The European socialists shared their tactics in moving European politics further to the left and encouraged the American activists at the meeting to move the Democratic Party toward socialism during the meeting, which was held March 8 to 9.
In fact, the CPC is poised to take several important committee chairmanships and to massively increase its influence, now that the Democratic Party has retaken control of the House.
Every year since 2010, the CPC has hosted a strategy summit to coordinate with “progressive movement” leaders.
“The event is seen as one of quintessential [sic] progressive policy events of the year, helping to guide and educate key progressives in America on the issues that matter most.”
Attendees
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) addressed the crowd, as did House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). New York Mayor Bill de Blasio was in attendance, as were prominent left activists like Lori Wallach of Global Trade Watch, Sirine Shebaya of Muslim Advocates, Linda Sarsour of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and the Women’s March, Jean Ross of the DSA-controlled National Nurses United, Ezra Levin of Indivisible, Mary Kay Henry of Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Sarita Gupta of Jobs with Justice, Jayne Fagan of MoveOn.org, and Mike Lux (a one-time DSA member) of the Progressive Caucus Action Fund.This year, the CPC strategy conference, which normally confines itself to domestic politics, broke new ground by inviting a small foreign delegation. The invitees included some of the world’s most influential and dangerous socialists.
Based in Manhattan, the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung is one of 17 foreign offices of the Berlin-based Rosa Luxemburg Foundation (RLS). Established in 1990—and with a multimillion-dollar budget provided by the German taxpayer—the RLS is tasked with spreading Marxist ideas, and coordinating socialist and communist activities around the globe.
Named after the famous German revolutionary, RLS is directly affiliated to Die Linke, Germany’s most left-wing parliamentary political party. Die Linke is a direct descendant of the former East Germany’s ruling communist party.
While now calling itself “democratic socialist,” Die Linke functions as part of the European Left bloc in the European Parliament, and has close relations with Cuba, Russia, and multiple communist and socialist parties around the world. Die Linke has even called to replace NATO with a “collective security system, including Russia.”
British Labour Party
Diane Abbott of the British Labour Party is one of the most far-left members of the UK Parliament. She serves as home secretary in Corbyn’s “Shadow Cabinet.” Abbott and Corbyn were reportedly lovers in the 1970s, even taking a romantic tour of communist East Germany together on a motorcycle.When Corbyn challenged for the British Labour Party leadership in 2015, betting odds on his election were 200–1.
However, recent changes in Labour’s voting rules tripled the number of eligible rank-and-file voters to 500,000. A coordinated wave of thousands of socialists flooded into the Labour Party to vote for Corbyn. They were able to overwhelm the Tony Blair–Gordon Brown “New Labor” parliamentary faction and secure a shock victory for their leader.
Abbott seems keen to help the “progressive” wing of the Democratic Party in the United States to carry out a similar coup.
“When Abbott delivered the greetings of the ‘socialist Labor Party’ right at the beginning of her speech, the crowd became a little uneasy. However, when she spoke of ‘socialist’ politics for the third time at the end of her speech, she had already won over the audience—which applauded with a standing ovation. At that point, it looked like most of the audience really wanted the Democratic Party to finally stop lagging behind the Republicans, and to begin recognizing the signs of the times by moving decisively to the left.”
The CPC is clearly interested in pushing the Democratic Party into full-on socialism. Will Americans sit idly by and let it happen?