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WASHINGTON SOCIALIST
is a quarterly publication produced by socialists, workers, leftists, progressives, anarchists and activists in the Metro DC region.
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Metro DC DSA Elects Eclectic Delegation for the 2025 National DSA Convention
Summer 2025
Sam Dee
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
Summer 2025
Kurt Stand
Speaking to a renewed age of public-sector austerity, a history of US postal worker organizing
Against ANCs Altogether
Summer 2025
Patrick Dalton
How should DC's socialists engage with Advisory Neighborhood Commissions?
A Hyperrealist Afterlife in Mark Fisher's "Flatine Constructs"
Summer 2025
Maxwell Rott
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
Summer 2025
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'
Summer 2025
David Schwartzman
A review of Malcolm Harris' recent ecosocialist proposals.
Suzanne Crowell: Presente!
Summer 2025
Kurt Stand
Remembering democratic socialist Suzanne Crowell, who passed away on June 15, 2025.
Being Disciplined in an Online World of Cruelty
Summer 2025
Guido V.
An empathetic understanding of a recent DSA social-media discourse and questions about caucuses and representation
The Emerging Boycott Movement Against MAGA
Summer 2025
Jamal Rich
Boycotts to protect DEI and workplace diversity are strengthened by lessons from the Black civil rights movement
Popular articles
The Socialist Case for TOPA
Spring 2024
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
Spring 2024
Frankie SF
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
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.
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.