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from the heart of empire...
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WASHINGTON SOCIALIST
is a monthly publication produced by socialists, workers, leftists, progressives, anarchists and activists in the Metro DC region.
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2023 DSA National Convention Retrospective: ‘The Point, However, Is to Change It'
September 2023
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
September 2023
Bill Mosley
As Donald Trump's Summer of Reckoning nears an end, the rest of us enter uncharted territory.
Should the public trust approval voting?
September 2023
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
September 2023
Woody Woodruff
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
September 2023
Allison Keats
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
September 2023
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
Summer 2022
Ben D
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
October 2021
Ryan Mosgrove
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
July 2021
Patrick Dalton
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
June 2021
Cesar Ruiz
Community groups, political organizations, and mutual aid networks rallied to confront the District government's bumbling vaccine rollout.
The Metro DC Socialist Mobilization Model
May 2021
Shane K and Ryan Mosgrove
One approach for mobilizing the working masses into socialist political operations.
The Liberal-to-Ultraleft Pipeline: Breaking the Cycle
March 2021
Patrick Dalton
Recent critiques levied at DSA peddle in an aesthetic-radicalism that risks distracting the working-class from organizing itself into a disciplined political force.