🇵🇸Hundreds of PSL members traveled from all across the country for the National March for Palestine in Washington DC, and while this powerful demonstration has concluded, the fight to stop Trump and Netanyahu’s new stage in the genocide is just beginning!
We're returning to our cities more energized than ever to fight for an arms embargo, an end to the repression against the students, and a free Palestine from the river to the sea!
Ah that sounds better then, the doomer side of me anymore feels like protesting is a waste of time when fascism is right here.
Protesting is the last step before building barricades
Big national mobilizations like this a really useful for cadre building, too. To pull this off, the party needs:
Media apparatus to effectively communicate it
The logistical capacity to move thousands of people from across the country to a single location
The production capacity to print the high quantity of materials, including a lot of specialty items like the list of names of martyrs
The communication infrastructure to coordinate thousands of people on the day of
The technical know-how to setup, operate, and tear down stages and AV for speakers and other infrastructure
The ability to mobilize other orgs in coalition on our political line
The discipline and safety skills to quickly and efficiently march thousands of people across one of the highest security cities on earth
An internal political education apparatus to make all party members effective political communicators to the non-party attendees
The photography and media production to demonstrate it effectively afterwards
The managerial apparatus to coordinate all of the above into a single day of action
This is a massive operation with literally hundreds of party members all carrying out specific, designated roles, including a lot of specialty technical skills. We've done a bunchv of these over the past two years, and every one we've gotten more efficient and built essential skills in a huge number of cadre. That creates a more disciplined and unified political organization better fit for the task of making revolution.