Luka Mesec

Luka Mesec is a MP, a founding member and coordinator of Slovenian parliamentary party Levica (The Left), an eco-socialist party that was the first in post-socialist Europe to enter the national parliament. He devoted most of his adult life to left-wing activism, before entering professional politics in 2014, he was a coordinator of Workers and Punks' University and director of Institute for Labour Studies.

Progressive International

Luka Mesec is a member of the Council of the Progressive International.

European communist ties

According to David Duhalde, at the invitation of the Party of the European Left, a delegation from some of the most prominent left-wing US organizations visited the European Parliament from April 4 to 5, 2019. The attendees were all representatives of membership-based organizations backing Senator Bernie Sanders’ run for president: Maria Svart, National Director of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), Alan Minsky, Executive Director of Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) and David Duhalde, from Our Revolution. Our delegation was inspired by Sanders’ call for more international collaboration against the growing “authoritarian axis.” (All three are DSA members.) Over the course of our visit, we held two talks and numerous meetings with our European left-wing peers.

"Of the groups present, the Belgian Workers’ Party (PTB) appeared to have the best grasp of these new organizing strategies. Maoist in origin, the PTB moved away from its cadre roots to become a more grassroots and community-based organization. Without changing ideologically, the PTB has adopted distributed organizing tactics like those outlined in Becky Bond’s Rules for Revolutionaries. (Bond was a senior advisor to the Sanders campaign in 2016 and is also served Beto O’Rourke’s presidential team.) Using these distributed organizing techniques, the party has grown its share of the vote from one or two percent to potentially as high as ten percent.(Below, Alan Minsky (PDA) Maria Svart, Ethan Earle and David Duhalde (DSA) meet with Luka Mesec, President of Slovenia’s Levica Party at the Party of the European Left’s headquarters.)

Attendees

Known Mapping Socialist Strategies attendees included Kazembe Balagun, Joseph Schwartz, Marc Brodine, Marisol Ocampo Munoz, Judith LeBlanc, Libero Della Piana, Bill Gallegos, Kali Akuno, Albert Scharenberg, Elandria Williams, Carl Davidson, Bhaskar Sunkara, Klaus Lederer Die Linke, John Nichols, Steve Williams, Frances Fox Piven, N'Tanya Lee, Luka Mesec, newly elected to Slovenia’s National Parliament as a member of the recently formed Initiative for Democratic Socialism