They have seen a meteoric rise in recent years. Their sister/front organisations like ANSWER, Codepink, People’s Forum, BTnews have all become household names. When I look at protests in the U.S., it seems so many of them are organised directly, or indirectly, by them. In comparison, organisations like the CPUSA or the DSA are lacking behind.
How and why?
I don’t think Code Pink is a PSL group, either. I think it started as a pretty liberal antiwar group, but drifted in a more consistently anti-imperialist direction due to working closely with ANSWER for so long.