We can win. Friday, July 10 the United Teachers of Los Angeles released a poll of their membership showing 83% wanted full distance learning as the school year starts. Monday, July 13 the school district announced it would be so. Chicago was even faster. This past Tuesday, the Chicago Teachers Union called for a strike…
Summer is in full swing and conditions in the U.S. are continuing to deteriorate. The fear and uncertainty about whether another round of relief will be passed federally is only being outweighed by the amount of outrage at the continued escalation of brutal tactics by police and unmarked federal officers on the streets of Portland…
We all need health care, PPE if we are exposed at work, and a roof over our heads. We all need to feel that if we come together, we can overcome what’s happening right now. That we have a future. Instead we face a wave of 28 million evictions at the end of this month…
Since we last wrote, working class people across our country have risen up in defense of black lives and to demand justice for the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. Thousands of DSA members in major cities, suburban neighborhoods, and even rural communities have joined these popular mobilizations and we in the NPC…
Note: please note after this Dispatch was posted, several announced events were re-scheduled in solidarity with the ongoing uprising in defense of black lives. Rescheduled calls are marked as updated and the new dates included. Defund the police. Fund healthcare, unemployment benefits and PPE. Defend black lives. Defend democracy. Simple demands, yet it takes an…
The Fight Continues This bulletin was started to provide socialist analysis of a crisis that was still unfolding, as a complement to DSA’s emergency COVID-19 response. As the crisis has become our new normal, that response has taken on a more permanent character. We’re phasing out this bulletin, but our fight continues. We are in…
“Only a crisis — actual or perceived — produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes the politically inevitable.”…
The DSA COVID-19 Bulletin from the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is designed to keep working-class people informed about the evolving COVID-19 crisis and its political implications. If you’d like to get the DSA COVID-19 Bulletin by email, sign up here, and share this link with your friends and comrades! Anyone can sign up. New…
The DSA COVID-19 Bulletin from the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is designed to keep working-class people informed about the evolving COVID-19 crisis and its political implications. If you’d like to get the DSA COVID-19 Bulletin by email, sign up here, and share this link with your friends and comrades! Anyone can sign up. New…
The DSA COVID-19 Bulletin from the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is designed to keep working-class people informed about the evolving COVID-19 crisis and its political implications. If you’d like to get the DSA COVID-19 Bulletin by email, sign up here, and share this link with your friends and comrades! Anyone can sign up. New…
