Recent electoral success has thrust DSA and its program into the media spotlight. Rather than retreating and capitulating in response to attempts to discredit and undermine us, DSA members should expe...

Multiracial organizing and the racial class question in the U.S. continues to be hotly debated within DSA and on the left. In observation of Black August, Christina W. interviewed fellow Red Star memb...

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Hazel W. makes the Marxist case for abolition against the left's growing accommodation to policing and prisons.

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Red Star weighs in on the prospect of a DSA endorsement in the 2028 presidential election.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), darling DSA Socialist in Office (SIO), has received her fifth consecutive endorsement from NYC-DSA. She is sailing towards what is almost assuredly a safe re-election a...

[T]he working class cannot simply lay hold of the ready-made state machinery, and wield it for its own purposes. - Marx [R]evolutionaries who are incapable of combining illegal forms of struggle wit...

Matt N. also contributed research for this piece  With the recent U.S. attack on Iran and the unfolding war, socialists in the U.S. are faced with how to respond as anti-imperialists within the imper...

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As Red Star’s 2025 convention platform argues, organization is the principal task of electoralism in DSA. The primary role of elections is not to win reforms for their own sake, but to strengthen DSA,...

Kim Moody’s Rank and File Strategy, written in 2000, has become a touchstone of modern Socialist Labor Organizing. Primarily this is through Moody’s involvement with Labor Notes and Teamsters for a De...

DSA stands in solidarity with Venezuela and voices our broad support for self-determination and socialism in the country, free of continued US interference and sanctions.

The Trump Administration has started an illegal war against Venezuela. Join us for a mass call to discuss how Democratic Socialists of America is responding and what you can do to resist this illegal ...

As COVID-19 continues to endanger the health of people throughout the world, it also magnifies a long-existent global humanitarian crisis: The use of sanctions by the United States and other powers as...

In this News Brief, we detail how the AP, Atlantic, Washington Post and New York Times are accepting Trump's framing that his attacks on Venezuela and Colombia are about "going after drug cartels" whe...

With recent primary election wins by candidates like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, James Thompson, Julia Salazar and others, the terms “socialist” and “democratic socialist” are everywhere....

Venezuela has been the stuff of frontpage news extravaganzas, especially since the death of Hugo Chávez. With predictable bias, mainstream media focus on violent clashes between opposition and governm...

Since 2011, a wave of popular mobilizations has swept the globe, from Occupy to the Arab Spring, 15M in Spain and the uprisings in Greece. Their demands were varied, but what they share is a commitmen...

A sweeping, insightful history from below of the Bolivarian Revolution and its efforts to build socialism in the 21st century.

Marta Harnecker's interviews with Hugo Chavez began soon after one of the most dramatic moments of Chavez's presidency—the failed coup of April 2002, which...

“Chávez. That was their cry. Chávez. It was enough.” –from the Introduction Hugo Chávez’s speeches are a call to action, challenging us to take up the task of building a socialism that emerges from ou...

Red Star stands alongside DSA in opposition to the United States government’s acts of escalating aggression against Venezuela, including the abduction of President Nicolás Maduro. In an effort to help...

The Trump Administration has started an illegal war against Venezuela. This is a nakedly imperialist war to install a US puppet government that will give Venezuela’s oil resources over to US corporati...

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Hello from Red Star! Curious about what we’ve been up to? Read on to find out! Red Star on the Ballot The New Orleans municipal primary election was held October 11th and featured four New Orleans ...