Claudia de la Cruz, the 2024 presidential candidate from the Party for Socialism and Liberation, just became director of the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO).

IFCO is the only org bringing US medical students to study at Cuba’s ELAM (Latin American School of Medicine), the largest medical school in the world. ELAM provides full scholarships for students. IFCO has worked to support Cuban solidarity since 1967, sending aid and acting as liaison between Cuba and the Congressional Black Caucus.

A principled socialist now runs the main connection between the US and Cuba’s medical system. This also deeply embeds PSL in older US orgs for leftist internationalism, and continues PSL’s work as a vanguard party leading the struggle.

  • cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 days ago

    I agree with unity, but a false unity with no criticism and silencing dissent is no true unity at all.

    I’m actually not talking about unity at all. I don’t think there can be unity between groups with opposing views on certain fundamental issues. Eventually there will have to take place an ideological struggle in which one will win out over the other.

    What i’m saying is to forget the idea of unity for now and just recognize where the priorities lie. What is the primary contradiction and how can different groups that cannot and should not merge still work with each other on issues where they hold common ground? Or at the very least if they don’t want to work together then refrain from wasting so much energy attacking each other and have a sort of “unspoken agreement” that for the time being it is more important to attack the corporate-imperialist duopoly and its lackeys.

    There is nothing that plays more into the hands of the cointelpro than leftists attacking other leftists. This doesn’t mean you can’t formulate critiques of bad behavior or political lines you consider erroneous, but always remember who the bigger enemy is.

    • Makan@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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      2 days ago

      I agree with “working on the issues.”

      I disagree that unity doesn’t exist, at least as it pertains to leftist or Marxist-Leninist spaces. I think it’s possible, but then again, it will eventually have to give way to “who was right” in the end, as you seem to say.

      There is nothing that plays more into the hands of the cointelpro than leftists attacking other leftists. This doesn’t mean you can’t formulate critiques of bad behavior or political lines you consider erroneous, but always remember who the bigger enemy is.

      Of course, I think we agree on this.