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In this QUARTER's issue...

Metro DC DSA Elects Eclectic Delegation for the 2025 National DSA Convention

Metro DC has elected a range of political tendencies to represent the chapter at the 2025 convention; a brief analysis.

Rank-and-File Organizing: Letter Carriers 1970–1978

Speaking to a renewed age of public-sector austerity, a history of US postal worker organizing

Against ANCs Altogether

How should DC's socialists engage with Advisory Neighborhood Commissions?

A Hyperrealist Afterlife in Mark Fisher's "Flatine Constructs"

Review of Mark Fisher's dissertation and the strategic limits of Marxist cultural criticism.

Addressing the Betrayal of the Black Community and the Need for Unity Against Fascism

Rev. Graylan Hagler

Has the US Left's failure to unite around a Black presidential candidate damaged trust and relations of solidarity?

Book Review: 'What’s Left'

David Schwartzman

A review of Malcolm Harris' recent ecosocialist proposals.

Suzanne Crowell: Presente!

Remembering democratic socialist Suzanne Crowell, who passed away on June 15, 2025.

Being Disciplined in an Online World of Cruelty

An empathetic understanding of a recent DSA social-media discourse and questions about caucuses and representation

The Emerging Boycott Movement Against MAGA

Boycotts to protect DEI and workplace diversity are strengthened by lessons from the Black civil rights movement

Popular articles

The Socialist Case for TOPA

Alan Kelly and Ray Valentine

Preservation of TOPA is more than just a foundational right for the DC's tenants, it is also a vital point of agitation between the rentier capitalist class and workers.

The Capitalist War On Telework: Why Managers Suppress Pro-Worker Innovation

A new vision for technology can radically challenge the myth that capitalism is the fastest route to innovation and progress for working people.

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.

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.