Issues 1 and 2 of Volume 1 of the Democratic Left magazine, the official magazine of the Democratic Socialists of America.
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On the 19th of June, Dept of Homeland Security secretary Kirstjen Nielsen thought dinner at a Mexican restaurant came with impunity from being called to account for separating children from their parents at the border. The Metro DC Democratic Socialists of America had other ideas, showing up inside MXDC to protest. “We will not stand by and let Secretary Nielsen dine in peace, while she is directing her employees to tear little girls away from their mothers and crying boys away from their...
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About 80% of the original Facebook video downloaded from Twitter reposts of segments, plus another poster's footage of DHS secretary Kirstjen Nielsen fleeing to her car. On the 19th of June, Dept of Homeland Security secretary Kirstjen Nielsen thought dinner at a Mexican restaurant came with impunity from being called to account for separating children from their parents at the border. The Metro DC Democratic Socialists of America had other ideas, showing up inside MXDC to protest. Here is...
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On the first of July, the Metro DC Democratic Socialists of America marched on the home of recently retired ICE director Thomas Homan. He has said undocumented migrants "should live in fear" so the DSA threw him a retirement party at his house in Virginia Homan retired just a week ago, but his crimes are not forgotten, and having been retired only a week there is no doubt he played a role in enforcing Trump's family separation policy. Some have gone so far as to claim that ICE agents...
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Socialist strategy in the age of political revolution, from the Democratic Socialists of America, 2016. This document is presented as part of the Radical Democracy Project archive: https://archive.org/details/@radical_democracy_project Check out our website: www.radicaldemocracy.net or follow us on Facebook. Radical Democracy is a political education and consciousness raising project. We believe that people should be directly involved in making the decisions that affect their lives. ...
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Tonight we're joined live in the studio by Sessi Kuwabara Blanchard and Jacob Clary, organizers from NYC-DSA's Socialist Drug Politics Organizing Committee. We discuss the class politics of drug use, overdose prevention centers AKA safe injection sites, and much more. Learn how the transformative perspective of socialist drug politics offers different ways of understanding drug use and the social forces that shape users' experience.We also return to the South Bronx, where survivors of January's...
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Considered on its own, the New York Police Department is in the top ten largest armies in the world. Why? As working-class New Yorkers struggle to stay fed and safely housed, the NYPD enjoys nearly unlimited resources and sees no issue with using those resources to oppress and surveil the city's population. On tonight's show, we speak to Khalil from NYC-DSA's Defund NYPD campaign on why socialists' commitment to REAL public safety remains strong. We also take calls live from the WBAI audience....
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As New York City is experiencing major black outs from corporate utility Con Edison in the middle of a heatwave, EcoSocialists are organizing for Public Power. This week we'll be taking to Patrick Robbins about the Public Power Town Hall held this week in Astoria with Council Member Costa Constantinies and Public Advocate Jumaane Williams.
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In the words of civil rights giant Ella Baker, \"Until the killing of black men, black mothers' sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of a white mother's son, we who believe in freedom cannot rest until this happens.\"As the summer of 2021 continues to heat up, reactionaries and conservatives are escalating their assault on our struggle for multi-racial working-class liberation -- but socialists are continuing to fight back and rack up gains. On...
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The COVID-19 pandemic is a humanitarian crisis on a global scale, but not every government has an equal ability to respond. In Iran, the effects of US sanctions are devastating the population's ability to adequately protect itself from the coronavirus. Observers estimate that every ten minutes an Iranian is dying. This is a man-made disaster for which the U.S. war machine bears the blame. Today we're talking to members of NYC-DSA's Anti-War Working Group about their campaign to end sanctions on...
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The foundation of any city is its housing. Everyone needs a place to live. In New York state the only way we can ensure this is to pass a Universal Rent Control campaign that will expand and strengthen our existing rent protections. Our existing laws expire on June 15th, and we must make them better. Join our host Desiree Frias for a conversation with Dennis Osorio, and Cea Weaver who are working on our Universal Rent Control campaign with NYC-DSA.
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This summer the IPCC released another devastating report on the climate crisis driven by fossil fuel capital, as like most of the country, we saw the impacts of climate change right here in NYC with heat waves and record rain. Tonight we'll talk with Ecosocialist comrades Brittany Allen and Gustavo Gordillo about how DSA is taking the climate fight to one of the most essential yet resource deprived institutions across the country - our schools- with the Green New Deal for Public Schools...
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As socialists, we know that healthcare goes beyond direct contact between providers and patients and into issues of budgets, community safety, and long-standing social forces like racism and misogyny. How can we organize for real public health? On tonight's show we're joined by DSA-endorsed Assemblymember, nurse, and organizer Phara Souffrant Forrest of District 57 in Brooklyn to discuss vaccine disparities, Cuomo's austerity baby, and the goals of our movement in Albany. We also hear from...
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The New York State legislative session kicked off in Albany this month with just one elected democratic socialist in office, State Senator Julia Salazar. Today we're joined by Jabari Brisport to discuss about how the NYC-DSA squad plans to change that in 2021. Jabari is one of the 5 NYC-DSA endorsed candidates running for New York State Senate and Assembly: Zohran Mamdani - Assembly District 36, Boris Santos - Assembly District 54, Marcela Mitaynes - Assembly District 51, and Phara Souffrant -...
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Oh what a night. After last night's Democratic Party debacle in Iowa, today we're joined by NYC-DSA endorsed candidate Phara Souffrant Forrest to discuss her grassroots campaign to represent the 57th Assembly District of Prospect Heights, Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, as well as part of Crown Heights and Bedford-Stuyvesant. We'll discuss the real issues facing working class New Yorkers and how a socialists organizing strategy can improve people's material conditions and build worker and tenant...
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Yesterday two very different visions for the future of New York's energy system were presented at a marathon 12+ hour long budget hearing on environmental conservation. On one hand, New York's regulators argued to stay the course and continue to let the market and capital be the primary drivers of building renewable energy, despite the state having missed it's renewable energy goals year after year and currently only 6% of New York's energy comes from wind and solar. Community advocates and...
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This week we cover the relationship between US Empire and the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Danielle Lightfoot and Eric Sturm from DSA join us to discuss the Anti-War Working Group's organizing against imperialism, specifically its efforts to fight for justice in Palestine alongside coalition partners. Later we are joined by Shaina Low from the Defense for Children International - Palestine on the \"No Way to Treat a Child\" campaign. The campaign seeks to pass congressional...
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2021 has been another incredibly tough year, with the pandemic and climate crisis exacerbating income inequality and dire living situations for working class people across the globe.Tonight we'll catch up with a few DSA working groups to talk about the organizing they've done to build working class power and solidarity this year and what's coming up for 2022. Our guests tonight are Joel from the BDS and Palestine Solidarity Working Group on the Boycott Puma campaign and the power of a consumer...
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Capitalism is plunging into a catastrophic crisis as Covid-19 exposes the anarchy of international commodity production. Business and schools have shut down all across the world while states attempt to contain the virus resulting in an unprecedented surge in unemployment. Trump and his Republican Party, the American death cult of private property, have now proposed to offer up millions of human sacrifices to their free market deity in a self-destructive effort to restart the economy. So deluded...
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Tonight we'll continue our series of interviews with the DSA For The Many Slate with David Alexis, a rideshare driver, working class father and climate organizer who is running to represent Senate District 21 in Flatbush, BrooklynMany began 2022 with some hope that with Andrew Cuomo out of office, New York might finally be able to pass a state budget that meets the needs of working class people. The budget was due April 1st and is now five days late. Much of the hold up is because of last...
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Tonight we are joined live from New Jersey by Chigozie Onyema, a North New Jersey DSA endorsed candidate for City Council in Newark. We will also be speaking to Rebecca Martinez and Julian Mesri from the Radical Theatre collective about their production of Songs About Trains.We also caught up with State Senator Julia Salazar to talk to her about the New York State budget, why she voted against it and what socialist in Albany are fighting for with just six weeks left in the legislative session....
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The housing justice movement in New York state has made major strides in the last few years. In June 2019, a historic package of rent laws passed in NY state, sending shockwaves through our political landscape and strengthening tenant protections. Yet in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, while millions of tenants have lost income and are unable to pay their rent, our political leadership continues to abdicate their responsibility to the people by refusing to #CancelRent. Organizers in NYC-DSA...
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The American bourgeoisie is waging relentless war against labor, but the working class is organizing and fighting back. Today we're joined by DSA members Jia Lee and Kevin Prosen from the United Federation of Teachers to discuss the history and present of labor struggles in the United States before diving into the DSA's strategy to build grassroots power in the workplace.
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Election day was Tuesday and DSA's 30+ nationally-endorsed campaigns were put to voters. With a nearly 70% win rate for DSA's campaigns nationally, there's much to discuss about organizing for socialism at the ballot box and the rising tensions between the left and the existing Democratic establishment. On tonight's show, we'll share provisional election results and an interview with a DSA-endorsed candidate for Somerville, Massachusetts City Council, Tessa Bridge. Here in NYC, Eric Adams has...
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Comrades, the times are hard. Although DSA is celebrating significant electoral victories and other important gains in our struggle for collective liberation, the road ahead for socialist organizers and people of conscience is long and difficult by any measure. On today's episode of Revolutions Per Minute, we're turning to one potential guide to approaching the coming months of struggle: joyful militancy. First outlined in a 2017 book by carla bergman and Nick Montgomery, and since taken up by...
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The ruling class in New York is sacrificing teachers, students, and their families at the altar of Capital. But organized teachers are standing up for the safety of our community. Today we're joined by Jia Lee and Alex Jallot from the Movement of Rank and File organizers to discuss both their immediate fight to prevent budget cuts and the dangerous attempt to reopen schools as well as the longer struggle to transform the UFT into a democratic working class institution organizing for the common...
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Politics extends well beyond the ballot box, but elections represent their own site of struggle; a unique opportunity to expose the contradictions between our idealized democracy and its material reality of capitalist exploitation and hierarchical domination. After the self-declared democratic socialist's unprecedentedly successful run at the presidency in 2016, Bernie Sanders is back. This time with a vastly more organized working class movement behind him. Today we're joined by DSA member Wes...
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On the two year anniversary of the deadly attack by a white nationalist on the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh and the eve of the 2020 election, we're joined by antifascist organizer and very special guest (you know her better as a host and comrade here on RPM) Amy Wilson to discuss the various organizing strategies and mobilization efforts in the movement to fight back against far right violence here in New York City and beyond. You can follow @UARFNYC on Twitter for updates on this...
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Even with Cuomo out of office, our state still faces a housing crisis. This week, The Supreme Court has issued a temporary injunction against the "Emergency Eviction and Foreclosure Prevention Act," also known as the New York State's Eviction moratorium. This immediately suspends the eviction protections for tenants included in that law. Up to 40 million Americans could face eviction due to the ending of the eviction moratorium. For some, it's fifteen months worth of back rent- and in...
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If you're a listener member, in order to maximize the power of our small collective, we're asking you to vote in this order:1. Nicodemus Nicoludis2. Dylan SabaFor the rest of your ballot, we recommend looking into these candidates who are not members of Red Wave but are aligned with our goals:Eleanor Elizabeth FormanBruce Greif (DSA Member)Philip DePaolo (DSA Member)If you're a staff member, we recommend ranking board incumbents R. Paul Martin, Max Schmid, and Shawn Rhodes in any order.Thanks...
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As I was sitting in my apartment last night with a helicopter hovering over my head and sirens blaring as the cops circled my community in their caravan, I was thinking about what working class black organizers and intellectuals have long known: the police are an occupying military force here in New York and other cities around the country. Cops are not workers. They are managers for the capitalist state. They're the outside agitators who invade the city from Long Island and assault our...
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It's never been easy to be a front-line retail or customer service worker at the holidays, and with a dramatic surge in COVID cases affecting New York City, this year is even harder. For our Revolutions per Minute holiday special, we're joined live by Eric Dirnbach of the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee, DSA's national project in partnership with the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America, as well as Aria, a retail worker who participated in a successful strike last...
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On Friday rent will be due for millions of New Yorkers. For tenants struggling to pay rent, this summer has been a roller coaster of ups and downs as hard fought for eviction moratoriums at the state and federal level have been won, overturned and finally reinstated here in New York, providing crucial protections until Jan 15, 2022. Today we will talk with NYC-DSA endorsed candidate and democratic nominee for City Council District 38 Alexa Aviles about why she was arrested earlier this summer...
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Despite strong climate rhetoric from Governor Cuomo and Mayor DeBlasio, billions of dollars of fracked gas infrastructure are still being built in New York State and New York City. Today we'll be talking with RPM's Lee Ziesche who has been on the ground as communities fight to stop a massive fracked gas power plant and prevent corporate utilities Con Ed and National Grid from raising our rates to build fracked gas pipelines, including one right now in Bushwick.
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In the words of the legendary union song, "Solidarity Forever", "we can bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old." On today's episode of Revolutions per Minute, we'll be talking to socialists who are doing just that. Lee Ziesche interviews a comrade from SW Louisiana on the devastation caused by extractive capitalism and climate collapse and what socialists are doing to protect their communities. Later in the show, we'll have a live interview with Ansley and Bill...
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Building the power to win public power - The failures of our current energy system are all around us. Here in New York City we see blackouts every summer during heatwaves and people lacking heat in the winter. Utility debt is mounting across the state, but investor owned utilities are still building dirty fossil fuel infrastructure at the expense of rate payers, and the health and safety of communities and the climate. Today we'll talk with Mohini Sharma and Patrick Robbins about how the NY...
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We spoke with a Starbucks worker-organizer from Buffalo, NY back in January here on RPM, and since that time the fight has only gotten hotter. As of today, over 170 Starbucks locations in 27 states have filed for elections with the National Labor Relations Board - including several right here in New York City! With union victories in Buffalo, Arizona, Tennessee, at the heart of the Starbucks mythology in its hometown of Seattle, Washington, and more coming in every day, Starbucks corporate is...
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"Because of my access to birth control and abortion, I was able to have my first child last year when my husband and I were financially stable enough, emotionally ready and could be the best parents we could be for him. Family planning is a human right for all birthing bodies and after experiencing childbirth I am an even stronger advocate for everyone's right to an abortion, on demand for any reason they decide to," writes tonight's host Desiree Joy Frias.For too long, anti-abortion...
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The 10th of July was a long day of civil disobedience against Trumpcare, with over 80 arrests in and around the offices of Senator's Flake and Ted Cruz. That same evening, the Democratic Socialists of America marched on the home of Alaska Sen Lisa Murkowski, who is believed to be a crucial swing vote on the current Trumpcare bill known as the "Better Care Reconcilation Act." The Democratic Socialists of America are demanding single-payer healthcare but said bluntly that the existing...
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\"I'm gonna tell all you fascists, you may be surprised/ People all over this world are getting organized\"Legendary folk singer Woody Guthrie wrote those words in 1944 and here in 2021 they ring truer than ever. The far-right is on the rise globally and socialists, communists, feminists, anarchists, and unionists are joining forces to fight back. Join Revolutions per Minute host Amy Wilson for an hour of antifascist story and song, featuring recordings from the DSA National...
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The financial crisis of 2008 and the Occupy Wall Street movement re-introduced to the public consciousness the idea that big banks are not our friends. In 2019, with DSA-endorsed candidates like Bernie Sanders continuing to popularize socialism, organizers around the country are working toward a material solution to the abuses of capital enabled by Wall St: a public bank, democratically controlled by working people. Tune in to Revolutions per Minute to hear from NYC-DSA's Debt & Finance...
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It's Super Tuesday. All eyes are on the Democratic Primary for President as the field has consolidated. Democratic socialist and DSA endorsed Bernie Sanders looks to maintain his lead over Joe Biden. But Bernie Sanders is not the only socialist running for office in 2020. There's a movement building to fight for a government of the working class, by the working class, and for the working class. Today we're joined by Congressional candidate Samelys Lopez who is running in New York's 15th...
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As corporate utilities Con Ed and National Grid are raising our monthly bills in order to build fracked gas pipelines in Astoria, the Bronx and North Brooklyn, New Yorkers are fighting back. This week we'll be talking to Extinction Rebellion NYC and the NYC DSA EcoSocialist Working Group on their campaigns to shut down construction and take over the utilities and replace them with public power.
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Our society is in economic and social crisis, and as socialists, we know that the roots of this crisis spread far beyond the immediate cause of the COVID-19 pandemic. Deliberate policy decisions by our leadership at all levels have led to a widening gap between the wealthy and the poor, crumbling social and physical infrastructure, an education system designed to reinforce the dominance of the capitalist class, a healthcare system designed to extract profit from human suffering, and a mass...
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It's May Day! Join us in celebrating the internationalist socialist holiday with the Marshals, the organizers who keep our comrades safe and make sure our direct actions are effective. We'll discuss our history of hitting the streets and the upcoming May Day migrant justice protest with the NY Immigrant coalition in Columbus Circle.
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Nearly twelve percent of New York City's rental apartments are occupied by NYCHA public housing residents and Section Eight voucher holders. These New Yorkers know all too well the injustices of our capitalist system. NYCHA tenants regularly navigate heat shut-offs and cooking gas outages, conditions that are now further endangering these residents during the COVID-19 pandemic.NYC-DSA members are fighting back for justice and dignity for public housing residents. On today's show, we'll speak...
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Yesterday, March 2, New York City DSA issued a statement calling for New York State governor Andrew Cuomo to resign or face impeachment. This comes in the wake of weeks of political turmoil regarding Cuomo's cover-up of nursing home deaths due to COVID and new testimony about his gendered workplace abuse. The organized left in New York state has known for a long time that Andrew Cuomo is far from a \"Resistance Hero\", as the liberal media has cast him. On tonight's show, we'll hear...
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Artist and activist Audre Lorde wrote, \"Caring for myself is not self-indulgence. It is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.\" As organizers, we know that caring for ourselves and our communities physically and spiritually is a critical aspect of pursuing our socialist project. Yet, the concept of self-care is often commodified and removed from its radical tradition in order to advance consumerism and fracture solidarity. On today's episode, we'll discuss...
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Yesterday was election day in New York. Since we're dealing with the New York Board of Elections and the new ranked choice voting system here in New York City, many of the results are not yet finalized. DSA for the City candidate Tiffany Caban won her city council race in Queens while the rest of DSA endorsed candidates await the final results. Upstate in Buffalo India Walton won the Democratic Party primary for Mayor and a number of Rochester DSA endorsed candidates won their elections....
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After hours of late night negotiations by legislators and months of organizing by advocates, New York State has a budget. Now that the budget is done, what is the next big fight for socialists in Albany? We have Assemblymember Emily Gallagher on live with us tonight to talk about what the DSA slate has been able to accomplish so far and what comes next. We'll also hear from comrades from the EcoSocialist Working Group and Tech Action Working Group about their campaigns for Public Power and...
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