DSA should use our electoral campaigns and elected offices to raise working-class consciousness and build working-class organization. That means rejecting attempts to placate the Democratic Party establishment.
Unionization campaigns at Amazon and Starbucks show that we might just be living through the start of a new wave of worker organizing. Socialists need to go all in.
Recent attacks on DSA’s statements on Russia’s invasion reveal serious weaknesses in our perspective on world events. To win the battle of ideas, we need a democratic, internationalist approach that we can all defend.
DSA’s Bread & Roses caucus statement on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Stop the war and Russian imperialism. Oppose U.S. and NATO intervention.
Our opponents in the capitalist class want to divide and conquer us. We’re stronger when we stick together and when we make strategies collectively in an open and democratic manner. It’s the only way we can fight back and win against our enemies.
How to build thriving, democratic, socialist organizations that empower members, train cadre, and support a mass membership.
The rank-and-file strategy is more than just a tactic for labor organizing or a calling for young radicals. It’s a strategy for building a working-class movement with the consciousness and power to win socialism.
To win socialism, the working class needs political independence. Socialists today should use elections and other political campaigns to help build organization.
How we as socialists should evaluate a demand, campaign, or objective. The key question: does it build working-class power?
Twelve months ago, it seemed like an open question if this year would bring an end to the pandemic, a muscular new social-democratic politics, and renewed social struggle. It wasn’t to be.
