March 16, 2021

The Dish: Giving a voice to the restaurant worker

It’s widely agreed that the pandemic has laid bare the inequities and divisions that permeate our society, from the federal government all the way down to the humble (multi-billion dollar) restaurant industry. 


March 9, 2021

International Women’s Day: Socialist First, Socialist Now

A poster for the very first International Women's Day, by Prudence Stevenson at Womens Liberation Workshop in London -(Wikimedia Commons)

 Socialist women U.S.-based socialist women at that–began the tradition of International Women’s Day (IWD). And this year, DL is honored to share the following offering from Lux Magazine and the DSA AfroSocialist and Socialists of Color Caucus, The Socialist Legacy of Black Feminism. But first, a blast from the DL past from IWD 2016, as…


March 4, 2021

Marx’s ideas have held up : Hadas Thier Gives us Marxism in More Than a Minute

Cover art for Hadash Thier's new book.

  Griffin Mahon, editor of YDSA’s publication The Activist, interviewed Hadas Thier, author of A People’s Guide to Capitalism. Hadas will be giving a talk for DSA members across the country on Tuesday, March 9th, at 8:30pm ET / 5:30pm PT. You can sign up for Hadas’s talk here: https://act.dsausa.org/survey/socialist-school-of-economics/. Q: When people think of…


February 17, 2021

Twitch.tv: A new frontier for the Left

Will Twitch hold an active role in the next campaign cycle? Will the Left be able to utilize this platform not only for electoral politics, but for direct action too?


February 5, 2021

Each One Ask One or Two or Three: Recruitment Drive Exceeds Expectations

DSA members volunteered at a free store in Elkton, LA.

“It was very clear that the one-on-one relation building and just reaching out to people worked. It is obviously much more time consuming, but it overall has better results,” Rogasner says. At the same time, she emphasizes, no matter what DSA members are doing, recruitment can be a part of it.


February 2, 2021

NYC cops Keep Rioting; Protesters Resist

In contrast to January 6 in Washington, DC, police in New York on Martin Luther King Jr. Day reverted to type. At least 29 people were arrested and multiple protesters were hospitalized when NYPD broke up a Black Lives Matter march held in honor of MLK Day, the Gothamist reported. As marchers streamed off the…