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 first, we’d love to reintroduce you to our five NPC candidates: Megan R. (for Co-Chair), John L., Andrew D., Hazel W., and Adithya P. Click here to read more about our candidates, and remember to rank them at the top of your ballots in August.
And if you’re looking to meet our candidates, we’d love to invite you to our NPC Candidate Forum this Saturday to meet and greet our candidates to learn more about our vision and goals for our 2025 NPC campaign! This will be a great time to talk with our five NPC candidates and hear from their personal experiences on why they're running to build the foundation to raise the roof.
If you can't make it Saturday, join us Monday evening the 21st for our next Red Start with candidates Megan R. and Adithya P! Come read selections from Lenin, Ho Chi Minh, Che Guevara, and Marta Harnecker and talk about the theoretical basis for mass protagonism and collective member/cadre/organizer development. RSVP here and find the readings here!
Get in touch!
☎️ If you're interested in having your delegation talk more with our candidates, use this form to request setting up a meeting with our slate and we'll get in touch with you!
🛰️ We're also launching Red Star Transmissions, an announcements-only Signal chat that we'll be using to keep in touch with friends and fellow travelers before and during convention! Reach out to us for an invite and be the first to hear about upcoming events, articles, and votes at convention.
Zenith Volume 4 in Print!
In advance of the DSA National Convention next month, Red Star is producing a print edition of our latest issue of Zenith. These pamphlets are being professionally printed and bound with union labor and feature beautiful cover art and illustrations by Red Star member William Z.
We have set aside a number of these pamphlets for presale to supporters and fellow travelers at the production cost of $6 ($7.50 shipped). They can be picked up from a Red Star member at the national convention, in your local area, or sent through the mail. Use this form to reserve your copy of Zenith!
Convention Platform and Proposals
We recently announced our platform for this year's convention, condensing our larger vision for the challenges presently facing DSA and how we should be organizing to address them. We'll have more in the coming weeks about specific proposals once the convention agenda is set. In the meantime we encourage delegates to support our caucus-submitted amendments (more details in last month's newsletter) at convention (and on the delegate survey if you haven't already filled that out)!
- International
- Labor
- Organizational Reform
Further Discussion
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The forums are open to all DSA members in good standing. If you're not a DSA member in good standing, sign up or renew your dues at dsausa.org/join.