Party for Socialism and Liberation
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Party for Socialism and Liberation
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| Founded | June 2004 |
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| Ideology |
Communism Marxism-Leninism Revolutionary Socialism |
| Political position | Far-left |
| Colors | Red |
| Seats in the Senate |
0 / 100
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| Seats in the House |
0 / 435
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| Governorships |
0 / 50
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| State Upper House Seats |
0 / 1,972
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| State Lower House Seats |
0 / 5,411
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| Other elected offices | 0 |
| Website | |
| pslweb.org | |
The Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) is a communist party in the United States, created as the result of a split within the ranks of the Workers World Party (WWP).
The PSL has numerous branches across the country. Peta Lindsay and Yari Osorio were PSL's 2012 presidential ticket. Gloria La Riva and Eugene Puryear ran for President and Vice President on the PSL ticket in 2008 and 2016. In 2016, she received more votes than any U.S. socialist presidential candidate since 1976.
The PSL was formed when the San Francisco branch and several other members left WWP in June 2004, announcing that "the Workers World Party leadership is no longer capable" of fulfilling the "mission" of building socialism.
The PSL's primary objective is to form a revolutionary workers' party based in Marxism-Leninism. The party's goal is to lead a revolution paving the way towards socialism, under which a "new government of working people" would be formed. The PSL proposes many radical changes to be implemented by this government. In the political sphere, all elected representatives should be recallable, securing freedom of speech for the working class (except in the case of xenophobia or bigotry and to prevent re-establishment of the capitalist system) and the elimination of corporate influence from politics.
Concerning economics, the PSL would, among other measures, prohibit the exploitation of labor for private profit, implement a working week of 30 hours, and eradicate poverty through the introduction of a basic income guarantee. The PSL would grant the right of self-determination to what it considers oppressed nations of the US, including "African Americans, Native, Puerto Rican and other Latino national minorities, the Hawaiian nation, Asian, Pacific Islander, Arab and other oppressed peoples who have experienced oppression as a whole people under capitalism". It would grant independence to Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, the Virgin Islands and the Mariana Islands, which it considers colonies.
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