The anti settler colonial issue is their national position written by their thought leader, the liberal local politician could certainly just be a local chapter issue but also a good national org would know about it and push back on why the local chapter is using resources that way instead of in another manner. It’s a ML org not DSA, there should be more oversight over these things.

Yes I am familiar with the PSL issues you are describing and they were also a primary reason why I never joined. I was lucky enough to have a local org option that worked for me. I will say that I haven’t heard of new cases of this happening in years and hopefully it was resolved quietly by the organization with the individual problematic members. For an org as big as PSL, there hasn’t been enough cases to suggest it’s really a widespread issue, although I think the way the specific cases were handled should have been better. It’s a valid criticism and reason to be wary but it would also be chapter dependent. I know a lot of non-men organize in PSL although I’d love some hard data on these things