DSA

Convention was just the first step. If we want to be ready for May Day 2028 and the next presidential primaries, it’s time to organize to bring our decisions to life.

Comrades from 40 unions, social movements, and socialist parties across the globe came to confer with DSA and pave the way for May Day 2028.

DSA’s 2024 platform, Workers Deserve More, has been a huge success for chapters using it to organize and recruit new members. Passing “R34 Workers Deserve More, Forever” will allow us to continue using and improving this already successful platform. 

Detroit DSA’s experiment with digital democracy has been a failure. Delegates should oppose expanding the 1M1V model to the national organization or their own chapters.

For several years now, DSA has been able to successfully use technological tools owned by capitalists and Democratic Party allies. Socialists need our own version of these tools. 

What should DSA prioritize in building an independent party—a socialist identity, or structural roots in the working class? Mike S. makes a case that the path to a socialist party starts with building the base.

Zohran’s campaign shows that executive races have the best ability to reach working people. To recreate the effects of Zohran’s campaign at a national level, delegates at the 2025 DSA convention should vote for R33. 

Laura Wadlin charts DSA’s transformation from fringe force to national phenomenon — and the fights along the way.

Expanding paid political leadership in DSA will pay dividends for our capacity to build the organization and the socialist movement. Convention delegates should support Resolution 35: For Working Class Member Leadership.

This article outlines the author’s arguments for and against several DSA convention resolutions related to solidarity with Palestine. It represents his views rather than those of the Bread & Roses caucus.