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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Christian CW discusses how, of the two dominant labor strategies in DSA – tailism and reformism – neither build a socialist pole in the labor movement nor amount to a strategy that considers the revolutionary role of the proletariat.