Misreading Mamdani’s Victory: Zohran and the Contradictions of Electoralism

As Red Star’s 2025 convention platform argues, organization is the principal task of electoralism in DSA. The primary role of elections is not to win reforms for their own sake, but to strengthen DSA, deepen working class political consciousness, align DSA with radical sections of the working class, and

Critique of the Rank and File Strategy

Kim Moody’s Rank and File Strategy, written in 2000, has become a touchstone of modern Socialist Labor Organizing. Primarily this is through Moody’s involvement with Labor Notes and Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU), the preeminent exemplars and standardbearers of the Rank and File Strategy, but also through

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Red Star Newsletter- January 2026

Hello from Red Star! Curious about what we’ve been up to? Read on to find out! In response to ongoing and escalating ICE activity in Minnesota, Red Star is amplifying an urgent request for donations to Twin Cities DSA so they may continue to organize to counter ICE, and

Hands off Venezuela: Understanding and Defending the Bolivarian Revolution

Red Star stands alongside DSA in opposition to the United States government’s acts of escalating aggression against Venezuela, including the abduction of President Nicolás Maduro. In an effort to help contextualize this event and support people who may want to learn more about Venezuela at this unprecedented moment of

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Red Star Newsletter- December 2025

Hello from Red Star! Curious about what we’ve been up to? Read on to find out! Fund the Base, Build the Party As Red Star, we believe in DSA! Our broad membership, organizing ethic, and robust democratic processes make this organization the best incubator for the vanguard party, the

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Red Star Newsletter - November 2025

Hello from Red Star! Curious about what we’ve been up to? Read on to find out! Red Star on the Ballot The New Orleans municipal primary election was held October 11th and featured four New Orleans DSA endorsed candidates on the ballot. Red Star member and independent socialist candidate

Red Star Opposes NPC Expansion (Again)

Red Star recommends that Delegates support a motion to divide the question on the DemComm Omnibus. We support specifically separating NPC Expansion and DemComm Rechartering from the other planks, and voting these two items down. If the Omnibus is not divided, we support voting down the entire thing.

Megan Romer for Co-Chair

As DSA’s National Convention rapidly approaches and the 2023-2025 NPC term draws to a close, Red Star would like to shine some light on the stakes of the co-chair race and make the case for Megan Romer’s re-election. We have offered our own accounting of the past two

Get your copy of Zenith volume 4!

Red Star has just received our order of Zenith from the printer. These pamphlets are printed and bound with union labor and feature beautiful cover art and illustrations by Red Star member William Z. We released the articles in this issue of Zenith in May to expand on Red Star&

Leadership Pledge

Leadership Pledge Retrospective, Part Three

Building the Connection Between NPC and Chapters, Addressing DSA’s Grievance Process, and Addressing DSA’s Budget Crisis

Leadership Pledge

Leadership Pledge Retrospective, Part Two

Expanding the Growth and Development Committee, Disciplined Communication and Commitment to the NPC, and Partnership with the Staff Union

Leadership Pledge

Leadership Pledge Retrospective, Part One

Improving DSA’s Publications, Building a Socialists in Office Committee, and Improving the Functioning of the NPC

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Red Star Newsletter - July 2025

Greetings from Red Star! Headed to the DSA National Convention next month? Read on to hear all of the Red Star convention campaign updates! And check out our convention landing page, which we'll keep regularly updated with links to our other convention output and campaign events! First things

Convention 2025 Platform

Build the Foundation to Raise the Roof!

Red Star Newsletter - June 2025

Hello from Red Star! Curious about what we’ve been up to? Read on to find out! Red Star Convention Amendments! Red Star has authored and co-authored the following amendments to bring to the 2025 national DSA convention! We ask that readers sign on to these amendments through DSA’s

Red Star Newsletter - May 2025

Hello from Red Star! Curious about what we’ve been up to? Read on to find out! Zenith Volume 4 Early in May, Red Star released the latest volume of our theoretical journal Zenith: Volume 4. The fourth volume of Zenith is the first collection of Red Star’s writings

Zenith Volume 4

Building International Socialism In A New Era

As socialist projects globally struggle to maintain sovereignty against a crisis-ridden capitalist pole, US socialists and those in DSA must take a broad, non-sectarian approach towards understanding socialist projects, building solidarity through education and people-to-people diplomacy.

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Why the Vanguard?

Lenin’s (and Red Star’s) vanguard arises from organic unity of struggle, not sectarian posturing. DSA’s intelligentsia-heavy composition must anchor itself in the battles of the exploited to both transform its own character and draw the base into revolutionary struggle.

Zenith Volume 4

Faction or Tendency? Developing Red Star’s Conception of the ‘Political Center’

Red Star strives to be a Marxist-Leninist center in DSA, as described in Hal Draper’s Anatomy of the Micro-sect. In this piece, Sean T. and Matt M. describe two complementary dimensions of this construct – the ‘faction’ and the ‘tendency’ – as well as how both need to exist in balance.

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Protagonism and the Party: On Staff- and Member-Led organizing

What is the role of staff within DSA? What is the role of the membership? To build a party, we must move DSA away from its tendencies as a NGO-like, staff-led organization, toward a form that centers and protagonizes its membership.

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Race, Class, and Empire: Reading J. Sakai’s ‘Settlers’

The primarily white character of DSA is shaped by the contradictions within the class position of its base, being both wage-earning proletarians and beneficiaries of imperialist superprofits. We must reckon with the historical attachment to reformism created by this struggle.

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Studying Fascism in the Second Trump Term: Reading R. Palme Dutt’s ‘Fascism and Social Revolution’

R.P. Dutt’s 1934 book Fascism and Social Revolution analyzes the rise of fascism in Europe with a class-based lens that many post-WWI histories lack. His analysis of fascism as an expansion of the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie in the context of a failed revolution is instructive to revisit today.

Zenith Volume 4

Build the Foundation to Raise the Roof: Red Star’s Strategy and Orientation Towards DSA

DSA finds itself in a defining political moment—amid global crises and the unsustainability of global capitalism, the contradictions that face DSA must be confronted. Joseph H. argues that we must build a foundation that prioritizes member-organizers to raise the roof on a vanguard party.

Zenith Volume 4

Red Star Points of Unity

Red Star elaborates on what the caucus is, what we believe, and how we approach DSA.

Zenith Volume 4

Zenith Volume 4

Announcing volume four of Zenith, a journal of theory and practice from Red Star.