DSA Long Beach is working in coalition with #SanctuaryLB to pressure the city council to adopt a local policy that would prevent local government and police from spending their resources cooperating with federal immigration enforcement. The project has been an opportunity for DSA activists to learn about the benefits and challenges of working with community…
In a 2013 report on healthcare issues among African Americans, radio station WNYC reported on then-52-year-old Mike Jackson, who battled diabetes and hypertension. His prescription drugs cost $500 a month. After he lost his job and healthcare, he cut back on the amount of insulin he took to treat his diabetes. Within eight months he…
The national DSA Socialist Feminist Working Group and its Abortion Access Committee invite you to raise money to fund abortions through the National Network of Abortion Funds’ annual National Abortion Access Bowl-a-thon. DSA participates every April and last year raised more than $40,000 to help NNAF beat its goal of one million dollars. This year,…
There are two competing realities in U.S. life today: (1) Our economic system is rigged to create extreme inequality and relegates almost all goods to the private market and (2) leading a dignified life depends on being able to buy those goods in the private market. Of course, not everyone can afford a dignified, much…
There is broad agreement on the left and within Democratic Socialists of America that Medicare for All (M4A) would vastly improve the lives of most Americans. It is for this reason that the fight for single-payer healthcare was adopted at DSA’s 2017 convention as our top organizational priority. But some socialists fear, especially now that…
With the possible exceptions of Sergei Eisenstein’s early odes to the Russian revolutions and Herbert Biberman’s 1954 strike anthem Salt of the Earth, the last time U.S. audiences saw a big-screen testament to socialism may have been Reds, in 1981. But with the appearance of two new films—one a taut melodrama on Karl Marx’s formative…
May Day 2018 was one for Puerto Rican history books, again. As last year, thousands gathered in San Juan’s “Golden Mile” financial district to protest austerity measures ordered by the congressionally imposed, unelected fiscal control board and implemented by a puppet government. And, as in 2017, all hell broke loose when a militarized police force…
When tens of thousands of high school students walked out of their schools to protest gun violence this March, whether they knew or not, they were following in the footsteps of teenagers 50 years ago who sparked a movement for better schools and Chicano pride in immigrant neighborhoods in East Los Angeles. On Tuesday March…
How should we socialists understand trade—and how can we act on that understanding? Our forebears have at times opposed free trade, and one of Donald Trump’s appeals to workers was a promise a return to a mythical past. We know that our current trade system is tainted with the usual capitalist miseries, wastefulness, and exploitation. But…
Since the Great Recession erupted, the Republican Party has wrested trifecta control over the majority of state governments in the country. This rightward power shift is not limited to the heartland. In Connecticut, the Democratic supermajorities that used to dominate both legislative chambers have been reduced to a razor-thin margin in the House and an…
