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In a state legislative race in Rhode Island, the two candidates will be the Democratic nominee and a DSA-backed independent. A leader in Rhode Island DSA explains why they’re skipping the Democratic ballot line.

You don’t need to agree with “The Blueprint” that market socialism and workplace democracy beat central planning to see that a vision of how socialism would work is a key organizing tool.

A testimonial from a comrade working their way through America’s war on the homeless.

Bernie joins Angie Nixon in Florida, Larry David joins DSA, and more in this edition of “Red All Over,” Democratic Left’s occasional news roundup.

DSA’s candidate for a Los Angeles congressional seat hopes to defeat a major recipient of AIPAC cash by making clear that U.S. imperialism comes at a cost to the well-being of Americans — and of people around the world.

Post-World War II anti-communist hysteria hit Puerto Rico through legal assaults and J. Edgar Hoover’s clandestine tricks. Although the FBI met unexpected resistance, the strategy cemented Puerto Rico’s status as a powerless “commonwealth.”

Many countries recognize rights to housing, healthcare, and other components of a dignified life in their governing documents. The U.S. should follow suit.

Digger, a 2026 satirical black comedy directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and starring Tom Cruise, has been drowned in discourse since its release. Socialists should cut through the noise and appreciate the film for what it really is — a call to action in a world that desperately needs it.

Ilhan Omar raid illustrates “fascist police state,” Mamdani under pressure over NYPD boss Tisch, and more in this edition of “Red All Over,” Democratic Left’s occasional news roundup.

Policy gains are unlikely so long as Trump holds the presidency — but a historically large socialist bloc in Congress could demand changes to how the House is run that would shape the body’s post-Trump trajectory.

Far from his chalkboard equations, the world’s most famous physicist turned his attention to what he called the "economic anarchy of capitalist society" in a short, radical essay titled "Why Socialism?" in the inaugural issue of Monthly Review.

A rural, wine-producing area of eastern Washington is exposed to new ways of thinking as like-minded socialists find each other — and win.

Gen Z is warming to socialism, though they’re not ready to be labeled. This and more in Red All Over, Democratic Left’s occasional round-up of media coverage.

By organizing statewide to back State Rep. Shaun Scott’s push to tax the rich, DSA had an impact much larger than its legislative delegation. The state’s socialists-in-office committee discussed the experience at a recent retreat.

With the undemocratic constitution off our backs and a new political playing field, a better world will be possible.

An AutoZone location unionizes, strong results in Delaware, Raman leads in the polls, and more in Chapter and Verse, Democratic Left’s monthly round-up of chapter news.

As the only New York elected from Ecuador who represents Latino immigrants living through a political crisis, I reflected on what it meant to return to my homeland which is suffering from a parallel crisis of democracy in @democraticleft.bsky.social: democraticleft.dsausa.org/2026/09/28/a...

Contemporary authoritarianism and exploitation of the Filipino working class are rooted in the Philippines' past as a U.S. colony.

Sixty candidates and some sitting U.S. Congress members signed a pledge saying “we are capitalist, not socialist” — but polls suggest they are increasingly out of line with the trend of public opinion.

Thousands of New Yorkers protest Benjamin Netanyahu at the United Nations.

A member of Brazil’s Socialism and Liberty Party (PSOL) discusses their alliance with Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s Workers’ Party (PT) to beat the far right — and the stakes riding on the defeat of Trumpism for Brazil and the rest of the world.

The cost of the long-term care of our child is a constant source of anxiety. A just society would not punish its vulnerable members for their inability to compete on the capitalist market.

New York Assemblymember Diana Moreno discusses the collapse into violence of her native Ecuador with U.S. collusion.

Public schools returning to democratic civic education can help save public education and working class politics.

Democratic Left interviews Police Reform Organizing Project Director Robert Gangi about Zohran Mamdani and the NYPD.

DSA members gathered in Chicago this summer for organizer training and discussion of urgent issues facing the organization. Event organizers spoke with the Class podcast about their vision for the event.

Our interview with Vice-Chair Martha Kleedörfer, vice-chair of Die Linke in Berlin. In Die Linke's surge Kleedörfer secured a seat in the Berlin House of Representatives, doubling the party's share of the vote in her constituency.

Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor launched their book tour for “End Time Fascism: and the Fight for the Living World” on a DSA mass call on Thursday.

A right to bargain would give many workers in this country a brand-new experience: a chance to change their reality on the job.

Among other DSA news items from around the country, this month's "Chapter and Verse" featured an interactive precinct map of Francesca Hong's campaign for governor of Wisconsin (and many other August primaries). democraticleft.dsausa.org/2026/09/06/c...

Devin Thomas O’Shea’s The Veiled Prophet profiles a not-so-secret secret society that presided over a troubled and troubling metropolis.

An interview with Die Linke’s Berlin vice-chair on the party’s growth, expropriating big landlords, and the developing art of German canvassing.

Neither The Complicit Lens nor How to Sell a Genocide is easy reading — but both books are immensely valuable for their thorough and unsparing indictments of how powerful media have worked to manufacture consent for one of the most atrocious campaigns of mass murder in recent memory.

A plan for universal healthcare in Pennsylvania, a stand with nurses in Boston, two high-profile mayoral endorsements, and much more in this month’s edition of “Chapter and Verse.”

Congressional condemnation, cash for influencers, and covert sympathy with DSA-style politics in this edition of Democratic Left's occasional round-up of media coverage of DSA.

Labor organizer Evan MacKay came within 50 votes of unseating a Cambridge, Mass., state representative in 2024. Tonight, Boston DSA takes another run at the prize.

At this moment, when free speech is being chilled, we must move into every frontier, unafraid to tell people who we are, what we stand for, and what we want to build.

Democratic Left interviews the co-chairs of @socialists.nyc's electoral working group on the strategic decisions behind the chapter’s near sweep in June.

We shouldn’t internalize bad-faith criticisms of the corporate media and the party duopoly. The fact that the media are so obviously terrified of an ascendant Left means that we are on the right track. We will ride that wave of energy and attention to victory.

Where DSA candidates in St. Louis, Detroit, Denver, and Southeast Florida did best, mapped by precinct.

Why did New York City's most powerful unions struggle to pick winners in this year's primaries? An endorsement process that does not include or activate the rank and file. New in Democratic Left.

The health coverage cliff, the budget gaps, the bureaucratic siege on families like mine all have the same fundamental answer: the New York Health Act.

Three DSA members discuss the intersection of socialism and sports fandom on this episode of "Class," the podcast of the National Political Education Committee.

A roundup of recent coverage of DSA's "Workers Deserve More" program.

Two DSA members discuss the drafting of the Workers Deserve More Program on this episode of “Class,” the podcast of the National Political Education Committee.

Democratic Left's live blog recaps last week’s results in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Vermont. Tonight's Florida results will be reported as they become available. democraticleft.dsausa.org/2026/08/18/e...

The result of an attempt to shut down a DSA-backed rally in Florida? A larger crowd and lots of press coverage.

Democratic Left will be reporting on the performance of Cori Bush, Donavan McKinney and down-ballot DSA candidates in the Aug. 4 primary.

Chapters in Missouri, Michigan and Wisconsin have cued up crucial primaries in early August. This and more chapter news in the July edition of “Chapter and Verse.”

Bush is fighting to reclaim a seat in the U.S. House that was lost to a historic barrage of cash in 2024. Election day in Missouri is Aug. 4.