What brought us to the 2025 YDSA convention, and what’s the path forward?

Featuring writing by Connell H, Donald P, Jean A, and Taylor F

Featuring writing by Aliyah VP, Annie W, Brah H, Cale E, Lavender C, Mike V, and Sam M

Read the first of MUG’s convention issue of Light & Air here! Featuring articles by Amy W, Jean A, Juno C, Lavender C, Megan R, Mike B, and Nick W

What does party-building mean in the context of DSA’s labor strategy? In support of CR10-A01, “A Partyist Labor Strategy,” Lavender Ciao argues that DSA must become the center of gravity uniting sections of the working class behind a unified program for democratic socialism.

In a reply to the Socialist Majority Caucus, Annie W argues for the importance of running labor candidates for office who are democratic socialists drawn from the rank-and-file of the labor movement. She urges delegates to DSA’s 2025 convention to vote no on R20 unless amended by R20-A1: Democratic Socialists and the Labor Movement Need Each Other.

Comrades Connell and Amy argue for the importance of the “party surrogate in form, clean break in content” approach present in R-07: Principles of Party Building

National Political Committee member Amy W gives a primer on the purpose and function of deliberative democracy and proportional voting for the socialist party.

Here is the consolidated program being offered both by MUG and by Reform & Revolution

How should socialists respond to the growing pains of our budding electoral project?

The political pragmatism and electoral success of Milwaukee's "sewer socialists" are an inspiration for a broad section of today's socialists, even including Zohran Mamdani's campaign for mayor of NYC. What lessons can this history teach us?

R. Novack asks: how would we get a general strike in 2028 and what political character would it have?