There seems to be a lot of opinions floating around, and PSL members seem particularly vocal though I’ve heard some rumblings of SA from leadership.
Because of the constant risk of CIA infiltration I know all orgs need to be justifiably paranoid, though I’ve no idea if any are completely CIA captured. If any are I’d assume it’s CPUSA because of their prominence.
At first glance the RCA seems interesting (Edit: misread something earlier, fuck them Trots) but I don’t know enough about their OpSec yet. That’s why this seems a really valuable question to bring to the community. In theory I’d want to join one I can join under an alias in case of infiltration.
All the work we do is public facing and works directly with the community.
From a very brief surface view: First there is an onboarding process where the new person answers a lot of questions which include class background, work history, etc. they don’t need to give details of exactly where they worked or who they are related to but this process typically reveals a lot.
Then they will be volunteering with the org doing entry level stuff, this is hours of time spent with them where more sussing out happens.
Additionally there is a cadre program where each new recruit goes through mandatory internal education in a cohort of other new members and led by a couple of cadre mentors.
These things combined mean that within the first year, a newer person is spending dozens of hours with cadre who are all evaluating them and paying close attention, while the new recruit is never really given any responsibility or access to anything they could misuse.
All of those later systems are very similar to how PSL operates and that’s definitely the most important level of security.
Yeah it all works out if you have that. Over time trust builds from working and studying together and people become friends and there becomes an extra level of vouching at a certain point.