The Party for Socialism & Liberation is a revolutionary Marxist party in the United States that struggles for socialism. We want a revolution; and, we work hard to make it happen.
The PSL is involved in struggles—both large and small—that affect the U.S. working class. From the anti-war movement to the fight for immigrant rights; from struggles for affordable housing and health care to combating racist police brutality; from the movement for women’s rights and LGBT equality to labor and union struggles—the PSL is at the forefront of the class struggle against the capitalists and their rotten system.
We are comprised of militant, working-class organizers and leaders dedicated to advancing the struggle for workers’ power.
Our party knows that revolution is necessary. We fight for reforms that ease the burden on workers and oppressed people, but ultimately reforms are not enough. We know that revolutions are made in the streets, in the factories and other workplaces, and in the military units when workers—in and out of uniform—become conscious that the power of the capitalist bosses and the generals must be replaced with the power of the people. This is the message that the PSL will bring through its intervention in the 2008 elections.
Meet the Candidates
Gloria La Riva
2008 Presidential Candidate of the Party for Socialism and Liberation
Born in Albuquerque, N.M., La Riva attended Brandeis University, where she was active in affirmative action struggles. She led a union-organizing drive in 1979 in Rochester, N.Y., and is today president of the Typographical Sector, Media Workers Union, Local 39521, CWA.
In 1986, La Riva helped organize the nationwide “Free Nelson Mandela & Leonard Peltier” tour. She actively backs the campaign to free Mumia Abu-Jamal. La Riva supported the Black Firefighters Association in their fight to desegregate the San Francisco Fire Department in the 1980s.
She was a leader in the movement against the Gulf War in 1990-91, including the 200,000-strong San Francisco march on Jan. 19, 1991. That year, La Riva initiated the Farmworkers Emergency Relief, aiding Latino farmworkers who lost their jobs in the citrus freeze.
La Riva campaigned against the U.S. blockade that killed more than one million Iraqis. La Riva’s video “Genocide by Sanctions” won second prize for documentaries in the 1998 San Luís Obispo Film Festival. She traveled to Yugoslavia during the 1999 U.S. bombing, producing the video, “NATO Targets.”
In 1994 and 1998, La Riva was the Peace & Freedom Party candidate for governor of California, and an independent candidate for U.S. vice president from 1984 to 2000.
La Riva is a volunteer organizer for the anti-war coalition ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) in the Bay Area. She has been active in the struggle for immigrant rights for three decades, speaking at mass marches in California.
La Riva is coordinator of the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five. She has traveled frequently to Cuba, written extensively on the revolution, and spoke at the million-person May Day rallies in Havana in 2000 and 2002. She has also traveled to Venezuela.
In September 2005, immediately after Hurricane Katrina, La Riva led a delegation to New Orleans, showing the survivors’ heroism in the video “Heroes Not Looters.”
La Riva is a member of the National Committee of the Party for Socialism and Liberation.
Meet Eugene Puryear
Eugene Puryear is the 2008 vice-presidential candidate of the Party for Socialism and Liberation.
Puryear is an active anti-war and social justice organizer in Washington, D.C. He is a volunteer organizer in the anti-war coalition ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism).
Puryear is an organizer in the movement to Free the Jena 6. Puryear spoke at the 1,500-strong rally for the Jena 6 at Howard University, the first major national protest to bring attention to the case.
Born in Charlottesville, Va., Puryear has been an organizer in the anti-war movement since high school, when he led a walkout of over 800 students. He has chaired and participated in numerous rallies and marches—including the Sept. 24, 2005, anti-war march of 350,000 people, the 2005 counter-inaugural protest, and the Sept. 15, 2007, mass die-in and anti-war protest at the White House.
Puryear has been profiled by the Washington Post, and interviewed by outlets such as WPFW, WOL-AM, WBAI, the Final Call newspaper, Blackamericaweb.com, WTOP and the Associated Press. He is a regular contributor to Socialism and Liberation magazine and Liberation, the newspaper of the Party for Socialism and Liberation. He is a member of the National Committee of the Party for Socialism and Liberation.
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