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Gentrification, Homelessness and Elections: When Does a Difference Make a Difference?

Too often, those elected are content to let business as usual remain unchanged — even in communities, where those elected say all the right things. When can electoral change make a difference?

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.

ATUN 2022 Convention shows potential of a nation-wide tenants network

Stephanie Bastek

The enthusiasm and promise of a nation-wide tenants network was on display at the ATUN 2022 convention.

Good reads and essential traffic from June '22

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White Supremacy and Guns: The Unbroken Link

Whatever demons drive Americans to kill massive numbers of innocent citizens, they’d be stymied without easy access to lethal weaponry.

Mobilizing Membership: The Past, Present and Future of the MEC

How the Metro DC DSA is working to actualize the Membership Engagement Committee.

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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.

DC's Community Response to COVID-19: A Lesson in Solidarity

Community groups, political organizations, and mutual aid networks rallied to confront the District government's bumbling vaccine rollout.

The Metro DC Socialist Mobilization Model

Lauren Katz and Ryan Mosgrove

One approach for mobilizing the working masses into socialist political operations.

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.