The PSL just released two documents related to the recent Marissa Sanchez post detailing her experiences at the national level of the PSL. I’m going to be posting both of them as well as their full text for archival purposes.

I should note a couple things before I link these things:

  1. At multiple points, the report mentions that Marissa was reportedly fine and thankful during and after the immediate events of this incident and it’s cover up. This is shown to be an example of proof that she was fine at the time, and leads into building the case that this is a factional decision. However, I am not convinced that this means she is cynically using this to split the party for her own ends. Betrayal Blindness is a collection of responses and symptoms broadly related to a person being betrayed by someone whom they rely on for financial, personal, romantic, or political needs. In order to come to terms with my experience of the same exact tendencies on a local level I read the book “Betrayal Blindness” by Jennifer Freyd, and I implore everyone to read it as well.
  2. Repeatedly they claim this is the result of a factional dispute. That might even be true in some ways, perhaps Marissa saw that there was a different way to organize going forward and it gave her the ability to be able to accept the abuse she faced. This, however, doesn’t have to only come from a sense of macabre cynicism, being able to finally use her trauma as a loaded gun to split the party for her own selfish ends as described in the article. For myself, when I stepped away from the party for my Leave of Absence, I was able to begin to be engaged in mass organizing work that I wasn’t in prior, that I didn’t have the time for. This has given me the courage to be able to stand up and say that I don’t think is acceptable at all.
  3. I am not in a faction, have not been in communication with anyone in a faction, and my disgust is only colored by my own similar experiences and emotional waves being thrown right back in my face as someone who’s faced the exact same tactics myself. I’m genuinely just a trans woman by myself, I have some friends and comrades, but our local branch is still up in the air

The party routinely expects things like this to be leaked, so they prepare for the possibility. Given they already know we’re going to do this, I’m just going to share the documents here for you and others here, and I leave it up to you and your comrades to decide how you feel about the party and it’s current leadership. For me, the emphasis on how this fits into factional warfare is not only not convincing, but honestly disgusting.

Comprehensive Report from the Central Committee in Response to Marissa Sanchez’s Letter

NDC Statement (Sept. 2026), the password is ndcstatement

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  • grok2028 [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    61·
    9 days ago

    If they were, wouldn’t they vehemently say “We are not tokens and we don’t just do what Ben says”?

    Let’s be fair, they did exactly that. Did you read the statement?

    “We are not pawns or pieces to be moved by some small cabal of men who supposedly predetermine our actions, but revolutionary socialists in our own right. Very few women in the party and in society do not have some experience of sexist violation. We are committed to building a world free from the exploitation and violence and abuse that we ourselves have suffered. Yet in a post that claims to seek a better world, those who are named are described as only extensions of the desires of our male comrades. Any serious leftist should think twice about this. We too lead the party. We make up the National Disciplinary Committee. We have spent hours on investigations and interviews and in discussions to ensure our party treats sexual misconduct with care, empathy and on principled views of what it means to transform our class and our society. We strategize the struggles in our workplaces and in our schools and in our communities. We play a visible and necessary role in the struggle and in the Party. It is unconscionable that we are repeatedly denied the right to visibility in attacks that claim to speak against the very violence that women are subjected to in society.”

    • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]@hexbear.netEnglish
      11·
      9 days ago

      That’s my point.

      Someone who is hiding something from you is going to say “I’m not hiding anything from you, nothing at all”.

      They deny everything and frame it as inappropriate to even make the consideration. That’s what an adept deceiver does.