Category: Articles
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Reflections on California DSA
Hazel Williams
Hazel Williams reflects on her experience as California DSA Co-Chair, exploring its successes and challenges, reflecting on core lessons, and offering questions to help organizers across the country reckon with what it means to build a middle layer in DSA.
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State of DSA Part One: Welcome to DSA
Andrew Dai
As DSA boomed, some chapters have grown more than others. The Growth and Development Committee hope to figure out why.
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Winning Once Is Not Enough
Alexander Goldenheart
It’s the long-held dream of Democratic Socialists to see our candidates elected into office. As it turns out, that may be the easy part. A retrospective on the Dean Preston and Jackie Fielder campaigns for local office in San Francisco reflects on lessons the 2024 elections have for future efforts.
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Red Ink: Discussing Comics, Socialism and Democratic Socialists of America: A Graphic History
Nicky Martin
A new book attempts to capture the variety of personalities, issues, and ideals that have defined DSA
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Refusing Solidarity with Striking Longshoremen is Not Solidarity with Palestine
Nathan Lamm
ILA went on strike last fall, with some arguing against supporting it because of the union’s relationship to the military. This is not how to build solidarity.
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Defend Migrant Rights in 2025
David Cisneros
DSA’s new International Migrant Rights Working Group is drawing inspiration from past socialist struggles, building coalitions with present migrant justice organizations, and training local chapters to join the fight against Trump’s immigration agenda.
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The “Nonprofit Killer”
Luke Pickrell
The recently passed House of Representatives bill threatens the work of DSA and many other political organizations. Luke Pickrell assesses its possible impacts.
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Sometime They’ll Have a Party and Nobody Will Come
Chance Phillips
A review of Hollow Parties: “The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party Politics” by Daniel Schlozman and Sam Rosenfeld
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Cómo el socialismo me trajo dignidad como indocumentada
Luisa Martínez
A la luz de la reelección de Trump y su retórica anti-inmigrante, Luisa Martínez, miembro del Comité Político Nacional, reflexiona sobre su experiencia al crecer como una inmigrante pobre e indocumentada, su evolución a socialista y cómo DSA debe presentar un análisis socialista en torno a la inmigración indocumentada.
2018 “Free Our Future. Families Belong Together. Abolish ICE. March and Day of Action” hosted by Navigate MN / Unidos MN and Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en la Lucha (CTUL) in Minneapolis, MN. Fibonacci Blue