A Response to Heidi Sloan’s Lies

The allegations that our organization allegedly ‘assaulted’ local congressional candidate Heidi Sloan are totally false. Our organization condemns those making wild accusations against us in an attempt to promote their own political career. Contrary to her exaggerated and criminalizing language, this so-called assault was nothing more than an egging of a politician.

On Sunday, DSA sent a horde of gringos and Bernie Bros to push voting in a gentrifying neighborhood. While we have actually done revolutionary work in the East Side, confronting developers and gentrifiers militantly, DSA wants people to vote for which flavor of capitalist will ultimately displace them. Working class people of all races don’t vote in the majority, because they understand the imperialist elections don’t serve them. We stand with the revolutionaries who confronted Austin DSA on Sunday.



We are not part of Red Guards Austin (RGA) which Sloan claims. We are our own, revolutionary anti-gentrification organization that has fought exploitation in the community, and will continue to do so. None of the other organizations that Heidi listed are part of RGA as well - and are revolutionary organizations who serve the people. RGA themselves announced their disbanding more than a year ago, after carrying out revolutionary work that inspired many, not just in Austin, but across the country.



The leadership of the Austin Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) are nothing but politicians who wish to exploit working class people, and their attempts to criminalize our organization and accuse us of things that we were not part of shows their intention to use state repression against us, which we already face intensely.



Working class Austinites understand that those pushing elections are only seeking to serve their own political careers, not the needs of the working class. While we had no part in the egging, we know the anger that people feel towards those trying to push elections on them. We know that politicians in this system can’t solve gentrification or truly stop US Imperialism, which wreaks havoc across the globe and at home.

