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DSA Communist Caucus ♠️
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DSA Communist Caucus ♠️
@DSACommunists
☭🌹National @demsocialists caucus. We believe in rebuilding class organization and supporting the class struggle against capital.
- Approaches to labor organizing that were previously dismissed are now picking up steam. From shotgun-style Starbucks organizing to a successful independent Amazon union, we are seeing bottom-up organizing and initiative work.
- Shameful article. It does not even try to make an argument for why "mass politics" equals "elections." It paints anyone asking questions about an elections-centered strategy as "subcultural anarchists." Not only is this unprincipled, it treats the reader as if they are stupid.Bernie Sanders is out of the race, but we can’t retreat to the subcultural politics that were hegemonic on the Left before his campaigns began. Mass politics is still our way forward. jacobinmag.com/2020/04/bernie…
- Our caucus stands in solidarity with the Palestinian people's struggle for national liberation and emancipation. Their fight against military occupation, land dispossession, ethnic cleansing, and racist apartheid are foundational aspects of the class struggle, past and present.
- This is a major escalation that could spiral into major labor unrest. Note that UC is California’s biggest employer. Also note that UC president Napolitano is the former secretary of Homeland Security.UC president Janet Napolitano sent a letter tonight threatening to fire hundreds of UC Santa Cruz grad students, on wildcat strike all week to demand higher wages. Santa Cruz is least affordable small city in the U.S. On assignment with @MotherJones @payusmoreucsc
- This is what you get when your guiding light is pure resentment: a pre-potted interpretation of the largest US left organization that is, in truth, complex and multi-faceted.
- A major strategic riddle for today's left is the absolute decline in civic organization. What we see is atomization of people, especially working class people, in every facet of life: a decline in parties, membership orgs, informal groups. This has been bad for class struggle.
- The last thing both the liberals and conservatives want to see us multi-racial working class solidarity. This is partly what animated their positions on the current rebellions.
- Turning DSA into a Bernie-Canvass-Machine does not activate the working class outside of liberal politics. We need to build independent proletarian institutions.
- Healthy reminder that the US is not a full democracy but a bourgeois republic with an undemocratic senate, electoral college, court system, etc. It's anti-democratic functions are intentional. We cannot have a strategy that treats this terrain as neutral or favorable.
- 2018: 28% 2019: 36% We're just getting started.36% of millennials polled say that they approve of communism, which is up significantly from 28% in 2018. on.mktw.net/2qOM3vT
- Some prints made in preparation for our first in-personal national convention.
- The US labor movement is fundamentally broken.Replying to @AFLCIOBut we respectfully take a different view when it comes to the call for the AFL-CIO to cut ties with IUPA. First and foremost, we believe police officers, and everyone who works for a living, have the right to collective bargaining.
- No war with Iran. No war but the class war!
