Zohran Won! Now What?
Comrades April and Alex reflect on the opportunities – and potential obstacles – facing NYC-DSA.
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Daughters of Rabotnitsa: Lessons From The Russian Revolutionary Women’s Movement
FEBRUARY, 1917. Scores of women textile workers take strike action on their own initiative. The strike mushrooms into mass meetings and demonstrations throughout Petrograd. Slogans rapidly evolve from the demand for bread to the end of the war and the …
How Class War Can Defeat The Occupations
Since being elected, Donald Trump has made some serious moves towards authoritarianism which the United States has not seen in a long time. It is worth taking a look at what he is doing, what “opposition” leaders are saying, and …
Contradictions of the Party Surrogate Model
The Democratic Socialists of America has long struggled with how it should relate to the Democratic Party ballot line. The organization has had success using the “Party Surrogate” strategy, where socialists run insurgent campaigns while using the Democratic Party ballot …
A New Course For DSA
R&R’s newly-elected NPC members draw lessons from 2025 convention and lay out what should come next for DSA Victory In Chicago Over a thousand delegates gathered in Chicago from August 8 to August 10 for the 2025 DSA National Convention. …
A Power Broker In The City Of Roses
Emma Buckley sits down with Jesse Dryer to discuss how Portland DSA has used street mobilizations to back up its DSA public electeds Emma- You’ve been electoral co-chair of Portland DSA chapter and you have worked on multiple events from …
Zohran’s Win Shows DSA Must Build A National Political Machine
Sarah Milner writes that DSA’s Left must run cadre candidates in 2026, or be left behind Zohran Mamdani’s win in the New York City Mayoral primary is an exhilarating victory for the left. After a half-decade defined by defeats—from Cori …
What DSA Partyists Can Learn From Labor For Bernie
Henry De Groot reflects on his work with Labor for Bernie to consider what it will take to win union endorsements for a national DSA slate in 2026. To Organize In 2026, Look To 2016 Interest in taking real steps …
Hegemony In The Hinterlands: The Need for Rural Organizing
Rural areas were once a hotbed for socialist organizing. During the 1910s, the Socialist Party of America held sway in many rural areas such as Crawford County, Kansas and Beckham County, Oklahoma, where they won thirteen elected offices between 1912 …
Which Program for DSA?
This is an updated version of an original article, “Dueling Programs and the Fight for Programmatic Unity.” DSA Needs Programmatic Unity Reform & Revolution (R&R), Marxist Unity Group (MUG), and Bread and Roses (B&R) have all put forward programs for …