Bloom over edgewood

Summer 2025

Published June, 2025

Cover art by Anonymous.

Additional artwork by Gary zZz, Carolyna M, and Shelby CJ.

Editors this edition: Gary zZz, Claudia S, Woody W, Sam Dee, Paige E, Ken B, and Michael W.

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In this issue

Metro DC DSA Elects Eclectic Delegation for the 2025 National DSA Convention

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

Speaking to a renewed age of public-sector austerity, a history of US postal worker organizing

Against ANCs Altogether

How should DC's socialists engage with Advisory Neighborhood Commissions?

A Hyperrealist Afterlife in Mark Fisher's "Flatine Constructs"

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

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'

David Schwartzman

A review of Malcolm Harris' recent ecosocialist proposals.

Suzanne Crowell: Presente!

Remembering democratic socialist Suzanne Crowell, who passed away on June 15, 2025.

Being Disciplined in an Online World of Cruelty

An empathetic understanding of a recent DSA social-media discourse and questions about caucuses and representation

The Emerging Boycott Movement Against MAGA

Boycotts to protect DEI and workplace diversity are strengthened by lessons from the Black civil rights movement