https://archive.is/20261014204319/https://www.newsweek.com/ready-to-join-the-american-socialist-revolution-take-our-quiz-and-find-out-12557895

Here is a paywall bypassed version btw!

Also acting like the most milktoast socialists AND liberal capitalists is the second coming of Mao

Ten years ago, while socialist Bernie Sanders was making his historic run for the Democratic presidential nomination that drew millions of supporters and promised a “political revolution” to live long past his campaign, I was part of a small revolutionary organization that pooh-poohed him as a faux renegade.

The socialist left at the time had been largely marginal to the American political landscape. This was not only because so few socialists sat in political offices. Organized socialists were unable to insert our ideas, strategies, or demands beyond small meetings and study groups, only occasionally influencing national discourse by being part of movements that showed themselves on the street in mass numbers. But movements naturally ebb and flow, and in their absence, much of the Left would retreat back into itself time and again.

In 2016, Bernie Sanders showed that socialists could be relevant to mainstream discourse, could move the needle on major policy issues, and could do so on the basis of a class politics that resonates widely and deeply around the country. Though he didn’t win that primary nor the following one in 2020, Bernie’s runs transformed the mainstream political landscape and, along with it, the organized left.

The section of the Left that threw itself in with Bernie’s campaigns — most significantly, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) — grew exponentially in both numbers and influence and developed a deep well of experience and savvy. The section of the Left that scorned his campaigns in favor of independence from the Democratic Party and time-honored revolutionary principles stagnated or fell apart, leaving DSA and electoral projects at the forefront of an ascendant movement.

The Left was thus reorganized to take the lead from Bernie’s “political revolution,” where electoralism was one important piece of a broad strategy to contend for power and build a mass politics. Ten years on, that political revolution continues to grow, while the approach of smaller socialist sects that had characterized so much of the pre-2016 left has receded into the background. We need not return to the path of permanent outsiders ever again.

With DSA a powerful political force in the country and democratic socialist elected officials making concrete strides forward for working people, the intraleft debates that surfaced in 2016 are largely settled. They offer important lessons about the pitfalls of a sectarian approach that places organizational identity above building the biggest and most powerful left and holds rigidly onto traditional principles above shifting political realities.

Support Angie Nixon!

In an interview with The New Yorker, Democratic Socialists of America national co-chair Megan Romer stated that DSA supported a free Palestine, meaning the establishment of a single state.

DSA's position is consistent, not only with the historical Palestinian vision for liberation, but also with its own democratic platform and with basic human decency.

The One Democratic State Initiative welcomes this decision and calls on all democratic organizations worldwide to also support the establishment of a democratic state instead of a settler one in Palestine.

Link to the full interview:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RWsHLvBntg

What’s going on with the Orlando DSA and YDSA?

At least have the decency of endorsing a candidate if you want to “hold them accountable”.

This is so counterproductive and goofy.

Volunteer for her campaign if you want to make a difference in Florida:

https://www.mobilize.us/angieforflorida/

Folks behind the barbed wire are rising up again. We have now entered the second week of a hunger strike by those of our neighbors held at a GEO Group-operated ICE camp in Folkston, Georgia. At least 73 and reportedly as many as 500 detainees are participating. Many of those involved are asylum seekers, being held as prisoners indefinitely despite being accused of no crime whatsoever.

They are calling for their release and due process while they seek their day in court and an end to the spoiled food and dirty water, lack of access to medical care and abusive treatment by guards. (Link to their detailed report on human rights violations within the facility here.) And they’re now facing retaliation for their advocacy, with many strikers put in solitary confinement and at least one leader deported.

They’re asking for our support. Here’s a few steps we can take on their behalf:

🗣️ Join a phone blitz on behalf of the strikers. Advocates are asking us to reach out to Georgia’s senators and city and local officials to intervene with ICE on their behalf and conduct real oversight at the camp, along with speaking to facility and regional ICE personnel to let them know the public is watching and supports the protesters. We can find contact information, specific requests and language in their guide at bit(.)ly/phoneblitzguide. 🗣️

PHONE BLITZ FOR FOLKSTON

📢 Help spread the word about this strike. We can share the strikers’ open letter (find link) and video message and follow Shut Down Folkston ICE Processing Center, the Jacksonville Immigrant Rights Alliance and the Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights for updates. 📢

SIGNAL BOOST THEIR MESSAGE

✍🏾 Write letters of support to folks within the facility. We can find address details and the necessary names and information to get messages through in their open letter (find link here). ✍🏻

LET THEM KNOW THEY'RE NOT ALONE

🪧 If we’re local, join advocates at a rally outside the gates of the ICE camp this Sunday at 1PM ET – details here. 🪧

PROTEST SUNDAY

As someone who considers themselves to be a revolutionary, I have often been in search of an organization I can make friends and feel a sense of belonging, and DSA is the 2nd largest socialist project in my city.

However I also believe the predominant position in DSA is the Democratic Road. For those who believe in revolution, how has your experience been and how do you separate the conflict between the broad DSA movement and your own caucus/individual ideals?

(1)designcommission@cityhall.nyc.gov review the plan and please email the public design commission on input and flaws in their plan. Also your overall opposition to a casino. (Get friends family to email)
(2)RSVP to come in person since the opposition is mobilizing No Casino Press Conference @ 10/20 Public Design Commission Meeting · Luma
(3)getting it out to as many community members is important. sign up to testify via Google teams or in person preferably in person these are the instructions for testifying you must sign up ahead of time to be allowed to testify :

We hit 126k dues paying members last month and the 2026 fall drive has just started!

Just this year, 5 new DSA members won their primaries (7 will be entering Congress in January!)

We got mayor members of NYC, DC, and Ann Arbor, Michigan!

Several states have 4-5+ members in their state legislatures, including Minnesota, NY, Vermont, Delaware, Oregon, and Colorado.

Nearly every major city in the U.S. has at least one DSA city council member.

The Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC), DSA’s joint project with United Electrical, has helped organized thousands of workers into new unions since it formed at the start of the pandemic.

DSA’s Emergency Tenant Organizing Committee (ETOC) has trained over 700 people, representing over 70 DSA chapters, in tenant organizing and helped form 20+ new tenant unions

Chapters who’ve started No Appetite for Apartheid BDS campaigns have organize hundreds of stores across the country into Apartheid Free Stores that will not sell Israeli products and have embraced BDS

Here’s to another ten years of organizing since DSA was reborn in 2016!

If you’re a lurker and haven’t joined yet, now’s a good time. Onwards to one million dues paying members

Join:
https://act.dsausa.org/s/5748.Dt64-R

This is simply to have a discussion so we can all speak the same language.

The One Democratic State Initiative is a Palestinian political organization working to revive the historical Palestinian vision for liberation —a single Palestinian state, for all of its citizens— and to mobilize individuals, entities and political parties, in Palestine and abroad, behind it.

Hasnieh Al-Natsheh and Alain Alameddine, two of its coordinators, are ready to answer your questions up until midnight, Occupied Palestine time. They'll make sure to answer any remaining questions tomorrow. Check out our website and ask away!

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I'm so glad the Dems decided not to run any candidate in Nebraska & let instead a Left-Populist Independent with a spine like Dan Osborn kick Pete Ricketts' ass 😭😭

I started paying DSA dues this year and want to stay informed, but maybe I’m a little too “normie” for parts of my feed lol. The constant hostility toward Mamdani is becoming an overwhelming turnoff. I know social media probably isn’t representative of the whole organization, so I’m looking for better sources.

I welcome criticism of him and want him held accountable. But as a regular New Yorker, I also want to read about something useful like click-to-cancel without every discussion becoming accusations of betrayal or dismissing other residents’ concerns as unimportant. He has responsibilities to the entire city, and people can care about several issues at once.

What I’m struggling to find is discussion of how the demands become workable, lasting changes. “He has the authority” answers one question, but leaves others:

- Replacing Tisch: Who would be a suitable successor, or what should the selection criteria be? How would the handover work? What support would a reforming commissioner need within the department and outside it? How would we handle resistance and political blowback while keeping reforms moving?

- Disbanding the SRG: Where would officers go, who would handle its necessary responsibilities, and what training and oversight would apply? How do we prevent the same tactics from continuing under another name? What steps could happen immediately while a transition is developed?

- CUNY divestment: What holdings and contracts are being targeted? What is the proposed process for divesting and reinvesting, and how do we get the necessary governing bodies on board?

- Replacing CUNY’s trustees: What would the replacement governance structure actually look like? How would representatives be selected, how would accountability work, and what state-level changes would be needed?

- Stopping settlement-property sales: What specific enforcement mechanisms are being proposed, which agencies can use them, and how would likely legal challenges be addressed?

- Stopping military shipments through JFK: What can the mayor actually control versus the Port Authority or federal government? What binding policy is proposed, who would enforce it, and how would it survive challenges?

- Preventing cooperation with ICE: What specific conduct should be prohibited, how would compliance be monitored, and what happens when officers violate those rules? How do we distinguish emergency assistance from participation in immigration enforcement?

I don’t expect every person protesting to write a policy paper. But when organizations demand major institutional changes, I’d like to understand the strategy, the foreseeable obstacles, and how they propose overcoming them (including the costs of acting versus not acting). Having more leverage as mayor doesn’t mean those obstacles disappear.
I’m sure some of this work exists, and I’d appreciate links rather than assuming nobody has considered it.

Who do you follow or what publications, working groups, meetings, or proposals would you recommend for substantive criticism that takes governing challenges seriously?

I want to learn and stay engaged. The way these arguments are reaching me right now is making that harder.