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In this month's issue...

2023 DSA National Convention Retrospective: ‘The Point, However, Is to Change It'

Irene K. and Ben D.

At the DSA's biennial convention, more than a thousand elected delegates descended on Chicago to decide the future of the organization.

What’s at stake in the Trump indictments

As Donald Trump's Summer of Reckoning nears an end, the rest of us enter uncharted territory.

Should the public trust approval voting?

Alex Mell-Taylor

An innocuous sounding voting system is being boosted by some of the biggest enemies of the working-class.

Book Review: American Midnight

Adam Hochschild's historical account on turn of the century political repression echoes the struggles faced by socialists in the present.

Campaigns Council 2023 Midyear Report

Metro DC DSA's campaigns and working groups report back on their successes and operations half-way through 2023.

A New Chapter in Accessibility: MDC DSA commits to hybrid GBMs

Community & Solidarity Caucus

A new local caucus describes its approach to improving the local DSA's internal operations.

Popular articles

The 2022 DC Primaries and the Future of the District

An analysis of the District 2022 primary elections suggest DC is depolarizing around race and repolaring around class.

China and the Left: A Report from the People’s Forum

A recent forum out of NYC sought to challenge the American left on its approach to understanding US-China relations.

Learning to Love the Machine: Some Assembly Required

Socialists of all stripes should reckon that we may need to rebuild at the local level the very thing we’ve been fighting for years.

DC's Community Response to COVID-19: A Lesson in Solidarity

Community groups, political organizations, and mutual aid networks rallied to confront the District government's bumbling vaccine rollout.

The Metro DC Socialist Mobilization Model

Shane K and Ryan Mosgrove

One approach for mobilizing the working masses into socialist political operations.

The Liberal-to-Ultraleft Pipeline: Breaking the Cycle

Recent critiques levied at DSA peddle in an aesthetic-radicalism that risks distracting the working-class from organizing itself into a disciplined political force.