In December of 2020, the Trotskyist party Socialist Alternative (SAlt) announced that it would be instructing some of its members to join the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).
Members of the national leadership of DSA responded at the end of March in an op-ed warning of “factionalism” and referenced Progressive Labor Party’s history with SDS to bolster their argument aging SAlt. They lean on old, oft-repeated slanders about the behavior and aims of PLP members in the course of their mass work within SDS. The DSA leadership the chose to push this version of history to push a self-serving narrative; namely to suggest that principled political actors damage the overall movement by not adopting the opportunistic and revisionist politics of DSA.
Our guest is Comrade B, a member of SDS who later joined PLP. Comrade B was an eyewitness to many of the events that DSA has alluded to, and his experiences shed light on the nature of PLP’s mass work then and now.
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