Strategy & Tactics

In labor and electoral organizing, our approach to coalitions is different because the threats and potentials are different.

The House of Representatives recently passed a bill that could dramatically change how TikTok is used for politics in the United States. This could take away a key platform for exposing new people to socialist ideas.

Coalition work with nonprofits can be necessary but risky terrain for socialists. “SAIT” is a framework for how to do this work right.

The left’s commitment to materialist analysis and effective organizing shouldn’t be counterposed to caring about ideas. The social transformation we seek means we need to take ideas even more seriously than conservatives or liberals do.

The movement for Palestinian national liberation would be stronger if the US was actually a democracy. That’s why fighting to democratize the US is key to anti-imperialist strategy.

How to create a future independent party has been hotly debated. One possibility: DSA could lead the way by offering unions an option to affiliate with the organization.

North New Jersey DSA activists look back on this year’s successful right to counsel campaign in Jersey City.

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?

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

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.