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Red Star Statement on the NPC's Decision to Overturn R22

At the 2025 Convention, DSA correctly chose to make our commitment to anti-Zionism explicit, to institutionalize it as a firm red line, to operationalize it as part of a broader political strategy, and to make this position binding on the organization, its candidates, and its chapters, by adopting R22:

Upcoming Red Start: Politics in Command

Join Red Star Thursday October 1 at 5:00 PT / 8:00 ET pm for our next Red Start on Politics in Command: A Taxonomy on Economism by J. Moufawad-Paul (JMP). In this sharp polemic, JMP dissects the phenomenon of "economism," first identifying it as not a

Interview: Black August

Interview: Black August

Multiracial organizing and the racial class question in the U.S. continues to be hotly debated within DSA and on the left. In observation of Black August, Christina W. interviewed fellow Red Star members John and Craig about making DSA an anti-racist organization in practice.

DSA Should Defend Our Program: Red Star Statement on Workers Deserve More

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DSA Should Defend Our Program: Red Star Statement on Workers Deserve More

Recent electoral success has thrust DSA and its program into the media spotlight. Rather than retreating and capitulating in response to attempts to discredit and undermine us, DSA members should expect our leaders to shout it from the rooftops and defend it to the best of their abilities.

In Defense of Abolition

In Defense of Abolition

Hazel W. makes the Marxist case for abolition against the left's growing accommodation to policing and prisons.

Interview: Megan Romer debriefs Party of the European Left conference and life in the Workers’ Party of Belgium

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Interview: Megan Romer debriefs Party of the European Left conference and life in the Workers’ Party of Belgium

Red Star member Matt M. debriefs DSA Co-chair Megan R’s recent trip to Belgium where she spoke at the conference of the Party of the European Left and spent a day with the Workers’ Party of Belgium.

Red Star Statement on the Controversy Surrounding the 2028 Presidential Endorsement Process

Red Star Statement on the Controversy Surrounding the 2028 Presidential Endorsement Process

Red Star weighs in on the prospect of a DSA endorsement in the 2028 presidential election.

Still a bridge to nowhere: Imperialism, electoralism, and AOC

Still a bridge to nowhere: Imperialism, electoralism, and AOC

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), darling DSA Socialist in Office (SIO), has received her fifth consecutive endorsement from NYC-DSA. She is sailing towards what is almost assuredly a safe re-election and will start her fifth term as a representative in Congress in 2027. NYC-DSA’s endorsement has opened

Elections, not electoralism: A tactic in a revolutionary movement

Elections, not electoralism: A tactic in a revolutionary movement

[T]he working class cannot simply lay hold of the ready-made state machinery, and wield it for its own purposes. - Marx [R]evolutionaries who are incapable of combining illegal forms of struggle with every form of legal struggle are poor revolutionaries indeed. - Lenin For Marxists in the U.S.

Imperialism, self-determination, and the latest stage of the war on Iran

Imperialism, self-determination, and the latest stage of the war on Iran

Matt N. also contributed research for this piece With the recent U.S. attack on Iran and the unfolding war, socialists in the U.S. are faced with how to respond as anti-imperialists within the imperial core. What the Trump administration had hoped would be a short regime change

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

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

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

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

Red Star Opposes NPC Expansion (Again)

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.