This was an email sent out to all leaders of local branches from the Central Committee to try and instruct them en masse how to engage with the current sex scandal.

The content below got kinda cut off, hexbear stopped letting me upload images lmao.

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The PSL Central Committee has put out the demand that every member must defend the integrity of the "all woman national disciplinary committee", while stating the current mass exodus in some branches is part of a "factionalist" conspiracy. The defense of the party is paramount

The fear mongering over whether it's admissible to own your structural failure(s) while under pressure from state investigation is largely absurd. The story about joining via another name is very funny - no one recognized them? No one knew them? They put on Groucho glasses?

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[–] TrippyFocus@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

I didn't exactly get to elect my leaders; assigned representatives who (in our case) were approved by our national liaison were able to attend the last conference in a non-voting capacity;

Can you expand on that part? Im not a member but was looking at becoming one soon (before all this came out) once I move to an area closer to a branch. Are you not able to vote on which local member joins the central committee?

[–] hostile_tender@hexbear.net 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

You can vote for delegates from your branch to go to party congress to theoretically have influence on national bodies. Joining a CC happens over a long period of time based on work with National - usually initiated by your work/merit in your Branch.. This is typical in any ML-style party. I am one of many who resigned from PSL but that is my unbiased take. I will say the CC elects 40% of the congress delegates, which is highly unusual for any communist party historically anywhere in the world that I know of