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The Call
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The Call
@socialistcall
We cover U.S. politics, labor, social movements, and socialist strategy. We are a publication run by the @breadrosesdsa caucus of @demsocialists. 🍞🌹
Joined June 2018
- We must invest more in organizing than consultants, which is why B&R NPC members are voting against a new and extremely costly contract with our NHGO. They explain their decision and the need for more transparency around staff salaries.
- Unionization campaigns at Amazon and Starbucks show that we might just be living through the start of a new wave of worker organizing. Socialists need to go all in.
- DSA should be thriving, but instead we have a major deficit because we didn’t adequately seize the moment during various political crises. B&R NPC members explain why they have proposed voluntary staff layoffs as a temporary stopgap.
- The @RankAndFileProj has recruited 50 young people in three metro areas to get union jobs in targeted industries, coordinate with each other and with existing workplace leaders, study a demanding curriculum, and help build unions that can fight the bosses.
- People in China are taking mass action to challenge authoritarian rule, capitalist exploitation, and a deadly lockdown policy. Socialists around the world can work in solidarity to support this movement. Here’s how.
- Decades-long union democracy fights have just won big in the Teamsters and the United Auto Workers, creating big opportunities for socialists.
- On the recent controversy in DSA over the de-chartering of the BDS working group. B&R NPC members Laura Gabby and Sofia C. explain why they opposed that disciplinary action against the working group.
- How to create a future independent party has been hotly debated. One possibility: DSA could lead the way by offering unions an option to affiliate with the organization.
- UAW members are on strike today because four years ago a small group of activists founded a reform caucus.
- Recent attacks on DSA’s statements on Russia’s invasion reveal serious weaknesses in our perspective on world events. To win the battle of ideas, we need a democratic, internationalist approach that we can all defend.
- Twelve months ago, it seemed like an open question if this year would bring an end to the pandemic, a muscular new social-democratic politics, and renewed social struggle. It wasn’t to be.
- Our opponents in the capitalist class want to divide and conquer us. We’re stronger when we stick together and when we make strategies collectively in an open and democratic manner. It’s the only way we can fight back and win against our enemies.
