Friday, October 17, 2025

There are signs and then there are signs

I wince when I see photographs of well-meaning younger people carrying protest signs produced by the Party for Socialism and Liberation. Black and yellow signs: if you’ve seen them, you know the ones I mean.

Wikipedia has detailed article outlining the PSL’s political positions, with copious documentation. The PSL supports the Communist Party of China and the Workers’ Party of North Korea. The PSL supported the Assad regime and the Russian annexation of Crimea. It blames NATO and the United States for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. And so on. You can search the group’s online newspaper and see what it has to say about places and events of your choosing.

If the PSL’s politics are your politics, by all means carry a PSL sign on No Kings Day. But you won’t be standing for democracy and freedom in doing so.

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I should add: A.N.S.W.E.R. is closely affiliated with the PSL. Look for the black and yellow signs.

comments: 2

Daughter Number Three said...

Wow, I haven't been keeping up with the splinters... hadn't heard of this.

Michael Leddy said...

And A.N.S.W.E.R. is affiliated with them. Also black and yellow posters. I can't help thinking of the Brotherhood in Invisible Man and its exploitation of a cause for its own purposes.