Imagine the last five DSA meetings you have been to. Do you feel like you could, without providing excuses, invite a friend or coworker to each of those meetings and feel confident…
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An Assessment of the Socialists Everywhere Project
The Socialists Everywhere Project began in the now-defunct Organizing Committee for the North…
Independence Requires Investment: The Time is Now for an Independent Run
Socialists have to mean what we say and say what we mean. The…
Building Working Class Power in Civil Society
Starting With Gramsci MAGA has put together a fascist coalition of white supremacist,…
Why You Should Protest the Democratic National Convention
Former DSA member Maurice Isserman and fellow author Peter Dreier have expressed concern…
SocFem Queer and Trans Solidarity Statement, August 2021
As socialists, we know that the fall of capitalism necessitates the fall of…
One Step Forward, Three Steps Back – The ‘Crisis’ of Pronouns & Unity For Our Class
So the Chicago Class Unity Caucus played everyone, got the publicity they were…
Introducing the CDSA Internationalism Series
Earlier this year our chapter’s Political Education and Policy Committee voted to create…
Vote for Class Unity in the CDSA branch elections
Chicago DSA is in bad shape. After a year without general meetings, our…
Factions: A Hard Electoral Problem
INTRODUCTION Comrade Sean Duffy wrote a great article. I respond to it here,…
An Examination into Chicago’s Independent Political Organizations
In Chicago, we have a tradition of political organizations called Independent Political Organizations.…
Labor Branch Perspectives — Towards a Socialist Chicago
National Terrain As the working class suffers from the economic fallout of last…
Between Low Hanging Fruit and Full Harvests
As Chicago DSA starts thinking through how we move Towards a Socialist Chicago,…
Want a More Accessible and Democratic Organization? The Answer is Politics, Not Process
As a mass organization, transparency and increased democratic participation are unquestionably important and…
Transparency Requires Labor, Not Legislation
The resolution titled “Transparency and Accountability to Build Socialist Power” and proposed at…
The Uprising and the Vote on the Chicago City Budget
We are finally nearing the end of 2020. The largest uprising in US…
Case Study: Unemployment Day and Collaborative Action
As of this writing, there is a lot of fear that election day,…