I’ve heard from various people that the SRA has a lot of problems, most prominently the lack of leadership from the national organisers, who defer virtually all branch affairs to local organisers, who are often absentees who deprive their membership of the opportunity to organise themselves. Are there any members here who’ve experienced these problems first hand, and if so, what are your thoughts on the organisation as it currently stands?
I personally think any armed group in the imperial core that doesn’t have a solid foundation in anti-imperialism (like any ML org), is by definition reactionary and incredibly dangerous. There was a thread a few weeks ago on one of the SRA subs, that showed the community defends vaush, fedanarchists like robert evans, sides with Ukraine in this conflict, etc…
There’s not many things scarier to me than armed vaushites calling themselves socialists invading leftist spaces IRL. These people will fight and die to defend US empire at all costs, and would gladly kill russians or chinese people if given the chance.
Commies need a Communist Rifle Association where people are strictly communists/MLs. Anything short of that, a distraction and largely unproductive. A “CRA” could train on guerrilla tactics, mountaineering/hiking fitness, wilderness, reading, first aid, as well as mutual aid and agitprop.
IMO until US communists can find the language and the guts to address the existential problems facing them Im afraid stuff like this can only lead to disaster. The problem is much deeper than the terminology we use to describe ourselves, its our class character.
We need an international hard-left gun rights org.