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May 2023

Washington Socialist will be on brief summer hiatus for the summer months.

In this issue

May Day Pasts: Moments and Movements

Kurt Stand
To celebrate May Day as a single event can lead one to miss the spirit that animated its origins as an international workers holiday.

Book Review: 'A Spectre, Haunting: on the Communist Manifesto'

Woody Woodruff
Assessing the power of the Manifesto today, Miéville illuminates the document’s power as prediction, prophecy and call to revolution.

2023 MPD Budget Oversight Testimony

Elizabeth Tang
To enhance the safety of all residents in the District, DC must embrace a decarceral regimen that funds care and support, not cages and violence.

A 2023 Delegate’s Guide to Learning from the 2021 Convention (Or: A Mandate, not a Menu)

Gary zZz and Shane K
Nearly two years out, was the DSA successful in implementing the will decided by the 2021 National Convention?