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Pretty good but, of course, I found these points annoying:
The organizing of the two strikes - both city specific on 1/23 and nationwide on 1/30 - were led on the ground by a Marxist vanguard party:
. It was PSL that dedicated over a hundred cadre on the ground to full-time outreach in Minneapolis in the week leading up to 1/23. Then cadre deployed their skills across the country to push for a national day on 1/30 which was hugely successful. It was PSL that made the call to push for 1/30 (at the behest of the Somali student groups who called for it in Minneapolis) and did all the initial work in cities across the country. It was the Marxist leadership and dedicated party cadre of PSL that made this happen. They did it while FRSO in the Twin Cities actively opposed it, abdicating and potential for their leadership of the movement, and while RCA was nowhere to be found.
Exactly! I think the biggest takeaway from this is the opposite of what the author was pointing out. This is what happens when a vanguard party leads the charge. The PSL is still relatively small but the great success of these two actions proves the effectiveness of not just democratic centralism but the PSL as the main US vanguard. I mean they (incredibly successfully) helped organize walkouts in over 400 high schools. That is huge.
Yeah, I should have added my own commentary here, but you are 1000% correct. Marxist.com is, unfortunately, a Trotskyist international organization, so when I read these points, they were not shocking to me. I appreciate all the work the PSL does, and has been doing in organizing around MN, it's been great to see. Not a lot of movement here in my state, but if anything, that makes me more interested to join the state's party, since for all I know they need more people.
Interesting comments about FRSO. Can you say more? I've seen at least their members wearing their gear and handing out signs at every one of the large protests and it looks they were present during the few actions inside of Targets as well. Have they been pushing back behind the scenes but folding and participating when things don't go their way?
https://www.instagram.com/p/DUEzP66jjCj/
And if you look at FRSO TC's page, there's no mention whatsoever of the strike, the protest, anything related to Friday's action.
I was aware of MIRAC, but I didn't know they were directly tied to FRSO. Other than PSL, I didn't see any official announcements go out about the strike. Definitely weird they'd bow out just based on that instead of communicating when they were definitely at the one the Friday before.
I'm actually going to quote your comment and leave it from my account on news.abolish.capital so people see it when they see the story.