This resolution commits DSA to participating in mobilizations against authoritarianism that are happening on multiple levels across our society, including anti-ICE organizing, preparing for May Day 2028 strikes, and the one-day No Kings mass mobilizations. As many SMC members have previously noted, abstention from these coalitions does DSA no favors. SMC believes that DSA must place itself at the forefront of the anti-fascist popular front as only socialism can beat fascism.
Comparing the history of the British Labour Party's rise from an independent third-party to near-hegemonic status in Britain to our own political situation in the present-day US, Michael Whitesides argues that breaking from the Democratic Party is the wrong choice to make. Instead, we should seek to make the Democratic Party into the party we want to see.
City councilmember Chi Ossé is currently seeking NYC-DSA’s endorsement for a run against Hakeem Jeffries. David T. argues that endorsing Chi for Congress would distract from ensuring the success of Zohran's affordability agenda.
The DSA National Convention was divisive and factional. But did it have to be? Nate Sitaraman reflects on the 2025 United and Win Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) Conference, EWOC’s radically optimistic approach to organizing, and on what it will take for DSA to unite and win.
A recent essay by the Marxist Unity Group caucus proposes a program for NYC-DSA that, if enacted, would turn the chapter away from campaigns rooted in mass struggle. Instead of centering conflict around material-based issues of affordability, MUG prefers to focus on inward-focused reforms of NYC-DSA.
Aaron F. reflects on his path to joining Socialist Majority and his takeaways from the 2025 DSA National Convention.
In the fall of 2024, facing the prospect of Donald Trump being elected president once again, many DSA comrades, including many SMC members, self-organized to travel to swing states and canvass against the election of Trump and Republicans in Congress under the banner “Socialism Beats Fascism.” Here are a few stories from SMC members who participated.
On June 6, 2025, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents descended upon Los Angeles and initiated the largest mass immigration sweep in the city’s history. But in the days following, despite heavy military presence in all corners of Los Angeles, our people became organized.
One Member, One Vote is a major step towards making our organization more democratic and responsive to our working-class base—and as the Zohran Mamdani campaign has shown us, that’s where the future of DSA lies!
Zohran Mamdani has produced one of the biggest political upsets this century, toppling former New York governor Andrew Cuomo by thirteen points in the Democratic mayoral primary. NYC-DSA, who endorsed Zohran last October, is now primed to further a local and national ideological battle with and within the Democratic Party.
One of the most contentious proposals at the upcoming Convention is the Groundwork-authored efforts to bring One Member, One Vote principles to federal endorsements and National Political Committee elections. Behind the debate—rather than the pure-bad-faith-advantage-seeking you might expect from voting systems discourse—are a series of sharply conflicting assumptions about what internal democracy is and what it is for.
SMC has proposed a resolution “Workers Will Lead the Way: Join with Unions to Run Labor Candidates” for the upcoming DSA convention, calling for DSA to recruit ten union members to run for office. There is an amendment to the resolution that proposes making the socialist nature of the candidate, especially a future presidential one, more important than the labor background. The resolution should be passed unamended and a look at United States socialist history explains why a broader and more flexible, but still socialist, strategy is a better course.
