The DSA National Political Committee made substantial cuts to YDSA’s budget in the midst of a broader response to the organization’s budget crisis. The YDSA National Coordinating Committee and other YDSA leaders have protested these decisions. The author spoke to leaders across Y/DSA as they prepared their responses and planned for future organizing. DSA’s National…
The United Auto Worker’s strike this past fall demonstrated a revitalization of the American labor movements. The new UAW contract and their future plans illustrate the role they plan to play in a just climate transition.
Many US universities are tied to companies and institutions that perpetuate apartheid and ethnic cleansing in Israel. The Activist Investigative Committee explores these entanglements and their effect on academic independence and recent crackdowns against pro-Palestinian activists on campus.
Students at the University of Oregon won the largest wall-to-wall undergraduate workers union in country. The author explains how UOYDSA was central to their organizing success. A year ago, I signed my union card. I believed in things like universal healthcare and socialized housing, but I didn’t think there was anything I could do personally…
Happy Halloween, Comrades! The Activist Editorial Board has compiled a guide to understanding the socialist theory on display in the monsters and spirits of Halloween!
DSA’s budget and deficit have been front and center in conversations around the organization this year, especially at the 2023 YDSA and DSA conventions. The author spoke with Y/DSA leaders from across the country to discuss the issue.
The Activist Editorial Board has compiled a reading list to understand the current moment in Palestine, the history of conflict and colonialism in the region, and the role of socialists and the international left in Palestinian liberation. We hope these readings can help facilitate individual political thought and development as well as political education events hosted by YDSA chapters across the country.
The author attended a Dutch Socialist Youth summer camp as an international representative for YDSA. In their report-back, they make the case for the necessity of Socialist cultural events for a vital socialist movement.
DSA convention passed an electoral strategy refraining from public conflict with the organization’s elected officials. The authors argue that we will only achieve electoral independence through organizing and basebuilding, not in-fighting.
Students at the University of São Paulo are on strike for better funding and the democratization of higher education. The authors argue that YDSAers should support their struggle by amplifying their demands, sending messages of solidarity, and following in their example by building broad, dynamic struggles of our own. This past Tuesday, September 19, over…
