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Comrades in Labor Power Publications, including members of R&R, are hosting an “ICE Out” online panel this Saturday, February 21st, and you’re invited!

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Open letter: stop Donald Trump’s cruel assault against the Cuban people. Initial signers: Mark Ruffalo, Alice Walker, Kal Penn, Boots Riley, Susan Sarandon, Vic Mensa, Alexa Aviles, over 24 elected officials, and many more

DSA is proud to sign on to this Call to Conscience and urges our members and allies to do the same. Our movement is ready to fight Trump & Rubio’s dangerous escalation and end the cruel blockade on Cuba. letcubalive.info

New York City: The time has arrived. Finally, a chance to tell the city EXACTLY what your landlord’s been getting away with. NYC’s first Rental Ripoff Hearings are happening in all five boroughs, and we want to hear from you. Real New Yorkers. Real stories. Real policy changes. 

From door-knocking in the smallest chapters to electing a mayor in NYC, everyone in DSA worked hard to build for this moment! We are proud of this organization and the roles played by R&R’s NPC member Sarah and NCC members Daniel, Sofia, and Eli in DSA and YDSA’s recruitment drives this year!

DSA officially has 100,000 members nationwide!

Image of DSA co-chairs Ashik Siddique and Megan Romer

A message from your DSA Co-chairs:

“We are honored to be just two of 100,000 proud DSA members in this moment. We urge all of you to take another step today…”

Now is a better time than ever to join the movement! 🌹✊

Diana Moreno stands smiling with a her hand on her heart while Mayor Zohran Mamdani stands smiling with a mic in his hand in front of her.

In a few short months, @DianaforQueens built an incredible coalition and ran a movement campaign that earned nearly 75% of the vote last night.

I'm grateful that she will serve out my term in the Assembly, and hopefully many to come. Astoria is in good hands.

Statement from the National Political Committee. 1/2. Bovino’s Out, But We’re Still In. Abolish ICE! DSA once again expresses our deepest solidarity with the people of Minnesota, many of whom may be breathing a sigh of relief that CBP Commander-at-Large Greg Bovino has been removed from his post. Bovino’s direct references to Nazi imagery, meant to strike fear into the hearts of working people and embolden the right, instead drove the masses of Minneapolis-St. Paul into the streets, shutting down the economy of two major American cities for an entire day. 1/2. January 29, 2026. Read the full statement at the link in our profile.

DSA represent! 🌹✊

For now! 😉

She Took Her 13-Year-Old Daughter to a Labor March. ICE Tear-Gassed Them Both. “It seemed like it happened really fast. And there just were so many babies and kids and elderly people among us.”

"This crowd of thousands of people were just assaulted by their government." This is something that the labor movement in Portland won't forget.
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Making Sense of Trump's Monroe Doctrine.

Your weekend read:

Henry D explores the logic behind Trump’s Monroe Doctrine and its relationship with the growing conflict between the U.S. and China. Oil, lithium, profits—and a retreat from globalist hyper-imperialism to hemispheric dominance.

reformandrevolution.org/2026/01/24/m...

A day after a historic citywide work stoppage in Minneapolis, Trump’s ICE paramilitary murdered a legal observer, ICU nurse, and fellow union member, Alex Pretti. We must abolish ICE and put its leaders on trial. No equivocation!

Abolish ICE, and put every single one of them on trial too.

Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.

White. Hot. Rage.

On a side note, @twincitiesdsa.org has been working overtime. Solidarity!

First general strike in 80 years. There is power in the working masses! Up the resistance! 🌹✊

Mayor Mamdani at a NAN podium

Al Sharpton sitting and listening to Mayor Mamdani

Al Sharpton at a NAN podium

At NAN yesterday with Rev. Al Sharpton and city leaders. Dr. King’s call to service demands action—on the picket lines with nurses, in the fight against bad landlords, and alongside every New Yorker who can't afford to rest.

Mayor Mamdani stands behind a podium sign that says "Nurses Care for New York."

Senator Sanders stands behind a podium sign that says "Nurses Care for New York."

Mayor Mamdani carries a stack of Dunkin Donuts boxes.

A crowd of nurses on strike.

Week 2 of the largest nurses strike in NYC history. Senator Sanders and I are proud to stand with nurses and union leaders as they fight for the patient ratios, fair contract, and dignity that they deserve.

Latin America Is the Prime Target for Trump’s Warmongering While Donald Trump fires off threats of military action against countries from Greenland to Iran, Latin America is the main focus for his strategy of imperial retrenchment. The Latin American left will have to build new alliances against US aggression.

While Donald Trump fires off threats of military action against countries from Greenland to Iran, Latin America is the main focus for his strategy of imperial retrenchment.

The Latin American left will have to build new alliances against US aggression.

We must see now that the evils of racism, economic exploitation and militarism are all tied together. And you can’t get rid of one without getting rid of the other.” — Martin Luther King Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? Photo of Martin Luther King Jr. speaking at a podium. DSA logo.

So often, when the mainstream media remembers Martin Luther King Jr., they quote him about dreaming, but not about doing. And they definitely don't remember him as the democratic socialist he was. In his own words:

We've been saying it for years: Martin Luther King Jr. was a democratic socialist. www.dsausa.org/blog/saving-...

“take elections away from the people”

What’s that about ignorance and ahistoricism again?

www.marxists.org/archive/luxe...

And for your information, yes, I have. My family is Chinese. It was fine, but I wouldn’t really call it socialism nor workers’ democracy.

Are you going to respond to what I actually said or are you just going to rattle off talking points?

Rosa Luxemburg was a number of kinds of revolutionary but she certainly wasn’t a Stalinist!

“A slave-owner who through cunning and violence shackles a slave in chains, and a slave who through cunning or violence breaks the chains—let not the contemptible eunuchs tell us that they are equals before a court of morality.”
- Leon Trotsky, Their Morals and Ours (1938)

So you’re telling me a brutal civil war is going to seem like a brutal civil war. 17 nations invaded Russia to overturn the revolution. It’s no virtue, it’s just what happens. And again, your point is about the Russian Revolution, not Rosa Luxemburg.

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The councils “never were elected after 1918”… almost like 17 nations invaded Russia to overturn the revolution. Not very good conditions for elections! By the time East Germany was established Stalinism had already been solidified from the backsliding of the social revolution.