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Strategy & Tactics

Lessons for Politics from Open Bargaining in the Labor Movement

In legislative fights, as in union negotiations, closed-door negotiations are the status quo but often stand in the way of building independent working-class power. What can socialists in office learn from militant unionists’ strategy of open bargaining?

Becca Roskill and Oren Schweitzer
| March 20, 2023
Strategy & Tactics

Defend Democracy, Not Democrats

The strategy of combatting the right as allies of centrist Democrats faces insurmountable tensions.

Luca P.
| December 21, 2022
Strategy & Tactics

A Mass Socialist Organization to Meet the Moment

In a recent article Nick French and Jeremy Gong make the case for a new mass organization to “win a political revolution.” The American Left, instead, should prioritize improving its budding mass socialist organization into one that can meet the political moment.

Peter Lucas and Sean Estelle
| August 22, 2022
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
Strategy & Tactics

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
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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.