What do Marxists Mean by Historical Progress? Looking at the mistakes of Yesterday and Tomorrow.

Zohran won the executive seat, but that's not enough. Nik M argues that socialists must take the City Council to give the movement's demands an institutional voice.

The U.S.-ordered arrest of Fergie Chambers in Spain last week marks a dangerous escalation in the criminalization of Palestine solidarity.

NYC-YDSA co-chairs Cass B and Matthew Smith make the case for a convention amendment to turn YDSA into a proper youth wing of the chapter.

Why the unfinished work of policing, prevention, and public investment still matters to New Yorkers and should matter to socialists.

Can the left plan its way out of ecological collapse? A review of Malcolm Harris's What's Left? and its case for walking three strategic paths at once.

Rather than a deterministic base and superstructure, Devin G. revisits Marx's mode of production thesis: a fluid, synoptic totality grounded in human activity.

By Will Beaman Seattle is once again being told that a projected budget deficit requires difficult choices about which public commitments the city can continue to honor. Councilmember Robert Kettle…

The left's task is not to co-manage decline with the moderate Democrats but to prepare for rupture. Nik M. calls for the resumption of America's Democratic Revolution.

Time is running out to overthrow the technofascist empire. Cassandra Luna closes her series with a call to abandon dogma and do politics on the masses' terms.

In part two of her three-part series, Cassandra Luna argues that the left must embrace mutation and biotechnics, for only the producing class can exist without exploitation.

The opening essay in a new series from Cassandra Luna, introducing transocialism: a technopolitics that treats the body itself as our means of production.

Concretizing communism in a country of no nation.

KPÖ organizer Ivan Roskic on how Austria's communists win: show up for people and turn affordability into a class fight.

Fifty years after the death of Mao Zedong, Devin G explores why a 20th-century Chinese revolutionary still resonates in the heart of the empire.

Anthropic and OpenAI are expanding into New York City. Zachary Jones makes the case that NYC-DSA should lead the fight to bring AI under democratic control.

New York wants to demolish the Fulton and Elliott-Chelsea public housing complexes and rebuild them mostly as market-rate housing. Layla Law-Gisiko shows why it is a bad deal for NYCHA residents.

Austin DSA’s experience shows that liberal ideas of police reform aren’t enough, and socialists must adopt an abolitionist approach.

A movement that reshapes what society values is practicing socialism, even if it never says the word. Kolya Ludwig on hegemony, populism, and the mass subject.

The island's water crisis runs deeper than drought. It is the product of a colonial system, and the mass protests cannot fizzle out as they did in 2019.

There are no magic words that will purify a candidate seeking electoral power. The DSA must stop policing purity and start organizing the insurgency into a force that can win.

Nithya Raman has won the official endorsement of DSA-LA. J. Ryder argues that the entire chapter should now mobilize and unite under a permanent campaign to build a socialist pole in LA and defeat Kar...

Nithya Raman has won the official endorsement of DSA-LA. J. Ryder argues that the entire chapter should now mobilize and unite under a permanent campaign to build a socialist pole in LA and defeat Karen Bass.

As the far-right moves to criminalize anti-imperialist dissent, Finn S. calls on the left to set aside its factions and defend one another.

Carrie S exposes the physical toll of hyperscale data centers and urges us to recognize that our survival depends on the struggle for solidarity.

The time to distinguish modern American socialism is now. DSA can make this happen.

Is left populism the answer to the revolutionary impasse of the 21st century? In his latest, Matthew Hunter takes on Chantal Mouffe’s theory expounded in her work For A Left Populism, interrogating its Eurocentric and reformist characteristics.

Nithya Raman fought the tech landlords and earned their enmity. With the Olympics looming, DSA-LA union members argue she is the mayor workers need.

Reflecting on his organizing in DSA San Diego, Aldo B. argues that electoralism, direct action, and mutual aid become revolutionary only when combined under a single democratic strategy.

To win workers, DSA-LA needs a city that works. Endorsing Nithya Raman for mayor is how the chapter leads a coalition rather than tailing liberal NGOs and unions.

Subcultures have never been a retreat from politics. They have always been terrain of class struggle, and socialists who forget this abandon some of the richest ground the left has.

Members of DSA-LA who oppose endorsing Nithya Raman for Mayor make the case as to why she has not truly earned the chapter's formal approval.

Nixon's upset is historic. It also carries a lesson: without organizing the Black masses, the left-populist wave will never threaten national power.

What can Abdul El-Sayed and Francesca Hong teach us about ground games, air wars, and taking socialist politics statewide?

The Argument for AI Populism

As the left continues to grow throughout the country, questions of strategy and goals are becoming increasingly salient. T. Joad argues that the struggle for a shorter workweek is a central political demand of the working class.

Between 1844 and 1856, the fight over slavery's expansion turned a partisan order into a sectional one, collapsing the Whigs and birthing the Republicans. A case study in political realignment.

Union workers rally at Disney’s D23 to demand fair wages. Matthew J. Hunter and Danny Estrada detail the long class struggle at the House of Mouse. 

The movement for a democratic revolution cannot be stifled by reformist deliverism.