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The Walls Will Fall Like Dominoes
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.
Three Simple Reasons to Support One Member, One Vote
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!
New York Democrats Want Socialism
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 Member, One Vote and The Trot Box
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.
Towards a Socialist Labor Slate
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.
After 5 Years, I Can No Longer Serve on the National Growth & Development Committee
Colleen J. is a 2023-2025 National Political Committee Member. A GDC member since 2020, they’ve been a steering committee member since 2021 and served as chair from 2023 to March 2025. On the GDC, they built the national new member orientation program, ran the 2022 Recommitment Drive, co-chaired the 2023 chapter survey and report, and led the 2023–24 Solidarity Dues Drive that raised about $700,000 in dues income.
Make the Statement by Organizing: Integrative Socialist Internationalism for DSA
Over the past two years, internationalism has provided an effective lens to view DSA’s fraught attempts to juggle the changing political winds and the internal frictions they generate. This tension has come to boil over in three International Committee (IC) statements that the National Political Committee either retracted, rejected, or significantly revised within the past year. Yet while the debate over statements escalates, one part of the International Committee has grown into an organizing juggernaut.
DSA for the Masses: Organizing the Anti-Fascist Majority
Since 2020, the Left has become increasingly fractured. In particular, DSA has spent much of the recent years consumed by internal strife and infighting, which have distracted from unifying mass campaigns. The threat of a strong fascist government—one that is is infringing on civil liberties, illegally detaining and deporting people, and cutting necessary aid to millions of starving people around the world—and the inability of the Democratic Party leadership to effectively counter it increases the necessity of building a united Left to offer an alternative for the multiracial working class.
SMC for Zohran! Profiles and Stories
Zohran won! As we bask in the glow of victory and get ready to campaign hard in the summer and fall, here are why a few of our members got involved in the campaign and how they helped.
Winning as a Socialist on the Democratic Line
NYC-DSA has learned important lessons about building political power for working-class people from our experimentation with third-party candidates, socialist ballot lines, and primary challenges. These lessons inform all the organizing we do today.
Party in the DSA
Reform & Revolution has proposed that DSA jump to forming an independent ballot line, and has laid out steps to do so. In addition to the article penned by their NPC candidate, Sarah Milner, they have introduced a parallel resolution to implement their program at convention. I think the proposal is unworkable, and have listed my reasons at the end of the piece. But arguments about practicality are too often where DSA debates start and end, avoiding discussion about difficult and generative political questions.
Watch What I Do, Not What I Say: A Primer on Caucuses in DSA Leadership, 2023–25
Guides to DSA caucuses tend to tell us, roughly, what each group claims it’s all about. That’s useful, but it’s much more enlightening to look at the track record of the caucuses to understand who’s who in DSA’s national leadership.
Conventions Matter
To paraphrase an old Russian revolutionary: you may not be interested in the Democratic Socialists of America’s (DSA’s) national convention, but it is interested in you. This upcoming National Convention, like the four before it, will be a test between those in DSA who want to do mass and coalition politics and those who prefer a sectarian approach that takes DSA in a more inward direction.
It’s Still DSA!
Now is the time to join DSA; bolster the forces within the organization who are trying to push us toward mass politics by joining Socialist Majority; and stake out your political home and the political weapon that we need now to fight back against fascism on the march. It's still the best answer we have. It’s still DSA.
Red Star: or, How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Vanguard
Six months after their official adoption of the Marxist-Leninist label, the Red Star Caucus of DSA released their updated Points of Unity. Examining them reveals a host of contradictions, falsehoods, and vagueness that serve to mask an incomplete theory of politics.
What SPA Leader Norman Thomas Can Teach Today’s DSA
Socialist Party National Secretary Harry Fleischman’s 1964 biography of party leader Norman Thomas offers plenty of insights into the party’s failed efforts to create a mass workers’ party. DSA members today can learn from their predecessor’s party-building experiences.
Trump Will Lose His Working-Class Support
The coalition of right-wing billionaires and working-class voters who elected Trump is unstable. The Left can take advantage of the openings this instability will create.
Political Parties Are Illegal in the United States
A longstanding concern on the US electoral left is the issue of “candidate accountability”—if we elect a left-wing candidate, how can we be sure that he or she will stay true to our politics while in office? It’s a big problem.
Unfortunately, here in the United States, creating a formal political party which exerts this kind of control over candidates is illegal.
No One Is “Politically Independent”
This individualist buzzphrase has a stranglehold on left-wing politics. It makes no sense and distracts us from our real goals: ownership and power.