As city council prepared to pass Mayor Lightfoot’s Chicago budget, crowds gathered outside in a “City Hall Haunting” to protest the 2022 budget’s increased police funding and the 2021 budget amendment using…
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Socialism Must Always Be Anti-Fascist
On January 6, 2021, 500 fascists took the US Capitol. We socialists were…
Chicago DSA Goes Viral: An Interview with Sean Estelle
You recently had a video of a protest in downtown Chicago go viral.…
Case Study: Unemployment Day and Collaborative Action
As of this writing, there is a lot of fear that election day,…
Red Rabbits: The Formation of a Trained Marshal Group in Chicago DSA
Reflections on This Summer Like many cities, Chicago saw an explosive number of…
Why Unemployment Day?
Chicago’s first Unemployment Day will be held on Saturday, October 3rd, at 1…
When Weeks Become Decades: Riots and Rebellions
– Almost all progressive change in the United States of America has occurred…
RSL#06: Hasty Reopening Serves the Right Wing War on Workers
Sarah Lazare (@sarahlazare), reporter and web editor for In These Times, joins Red…
Free Heartland Kids: A Campaign to End the Detention of Immigrant Children in Chicago
It seems that each day some new level of horror is unveiled through…
Jason Van Dyke is Guilty of Murdering Laquan McDonald
The Chicago DSA was out at the Emergency Response Rally organized by CAARPR…
The Legacy of Wisconsin’s Act 10
The mass mobilization in response to Wisconsin’s Act 10 of 2011 was unprecedented…
Chicago DSA Rallies Against ICE Deportations
On July 6, in front of a crowd of about 100 people protesting…
Socialists March Against Gun Violence
On March 24, an estimated 85,000 people voiced their support for gun reform…
Necessary Disruptions (and the Illusion of Order)
ST. LOUIS — In September before the Stockley verdict had even been passed…
Chicago DSA Fights to Shut Down Oil Pipeline Under Lake Michigan
It may not be on our minds as we lounge at the beach…