Sign on to the Anti-War Working Group OC open letter We are frustrated and disappointed with NYC-DSA Steering Committee’s decision to seize control of the Anti-War Working Group’s Organizing Committee (AWWG OC) elections from the working group itself and announce chapterwide elections instead. We are also deeply disappointed by the Steering Committee’s cynical invocation of…
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It is easy for me to imagine a version of the future where the Israeli settler colonial project has achieved its end goal. A future where only a few thousand Palestinians remain in Palestine. Some fled, others were killed. Israeli settlers have taken most of their homes. The Star of David is visible everywhere, but…
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Understanding the Zohran Moment
Introduction Zohran Mamdani’s stunning and decisive victory in the Democratic Party primary for mayor of New York City marks the start of a new phase in our current cycle of struggle. Previous high points in recent history, like Bernie’s 2020 campaign for President and the historic Black Lives Matter uprisings that summer, demonstrated that millions…
It seems that most weeks, recently, are the kind where decades happen (which Lenin never actually said, but it’s a nice turn of phrase). A live-streamed genocide, approaching its third year as millions starve. Thousands of state-sponsored disappearances by newly-deputized suburban brutes in Marvel t-shirts. A spate of political assassinations which has spawned comparisons to…
On November 2, 2021, Abdul Osmanu and Mariam Khan – both 19 – made national headlines by becoming the youngest and first Muslim electeds in history on the Hamden Legislative Council and the Hamden Board of Education, respectively. They were also part of the first socialist slate elected in the state of Connecticut in 60…
As long as political order and authority have existed, they have always come to a point where they oppose the will of the masses; solidarity has been key in destroying or reconstructing said order and authority. Solidarity, however, struggles to materialize across the racial dimension owing largely to one very important truism: We live in…
There’s nothing more socialist than arguing about how to spend our money. When money is tight, debate over how to prioritize it can become fierce, sometimes lasting for weeks before a consensus can be reached: purchasing expensive software subscriptions, renting office space, or recently whether to spend ⅓ of our entire budget on union-made t-shirts…
The Democratic Socialists of America is entering a pivotal moment. We stand at the forefront of left-wing politics as the largest socialist organization in the country, but the organization is not represented in the areas that need it most. The organizing priorities of DSA are heavily weighted towards more “liberal” areas, typically cities and metropolises…
Growing up as the child of two Puerto Rican parents in Paterson, New Jersey, one of the most over-policed cities in the country, I witnessed firsthand the de-humanization of policing and incarceration. Paterson, a majority Black and Brown city, was treated like an occupied territory, with police acting as a hostile force rather than a…
On a recent trip to visit my family in Singapore, I recall standing in front of Bangkit Station below the beautiful Masjid Al-Iman at dusk. As the Maghrib adhan reverberated into the street, hundreds of people filed quietly from the station towards the mosque. While I had walked by this mosque hundreds of times, something…
Zohran Mamdani’s victory has sparked rigorous debate among the left on the future of our movement. This win has garnered an array of reactions, from celebrating the dawn of the NYC Soviet to denouncing him as a social fascist. Both of those extreme reactions are inadequate. We must be clear-eyed in charting out avenues for…
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…