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In this QUARTER's issue...

2024 Steering Committee Report

Spring 2025
MDC DSA Steering Committee
Update delivered to the chapter at the 2024 MDC DSA chapter convention.

2025 MPD Performance Oversight Testimony

Spring 2025
Elizabeth Tang
As MPD now collaborates with fascists maneuvering for a coup of the US Government, DC divestment from MPD is more important than ever.

Regulators promised to review Pepco's spending. They approved a rate increase instead.

Spring 2025
Harrison Pyros
By 2027, Pepco will have captured $231 million more in rates, taking nearly a quarter billion dollars from DC residents and businesses.

Understanding Our Past, Forging Our Future

Spring 2025
Kurt Stand
A misconceived history provides the backdrop of Trump’s MAGA appeal. A free future for the working class requires a real understanding of the past.

After the Great Society Subway, the Green Social Housing Eco-District

Spring 2025
David P and Aparna R
The communities and economies of the DC area were built atop a centrally coordinated public transit system. What if we applied the same for housing?

Rockville tenants fight for rent stabilization

Spring 2025
Matt B
Tenants in Rockville are organizing to bring rent control to their city. Light resistance on their local city council, however, is frustrating ambitions.

Neoliberal Individualism: Undermining Solidarity in Organizing

Spring 2025
Imara C
To resist the corrosive effects of neoliberal individualism, organizing spaces must center democracy, solidarity and collectivism.

It’s Time to Focus on Building Working-Class Organization

Spring 2025
Andrew C
To fight against Trump-flavored fascism, socialists must focus on building authentic proletarian organization.

What does the future of reproductive health look like?

Spring 2025
Alex Mell-Taylor
What might reproductive health look like in a socialist future? An interview with local activist Adele Blow.

Lunchtime Indulgence Made GUILT-FREE: 7+ Ways to Rock the DC Lunch Scene

Spring 2025
Claudia S
Number 3 will SHOCK you!

David Lynch: The Modern Cassandra

Spring 2025
Tom McMahon
A society ruled by violent and antisocial impulse can’t persist. This warning went unheeded, and Troy was sacked. Will we listen to the next Cassandra?

The Stolen Valor of "Honor Flight"

Spring 2025
Steve W
A play on victimhood and political vanity performed in Nowhere, Ohio will leave viewers confused and mystified.

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.