The Left cannot roll the clock back to 2015 and abstain from or give short shrift to elections. Alongside rank-and-file labor work and movement building, class-struggle campaigns are a key part of our strategy.
Category: Strategy & Tactics
Two Ways Out of the Pandemic
We may see a new round of capital consolidation and a powerful mobilization on the far right. Or a radicalized working class movement can prevail in shaping the new economy.
Canvassing for Bernie and Building DSA
Let’s recruit an army of new socialist organizers now, and then use that army to get out the vote for Bernie in 2020 and build our movement.
Why Our Candidates Need to Endorse Bernie
Many progressives fail to distinguish between the politics of class struggle and class compromise. That’s why it’s important that candidates DSA endorses get behind Bernie Sanders and his vision of building a working-class movement.
Class-Struggle Politicians Are Organizers First, Legislators Second
DSA needs to back class-struggle candidates without apology. We can’t afford to compromise on this question.
What are Class Struggle Elections?
As DSA ramps up our electoral work, we need a national strategy for recruiting, running, and supporting class struggle candidates.
Class Struggle and Direct Service
Let’s take on direct service strategically, and only when it builds the power of our class to fight.
Which Way to Socialism?
Insurrectionary strategies for winning socialism in the U.S. depend on a faulty wager — and block our way to building a real base.
Direct Action in a Time of Class Struggle
Changing the balance of power in society will require strategic direct action that imposes real costs on elites.
Fight for the Green New Deal
The Green New Deal is one of the most important new demands to emerge on the Left in the United States. DSA must make it a central part of our strategy for saving the planet and winning socialism.
