Joe Simps for the D CPUSA co-chair Sims: Fighting fascist threat a top priority Peoples world Article
Excerpts:
CHICAGO – “The battle lines are clear. We’re fighting a fascist danger at home and a genocidal war abroad. And to defeat the danger at home, we’ve got to defeat the war abroad.” CPUSA co-chair Joe Sims gave this warning on June 7, as he keynoted the 32nd National Convention of the Communist Party USA.
Sims also spoke of the “raw racism at the very heart of MAGA,” and added, “Immigrants are a special target.
“First, they tried the wall,” Sims said of Trump’s scheme to keep migrants from entering the U.S. across the Mexican border. “Then the Muslim ban, now they’re planning concentration camps. That’s right, we said it. And if they come for immigrants in the morning, they’re damn sure coming for us at noon.
But we’re not at fascism yet, of course, Sims said. And that moment of respite – for however long it lasts – means that for now, “There is room for struggle. Let us use that space to fight for a ceasefire in Gaza and for an end to the war in Ukraine. Let us use it to stop the expansion of NATO, end the blockade of Cuba, and bring the Cold War against China to a close.
He then turned to the historic question the Communist movement has always asked, “What, then, is to be done?”
you are not him
As Sims spoke to wild peals of applause, he said, “On the one side, there’s the ruling class forces of white supremacy and MAGA pulling the country apart. On the other, there’s the working-class forces of democracy pulling the country together.”
Link to @Alaskaball@hexbear.net take on Joe Sims tailism
SSettler KKKolonial Unity The Communist Party of Israel greets CPUSA’s 32nd Convention twitter
In which the CPI blames Hamas for the Gaza war, denounces the Operation Al-Aqsa Flood (i guess palestinians just have to get used to dying) and washes the hands of the israeli state by claiming that its netanyahoo the problem and not the State of ISSael itself
how do you manage to be on the Right of the DSA??
CIA Party USA
this is comically evil lmao
My honest reaction:
I really hope that others will give the CPUSA a chance and I may be able to answer some questions within good faith.
I understand that the community here is very anti-CPUSA and I hope that I can sway some people to help understand the org better.
Thanks!
How do the membership feel about this? Were there any major dissents? Have you heard anything else about this for context?
There are no major dissents between the “membership” and the “leadership.”
If I understand you correctly, this would imply that the majority opinion of the CPUSA members is to support Biden for a second term. Is that right?
So rank-and-file is okay with this? I would have hoped that at least the general membership would be more radical than “vote blue no matter who”.
CPUSA has a lot of baggage compared with PSL or FRSO which plays into the distaste I think. If it’s the only option in someone’s area then it’s better than not being organized, but it’s hard to understand why they’d be a committed communist’s first choice given their endorsements and campaigning for Biden
Well, they weren’t my first choice, but I’m glad that I stuck with them all these years.
That’s fair and I think individual chapters and the relationships with members you organize with will be invaluable even if hexbear and other communists disagree with how leadership acts
the same worn-out “lesser evil” bullshit that has been logically dismantled here dozens of times. with a dash of “poor little Biden doesn’t have enough leverage over those Zionists”:
unironic “Trump would be genociding Palestinians twice as bad” drivel
… Telling people to vote for Biden and taking an anti-Palestinian stance. C’mon.
What concentration camps Joe? The ones Biden kept open?
