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Growing New Shoots: An Organizing Vision For & Beyond NYC-DSA Convention 2024

Overview: As we approach a full decade of building and sustaining power, NYC-DSA is confronted both by increased opposition and internal disputes as well as a crisis of legitimacy at all levels of government. Despite winning some legislative elections and passing bills that have encountered judicial and regulatory roadblocks, we can no longer claim to…

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Against Cowardice: Palestine Charts the Path for DSA

“Progressive except for Palestine” carries a political cost, and DSA must exact it.

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On Discipline in DSA

An argument for redefining discipline in DSA: socialist organizers must develop skills for navigating social and political differences, and commit to discussion and self-reflection.

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Articles Issue 6 Labor

A Tactical Argument on DSA’s Approach to Labor

An analysis of the political left’s relationship to labor unions, and the potential strategies to reforge links between DSA and workplace militants.

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From Gaza to Oakland: Grassroots Organizing for Palestine in the Oakland Education Association

A first-hand account of the Oakland Education Association’s mobilization after October 7th to educate students about Palestine, while facing workplace retaliation and intra-union conflict.

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For Diverse Politics; For Diverse Tactics

A coordinator of the CC Committee on Anti-Racism synthesizes the committee’s investigation into abolitionist and anti-imperialist praxis, arguing that a response to proletarian disorganization necessitates the study of diverse political traditions.

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Editorial Statement Issue 6

Issue 6: Editorial Statement

For Gary Potter, who lived and died a communist. As we write, countless disasters are unfolding across the world–the genocide in Palestine is but the most wretched among them. And these disasters are not fortuitous; they result from the way in which our world is governed by capitalism. Abroad, capitalism must maintain imperial extraction through…

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Theses for Palestine Solidarity

Communist Caucus organizers propose eleven theses for developing Palestine solidarity within labor unions, on the basis of recent organizing experience.

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Student Workers of Columbia and the Struggle for Palestine

A play-by-play account of Palestine solidarity organizing by students and workers at Columbia University, and an exploration of the political possibilities of organized student labor.

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No Appetite for Apartheid

The Palestine Solidarity Working Group takes inspiration from the Delano Grape Boycott to reimagine the BDS movement as mass organizing.

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The Illusion of Victory

Tenant protection regulations are crucial to bottlenecking the tide of evictions, harassment, and violence against housed and unhoused tenants, but their enforcement is always left up to a political class with interests antithetical to our own. In the end, only collective action can free us.

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Four Theses About the DSA Budget from Communist Caucus

Given the budget deficit crisis engulfing DSA, we in Communist Caucus are compelled to examine the political moment which we find ourselves in and what kind of organization DSA needs to become in order to weather it.