from the heart of empire...

...the WASHINGTON SOCIALIST is a quarterly publication produced by socialists, workers, leftists, progressives, anarchists, and activists in the Metro DC region.

CURRENT ISSUE tOPIC hUB lEARN MORE DC REDBUG GE2022 DSA ELECTORAL 2021 PaST iSSUES

In this QUARTER's issue...

A Socialist Army Marches on its Stomach

The Iran War sends the world a stern warning about neglecting food systems transformation.

Jesse Jackson and The Rainbow Coalition: Keeping Hope Alive

Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition offered a model for success for today's Left, writes an author who helped build DC's Rainbow.

Locked Votes: How Initiative 83's implementation disenfranchises DC

Kurtis H and Patrick Dalton

While the initiative to implement ranked-choice voting in DC purported to give voters more power, its implementation may do the opposite.

District of Connecticut: The Rise of Brooke Pinto

Brooke Pinto wants to represent the District in Congress. What does her policymaking history tell DC voters?

So You’ve Been the Target of a Zionist Media Smear...

Zionist propaganda violently narrows the core of Jewish identity into a relation to a settler nation-state. The Jewish left and allies must loudly reject this lazy media hackwork.

Popular articles

The Socialist Case for TOPA

Kurtis H 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.