Six years after the George Floyd Uprising, Marisa M. surveys political trends around policing on the Left. Both willingness to oppose the political power of the police and a program for Black liberation remain necessary pillars for any socialist electoral project.

As Zohran Mamdani’s affordability agenda winds through the back rooms of government, DSA’s role remains to organize and educate the working class. Sid CW charts the history of this relationship and reasserts the vital importance of political independence from the capitalist state.

Ari writes the obituary for Our Time, emphasizing the pitfalls of substituting mass member organizing for donor-driven mobilization.

It should be our primary concern not to set up an artificial partition between the intellectual and the worker

"Unless you do everything for liberty, you have done nothing. There are no two ways of being free: one must be entirely free, or become a slave once more"

Every life is a universe--it is impossible for us to ever know what these defendants would be able to do if they were able to live free lives, free lives that have been taken from them and their communities. Every comrade the state throws into prison makes all of us less free.

“Nationwide political power cannot be won piecemeal. This is why we need a nationally organized socialist party that fights to win national power through a democratic socialist republic. “

Comrade Steven examines the history of Socialists elected to Congress in the twentieth century to draw lessons for DSA’s 2026 Congressional campaigns.

Brad H goes deeper into the last resolution passed at DSA’s 2025 convention

Marlowe B reviews Kathryn Bigelow & James Cameron’s millennium epic, Strange Days.

Isaac KD reflects on the meaning of the holidays for a thinking worker.