https://twitter.com/DSA_Intl_Comm/status/1525120090575884296
For more info on Left Party of Sweden opposition on NATO:
In 2020 internal organizing cohered things more at convention and resolutions were passed to expand international work like to support Cuba solidarity and engaging with mass socialist parties in Latin America, and a bunch of left NPCs won and they reformed the IC. The committee was basically defunct before then so it was reworked and new leadership revived it and made it into what it is now. Last year IC and NPC members went on an official delegation to Venezuela and even met with Maduro, that shit woulda never flown before lol
The BDSWG shit is ridiculous and tbh it passed without even a majority of NPCs actually supporting dissolving the WG, which is why it was then reversed. A huge mess, and the leadership is basically just ignoring their suspension mostly, though some of them resigned. Its not great but i think its all being amended. People are really angry about the BDS shit which the socdems did so next convention might favor the left NPC more and pick up new spots.
NPC is kind of a mess. There are NPCs who are actual communists and marxists who support this, and there are some who are socdems who are more squishy or oppose it. IC wins out in the majority for the most part. But then 3 NPCs resigned, 2 who were very favorable to the IC, the other more of a toss up, so now new appointments are being made and hopefully they still mirror that or things might change. Definitely some real opportunists in there though.
FWIW my chapter initiated the call to expel Bowman which snowballed into the BDSWG crisis. We’re now trying to organize a special convention to elect more internationalists and put more control over the NPC. If you or your chapter hasn’t signed on yet you should:
It’s unlikely that we’ll get signatures in time to have the special convention but it’ll still be valuable to know who’s on our side going into the next convention.
