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Both of these groups are Trotskyist. Reform and Revolution is an entryist offshoot of Socialist Alternative. Their members were not blessed by SA itself and ended up excommunicated (SA has some cultish tendencies). MUG has murkier intellectual origins but always manages to secure membership from the naive and/or opportunist, namely those newly disillusioned with electoralism or still tetheted to it through initiative campaigns or obviously doomed campaigns to get some unprinciplef lib elected.
It's good if they make life unbearable for the more liberal factions in DSA (the loud large minority). But... they are Trots. There are hard limits on what they can accomplish due to being ignorant and straight-up wrong on basic Marxist principles, history, and contemporary geopolitics. As a reminder, the typical Trot position on Palestine is a belief in the mythical Israeli proletariat and easily coopted ceasefire rhetoric. They cannot have solidarity with the PFLP or even just Gazans directly. They only care about Palestinian Trots insofar as their own messaging is crafted.
So... temper your expectations.
Edit: as a reminder, MUG's main political program has been to rewrite the US Constitution via a series of amendments. This is how in touch with reality they are.
So much of this is just flat out not true, especially the stuff about Palestinian solidarity. It sucks that this is what is brought forward instead of engaging with the actual politics presented in the linked article.
In my chapter, MUG has been far and away the most effective tool towards anything like a party line, while still maintaining an actually functional democratic structure. As someone working every day to educate libs away from the background radiation based politics they have, I'm very grateful for them and hopeful for this formation.
This platform is literally a Trotskyist solidarity platform. Do you know what R&R is?