Party for Socialism and Liberation explained

Party for Socialism and Liberation
Leader:	Central Committee^[1]
Split:	Workers World Party
Headquarters:	San Francisco, California Washington, D.C.
Ideology:	Communism^[2] Marxism–Leninism^[3] ^[4] ^[5] ^[6] Revolutionary socialism^[7]
Position:	Far-left
Newspaper:	Liberation News
International:	International Peoples' Assembly^[8]
Colors:	Red
Country:	United States
Seats1 Title:	Elected offices
Seats1:	0

The Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) is a communist political party in the United States. PSL formed in 2004, when its members split from the Workers World Party.

PSL describes itself as a revolutionary socialist party, as the party believes that only a revolution can end capitalism and establish socialism. PSL pursues this goal by participating in local protests, running candidates in elections, and conducting political education.

Notable members include Gloria La Riva, Michael Prysner, Eugene Puryear, Jodi Dean and Claudia de la Cruz.

Membership

PSL does not release membership numbers.^[9] In 2022, PSL said it had members in "over 100 cities".^[10]

Publications

PSL's main publication is the website and monthly paper Liberation News,^[11] which replaced Socialism and Liberation.^[12] PSL also publishes Liberation School for longer material,^[13] Breaking the Chains: A Socialist Perspective on Women's Liberation,^[14] and Reds In Ed for educators.^[15]

Associated groups

PSL is a founding member of the ANSWER Coalition,^{[16] [17]} which has close ties to PSL leadership. ANSWER's National Coordinator is Brian Becker,^[18] a PSL co-founder who said "we do a great deal of work through" ANSWER.

PSL leadership are closely involved with The People's Forum and BreakThrough News. Anchors on BreakThrough News include Becker and PSL 2016 vice-presidential candidate Puryear.^[19] Becker also co-hosted a show with John Kiriakou on Radio Sputnik^{[20] [21]} of the RT state media network.

PSL is closely tied to the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research and its founder, Vijay Prashad, who has often appeared on BreakThrough News.

PSL was closely tied to Women Organized to Resist and Defend (WORD or W.O.R.D.), a feminist organization led by PSL core members Peta Lindsay and Gloria La Riva. WORD was founded in 2012 and ceased operation in 2016. WORD protested for abortion access.^[22]

History

PSL was formed in June 2004 when the San Francisco branch of the Marcyite^[23] Workers World Party left the organization. The San Francisco branch, alongside other members, announced that "the Workers World Party leadership is no longer capable of fulfilling [the] mission" of building socialism. PSL co-founders included Richard Becker, Brian Becker, Gloria La Riva, and Eugene Puryear.

In 2011, PSL participated in the Occupy movement.^[24]

In 2020, at least five PSL members were arrested during protests against the Aurora police department for the killing of Elijah McClain.^{[25] [26]}

On October 8, 2023, one day after the Re'im music festival massacre, PSL Central Committee member Eugene Puryear helped organize a rally in support of Palestine in Times Square,^[27] in which he stated: "[T]here was some sort of rave or desert party where they were having a great time, until the resistance came in electrified hang gliders and took at least several dozen hipsters, and I'm sure they're doing very fine despite what the New York Post says."^[28]

Ideology

PSL identifies as a Leninist party^{[29] [30]} or Marxist-Leninist party.^{[31] [32] [33]} Other socialists have labelled PSL as Marxist-Leninist, Marcyite,^{[34] [35]} and campist.^{[36] [37]}

PSL describes its primary goal as the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism and the institution of state socialism as a transitionary stage toward a communist society, stating that "humanity today has only two choices: an increasingly destructive capitalism, or socialism".^[38]

PSL strongly supports LGBT rights in the United States.^[39]

Structure

PSL is a democratic centralist party, which means that "all members, including those who disagree, are duty bound to publicly defend and carry out" all PSL decisions.^[40] PSL's highest body is its Party Congress, held every 2 to 3 years, which selects its Central Committee leadership. The PSL Central Committee can appoint up to 40% of Congress delegates. PSL allows a one-month "discussion period" before each Congress. However, "the pre-Congress discussion" is "a completely internal discussion".

International affairs

PSL defends the Soviet Union's suppression of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. PSL criticized the New Economic Policy and blames perestroika for the dissolution of the Soviet Union.^[41]

PSL supports the Communist Party of China, but criticizes its capitalist economic reforms. PSL argues that "militant political defense of the Chinese government" is necessary to stave off "counterrevolution, imperialist intervention and dismemberment".^[42] PSL defends China's human rights records, and strongly denies that the Chinese military massacred student protestors in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre.^[43]

PSL supports Kim Jong-un. PSL describes North Korea as "one of the few top-to-bottom, actually-existing, alternatives to the global capitalist system".^[44] PSL supports North Korea's nuclear weapons program.^[45] PSL rejects criticism of North Korea's human rights record,^[46] which it calls "thinly veiled justification for U.S. aggression toward North Korea",^[47] and argues that "conditions in North Korea are vastly better than those in other developing countries".

PSL supported the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea.^{[48] [49]} While PSL did not support the 2022 Russian invasion, it blamed the war on US-led NATO expansion and the "plight of ethnic Russians" in the Donbas.^[50]

PSL criticizes the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia as an imperialist coup against Slobodan Milosevic.^[51]

PSL opposes US intervention in the Syrian Civil War, and has generally been supportive of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and Russian military efforts in Syria.^{[52] [53] [54] [55]} PSL denies that the Syrian government used chemical weapons.^[56]

Election results

PSL has fielded electoral candidates for local, state, and federal offices. PSL candidates usually run as independent candidates or as third party candidates, such as with the Peace and Freedom Party or the Green Party.

No PSL candidate has yet won an election.

Presidential elections

Year	Presidential candidate	Vice presidential candidate	Popular votes	%	Electoral votes	Result	Ballot access	Notes	Ref
2024	Claudia de la Cruz	Karina Garcia	T.B.D	T.B.D	T.B.D	T.B.D		The Peace and Freedom Party also nominated de la Cruz.	^[57]
2020	Gloria La Riva	Sunil Freeman	86,239		0	Lost		The Peace and Freedom Party also nominated La Riva.	^[58] ^[59]
2016	Gloria La Riva	Eugene Puryear	74,027		0	Lost		The Peace and Freedom Party also nominated La Riva, with Dennis Banks as her running mate.	^[60]
2012	Peta Lindsay	Yari Osorio	7,791		0	Lost			^[61]
2008		Eugene Puryear	6,818		0	Lost			^[62]

PSL ran La Riva and Sunil Freeman in the 2020 United States presidential election.^{[63] [64]} Originally Leonard Peltier was the vice-presidential nominee, but he withdrew for health reasons.^{[65] [66] [67]}

Congressional elections

Year	Candidate	Chamber	State	District	Votes	%	Result	Notes	Ref
2022	José Cortés	House	California	CA-51	3,327		Lost	ran as Peace and Freedom Party candidate; did not advance to top-two general	^[68]
2020	José Cortés	House	California	CA-50	1,821		Lost	ran as Peace and Freedom Party candidate; did not advance to top-two general	^[69] ^[70]
2018	Jordan Mills	House	California	CA-49	233		Lost	ran as Peace and Freedom Party candidate; did not advance to top-two general	^[71] ^[72]
2014	Frank Lara	House	California	CA-12	2,107		Lost	ran as Peace and Freedom Party candidate; did not advance to top-two general	^[73] ^[74]
2010	Gloria La Riva	House	California	CA-8	5,161		Lost	ran as Peace and Freedom Party candidate	^[75]
2008	Nathalie Hrizi	House	California	CA-12	5,793		Lost	ran as Peace and Freedom Party candidate; did not advance to top-two general	^[76] ^[77]
2008	Michael Prysner	House	Florida	FL-22	6		Lost	ran as write-in candidate	^[78] ^[79]

State elections

Year	Candidate	Office	State	District	Votes	%	Result	Notes	Ref
2024	Kevin Martinez	State Assembly	California	6	1,861		Lost	ran as Peace and Freedom Party candidate	^[80]
2022	Noah Leininger	State House	Indiana	90	259		Lost	ran as write-in candidate	^[81]
2022	Nathalie Hrizi	Insurance Commissioner	California	At-Large	189,289		Lost	ran as Peace and Freedom Party candidate	^[82]
2022	Meghann Adams	State Treasurer	California	At-Large	242,234		Lost	ran as Peace and Freedom Party candidate	^[83]
2021	Ernesto Huerta	State Senate	California	30	1,565		Lost	ran as Peace and Freedom Party candidate	^[84]
2018	Gloria La Riva	Governor	California	At-Large	19,075		Lost	ran as Peace and Freedom Party candidate	^[85]
2018	Nathalie Hrizi	Insurance Commissioner	California	At-Large	309,399		Lost	ran as Peace and Freedom Party candidate	^[86]
2017	John Prysner	State Assembly	California	51	232		Lost	ran as Peace and Freedom Party candidate	^[87]
2014	Nathalie Hrizi	Insurance Commissioner	California	At-Large	212,991		Lost	ran as Peace and Freedom Party candidate	^[88]
2010	Carlos Alvarez	Governor	California	At-Large	92,856		Lost	ran as Peace and Freedom Party candidate	^[89]
2010	Corey Ansel	State House	Ohio	22	716		Lost	ran as Green Party candidate	^[90]
2008	Heather Benno	State House	Illinois	40	2,276		Lost	ran as Green Party candidate	^[91]
2008	John Beachem	State House	Illinois	14	4,745		Lost	ran as Green Party candidate
2008	Lucilla Esguerra	State Assembly	California	48	11,173		Lost	ran as Peace and Freedom Party candidate	^[92]

Local elections

Year	Candidate	Office	City	District	Votes	%	Result	Notes	Ref
2024	Eduardo Vargas	City Council	Los Angeles	14	1,638		Lost	non-partisan election	^[93]
2023	Ana Santoyo	City Council	Chicago	45	895		Lost	non-partisan election	^[94]
2021	Colin Dodson	Urbana City Council	City Council		2	57		Lost	ran as Party for Socialism and Liberation candidate	^[95] ^[96]
2021	Cathy Rojas	Mayor	New York	At-Large	27,982		Lost	ran as Party for Socialism and Liberation candidate	^[97] ^[98]
2014	Eugene Puryear	City Council	Washington D.C.	At-Large	12,525		Lost	ran as D.C. Statehood Green Party candidate	^[99]
2010	Stevie Merino	Mayor	Long Beach	At-Large	5,057		Lost	non-partisan election	^[100]
2009	Carlos Alvarez	Mayor	Los Angeles	At-Large	3,047		Lost	non-partisan election	^[101]
2009	Francisca Villar	Mayor	New York	At-Large	3,517		Lost	ran as Party for Socialism and Liberation candidate	^[102]
2008	Stephen Hinze	Board of Supervisors	Los Angeles	5	29,875		Lost	non-partisan election	^[103]
2008	Marylou Cabral	Board of Supervisors	Los Angeles	4	23,703		Lost	non-partisan election	^[104]
2008	Amanda Todd	City Council	Sioux Falls	Unknown	Unknown		Lost	unk	^[105]
2008	Sergio Farias	City Council	San Juan Capistrano	Unknown	1,133		Lost	unk	^[106] ^[107]

National conventions

Name	Date	Location	Report	Program	Constitution
Founding Convention	June 18-20, 2004	San Francisco, CA	Convention report	Founding statement
First National Convention	2005			Program
Second National Convention	February 18-20, 2006	San Francisco, CA	Convention report
Third National Convention	June 2007
First Party Congress	February 13-15, 2010	Los Angeles, CA	Convention report	Program
Second Party Congress	February 2013			Program
Third Party Congress	April 1-3, 2016	San Francisco, CA	Convention report	Program
Fourth Party Congress	August 2019			Program
Fifth Party Congress	July 2022			Program	Constitution

Notable members

• Eugene Puryear, reporter and candidate for vice president in 2008 and 2016^[108]
• Gloria La Riva, political activist and perennial candidate
• Claudia de la Cruz, community organizer and presidential candidate in 2024
• Jodi Dean, academic^{[109] [110]}
• Michael Prysner, anti-war activist
• Peta Lindsay, presidential candidate
• Jon Siebels, guitarist for the band Eve 6^[111]
• Sunil Freeman, political activist, poet, and candidate for vice president in 2020^[112]
• Kristin Richardson Jordan (former), poet, activist and member of the New York City Council (9th district)^[113]

See also

• American Left
• History of the socialist movement in the United States
• Workers World Party
• Democratic Socialists of America
• Communist Party USA
• Socialist Alternative (United States)

External links

• • Liberation News
• Liberation School

Notes and References

1. News: June 21, 2019 . 15 years of building the Party, growing and learning . Liberation News . live . October 24, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231024042128/https://www.liberationnews.org/15-years-of-building-the-party-growing-and-learning/.
2. Web site: 'No separate destiny for US workers apart from the workers of the world' . Brian . Becker . October 1, 2018 . International Communist Press . live . August 7, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230807012857/https://icp.sol.org.tr/interviews/no-separate-destiny-us-workers-apart-workers-world/ . We are a communist party. We have existed for 14 years with the idea of building a communist party in the United States once again. This is a complicated and long-term project. It is perhaps the most of the difficult of all projects. But it’s the imperative need because you cannot have revolutionary change without a revolutionary communist party leading that change. Absent a communist party, victory is impossible..
3. Ford . Derek P. . Making Marxist Pedagogy Magical: From Critique to Imagination, or, How Bookkeepers Set Us Free . Critical Education . June 1, 2017 . 8 . 9 . 10 . I want to turn our attention to the magical thinking of the Party for Socialism and Liberation. As a Marxist-Leninist Party in the United States, the PSL was founded in 2004..
4. News: Kroitzsh . Aleka A. . Local socialists see the "fog of anti-communism" lifting . Mission Local . August 2, 2019 . The PSL espouses a Marxist-Leninist ideology, one intent on “fighting the war program in the U.S., fighting imperialism, and fighting for Socialism,” said Gloria La Riva, a socialist presidential candidate since 1993 and a PSL founder..
5. Book: Harman . Mike . Where's the Winter Palace? On the Marxist-Leninist Trend in the United States . March 19, 2018 . The Left Wind . 3 January 2024 . Introduction. "In the United States today, there exists a political trend which describes itself as Marxist-Leninist. This trend is organized as a loose constellation, orbiting around organizations such as the Workers World Party (WWP) and the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL)....".
6. Web site: Khan . K. . Trottier . Tom . USA: The end of the Biden honeymoon . Socialist Appeal . Socialist Revolution USA . November 11, 2021 . "The Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), a small ‘Marxist-Leninist’ organisation with limited resources, ran a candidate under its own banner for mayor of New York City.".
7. Web site: About the Party for Socialism and Liberation . Party for Socialism and Liberation . live . 20 November 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201120170148/https://www.pslweb.org/about.
8. Web site: Who We Are: International Process . International Peoples' Assembly . live . October 24, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231024190734/https://ipa-aip.org/who-we-are/.
9. Web site: Where We Are and Where We're Going . Raina . Lipsitz . Fall 2022 . . live . December 7, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221207201524/https://socialistforum.dsausa.org/issues/fall-2022/where-we-are-and-where-were-going/.
10. Web site: We need your help to build the movement for socialism . Liberation News . Party for Socialism and Liberation . 3 January 2024 . Aug 15, 2022 . "We have an organized presence in over 100 cities and towns, and have expanded our presence substantially throughout the South in recent years.".
11. Web site: Liberation News: reporting from the front-line of struggle. Webmaster. PSL. Liberation News. August 15, 2017.
12. Web site: Socialism and Liberation magazine is changing . June 5, 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080222013912/http://www.pslweb.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=6831&news_iv_ctrl=1028 . February 22, 2008.
13. Web site: Our Mission Liberation School. 25 March 2014 . 2021-05-30. en-US.
14. Web site: About Breaking the Chains – Breaking the Chains. 2020-11-01.
15. Web site: 2020-03-13. RedsInEd. 2020-11-01. redsined.org.
16. News: International Communist Press . American socialists' ANSWER to Trump . January 23, 2017 .
17. News: Party for Socialism and Liberation holds demonstrations for Free Palestine movement . Lillian . Durr . November 8, 2023 . Missouri State University Standard . Alongside the action in Washington D.C., the Party for Socialism and Liberation — a member of the ANSWER Coalition — has been holding demonstrations in support of the Free Palestine movement in Springfield..
18. Web site: Brian Becker — Liberation News . Liberation News . Party for Socialism and Liberation . live . October 2, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231002150050/https://www.liberationnews.org/author/brian_becker/ . 8 October 2020 . Brian Becker is the National Coordinator of the ANSWER Coalition. He is a founder of and a central organizer for the Party for Socialism and Liberation..
19. News: U.S Tech Mogul Bankrolls Pro-Russia, Pro-China News Network . William . Bredderman . . May 29, 2023 . Sitting on the People's Forum's board is Claudia De La Cruz, who pulls triple duty as BreakThrough's secretary and as a "co-coordinator/educator" for the Justice and Education Fund. An auditor's report filed in New York shows that more of Singham's money trickled down to BreakThrough from the Forum in the form of $80,575 in donated rent in 2021, the most recent year for which filings are available. But when The Daily Beast visited the People's Forum address, it found a bookstore hawking tomes by Prashad and titles from his Leftword imprint, as well as a coffee shop and an event space—but no evidence of a studio. What's more, none of BreakThrough's hosts appear among the staff listed in the outlet's filings. Rather, the underlying nonprofit's leadership consists of figures like De La Cruz who donate an hour a week to the organization, and who like De La Cruz are affiliated with the Party for Socialism and Liberation, a small far-left sect that does not appear to receive substantial donations from Singham or from anybody else. The PSL does, however, appear as an allied group to the International People's Media Network on its webpage. Puryear and Becker, two of the BreakThrough anchors, are co-founders of the party..
20. News: September 28, 2023 . As a Presidential Candidate, Cornel West Aligns Himself With Far-Left Radicals . David . Corn . . The PSL has supported the North Korean regime and its pursuit of nuclear weapons and also hailed the Chinese Communist Party, defending it against various charges of human rights violations. Brian Becker, a co-founder of the PSL, used to co-host a show on Radio Sputnik, a Moscow-created propaganda network..
21. News: Yes, I Work for Sputnik News . John . Kiriakou . March 11, 2022 . LA Progressive .
22. Web site: Battling for Plan B May 19, 2013 Leave a Comment . Battling for Plan B | The Fine Print | Gainesville, FL . The Fine Print . 2013-05-19 . dead . August 4, 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130804212034/http://www.thefineprintuf.org/2013/05/19/battling-for-plan-b/.
23. Web site: Roots of the Workers World Party . Ken . Lawrence . libcom.org . This stance in turn meant playing down to insignificance polemics against Stalinism, while seeking leadership of the class through exemplary action. The Marcyites remained uneasily as a faction within the SWP until the USSR's military invasion of Hungary in 1956, which they supported and the SWP denounced. Depending on whose version you believe, the Marcy-Copeland faction either left (Marcy) or was expelled (Cannon), and formed Workers World Party in 1957..
24. Web site: Revolutionary organisation and the 'Occupy moment' . Paul . Le Blanc . February 16, 2012.
25. News: Protesters, demonstration leaders arrested in connection to rallies in Aurora . September 17, 2020 . Denver Post . MediaNews Group, Inc.
26. Web site: The Election May Be Over, but Their Fight Has Just Begun . Kaplan . Noah . 10 November 2020 . westword.com . Denver Westword.
27. Web site: "Apartheid Resistance Is Not Terrorism": Protesters Stand in Solidarity with Palestinians . 2023-10-11 . Democracy Now! . en . Eugene Puryear: “The whole reason I’m yelling is because the powers that be in New York City and New York state don’t want this rally to happen..
28. News: MacDougald . Park . Siegel . Jacob . October 10, 2023 . Israel at War . Tablet . listeners cheered a speaker who boasted … took out at least several dozen hipsters … That speaker, it turned out, was activist journalist Eugene Puryear.
29. News: Brian . Becker . The Leninist party in history and present . November 17, 2016 . Liberation News . live . September 26, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230926065413/https://www.liberationschool.org/the-leninist-party-in-history-and-the-present/ . The Party for Socialism and Liberation was formed in 2004 by a small group of cadres who adhered to the organizational principles of the Bolsheviks that were codified in the original documents of the Third International. We explicitly recognized that the construction of a Leninist-type party was taking shape on a political and social landscape that could not have been more unlike that which existed in Russia but also in the other countries during the 1917-1923 period during which the Third International took shape..
30. News: Social Media and Democratic Centralism: Opportunities and Challenges . November 7, 2018 . Liberation News . live . November 16, 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181116144407/http://liberationschool.org/social-media-and-democratic-centralism-opportunities-and-challenges . The following is an edited version of an internal document initially written in late 2015 and formed part of the basis for party-wide discussions in the Party for Socialism and Liberation in early 2016. The document examines the new possibilities and difficulties posed by the proliferation of social media from the perspective of the Leninist party..
31. News: Revolution Manifesto . Liberation School . August 28, 2016 . live . September 5, 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160905025151/https://liberationschool.org/revolution-manifesto/ . Moreover, the course is designed to facilitate new ways of understanding how the Marxist-Leninist theory of the state relates to the struggles of our contemporary moment..
32. News: Why I joined the PSL . Nicholas . Powell . April 19, 2010 . live . July 14, 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190714144712/https://www.liberationnews.org/why-i-joined-nicholas-powell-html/ . This Marxism Class is held in seminar-style, and it is great opportunity to ask questions and learn more about the Marxist-Leninist view of socialism..
33. News: Community celebrates 14th annual Enero Zapatista event . Liberation News . Party for Socialism and Liberation . February 4, 2018 . "The Party for Socialism and Liberation has been involved in the planning of Enero Zapatista for the past several years and looks forward to continued involvement. As a Marxist-Leninist party we strive to uphold the tradition of the right to self-determination for oppressed nations.".
34. Web site: 2/9/23: Oakland Socialist Interview with Howie Hawkins . Howie Hawkins for our Future . 2024-01-17 . 2023-02-10 .
35. Libya and the Opportunist Left . . The Internationalist . April 2011 .
36. "Campism" and the "New" (Anti-) Imperialisms . Bryant William . Sculos . . Summer 2020 . XVIII . 1 .
37. Greg . Afinogenov . Spring 2022 . Breaking Camp: The US Left and Foreign Policy after the War in Ukraine . .
38. Web site: Program of the Party for Socialism and Liberation . July 10, 2015 . Liberation School . Party for Socialism and Liberation .
39. Book: Wolf . Sherry . Sexuality and Socialism: History, Politics, and Theory of LGBT Liberation . . 978-1-60846-076-2 . 106 . 2017 . en.
40. Web site: Party For Socialism And Liberation PSL Constitution 2022 . November 29, 2023 . . 4. Decision-making procedures 4.1 After a thorough discussion in any branch or Party body, at the Party Congress, or at a national internal conference, decisions are arrived at by majority vote of all full members present, except when otherwise noted herein. All members, including those who disagree, are duty bound to publicly defend and carry out these decisions. [....] The Party Congress may also have voting delegates nominated directly by the Central Committee, the maximum number of which shall not exceed 40 percent of the total elected delegates. Such delegates shall be elected by a vote of two-thirds of the members of the Central Committee (for two-thirds votes, round up when the outcome is a fraction). [....] During this discussion, all Party members have the right to express their views and propose changes, including amendments to the Constitution, to propose resolutions on all questions of policy and tactics, and on the work of leading bodies for consideration by the Congress. All existing policies and decisions remain in full force during the pre-Congress discussion, which is a completely internal discussion..
41. Web site: Socialism and the legacy of the Soviet Union. Becker. Brian. Why Socialism?. Party for Socialism and Liberation. July 14, 2011. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110929113218/http://www.pslweb.org/party/why-socialism/3e-socialism-and-the-legacy-of-ussr.html. September 29, 2011.
42. Web site: Becker. Brian. 31 May 2007. What do socialists defend in China today?. Liberation School.
43. Web site: Becker. Brian. 13 June 2014. Tiananmen: The Massacre that Wasn't. Liberation School. What happened in China, what took the lives of government opponents and of soldiers on June 4, was not a massacre of peaceful students but a battle between PLA soldiers and armed detachments from the so-called pro-democracy movement..
44. Web site: Gowans. Stephan. 23 February 2013. Why North Korea is developing nuclear weapons. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20201218180838/https://www.liberationnews.org/why-north-korea-is-developing-html/. 18 December 2020. Liberation News.
45. Web site: Liberation Staff. 11 October 2006. Flyer: 'North Korea has the right to possess nuclear weapons'. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20190714160302/https://www.liberationnews.org/06-10-11-flyer-north-korea-has-right-to-html/. 14 July 2019. Liberation News.
46. Web site: Beacham . John . 2 February 2015 . West's favorite North Korean defector lied to UN . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20201108114814/https://www.liberationnews.org/wests-favorite-north-korean-defector-lied-un/ . 8 November 2020 . Liberation News.
47. Web site: Wang . Mike . 26 March 2014 . UN hypocrisy and human rights in North Korea . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20201111232945/https://www.liberationnews.org/un-hypocrisy-and-human-rights-html/ . 11 November 2020 . Liberation News.
48. Web site: Martin . George . April 4, 2022 . Socialists and the War in Ukraine: A Response to the Party for Socialism and Liberation .
49. Web site: Becker . Brian . March 17, 2014 . Crimea Referendum: the hidden truth behind the U.S.-Russia rivalry . Liberation News . Party for Socialism and Liberation.
50. Web site: PSL Statement on Russia's military intervention in Ukraine . February 24, 2022 . Liberation News . Party for Socialism and Liberation.
51. News: Yugoslavia: Ten years after the NATO massacre . Victor . Penn . March 31, 2009 . Liberation News . Party for Socialism and Liberation.
52. Web site: 10 April 2018. Confronting the impending war danger against Syria [PSL Statement]]. Liberation News.
53. Web site: Syrian Communist Party. 14 December 2016. Syrian Communist Party (Unified): Syria facing "barbarous imperialist aggression". Liberation News.
54. Web site: Majidi. Mazda. 28 March 2016. Will the U.S. abandon 'Assad must go'?. Liberation News.
55. Web site: A political critique of the Party for Socialism and Liberation. Socialism.org. Cornish. Megan. February 2013. February 26, 2021.
56. Web site: Majidi. Mazda. 6 September 2013. 12 myths and facts about Syria. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20190714002932/https://www.liberationnews.org/12-myths-and-facts-about-html/. 14 July 2019. Liberation News. Myth: There is evidence that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons. Fact: Despite vague claims of having proof, not only does the U.S. government have no evidence, it has worked hard to suppress any real investigation into what actually happened in suburban Damascus on Aug. 21...The Syrian government had no incentive to use chemical weapons and every reason not to..
57. News: Gabbatt . Adam . 'We are working-class women of color': the long-shot socialist run for the White House . January 7, 2024 . . January 7, 2024.
58. Web site: Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. 2020-11-23. uselectionatlas.org.
59. Web site: Federal Elections 2020 . . October 2022 . live . November 4, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221104044534/https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/federalelections2020.pdf . June 1, 2023 .
60. Web site: Federal Elections 2016 . . December 2017 . live . December 2, 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191202185336/https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/federalelections2016.pdf . June 1, 2023 .
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