Party for Socialism and Liberation

Membership PSL does not release membership numbers. In 2022, PSL reported an "organized presence in over 100 cities". In 2024, PSL reported being "in over 50 cities". PSL is a democratic centralist party, PSL's highest body is its Party Congress, held "every two to three years", which selects its Central Committee leadership. such as Brian Becker. After PSL split from the WWP, ANSWER became more tightly tied to PSL than to WWP. ANSWER's National Coordinator is Brian Becker, a PSL co-founder who said "we do a great deal of work through" ANSWER. The New Republic described ANSWER as a PSL "front group", and the two have significant financial overlap. BreakThrough News PSL leadership are closely involved with BreakThrough News (BTN). and Rania Khalek; The People's Forum PSL leadership are closely involved with The People's Forum, an event space in NYC, which hosts the BreakThrough News studio. and funded by Neville Singham. a Shanghai-based American billionaire businessman who supports organizations and media outlets that have been noted for echoing pro-Beijing talking points. Most of this funding comes from the Justice and Education Fund (JEF), to which Neville Singham has donated more than $20 million, and for which Claudia De la Cruz works as a coordinator. == History ==

in Philadelphia PSL was formed in June 2004 when the San Francisco branch of Sam Marcy's Workers World Party left the organization. The San Francisco branch, alongside other members, announced that "the Workers World Party leadership is no longer capable of fulfilling [the] mission" of building socialism. On October 8, 2023, after the October 7 attacks, PSL Central Committee member Eugene Puryear helped organize a rally in support of Palestine in Times Square in which he stated: "[T]here was some sort of rave or desert party where they were having a great time, until the resistance came in electrified hang gliders and took at least several dozen hipsters, and I'm sure they're doing very fine despite what the New York Post says." Since 2023, PSL has organized numerous rallies in favor of Palestinian nationalism. In May 2025, Elias Rodriguez, a former PSL member, PSL stated that they "do not support" the shooting, rejected "any attempt to associate the PSL with the DC shooting", and stated that Rodriguez was not a current PSL member, and had only briefly been associated with PSL Chicago in 2017. PSL helped organize and participated in the June 2025 Los Angeles protests. == Political positions ==

PSL is a Marxist-Leninist party. PSL's program and constitution simply identify PSL as Marxist, in the Leninist party model. Other socialists, such as Green presidential candidate Howie Hawkins, label PSL as second campist. PSL holds that the United States is "a dictatorship of the capitalist class" that cannot change "without a socialist revolution". Domestic affairs PSL's program demands nationalization of the largest 100 domestic corporations, universal public housing capped at 10% of income, expanded public transit, PSL supports the Worker's Party of North Korea. PSL has defended North Korea's human rights record against criticism by the United Nations, which it calls "thinly veiled justification for U.S. aggression toward North Korea", and argues that "conditions in North Korea are vastly better than those in other developing countries". PSL supports the Communist Party of China, criticizing only its economic reforms concerning a "market socialist economy". PSL defends China's human rights record, PSL supported the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea. PSL did not support the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, but blamed the Russo-Ukrainian war on NATO and the United States. In its statement on "Russia's military intervention", PSL highlighted the "plight of ethnic Russians [...] in the Donbas", Russia's "legitimate security concerns", and NATO's "provocative behavior". PSL opposes American-led intervention in the Syrian civil war, and has generally been supportive of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, PSL denies that the Syrian government used chemical weapons. == Election results ==

PSL has fielded electoral candidates for local, state, and federal offices. No PSL candidate has yet won an election. Claudia de la Cruz claimed that 6,000 volunteers helped PSL win ballot access in the 2024 United States presidential election. Congressional elections Statewide elections State legislature elections Local elections == National conventions ==

PSL does not publish its party constitution. The 2022 Constitution was leaked. == See also ==