From a PSL email blast:
The Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) is running Gloria La Riva for President and Eugene Puryear for Vice President as part of its Vote Socialist in 2016 campaign.
“Capitalism is a corrupt, bankrupt system that is destroying the environment while the super-rich accrue obscene wealth,” stated Gloria La Riva. “The capitalist bankers torched the economy and the federal government bailed them out with our money. What an outrage! Today the criminal bankers are richer than ever while millions of working people have been plunged into poverty. A socialist system shatters this destructive model. Socialism means that the wealth of society, all of which was created by the labor of working people, would be used to create a sustainable environment while providing every person with a decent job or an income for those who can’t work, free education and affordable housing. Socialism means making health care truly affordable by making it free for all people. The military-industrial complex and the Pentagon war machine, with its 1,000 bases around the world, are not for ‘defense’ but for Wall Street’s global empire. It should be dismantled. Massive military production is a complete waste and should be converted to useful civilian production.”
Vice Presidential candidate Puryear said that, “a socialist system would make the highest priority eliminating institutionalized racism, bigotry and inequalities. Police brutality and mass incarceration would be ended. Citizenship would automatically be granted to all people living in the United States. Access to contraception and abortion would be guaranteed to all women. Equality in every area of life would be realized for women and LGBTQ people. Socialism can only be achieved by a mass people’s movement that ends the dictatorship of Wall Street. Join us in building that movement!”
You can read the 10-Point Program of the VotePSL 2016 campaign and also read our piece on “Why Socialism?”
Visit the new VotePSL.org website, where you can sign-up for our e-mail list and to become a volunteer.
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From Richard Winger at Ballot Access News:
The Party for Socialism and Liberation has announced its presidential slate for 2016. Gloria La Riva of San Francisco is the presidential nominee, and Eugene Puryear of Washington, D.C., is running for vice-president.
La Riva was the party’s stand-in presidential candidate in 2012. The party’s actual presidential candidate, Peta Lindsay, was not age 35 so in some states the party substituted La Riva.
In 2008 the party also ran La Riva for President and Puryear for Vice President. The party did not exist prior to 2008. However, many of the people in the party were formerly members of the Workers World Party. La Riva was the Workers World Party vice-presidential nominee in 2000, 1996, 1988, and 1984, and the Workers World presidential nominee in 1992. Thanks to IndependentPoliticalReport for the news about the 2016 slate.
Yet another post where people seem to be addressing a comment that isn’t there anymore. What is going on here? Is one of the IPR editors going back and deleting their own comments, or someone else’s?
This is a good choice for the PSL. La Riva’s a veteran campaigner, Puryear’s a good activist for the cause. The party was on the ballot in 13 states in 2012, I see no reason why they can’t match or better that in 2016. One state with easy ballot access that the party has never made the ballot in is Mississippi, but the climate is understandably difficult for Marxist parties in that state.
He’s gone back and forth many times. Greens know full well that he is a PSL member and will continue to run with the PSL every time they nominate him, and the PSL knows full well he will continue to use Green ballot access in the future when it suits him.
No, never was. The PSL frequently uses other parties’ ballot lines for their candidates.