Howdy, Lawrence DSA Here! We got a bus! We held a nation-wide fundraiser in the month of February and raised over $3,000 to cover the purchase and initial costs of operation of a second-hand school bus. We’ve trained up drivers and mechanics within our chapter and we’re ready to roll.
Whether or not you consider yourself anti-capitalist, you’ve probably heard that tired retort that socialists regularly encounter: “If you hate capitalism so much, why do you have a smartphone? If you were really against capitalism, you’d become an off-the-grid caveman instead of participating in the capitalist system.” The spirit of this argument has prevailed among…
My grandmother Viola Svart passed away last month. She was 101 years old and ready to join my grandfather, but I still mourn her as I celebrate her. She was born a two-month preemie in an Oregon logging town, grew up to go on strike for over a year during the Great Depression as a…
The new issue of Socialist Forum is now live, its theme the climate crisis and the Green New Deal. It’s full of compelling stuff, like Nafis Hasan et al. on taking back the grid, Matt Huber on ecosocialism and penetrating interviews with Jane MacAlevy and Alyssa Battistoni. Click here to see them all. Antonia Stolark’s essay below…
DSA can play a major role in the 2020 Democratic primary, if it moves immediately, forcefully, and visibly to a position alongside the Bernie Sanders field operation. Bernie needs to show as much strength in the field as he has in fund raising if he is to narrow the number of candidates against him. This is essential to his victory. DSA is in a better position than any other organization to contribute toward that early show of strength.
I get a faux-friendly email almost weekly from National Grid, the British multinational that provides my gas and electricity. It reminds me to turn down my thermostat to save money. Because National Grid successfully lobbied Rhode Island regulators to decouple usage from revenue, no matter how much I turn down the thermostat, National Grid will…
Review: Eugene Debs: A Graphic Biography Eugene Victor Debs was America’s foremost socialist in the early decades of the 20th century, and, until Bernie Sanders, its all-time best vote-winner, attracting nearly a million voters as the Socialist Party’s presidential candidate in 1912, 6% of the total. My favorite books about Debs are the 1984 biography…
Once a year we present a list of all the books published by DSA members in the past three years. If we missed yours, please write to dlmagazine@dsausa.org Enjoy! —The editors. Non-fiction Aronson, Ronald, We: Reviving Social Hope (University of Chicago Press, 2017). Hope is far more than a mood or feeling—it’s the very basis of…
A sad reality of the climate crisis that has hit close to home for DSA chapters across the country is the increasingly frequent devastation caused by extreme natural disasters. Over the past two years, hurricanes Florence, Harvey, Irma, and Maria have devastated parts of the United States and Puerto Rico. More recently, the Camp Fire…
Detroit DSA’s mobilization around the Green New Deal started last November, when GM announced that despite earning record profits in 2018, it would be closing five plants in North America (including two in Michigan) and laying off 14,000 workers. The announcement—which came just ten years after taxpayers saved GM from bankruptcy with a $50 billion…
