I have recently made post about reporting any ACP (American Communist Party) infiltrators. Though in this post I want to provide evidence to you all on the Deprogram-Forum, and the rest of Lemmy-grad on how the ACP is deliberately brigading other leftists reddit-subs. The Attached Image is the evidence that this was a planned and organized brigade.
The call to brigade other leftists’ spaces, came from the chairman of the ACP himself, Haz Al-Din (his reddit username is Infrared Show). He posted this call on r/AskSocialists which is now a completely ACP-compromised subreddit. It was then reposted on r/LeftAgainstACP, and this is also how most of us found out.
Current situation Summary:
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There were many attempts of the ACP trying to brigade leftists’ subs, and also even conservative subs (for rage bait I guess, or spreading more reactionary bs)
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Many actual leftists made posts about it, and a call to ban them if you see them.
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Thus far ACP people have tried to brigade or brigaded: r/AskSocialists (successfully), r/Socialism, r/TankieTheDeprogram (unsuccessfully), r/SocialistGaming (you could mostly find ACP apologist on my anti-ACP post in that sub, which are promptly banned).
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When I searched ACP, in the reddit search bar I even saw that they were posting in r/ConservativeYouth, where the post was immediately removed from.
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They also actively tried to target r/GenZeDong.
If you want to add more subs that have been infiltrated by the ACP, pls leave them below in the comments section.
The ACP
As a brief reminder the ACP is not our friend, nor are they actual leftists. Jackson Hinkle (among others) founded the ACP, and its current chairman is Haz Al Din. Midwestern Marx is also another ACP affiliated figure.
They claim to be Marxist–Leninist, but many critics argue they are not Marxist at all, instead promoting a blend of socially conservative, nationalist, and pro-authoritarian politics. Essentially Strasserims, Nazbolism. They are Nazis who use the USSR as an aesthetic branding.
They oppose much of what communism has stood for historically: they reject liberal-left “woke” politics, express support for nationalist and reactionary stances. In practice, their activities have centred on online propaganda (TikTok, Twitter), political positioning, and alignment with authoritarian regimes. They also call themselves** MAGA-Communists,** and socially conservative and claim that Marxism is historically conservative.
This is not Marxism, so please report them if you see them.
What can we do?
- Support your mods in your favourite online spaces by reporting brigadiers.
- Help inform other leftists , about why the ACP is bad.
- Support and watch r/LeftAgainstACP for more information.
- Share or create actual Marxist social media content, so that the ACP cannot dominate the conversation online. Support those creators who are successfully calling them out.
- Make sure your discord servers have a verification-process
-Get organized in IRL, support unions and actual leftists’ parties.
If you have more solutions pls leave them below
Also this post is not meant to cause mass hysteria, its purpose is to document what the ACP has done yesterday and start a conversation.
Anyway, leave your thoughts, comments, and feedback below.
N.B: I am not going to add links here right now because I am not sure how it works with tracking on this platform, and I do not want to invite the ACP in.
ACP isn't a party on a marxist sense. It's the fandom club surrounded Haz (real name, Ali Hammoud, from Dearborn). Everything from their little events thay call Conventions to their day to day operations has nothing to do with the practices of a normal socialist group/party.
Haz and his mates on the leadership weren't elected, it was a long shimmered personal project of Haz who somehow convinced himself that he could do entryism on CPUSA and steal that party. Just to find out the whole thing was going nowhere and was forced to start his own brand.
When confronted with the every day business of running a "party", Haz struggles to keep up with the meetings and agendas. Joins late to his party business dates and always gives random excuses like how he had to take a long shit or how some guy in the gym looked him funny.
This "party" is Marxist-Leninist in name. I've interviewed several former members and all give similar stories. They are pressed by an otherwise absent leadership to post photo-ops of themselves picking up trash or doing other voluntaristic community labor nobody in their communities asked for. No support is provided otherwise, they are expected to come up with their own supplies and money for these actions.
The whole intention behind the "party" isn't to build up a movement or organize the working class. But rather to reinforce the social standing of their leaders and maybe to be able to extract rent from the chapters that start their own businesses (yeah, I know, that's a stupid idea on so many parts).
So yes, there are many angles to attack ACP from a marxist position without having to engage on liberal "they are authoritarian" side.
Do you have the interviews recorded somehow, I think it would be great actually to use them for the wiki
They were posted on ACP_Leaks:
https://x.com/ACP_Leaks/status/1984050037652123855
thank you! So i guess its allowed to be used for a wiki?
I mean, it's public content now. The interviewed former member allowed it to be published.