Marxist Unity Group’s NPC slate
We are excited to announce that Marxist Unity Group is running Amy Wilhelm (Seattle DSA), Sid CW (NYC DSA) and Cliff Connolly (Orlando DSA) for National Political Committee!
Amy is a member of Seattle DSA and an incumbent on the NPC. They have used their term to fight for greater transparency and member power in DSA, including serving on the Steering Committee, chairing the Personnel Committee and working with the National Tech Committee. Prior to being elected to the NPC they served as one of Seattle DSA’s co-chairs. Locally, they have worked on the successful Raise The Wage Renton and Shaun Scott campaigns, participated in strike solidarity, and have experience as a tenant organizer. They are committed to building DSA into a mass party of the working class under the democratic control of our membership, and will use their second term to continue throwing open the books and democratizing DSA.
Sid is a member from the Central Brooklyn branch of New York City DSA. He has worked to shape New York’s robust electoral machine into a party formation capable of standing up for the working class. As an experienced field and communications lead, Sid has fought for greater collaboration between their chapter’s electoral machine and NYC's tenants movement. Currently, he is an organizer in the campaign to elect Zohran Mamdani for mayor, and has written extensively about electoral strategy, his experiences in the field, and the need for candidates who will be tribunes of our democratic organization. He serves on the Organizing Committee of CBK DSA, helping administer the day-to-day activities of the largest branch of the country’s largest chapter.
Cliff is a long-time DSA member with experience in five different chapters across the country. He has led tenant and labor organizing efforts, participated in electoral campaigns, fought the construction of Cop City, served on his chapter’s Steering Committee, and most recently led Orlando DSA’s abortion rights ballot measure campaign. Based in Florida and hailing from Atlanta, Cliff is accustomed to organizing in the harsh political climate of the South. An EMT by trade, he is committed to building common-sense security infrastructure for DSA that will help local chapters weather intensifying government repression. Cliff has a long track record of fighting the right where they’re strongest, and his focus on the NPC will be making sure DSA’s national resources are deployed to help local chapters do just that.
Our NPC Platform:
The Revolutionary Path to Democracy
This country was built for the ruling class to hoard profit, not for the working class to flourish. In the current political moment, the Trump administration is dismantling even the limited rights working and oppressed people have won. To defeat fascism and build a better world, we need to defend political freedoms like the right to organize, assemble and speak, while putting forward a clear vision for revolutionary transformation of the current system: a new republic, with universal and equal suffrage which includes all residents regardless of national origin, proportional representation, and an end to mass incarceration and the imperial police state.
Build the Mass Party
The power of the Democratic Socialists of America comes from our nationwide scope, multi-tendency mass membership, and commitment to radical democracy. On the NPC, we are committed to fighting for the maximum possible transparency and member control, treating Convention as sovereign over the NPC and building strong and open central bodies like the National Electoral Commission. We should treat all our work as part of building the party, including running for office with the aim of building oppositional socialist caucuses at every level of government, operating under the democratic discipline of membership.
Toward a New International
Our struggle needs to spill beyond the United States through militant anti-imperialism and cross-border coordination. We see the long term horizon of DSA’s international work as the construction of a new socialist international that can pursue a shared revolutionary strategy, and towards that end support efforts by the International Committee to build links with parties across the world. While we embrace public criticism and debate about existing and historical socialist projects, we believe DSA’s primary domestic responsibility is to oppose military funding and US intervention.
Unite The Class
To win political power, the working class needs to struggle on every possible terrain: tenant and labor unionism; social movements for abolition, migrant justice and reproductive freedom; alternative media and cultural institutions, all in the orbit of DSA. At the same time those struggles need to target the ways that the state disorganizes and disunites the working class. Toward that end, we are committed to supporting EWOC and ETOC, building Democratic Left, and supporting chapters engaged in mass work across the country, and support attempts to take those independent working class organizations and use them to fight for political freedom.
