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Strategy & Tactics

Socialists Need a Clear Confrontational Strategy to Win

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.

Nick French and Neal Meyer
| April 13, 2022
Strategy & Tactics

We’re Stronger When DSA’s Politicians and Members Work Together

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.

Alex Pellitteri
| February 23, 2022
Strategy & Tactics

The Rank-and-File Strategy is Political

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.

Jeremy Gong
| February 1, 2022
Strategy & Tactics

Mike Parker on Political Action

To win socialism, the working class needs political independence. Socialists today should use elections and other political campaigns to help build organization.

Mike Parker
| January 20, 2022
Strategy & Tactics

A Hierarchy of Socialist Political Objectives

How we as socialists should evaluate a demand, campaign, or objective. The key question: does it build working-class power?

Greta Smith and Robert LeVertis Bell
| January 7, 2022
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Illustration of a Democratic debate

Why We’ll Need Our Own Ballot Line, Eventually

A separate ballot line for socialists would draw a sharper line between us and liberals. It’s an important tool we’ll need eventually.

Neal Meyer
| February 16, 2021
Strategy & Tactics

Bernie Sanders rally

Portland Debates How to Build a Party

Portland DSA debates what kind of party socialists should try to build, and how to get there.

Laura Wadlin
| August 7, 2020
Strategy & Tactics

DSA and Protest Solidarity

How can DSA organize most effectively to support the movement for Black lives?

Ramsin Canon
| June 16, 2020
Strategy & Tactics

Why Workers Need a Political Party

The successes and limitations of Bernie Sanders’s campaigns showed why we need a working-class party to extend and deepen what the campaign achieved.

Nick French and Jeremy Gong
| June 15, 2020
Strategy & Tactics

Nurses rally for Bernie in Vallejo, California

Reality Check: We Need Class-Struggle Elections

The Left cannot roll the clock back to 2015 and ignore elections. Rank-and-file labor work, movement building, and class-struggle campaigns are a key part of our strategy.

Marianela D'Aprile
| May 8, 2020
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The Call is a publication of the Bread & Roses caucus of Democratic Socialists of America, the largest socialist organization in the United States.