Since October 7th, 2020, protests have raged throughout many of Nigeria’s cities demanding the dismantlement of the notorious Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) and a thorough transformation of Nigerian police forces. Video showing officers murdering an unarmed man on camera went viral. This brutality was only the latest act of violence from a police unit known…
This week, Congress reminded us all how little regard they hold for the needs of the working class. Republicans prioritized a rush vote on Amy Coney Barrett while millions of us have been waiting on relief from the pandemic, and Democratic party leadership failed to use the many procedural tools they’d promised to use to…
Walter Wallace Jr. was murdered last night, another human being killed at the hands of the police. Another Black working class man in Philadelphia was killed while his community and his family helplessly pleaded for his life. The Democratic Socialists of America mourns with every human being, and we mourn specifically with the Black community…
Hundreds of thousands of us marched, rallied, and demanded justice in the almost three months since the murder of George Floyd. While the media began to look away from weeks of protests, we, the people, remain resolute in our calls of Black Lives Matter. For George, for Breonna Taylor, for Ahmaud Arbery, and most recently,…
Minutes for the April 2020 National Political Committee (NPC) Meeting are available at this link.
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…
