DEMOCRATIC LEFT

Category: DSA News

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

    A joint mobilization for both the Dean Preston and Jackie Fielder campaigns, organized by San Francisco DSA and the Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC).
    A joint mobilization for both the Dean Preston and Jackie Fielder Campaigns, organized by San Francisco DSA and the Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC). Photo courtesy Gwen McLaughlin.

  • 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

    The cover of Democratic Socialists of America: A Graphic History

  • 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.

    The logo of the International Migrant Rights Working Group

  • NYC-DSA Has a Plan to Win

    Álvaro López

    The strategy that can help elect Zohran Mamdani mayor.

    Zohran Mamdani stands at a set of microphones behind the seal of the New York Senate. Behind him a crowd of people stands holding signs saying "Fix the MTA."
    Mamdani has made improvements to the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) a central plank of his campaign | Zohran Mamdani

  • NYC-DSA Built an Organization Ready for Power

    David Turner

    New York City DSA, our organization’s largest chapter, wants to lead the center of U.S. capitalism. Its endorsement of Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign is a chance to flex its muscles.

    A man lists Zohran Mamdani into the air in celebration.
    Mamdani participated in a hunger strike seeking relief for taxi cab medallion debt relief in 2021 | Zohran for Mayor

  • The Future of Mass Member Organizations: Lessons from Brazil

    Jack Lundquist

    An exchange program with Brazil’s Workers’ Party highlights shared struggles and provides valuable insight into how to build DSA into a more effective mass membership organization.

    Demonstration in front of Brazil's Federal Supreme Court fighting the arrest of then-former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in 2018.
    Demonstration in front of Brazil’s Federal Supreme Court fighting the arrest of then-former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in 2018. Jefferson Rudy/Agência Senado

  • Red Atlas: DSA Contended Coast to Coast in 2024

    Adam Kaiser

    Precinct-level maps of DSA-endorsed campaigns in New York, Delaware, Washington, Los Angeles, Tennessee, and Michigan

  • MacKay Campaign Shows Potential of Fighting for Democracy

    Eric L. and Siobhan M.

    An emphasis on building democratic institutions and ending endemic corruption is fertile soil for the left.

    Evan MacKay (left) on the campaign trail.
    Evan MacKay (left) on the campaign trail.