The cost of the long-term care of our child is a constant source of anxiety. A just society would not punish its vulnerable members for their inability to compete on the capitalist market.

New York Assemblymember Diana Moreno discusses the collapse into violence of her native Ecuador with U.S. collusion.

Public schools returning to democratic civic education can help save public education and working class politics

Democratic Left interviews Police Reform Organizing Project Director Robert Gangi about Zohran Mamdani and the NYPD.

DSA members gathered in Chicago this summer for organizer training and discussion of urgent issues facing the organization. Event organizers spoke with the Class podcast about their vision for the…

An interview with Die Linke’s Berlin vice-chair on the party’s growth, expropriating big landlords, and the developing art of German canvassing.

Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor launched their book tour for “End Time Fascism: and the Fight for the Living World” on a DSA mass call on Thursday.

A universal right to bargain would turn Simone Weil's philosophy into a concrete tool for building economic democracy in the American workplace.

Devin Thomas O’Shea’s The Veiled Prophet profiles a not-so-secret secret society that presided over a troubled and troubling metropolis.

An interview with Die Linke’s Berlin vice-chair on the party’s growth, expropriating big landlords, and the developing art of German canvassing.

Two new books document how U.S. media enable the Gaza genocide.

Plus a plan for universal healthcare in Pennsylvania, a stand with nurses in Boston, and two high-profile mayoral endorsements in this month’s edition of “Chapter and Verse.”

An occasional round-up of media coverage of DSA.

Labor organizer Evan MacKay came within 50 votes of unseating a Cambridge, Mass., state representative in 2024. Tonight, Boston DSA takes another run at the prize.

DSA should use media to promote its socialist vision and counter corporate media’s distortions.

Democratic Left interviews the co-chairs of New York City DSA’s electoral working group on the strategic decisions behind the chapter’s near sweep in June

DSA candidates across the country are contesting elections, and the narrative that surrounds them

Maps of results for Larkin in Florida, Bush in St. Louis, McKinney in Detroit, and Kiros in Denver.

Unions in New York City and across the country could learn from DSA’s membership-led endorsement process, guided by a political program

The health coverage cliff, the budget gaps, the bureaucratic siege on families like mine all have the same fundamental answer: the New York Health Act.

Three DSA members discuss the intersection of socialism and sports fandom on this episode of "Class," the podcast of the National Political Education Committee.

A roundup of recent coverage of DSA's "Workers Deserve More" program.

Two DSA members discuss the Workers Deserve More Program on this episode of “Class,” the podcast of the National Political Education Committee

Democratic Left will recap last week’s results in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Vermont and report Florida results as they come available.

The result? A larger crowd and lots of press coverage.

Reporting on the performance of Cori Bush, Donavan McKinney and down-ballot candidates in the Aug. 4 primary.

Chapters in Missouri, Michigan and Wisconsin have cued up crucial primaries in early August. This and more chapter news in the July edition of “Chapter and Verse.”

Bush hopes to reclaim a seat in the U.S. House that was lost to a historic barrage of cash in 2024. Election day in Missouri is Aug. 4.

From Thomas Paine to Social Security, Americans have fought for state provision for those in need.

Perspectives on base, superstructure, and nonhuman exploitation.

Former members of the U.S. Communist Party recount their "Red Lives."

Democratic Left invites DSA members to reflect on the birth of the U.S. by imagining a fully democratized America.

DSA is on a winning streak. We must be open to the change that comes with rapid growth and new political power.

“Freeze the Rent,” a key promise in the Mamdani campaign, was fulfilled. Will it be enough to halt gentrification and rising rent burdens?

New York City’s Economic Development Corporation turns public assets into private profits. Will Mamdani keep, kill, or reform the agency?

U.S. socialism is back after a long absence. What’s the big idea?

Far from rejecting the American Dream, today’s democratic socialists are reclaiming its deepest promise: that freedom requires economic security, and democracy must extend into the workplace.

218 likes, 7 comments - sengonzalezny on July 14, 2026: "My statement on Governor Hochul’s Executive Order establishing the first in the nation statewide data center moratorium.".

Bosses fight remote work because it threatens their control over the workforce. Defending remote work collectively can unite workers and strengthen the Left’s political power.

On the ground from Seattle to D.C. and in state legislatures, DSA is pushing for accountability for data center projects.

The lone star radicals in David Griscom’s “The Myth of Red Texas” built power despite state repression. The next chapter of working class politics in Texas is being written today.

Organizing can be exhausting. A leader of Silicon Valley DSA describes how careful construction of a joyful, engaged environment for members revived their chapter.

The Class podcast features a socialist in office (SIO), a socialist candidate, and a political theorist on the benefits and limits of using elections to communicate with and organize the working…

A member of Southwest Michigan DSA reports on a strike at American Axle, a GM supplier. Workers sacrificed to keep the auto industry solvent after ’08 — sacrifices only now being clawed back from…

The sometimes overlooked stories of members of the Communist Party USA have lessons to teach the U.S. Left

Kiros. Valdez. Avila Chevalier. Lewis George. Roy. Rent freeze and budget. Membership surge. All this and more in this edition of Chapter and Verse.

Remarks from Mayor Zohran Mamdani on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence emphasize the U.S. as a site of diversity and radical reinvention.

After a car bomb killed her brother, a prominent opponent of the Pinochet dictatorship, Fabiola Letelier fought back for three decades and transformed human rights law in the process