Voter turnout ballooned to 30 percent, demonstrating what we’ve always known—Turnout and participation are the results of active campaigning. By Kenny Mostern On May 15, 2018, two members of Pittsburgh DSA running with our endorsement, Summer Lee and Sara Innamorato, won their bids to receive the Democratic nomination to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. They…
by John Reimann, East Bay DSA Editor’s note: this piece serves as a response to R.L. Stephens’ piece in DSA Weekly regarding his thoughts on U.S. intervention in Syria following a chemical gas attack attributed to Syrian authoritarian regime leader, Bashar al-Assad. The Arab Spring arose as a revolt against dictators like Bashar al-Assad throughout the…
By Magally Miranda Alcázar, DSA Los Angeles Anyone who works with immigrant populations today will note that one thing has not been missing since Trump’s inauguration last November: fear. Trump’s xenophobic campaign rhetoric and his promises to amp up deportations, unfortunately, have not been an empty threat, with estimates showing upwards of 30% increases in…
By Chris Geary Watching the new Marvel movie, Avengers: Infinity War, I couldn’t help feeling that the villain, Thanos, was really on to something. With 149 minutes of plodding plot, inane crossovers, and a crowd of protagonists all feebly jostling to be the funny one, the movie is so bloated that when half of the…
The DSA Weekly International Affairs section editors are requesting pieces from DSA members regarding their thoughts on whether and how the American left can or should engage with international secessionist movements using case examples from all over the world. DO you have strong thoughts on Western Saharan independence? What about regional Kurdish movements? Catalonian secession…
This week, volcanic news from Philadelphia DSA —whose organizers are talking not about the national Democratic Party, but about how the electoral work could help further the policy priorities they’d been working on all year. (Below, a table of supplies for the canvassers who helped deliver those victories. Photo: Jeremy Wheatley, Philly DSA Canvassing Committee …
by R.L. Stephens Marquita Stephens is my mother. Ms. Marquita, as my childhood friends would call her, is an indomitable spirit, irrepressible in battle, so relentless that we used to call her the “junkyard dog.” People think I get my conviction from my father—a preacher—but it’s really my mother that taught me strength, that showed…
By Maria Svart Right now, I’m gearing up for the kickoff of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. For the next six weeks, DSAers will be joining tens of thousands of people for direct actions in more than 30 states and the District of Columbia. Find an event near you! You may…
By Evan Heitkamp Boucher Over two weeks from April 7 to April 21, Evan Heitkamp Boucher conducted an email interview with Ilan Pappé, eminent historian of Israel-Palestine, regarding the recent nonviolent protest movement in the Gaza Strip and its place within the nation’s history and the Palestinian struggle. The…
In April the National Political Committee (NPC) of DSA initiated a discussion of labor and the economy. This is one of DSA’s priority issues, but had not been discussed at an NPC meeting. Particularly considering the newly re-formed Democratic Socialist Labor Commission, the NPC felt that an initial discussion of labor issues would be helpful…
