As universities across the country are colonized (or decolonized, depending who you ask) by tent-cities of anti-Israel protesters, Stanford has rekindled its “sit-in to stop genocide.”
The sit-in 2.0, a tent city in Stanford’s White Plaza, is about 500 feet closer to Stanford’s Main Quad and has
I’m curious, did PSL randomly hop on this wagon too or did organizers reach out to them
It’s just funny because neoliberals are actually starting to notice that there’s a lot of random commie presence always showing up at protests because of them and like, they might technical not entirely be incorrect to say that Marxist are taking advantage and using them lol
With what I know, probably more of the former than the latter with a decent dash of seasoning composed of young members being in college acting as an in-road for them to get in the door as well, as well as a side dish of mass org proxies ran by PSL also acting as trojan horses.
not my experience. most branches had a connection/organizing relationship to sjp and other Palestinian organizations from well before October of 23. When we mobilized in October in most parts of the country worked in concert with them, with the guidance to take Palestinian organizer’s lead. Many, but not all, of the student organizers likely have already been working with psl before the encampments. When the students started to form them, in my experience a lot of student organizers reach out to whoever has worked with them in the past for support. it is a mass movement, but one that psl has been incorporated into, in part because we have had longstanding relationships with Palestinian organizers… psl runs pretty openly these days too, and outside of answer and people’s forum, there isn’t really much of a proxy or trojan horse situation going on these days in most parts of the country, because the prevailing thought is that the country is more open to socialism than had been historically the case
I’ll stand corrected on the question of connections to the current situation. And a question, am I understanding you correctly when you say outside of psl’s left forms, being answer and people’s forum respectively, does psl not have/run intermediate forms? (Not directly communist organizations but under the control of communists directed towards drawing in progressive americans to work towards progressive goals and subtly destigmatize communism. Examples being CPUSA’s former intermediate forms that it’s either liquidated or lost control of: Women for Racial and Economic Equality, The US Peace Council, National Council of American–Soviet Friendship, etc)
Not that I’m aware of and I’m an extremely involved member
Huh, I guess it’s a choice of tactics then
Locally we were specifically invited by SJP because we have been leaders in Palestine organizing here for years, since well before 10/7. Since 10/7 that’s only become even more entrenched and we are seen as the only non Palestinian/Jewish org with a serious role in the movement.
I would imagine it’s the same for most branches because that’s the standard MO of the party. We were organizing Palestine rallies and educational events for years, and that meant Palestinians trusted us before the current crisis began.