Strategy & Tactics

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

DSA needs to back class-struggle candidates without apology. We can’t afford to compromise on this question.

As DSA ramps up our electoral work, we need a national strategy for recruiting, running, and supporting class struggle candidates.

Let’s take on direct service strategically, and only when it builds the power of our class to fight.

Insurrectionary strategies for winning socialism in the U.S. depend on a faulty wager — and block our way to building a real base.

Changing the balance of power in society will require strategic direct action that imposes real costs on elites.