Communist League of Saint Petersburg, Florida
The Communist League of Saint Petersburg, Florida (CLSPFL) is a communist party located in Pinellas County of the state of Florida. The party actively advocates for a working-class communist revolution within the United States, and throughout the world by engaging in both physical and electronic political action. The party is founded on 10 ideological tenets.
Communist League of Saint Petersburg, Florida St. Pete Communist League | |
|---|---|
| Party Chairman | Lance Carrico |
| Founded | August 2016 |
| Split from | Uhuru Movement |
| Headquarters | Saint Petersburg, Florida |
| Armed wing | The League of Struggle for the Emaciation of the Working Class |
| Membership | 140+ (2018)[1] |
| Ideology | Communism Marxism–Leninism–Maoism Proletarian internationalism Third World Socialism |
| Political position | Far-left |
| Slogan | "Workers of the world, unite!" |
| Anthem | "The Internationale" |
| Party flag | |
| File:FlagofTheCommunistLeagueOfStPetersburgFL.png | |
| Website | |
| CommunistLeagueStPete.webs.com | |
Ideology[edit]
The party is supportive of the ruling communist governments of Cuba, Nepal, Laos, Vietnam, and the DPRK. The party is also supportive of Bolivia, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Syria, Iran, Russia, Belarus, China, Cambodia, Yemen, Ethiopia, Haiti, Zimbabwe, & Afghanistan in defiance of "US imperialism & Western liberal hegemony".
The party is open to local communists of all branches and types. The most common variations being Marxism-Leninism, Guevarism, Juche, & Maoism.
The party is generally supportive of Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union up until the time of perestroika and the Sino-Soviet split. Likewise, the party is supportive of the legacy of Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party up until the end of the hardliner Mao era, with the establishment of his Three Worlds Theory and by making moves to slowly open the nation up to the market economy.
The party fully supports the right of Kim Jong-Un and the Workers' Party of Korea to develop nuclear weapons to protect themselves from constant United States aggression.[2]
The Ten Party Tenets[edit]
Our party stands firm on our party platform, developed through the political science of Marxism, Leninism, Maoism, Sankarism, & Guevarism. The ten tenets of our party platform represent our goals and aims as a party. It also gives you an insight into our league ideology. Through the process of Democratic Centralism, these tenets may be amended in the future by the Politburo or Party Congress.
1) The CLSPFL will act as a vanguard to the people, through education and activism, we will arm our fellow proletarians with the necessary tools for real life revolution to abolish the capitalist state and replace it with a proletarian socialist state.
2) The CLSPFL will actively fight against the unsettling rise of fascism we are seeing across the Western world. We cannot allow fascists to use racism and hate to win over proletarians to fight against their own class interests. Fascism must be crushed. No person has the right to espouse fascist dogma to the public.
3) The CLSPFL stands firmly against bigotry, racism, sexism, heterosexism, homophobia, and trans-misogyny. We fully affirm that every racial and sexual minority has the right to exist, and thus the freedom to live their lives free of discrimination. We also affirm that women deserve the same respect and opportunity a man would receive. Racism, sexism, homophobia, and bigotry are tools of the ruling class to divide the proletarians and to prevent them from uniting against the true enemy, which is the rich bourgeois class. Thus, the fight against white supremacy is vital to our work as communists who strive for equality.
4) The CLSPFL affirms our dedication to protecting the environment from destruction caused by capitalist greed, and consumerism. As scientific socialists, our political ideology is based in materialism. We firmly believe in the scientifically proven reality that is climate change. We must act to reverse course and correct this issue before even more deadly effects are allowed to come to fruition.
5) The CLSPFL believes basic housing, employment, food, education, and healthcare should be considered human rights. Everyone has the right to a decent life free from exploitation and poverty. We cannot continue to allow 400 people to hold more wealth than 3.5 billion. Living in obscene luxury while others starve is unacceptable. The working class and poor will share in the wealth of the nation they help create, rather than simply being exploited for a starvation wage by the bourgeois.
6) The CLSPFL demands that Wall Street must be abolished, and the world's large banks must seized by the proletariat. The financial banking system, and Wall-Street trading are systems of corruption, bribery, greed, and theft from the working class. Due to Wall Street's reckless behavior, thousands upon thousands of working class individuals lost their life savings and their homes. This economic collapse their greed caused lead to the suicides of thousands of people of lost everything they had. These bankers were able to walk away with millions in bonuses for destroying lives. These men must finally face criminal charges. They must be thrown in jail, and their money must be seized and returned to the people it was stolen from. We must abolish this entire system of capitalism, starting by socializing the means of production and their financiers.
7) The CLSPFL will fight to end police brutality, mass incarceration, racial discrimination, and economic inequalities that have attacked the black community since the end of slavery. We recognize the horrible history this country has when it comes to Africa, and its pillaging due to European greed. We call for reparations to the black community in order to help redistribute wealth to arguably the most exploited proletarians of all. We also call for the immediate release of all people from prison for drug, prostitution, fleeing, resisting arrest, or traffic related offenses. We recognize that as it stands today, African-Americans are a colonized people living under a Euro-centric power structure that systematically disenfranchises people of color. We call for African peoples' self-determination, and community control over the police. This means in black communities, the black community will have control over their own police force. All proletarians have the right to self-determination. We must end these racial conflicts that have been caused by greed since the inception of this nation and it's use of race-based slavery.
8) The CLSPFL vows to abolish the political process as we now know it. We do not currently have a system of government that was designed to benefit the working classes. Our current system, here in the West, is set up in order to perpetuate the rule of the rich bourgeois class, and thus, the perpetuation of proletarian exploitation for greedy profit. We must abolish the two major political parties that are rotten to the core. A one party rule is a far more democratic system than a two party farce. That party will be a Communist Party of the United States. A party built by the proletariat, run by the proletariat, and that works for the benefit of the proletariat. There will be no more undemocratic constructs, such as the electoral college, gerrymandering, closed debates, & closed primaries. We will protect our worker's democracy through the communist party in order to prevent a capitalist coup against the new government of the working class.
9) The CLSPFL proudly acknowledges it's goals of implementing state atheism once in power. Religion and government must be actively separated. It is the goal of the CLSPFL to break up the obscene "mega-churches" and to finally force these businesses to pay their fair share of taxes. Religious teachings should be replaced with lessons on history, class struggle, and worker-centered political ideology; thus raising the class consciousness of society over time. We care not what your personal religion is, however, we will actively work to break up large and powerful religious institutions and the bindings they have over so many poor and working people.
10) The CLSPFL supports opening our borders to those who seek refuge. The CLSPFL is strictly anti-imperialist and anti-colonialist. After the revolution, US foreign policy must and will be changed drastically. We will no longer participate in endless wars for profit and control over oil. Instead, we must worry less about nationalism, and care more about all of humanity. As a worker's nation, we will respect the self-determination of others. We will not arm groups like ISIL, Al-Qaeda, or other Mujahideen rebel forces. Instead, we will use our power and influence to help socialist liberation movements in other nations, much like how Cuba has done for socialist guerrilla movements in places such as Angola and Nicaragua. The American war machine will be done away with, ushering in a new era of international peace. [3]
Origin[edit]
The Communist League of Saint Petersburg, Florida (CLSPFL) was founded in August 2016 when members of the Uhuru Movement were banned due to a disagreement with the leadership of the African People's Socialist Party when APSP leaders enforced a mandatory party rule that "white members cannot call black members friends, no can they attempt to develop friendships".[4] Several party members had taken obvious issue with this anti-multiculturalism party doctrine. Thus, several members left Uhuru with the new CLSPFL party founder Lance Carrico, and others came from neighboring smaller socialist groups and parties.[5]
Party Chairmen[edit]
Of the Communist League of Saint Petersburg, Florida
See also[edit]
Communism in the United States
Communist parties in the United States
History of Communism
References[edit]
- ↑ https://www.facebook.com/pg/CommunistLeagueStPete/community/?ref=page_internal
- ↑ https://twitter.com/CLSPFL
- ↑ http://communistleaguestpete.webs.com/
- ↑ https://www.uhurusolidarity.org/2017/10/26/memo-from-the-usm-national-steering-committee/
- ↑ https://twitter.com/QueerCommunist/status/940223364970491904
- ↑ https://twitter.com/QueerCommunist
- ↑ https://www.facebook.com/pg/CommunistLeagueStPete/about/?ref=page_internal
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