisions happening on the other side of the country, but I hope and expect, if what you’re saying is accurate, that this was an error of communication and messaging that can be resolved. In my experience, the party takes public safety (especially from the cops) and good coalition relations very seriously.
Anyways, keep up the good work yourself in your community. I’m obviously very pro-PSL, but we know we aren’t a univeralist org that encompasses all possible paths of struggle at all times. If what you’re doing is productively building the revolutionary movement, then you are a comrade of mine.
Yeah I should have been more chilled on how I said my original comment. I didn’t say it in a very helpful way. Yeah it improved after all the criticism came forward but I still have a bitter taste. PSL even met with us about it. I hope they find their way. I just found their work to be repetitive with DSA. Different ideologies. But physical practice is similar between the two. That’s my beef. I’ll get over it.