By Dean Christ, Kevin Kyle, and Joan Phillips
We think the CPUSA convention, postponed several times, cannot come soon enough. We believe the Party has been heading in a wrong direction in far too many ways.
What has happened the Party’s tradition of class struggle, anti-racism, anti-monopoly, anti-imperialism, political independence, international solidarity, and indeed Marxism-Leninism?
Instead of building the Party, the current top leaders (no matter what they think or claim they are doing) have been dismantling the Party piece by piece: eliminating the print versions of the People’s Weekly World and Political Affairs, giving away the Reference Center for Marxist Studies, keeping bookstores shut, abolishing the national Organization Department and several clubs in New York, not to mention cutting YCL funding instead of prioritizing it.
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In response to the call to rebuild left and party related organizations, I agree completely. We need to build coalitions that are open to criticism of capitalism from the left before the far-right has a chance to harness the people's discontent. We need to look into winning allies in the Green and Peace & Freedom parties. Most importantly, I would like to know why the US Peace Council has been allowed to decline in favor of United for Peace and Justice, an temporary coalition with no roots in working class struggle. If the party gave half the effort that it gives to organizing in UFPJ into organizing the Peace Council we would have a left peace organization going into the financial crisis. But, we don't and fewer people than ever care about the Iraq war in comparison with economic issues, making UFPJ mostly pointless.
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