Statements

Minutes for the February 2020 National Political Committee (NPC) Meeting are available at this link.

This is a rapid response alert. We will add updates and organizing actions to this statement as the situation unfolds. UPDATE: Pledge to take action with DSA here! The ruling class has rained violence on the working class in the US and abroad since March, using the pandemic crises to further the grip of capitalism…

We are happy to announce that the members of the new leadership of the DSA International Committee (IC) have been formally appointed by the National Political Committee. After a long and thorough vetting process this is a huge step forward in our ongoing process of restructuring the International Committee and begins the process of putting…

Dear friends and comrades: Given the extreme uncertainty about the status and availability of a vaccine for COVID-19, and taking into consideration the financial impact the pandemic has had on our membership, the National Political Committee has decided that DSA shall hold its 2021 convention online. We did not make this decision lightly, as we…

Organized labor must embrace the reality that there is no robust labor movement without the struggle for Black liberation, which requires solidarity against policing, state-sanctioned violence, and all forms of oppression. After pressure from the local Fraternal Order of Police, UFCW Local 1994 President Gino Renne fired Maryland House Delegate, DSA member, and union organizer…

A statement by the DSA National Political Committee Yesterday, the Supreme Court declared the Trump administration’s rescission of DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), an immigration policy allowing for eligible undocumented individuals to receive a renewable two-year work permit and period of deferred action from deportation, “arbitrary and capricious” for failing to provide necessary “reasoned…

As a democratic socialist organization with over 70,000 members in the U.S., we celebrate today’s landmark Supreme Court decision in Bostock vs. Clayton County, Georgia, which has established that employers cannot discriminate against workers based on sexual orientation and gender identity. This decision could make a monumental difference in the lives of millions of people.…

We, the National Political Committee of the Democratic Socialists of America, condemn the public execution of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis police. His murder falls into the deeply entrenched pattern of violence, anti-Blackness, and oppression upheld by policing in this country. There is no justification for it, only contempt for the institution…