Poulantzas and The Socialist Challenge Today
An evaluation of the ideas that Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin put forward in their book The Socialist Challenge Today, as an application of Nicos Poulantzas’s approach to the current challenges on the left
Category: DSA
Three Challenges for the Left
This editorial by Ty Moore seeks to outline three major challenges facing the Left under the Biden administration
Done Right, Mutual Aid Builds Working-Class Power
If DSA avoids approaching mutual aid as a prefigurative project, designed to bypass a direct struggle for political power, socialists can help connect working people’s self-organization for immediate survival needs to an effective strategy to win socialism.
DSA’s Platform Draft: Let’s Talk about Building Power
DSA’s draft platform is a good starting point to unite our broad, multi-tendency, democratic socialist organization in the fight for socialism. It would be stronger if it outlined how the working class can build the power to get there.
Video: Panel Debate on Putting the Break in the Dirty Break
Reform & Revolution organized a panel discussion on March 27, 2021, bringing over 150 together to hear a discussion and debate with representatives from different caucuses and currents in DSA: “Putting the Break in the Dirty Break: DSA, the Democrats …
The Road from Nevada
Bernie Sanders’ supporters recently swept the elections for the leadership of the Nevada state Democratic Party. The centrist machine took the money and ran. What does this reveal about the potential of a realignment strategy to reform the Democratic Party?
Putting the Break in the Dirty Break: R&R Resolutions for the DSA National Convention
DSA’s 2021 National Convention is fast approaching, and we believe it’s time to continue to build our strength toward the independence of our movement from the Democratic Party. As the 2019 DSA National Convention stated, DSA can play a role in taking steps toward building a new working class party.
Winning the Dirty Break Under Biden: What next for DSA?
The day after voting in the 2020 general election was over, the moderate wing of the Democratic Party immediately went on the offensive. “We need to not ever use the word ‘socialist’ or ‘socialism’ ever again. . . . We lost good …
Democratic Socialist Break Dance
Reform & Revolution spoke with three national DSA leaders about strategy toward the Democratic Party after Biden’s victory. We discussed how to overcome the Democratic Party’s dominance over the US left, whether that’s breaking clean, breaking dirty, breaking later, and …
Debate: “What are the Main Tasks for the Left after the Election?”
Revolutionary Socialists Discuss Strategy in Biden Era. Thanks to Left Voice, Philly Socialists and Tempest, who took the initiative to ask a number of caucuses in DSA and groups on the revolutionary socialist left to give their perspective on the …