They certainly haven’t handled sexual misconduct well at the national level. They’ve also doubled down on the “the former member is a factionalist trying to hurt PSL” line.
Frankly I’d like to wishcast that the membership can save it, but no internal mechanisms really exist that can meaningfully challenge the entrenched power structures and players who’ve been pretty remorseless in the face of genuine sexual scandals. If they’d just allow for more genuine democratic expression internally, it will lead to a whole host of different contradictions but right now the very commandeering tendencies of the party typified by Ben Becker have lead it to a point where national leadership has been shown to be a fucking liability
as anything more than a socialist media company run by its founding family & protest march organizer, yes IMO. it would need a leadership coup followed by dedicated outreach to try and bring back and repair relationships with cadre who left to be turned around and anyone who stayed after the most recent SA scandal is at least nominally comfortable carrying out a party line that claims that case resurfacing was a cointelpro op. so that seems highly unlikely at this point.
is the PSL cooked?
They certainly haven’t handled sexual misconduct well at the national level. They’ve also doubled down on the “the former member is a factionalist trying to hurt PSL” line.
Frankly I’d like to wishcast that the membership can save it, but no internal mechanisms really exist that can meaningfully challenge the entrenched power structures and players who’ve been pretty remorseless in the face of genuine sexual scandals. If they’d just allow for more genuine democratic expression internally, it will lead to a whole host of different contradictions but right now the very commandeering tendencies of the party typified by Ben Becker have lead it to a point where national leadership has been shown to be a fucking liability
as anything more than a socialist media company run by its founding family & protest march organizer, yes IMO. it would need a leadership coup followed by dedicated outreach to try and bring back and repair relationships with cadre who left to be turned around and anyone who stayed after the most recent SA scandal is at least nominally comfortable carrying out a party line that claims that case resurfacing was a cointelpro op. so that seems highly unlikely at this point.