The Moms for Liberty and the other book-banning people prompted me to do something I had not planned to do: run for the city school board in this last election. It is not as if I had never considered running for office before this year. I had never seriously considered it. I had reasons to…
“Chile was the cradle of neoliberalism, it will also be its grave.” — Chilean president Gabriel Boric On September 4, 2022, Chilean voters rejected a constitution that had been hailed as a “‘new global standard’ on climate and inequality.” The new draft was written to replace the 1980 constitution imposed by the military dictator Augusto…
Our goal as U.S. socialists is to build a multiracial, multigenerational, internationalist working-class coalition, one capable of uniting the different ethnic and racial groups that compose the U.S. working class. One of the basic principles of organizing, to build such a coalition, is meeting people where they are
Why no serious proposals from officials in the president’s cabinet for more constant regulation and anti-trust action? It is flabbergasting that federal officials act as though there is little they can do about a huge rip-off of consumers in a key area of high inflation.
The typical response to Democrats’ failures is to punch left or blame the electorate for not turning out, but – make no mistake – last night’s result is a failure of the New York Democratic Party’s leadership. New York Democratic Committee Chair Jay Jacobs in particular has shown a complete lack of interest in enacting policies that will improve the lives of New York’s working class voters, focusing on fighting DSA rather than the rising right.
On Saturday, September 24th, DSA members from across the Metro Atlanta area gathered for our chapter’s 2022 Local Convention. Over four hours, members strategized together in organizing workshops, debated political perspectives, and collectively decided on priorities for the next year. Going into 2023, Atlanta DSA is more ready than ever to fight for a democratic…
A red wave did materialize Tuesday night, just not the one pundits expected. DSA-endorsed campaigns saw huge victories across the country – the protection of abortion rights in Kentucky, the increase of the tipped minimum wage in DC, a sweep of DSA candidates in the Twin Cities, and more. While we wait for final results,…
We thank DL regular Steve Max for sharing his missive to Three Parks Independent Democrats, a bastion of NYC’s Upper West Side. With the dialogue on immigration hijacked by the other side, we welcome this calm reminder that immigration is core to any decent United States identity. To see the graphics and notes Max included,…
All year, we at DL have been hearkening back to 40 years ago, when a new organization was born out of a risky merger. We asked DL regular Steve Early to reflect on his prescient piece in the issue below (PDF link here). It also included Barbara Ehrenreich’s thoughts on the recent defeat of the…
Review: Fighting Times: Organizing on the Front Lines of the Class War By Jon Melrod (PM Press, 2022) This year, young militants have sent shock waves through the labor landscape by unionizing under the nose of corporate America, at brand-name juggernauts from Starbucks to Amazon to Chipotle and beyond. If you’ve been reading Democratic Left,…
