(Americans) What Party Are You With And Why?

[Flying Trotsky]

Let me clarify- I'm not asking which party is best, or which party is nothing but a vile pit of reactionaries- all I want to know is which party you're with, and why you joined- keep bashing and debating to a minimum please...

[thesadmafioso]

Uh, if we are using technical criteria I guess I am still a registered democrat, though that is only for some entrisit antics in their primaries.

I not really a member of any specific party, as I live in upstate NY, a region of the nation which is surprisingly devoid of any sort of leftist parties. I do however sympathize with the International Marxist Tendency and if I were able to join a party they would be my first choice.

[Leftsolidarity]

Socialist Party USA. They had locals around me and I feel they have the best chance of reaching the general population.

[Flying Trotsky]

Yeah, I'm joining SPUSA as well.

[wunderbar]

There was a thread on this a week or two ago.

I'm a member of Peace and Freedom Party, which is a party in California. PFP calls itself a multi-tendency democratic socialist party, and they're on friendly terms with other socialist parties, especially SPUSA and PSL, both of whom have run candidates on the PFP ballot. Carlos Alvarez, last year's Peace and Freedom gubernatorial candidate, is a PSL member.

Peace and Freedom used to have a more national presence, and it looks like they're working on expanding nationally (http://noc2012.org/) again.

[graymouser]

I'm a member of Socialist Action, a party which has its origins in the US Socialist Workers Party. I'm with SA because it fits most closely to my politics, and it does excellent work in the antiwar movement where I've been an activist for years. Also, I've been in or around a few other groups, and I have to say SA is very good at internal democracy and process as well.

We're a solid, expanding group based on Trotskyist ideas but without getting ridiculous and sectarian about it.

[NoOneIsIllegal]

The only party I've been is was the Green Party 3-4 years ago. Me and a handful of friends joined it, in hopes of a social-democratic and democratic socialist party, and were greatly disappointed. The Nebraskan Green Party, along with a handful of other state branches, are simply frustrated Democrats without corporate funding.

I am no longer a member of any party. I'm active in the IWW.

[Flying Trotsky]

Anyone else?

[Sensible Socialist]

I'll probably register Republican next year, just to vote in their primaries and take the craziest, non-lethal candidate.

[Dzerzhinsky's Ghost]

I am not currently with any party but I am a sympathizer of the APL (American Party of Labor), I like their politics and so on.

[BIG BROTHER]

I am with Socialist Organizer and sort of de-facto member of the Raza Unide Party

[Weezer]

The Republican Party because I support family values and the free market. :cool:

[B0LSHEVIK]

Yeah officially to the government I'm a registered democrat who fucking hates the democrats and republicans!!!

That being said, in spite of my anarchist sentiments, I do participate in local, state, and national elections. I ALWAYS vote for whomever is the farthest left and most viable candidate. The first national election I could vote in was in 04, and I voted for Nader. In state elections and ballot measures, I always side with the PSL platform or, that of the green. In 08, I voted Cynthia and the greens.

I never vote democratic however. Whats the use really. But I do base my vote on things like, is the person on all 50 states ballots? Is at least a very minimum step to the left of the dems (ahem greens). Things like that.

[KC]

None they all make me wanna throw up

[rollshevik]

CMPL and WIL. But I'd be voting for NOC reason is simple, they know how to organize and unite.

[citizen of industry]

Freedom Socialist Party. I'm from the Pacific Northwest and they have branches in Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and in NY. I'm an at-large member now because I live in Japan, but they also have a party in Australia, so I like the internationalism. They also have a lot of freedom within the party. It is a socialist-feminist and trotskyist party, but if you want to work in the labor movement you can, if you want to work with LGBT, you can, environmental issues, Radical Women, etc. I like how they connect all the issues to socialism and aren't sectarian.

[Tablo]

I'm not in a party. I am a member of SDS though.

[Sugarnotch]

Freedom Socialist Party. I'm from the Pacific Northwest and they have branches in Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and in NY. I'm an at-large member now because I live in Japan, but they also have a party in Australia, so I like the internationalism. They also have a lot of freedom within the party. It is a socialist-feminist and trotskyist party, but if you want to work in the labor movement you can, if you want to work with LGBT, you can, environmental issues, Radical Women, etc. I like how they connect all the issues to socialism and aren't sectarian.

How friendly are they to non-Trotskyists? I'm more libertarian than that, but everything else sounds like my cup of tea. :)

[citizen of industry]

How friendly are they to non-Trotskyists? I'm more libertarian than that, but everything else sounds like my cup of tea. :)

It is a Trotskyist party so you would have to accept some basic tenets. In particular Permanent Revolution is studied and discussed. The feminist platform for FSP and Radical Women is based on Engels' Origins of Family, Private Property and the State. As I said in another thread though I value a lot of Trotsky's writings, but if I were to put a label on myself it would just be Marxist. I get uneasy adding too many -isms to myself. Our website is at www.socialism.com (http://www.socialism.com) if you want more detail about the platform and theory.

[Rusty Shackleford]

Party for Socialism and Liberation

Why? Because apparently im a masochist and a lightning rod for attacks from anarchists, left coms, trotskyists, maoists, and non-revisionist leninists, and of course, liberals. :lol:

[Imposter Marxist]

Party for Socialism and Liberation

Why? Because apparently im a masochist and a lightning rod for attacks from anarchists, left coms, trotskyists, maoists, and non-revisionist leninists, and of course, liberals. :lol:

Pretty much this, but replace PSL with WWP.

[Zeus the Moose]

I'm a member of the Socialist Party USA.

When I first joined, I did so because the SPUSA believed in independent political action (that is, it ran its own candidates), and as my own politics were still very much in flux at that time, I was drawn to their status as a multi-tendency party. Nowadays, both those things hold true for me, though I've become critical with some of the things the SPUSA has been doing recently (mainly regarding its relationship with the Green Party and methods of appealing to disaffected liberals as disaffected liberals.) I'm also part of the leadership, more or less, which does affect my staying in the party.

Outside the SPUSA, I like to be friendly with the Kasama Project and the Freedom Socialist Party, along with other groups.

[Veovis]

Honestly, I'm registered Democrat. :blushing:

I figure it's best to keep the greater of two evils out of power while we work on real social and political change.

[teflon_john]

PSL candidate, because they're right about everything and there's a branch in my city.

[Sankara1983]

Socialist Alternative (CWI), because they had an international speaker at my college, though I'm hardly a model member.