March 18, 2020
People across the country faced an impossible choice yesterday: cast a ballot for the Democratic nomination or flout CDC guidelines and risk spreading or contracting the coronavirus as a worldwide pandemic rages on. Illinois, Florida, and Arizona allowed their primaries to move forward yesterday despite major public health concerns and a crumbling electoral infrastructure, and…
March 12, 2020
UPDATE: Sign DSA’s petition for a working class solution to the COVID-19 crisis! From the 2008 global financial collapse to the natural disasters caused by climate change that rocked Northern California, New Orleans, New York, and Puerto Rico, capitalism is causing devastating human crises. During each of these crises, it has been poor, working-class, and…
March 11, 2020
DSA supports a full moratorium on deportations and urges the Bernie Sanders campaign to stand with immigrants in reaffirming commitment to a complete moratorium on deportations, with no exceptions, as the campaign has done in the past. Bernie Sanders has the strongest platform for immigrant rights of any of the Democratic candidates. Under Sanders’ “A…
March 11, 2020
DSA stands in solidarity with the Salvadoran popular movement, the Salvadoran diaspora, the Salvadoran American youth, and the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) and condemns an alarming power grab by President Nayib Bukele. On Friday, February 7, Bukele deployed the National Civilian Police and the Armed Forces to occupy the Legislative Assembly in an…
March 11, 2020
The political establishment of the Democratic Party, running a campaign intent on maintaining the status quo, is once again relying on long voting lines, the deep pockets of corporate super PACs, armies of paid “volunteers” and consultants, and control of the airwaves and major newspapers to wrest the election from the hands of the working…
March 4, 2020
Yesterday we won California. We won Vermont, Utah, and Colorado. But we did so much more than that. Projections have Bernie receiving nearly five million votes on Super Tuesday. That means five million people voted for a democratic socialist. Working-class people are demanding Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, strong unions, just immigration policies,…
March 3, 2020
We are at a critical moment. Sex-worker-led movements all over the world are engaged in an existential struggle to win basic human and labor rights for one of the most criminalized, stigmatized, and persecuted workforces in history. Often spoken over but rarely listened to, current workers engaged in the trade of sex and erotic services…
March 2, 2020
The Democratic Socialists of America offer our solidarity and gratitude to the Wet’suwet’en Nation for their ongoing struggle to protect their traditional territories and land from the construction of TC Energy’s (a.k.a. TransCanada) 416-mile, $4.7 billion Coastal GasLink pipeline. We also extend our deep admiration and support to the Mohawk, Gitxsan, and other Indigenous and…
February 29, 2020
The political establishment of the Democratic Party has war chests filled by billionaires, armies of paid canvassers and consultants, and control of the airwaves and major newspapers. Panicked by Senator Sanders’s momentum, and following his incredible and overwhelming victory in Nevada, they bought their way to a win in South Carolina tonight. As DSA, we’re…
February 12, 2020
DSA endorses the vision and policy demand statement of the Freedom is the Future campaign, organized by the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights and the Adalah project, two of the largest U.S.-based Palestine solidarity organizations. The statement has been endorsed by a large number of leftist and progressive organizations and individuals in the United States,…
