Columbus DSA condemns, in the strongest possible terms, the actions of President Trump and his administration, the United States armed forces, ICE, and the LAPD in their relentless brutality against peaceful protestors fighting to protect their communities from the thugs abducting their friends, family, and neighbors. We condemn the violence of ICE and their campaign of mass deportations that has come to our city of Columbus. On June 3rd ICE arrested Leonardo Fausto at a court hearing for a dismissed misdemeanor traffic violation. Fausto has lived in Columbus legally for 4 years while waiting to be granted asylum. Ohio senators have also passed a bill that will require public officials to allow the arrest of suspected undocumented immigrants with or without warrants, while other Ohio lawmakers have proposed the “America First Act”, making it a felony to be in Ohio undocumented. We stand in unshakable solidarity with our undocumented neighbors: no one’s existence is illegal.

The recent protests in Los Angeles and other cities demonstrate that the American people are aware of the cruelty that this administration inflicts upon our families, our neighbors, and people in our communities, and we demand that these abuses stop.

Left unchecked, this administration, alongside ICE and local law enforcement, will continue to hide what the ‘land of the free’ has become from the world. They obscure their names and faces so that no one knows who to hold accountable for their crimes, all while they vanish our neighbors, family, and friends. ICE has only existed since 2003 but is being used like the Gestapo of Nazi Germany to create terror among us. We have lived without their presence for most of our existence, and we don’t need them now. To that end, we demand the following from our own community of Columbus:

We demand ICE be abolished. We demand that undocumented citizens be given amnesty and a swift path to citizenship. And we call for the immediate release of every person that ICE has arrested in LA and across the nation.

We demand that Columbus City Council end their contracts with ICE, make Columbus a sanctuary city, and protect its residents from these illegal abductions.

Columbus DSA will continue to fight for the power of the working class and the freedoms of people all over the world, immigrants or not. We will not stand by as the people of our community are abused by state violence. An injury to one is an injury to all. Free the prisoners, abolish ICE, and end the authoritarian regime currently in power.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – June 19 2025

Info@portlanddsa.org

Update: sign our petition to tell Gov. Kotek hands off!

In an article published on June 18 by Willamette Week, Governor Tina Kotek is quoted as suggesting to Multnomah County Chair Jessica Vega Pedersen a restructure of the Preschool for All tax, a levy on Oregon’s top 5% which funds universal preschool for everyone, regardless of their ability to pay. This is an unacceptable capitulation to the demands of Oregon’s rich and super-rich, whose feelings have been hurt by being required to contribute to the society that made it possible for them to get so very rich.

Portland DSA led the fight for universal preschool in Multnomah County, and we count its adoption as one of our largest victories. The law levies a very small tax on Portland’s very highest incomes, and the programs funded by that small tax have broad and powerful impact. In the Willamette Week article, Kotek is described as making the argument that the tax is causing Portland’s wealthy “job-creators” to flee the city. This assessment couldn’t be further from the truth.

Kotek’s argument is based on spurious data: in a chart created by economist Mary King and posted on Bluesky by DSA City Councilor Mitch Green, the data clearly show that the percentage of high-income earners in Multnomah County is dramatically increasing. 

Kotek’s fear-mongering about the loss of the city’s tax base because of a tax which funds a universal program for every resident of the county is a great disappointment, but not unexpected. It shows how subservient our political class is to the moneyed elite, who pay high prices to get access to them and their political power.

It also hinges on the tired myth that Portland is a city in decline, burnt out after so much conflict. The reality is that Portland is a vibrant, thriving city that the rich want to live in, along with the rest of us. In part because of its social programs, not in spite of them. Working-class voters won this social program and will defend it — and Portland DSA is proud to be a part of that fight.

In Solidarity,

Portland DSA

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We are experiencing the most sustained and broad attacks on US democracy since the McCarthy period. MAGA has put together a fascist coalition of white supremacist, reactionary nationalists, Christian fundamentalists, libertarians, and techno-authoritarians, and they are on an offensive against the 20^th century. All the gains of labor, civil rights, women, and the LGBTQ community are under assault. The fascists intend to fundamentally restructure institutional democracy and to impose a straitjacket on civil society. This closely parallels the McCarthy period, and there are important similarities and differences between now and then, and lessons we can draw.

My uncle (Fred Fine) was on the leading committee of the Communist Party (CP) and closely involved in discussions about organizing an underground apparatus of safe houses for Party leaders. Fine himself was assigned to the underground, and was there for four years. During that time, he was on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List, and never once spoke with his wife or young son. My father, who had fought in the Spanish Civil War, was threatened with deportation, and the FBI threatened to declare my mother “unfit” and told her they would have her children (ages 6 and 11) put into foster homes without visitation rights. Thousands suffered similar threats and intimidation, key leaders were jailed, some cadre turned informant, and Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were executed.

When the Party leadership discussed how to respond to McCarthy, there were two key assumptions: fascism was imminent and war with the Soviet Union inevitable. The similarities to today are striking. Many people feel fascism is imminent and war with China inevitable. The CP drew a number of conclusions from these assumptions that had drastic consequences for its members and mass organizing.

First, they purged members they considered untrustworthy or politically weak. And perhaps more damagingly, the Party concluded repression would be worst in the South, and so shut down all its southern districts and withdrew its organizers after 25 years of outstanding work organizing the South. When my parents divorced, my mother left Chicago and went to Florida with my brother and me to join a close friend—a woman who had been a nurse in the Spanish Civil War, working with the world famous doctor Norman Bethune. My mother was kicked out of the Party for moving to the South, and was only let back in when we moved to California. That didn’t stop the FBI from following her to Florida and getting her fired from several jobs.

My mother kept a journal of her time in Florida. Here is one short excerpt of her experience:

TODAY IS MY BIRTHDAY…35 years. Nobody knows except the FBI. My gift from them
was once again being fired. This time from a job short lasted.
But I truly enjoyed working as proofreader on the St. Petersburg Times.
Well, at least I was let go early in the day. So now I’m home with enough time to
change into my waitress uniform. And time enough left to wait for Paulie to come home
from school. Young Jerry is only 4 and Paulie 9. The best birthday.
We’ll be playing a few games of baseball before I take off for my night shift.
There sits the limousine of the FBI. Another obstacle of fears,
confusion of what the future holds. This is the time for courage and bold adventures.
For it is now, I have come to understand, and someday so will my sons.
Of that I’m confident. For my mother’s heart tells me so.

The author’s mother, Rose Fine, (center) at a protest in Chicago (c. 1955)

The Party went to great lengths to set up an underground apparatus. This had at least two levels: the most secure, in which eight national leaders were sent into hiding, and a less secure state and city underground into which hundreds of local leaders were assigned. This eliminated many of the best organizers from doing mass work. Moreover, local underground networks were largely penetrated by the FBI. Even at my uncle’s level, four of the eight leaders were captured by the FBI. Although he had a number of close calls at different safe houses, he held out until the Party decided to come out of hiding and he eventually stood trial with several other leaders in New York.

When the Party’s first line of leadership (William Foster, Eugene Dennis, and others) went on trial, they tried to defend themselves by educating the jury about the true meaning of Marxism-Leninism. The result was prison time for all. On my uncle’s wanted poster (up in post offices throughout the country) was the following charge: “unlawfully conspiring with other persons to knowingly teach and advocate the duty and necessity of overthrowing and destroying the government of the United States by force and violence.” Of course, the Party never told members to arm themselves, they never organized armed cells, nor did they have plans for an armed insurrection. They did teach about the armed revolution in Russia, the history of capitalist violence, and the ultimate need to defend any socialist electoral victory from a reactionary counterrevolution.

FBI “Most Wanted” Poster for the author’s uncle, Fred Morris Fine

By the time my uncle stood trial, the Party had switched its defense strategy to asserting the freedoms of speech, association, and assembly. There is a difference between speech and advocacy and actively organizing acts of violence. This focus on civil liberties proved more successful with the courts. In 1957 the Supreme Court ruled that the First Amendment protected radical speech, overturning the conviction of 14 Communist Party officials and effectively ending the use of the Smith Act to target leftists for their political beliefs. A series of subsequent rulings forbade the use of blacklists and other methods of political persecution, which helped bring about the end of the Second Red Scare. However, the proceeding period of internal debates and bitter feelings resulted in about half the remaining members leaving the Party by 1957.

Lessons for Today

During the McCarthy period the ruling class was united in its efforts to destroy the left. From conservatives to liberals, Republicans to Democrats, a united front was made impossible. Even the ACLU purged Elizabeth Gurley Flynn from its board for being in the CP. Furthermore, social democratic union leaders like Walter Reuther were more than happy to rid labor of Communists. Loyalty oaths were demanded at universities, public schools, unions, Hollywood, and various industries. Public show trials were held by the House Un-American Activities Committee in cities across the country. Many former friends of the Party were running scared.

But while the persecution the Party faced was real, “the almost fatal blow,” as Party leader Peggy Dennis later wrote in her Autobiography of an American Communist, “was self-inflicted.” The decision to shutter its Southern districts and take the Party leadership underground anticipated a level of repression far greater than that which materialized. Designed to protect the Party from the advent of fascism and world war, it instead deprived mass struggles of thousands of their most militant organizers and activists, weakened the labor movement, cut off key linkages with the Black freedom struggle, and contributed to a decline of CPUSA membership from 80,000 in 1945 to less than 15,000 by 1957.

Today, conditions are in some important ways more favorable for us than during the McCarthy era. The ruling class is split. Already we see mass rallies and protests. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and Bernie Sanders, Hands Off, and May Day marches have already gathered millions in opposition to fascism. Courts as of yet have often ruled against Trump. A united front is not only possible, but is in early formation.

In this moment, many leftists are concerned about safety and security – understandably. The harms caused by Trump’s repressive regime are real. But a key lesson from the McCarthy Era is that we must not let our fear of persecution isolate us from the masses and from mass movements. We can and must continue to organize, even as we take measures to help keep ourselves and each-other safe. The following are some suggestions for this period:

• Stay rooted to mass work, defend our friends and allies, and ask them to defend us.
• Defend the Bill of Rights, civil society, civil liberties, and civil rights for all.
• Stay calm but be aware of security.
• Make sure your financial records—particularly organizational finances—are in order.
• Organizations should have a house counsel, and individuals should always keep the number of a lawyer with you.
• Never write on social media or in email what you don’t want read back to you in court.
• Vocally reject all proposed violent acts at public meetings
• NEVER TALK TO THE FBI. Legally you don’t have to, but if you lie, you’re committing a federal crime. So, NEVER TALK TO THE FBI.

This is the time for courage and bold adventures. Collectively, our actions now will help determine what the future holds.

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Enjoy your June National Political Committee (NPC) newsletter! Our NPC is an elected 18-person body (including two YDSA members who share a vote) which functions as the board of directors of DSA. This month, standing against ICE, celebrating Pride and Juneteenth, preparing for Convention, and more!

And to make sure you get our newsletters in your inbox, sign up here! Each one features action alerts, upcoming events, political education, and more.

• From the National Political Committee — Struggle and Joy
• RSVP for The Fight for a Socialist Green New Deal Call Wednesday 6/25!
• Monthly Convention Update — Secondary Amendment Submissions, Observer Registration, Volunteering at Convention, and More!
• Save the Date: DSA Fund’s A World To Win Fellowship Nominations Open Wednesday 6/18
• Fundraising Committee Membership Applications are Open!
• Send Chapter News to Democratic Left
• Socialist Forum 2025 Convention Special Issue — Call for Pitches

From the National Political Committee — Struggle and Joy

Things are scary out there. Here in the States, the Trump administration and their ICE jackboots are throwing union leaders in jail on ridiculous, inflated charges, raiding workplaces from coast to coast, ripping healthcare away from trans folks, and deploying the US military in our cities. Internationally, Israel continues to starve and massacre Palestinians and seems to be starting, with bottomless US financial support, a war with Iran. This Saturday, June 14, in Washington DC, Trump is hosting a $92 million military parade from the Pentagon to the White House for his birthday — a victory march meant to celebrate his agenda of war and destruction, rally far-right support, and project strength to the world, while massively wasting taxpayer dollars amid his government’s life-threatening cuts to basic social services.

But when the working class is under attack, what do we do? Stand up, fight back!

DSA unequivocally stands with our immigrant neighbors — and not just with words. Our members are holding strong with our communities from Los Angeles to Boston, from San Antonio to Seattle, and especially mobilizing with our labor unions in response. We will be out in numbers this weekend demanding the better, safer, kinder, more just world that we know is possible. 

Against Trump’s militarized birthday parade on June 14, the people of Washington DC are choosing to reject fear, and instead will celebrate local culture, community, and connections to one another at #DCJoyDay.

In New York City, Zohran Mamdani’s democratic socialist campaign for mayor keeps surging in momentum, and is now within striking distance of the flagrantly corrupt frontrunner Andrew Cuomo, with just under two weeks to go until the primary election. The ruling class of the world’s wealthiest city is nervous — they don’t understand political success without their own big money strings attached. In a debate last night, Cuomo even said “we wonder who’s funding DSA?” The answer is you — and tens of thousands of working class members giving whatever we can in dues, to punch way above our weight together!

If you’re not sure where to start taking action, here are some steps you can take:

• join our Boycott Avelo campaign to hold the companies that collaborate with these fascist ICE deportations accountable
• join our campaigns to Boycott Chevron
• RSVP for our Labor vs ICE call Wednesday 6/18
• organize Labor for an Arms Embargo, to make it clear that we will not stand for genocide

Our class enemies know that all of these issues are connected; we must, too.

In the midst of the fear and uncertainty, we also remember that June is a month to revel in the joy of victory over fascist forces. Pride and Juneteenth celebrations are both steeped in that tradition: Pride started when trans and queer folks refused to let a fascist police force take away their community space and collective joy; Juneteenth celebrates the end of chattel slavery in the United States, and comes with a reminder that liberation is incomplete — none of us are free until we are all free.

We encourage you to let these celebrations help you remember the long game here. These fights are difficult, the enemies are terrifying and extremely well-equipped, but when we organize, when we use and expand our collective strength, when we stand in solidarity, then we are more powerful than anything the ruling class can throw at us, and the fight for socialism is a fight for a better world for everyone. There is light at the end of the tunnel; there is joy at the end of the struggle. Let that fuel you.

¡Hasta la Victoria!

Megan Romer and Ashik Siddique
DSA National Co-Chairs

P.S. We want to send a warm welcome to our newest DSA organizing committees: Upstate SC, Owensboro (KY), The Shoals (AL), and Pinal County (AZ); and a special shout-out to our newest full-fledged chapters: Rock River DSA (WI) and St. Cloud DSA (MN)! 

RSVP for The Fight for a Socialist Green New Deal Call Wednesday 6/25!

Join Wednesday 6/25 at 8pm ET/7pm CT/6pm MT/5pm PT us to hear from union leaders, DSA campaign organizers, and socialists in office who are continuing the fight for a better future. Given the hostile federal terrain we now face, local pressure campaigns in our communities and bargaining for the common good in our union contracts are the most viable pathways for winning a socialist Green New Deal this decade.

Monthly Convention Update — Secondary Amendment Submissions, Observer Registration, Volunteering at Convention, and More!

Submit or sign on to an Amendment to an existing Resolution, Constitution/Bylaws Amendment, or Platform Amendment via our Convention Hub! Amendments to proposals are also processed through the Portal on our national Discussion Forum. The deadline for secondary amendments is Sunday 6/29. You can find more information on our proposals page here.

And Convention registration is now open! For Delegate and Alternate Registration, Delegation Chairs will receive registration information after their chapter’s election results have been submitted. The election results will be checked for any errors or expired memberships. Any issues found must be resolved before registration information is provided, and we will provide you with directions to resolve it. You can find registration information on the Convention website here. Early bird delegate registration is $175. The deadline for early bird registration is Sunday 6/22.

Observer registration is open as well. DSA members in good standing can attend the Convention in a non-voting capacity as an Observer. The Observer registration fee is $225.

Observers can view plenaries and deliberation on proposals and attend breakout sessions. Observers are not eligible for scholarship funding. For questions, please email DSACon@dsausa.org.

To make sure all delegates and alternates can fully participate, scholarships will be available through our Solidarity Fund. If a duly elected Delegate or Alternate needs assistance with registration fees, travel costs, housing, or food assistance they may apply for a scholarship. Please see your Delegation Chair for details. The scholarship deadline has been extended to Sunday 6/22. And as a socialist organization, we support each other! To help sponsor a comrade, you can give here.

This year’s Convention will be one of the largest member gatherings in DSA’s history. The check-in process, debate sessions, and our voting tools need to run smoothly for our 1,500+ attendees. If you are a DSA member in good standing who can provide support during the Convention, in any of these areas, please check out the shifts we have available at the form here!

Are you an artist, maker, creator, collector, or just a cool comrade with an even cooler item that you’d love to donate to a good cause? Please consider donating to our 2025 DSA Convention fundraiser live auction! The submission deadline is Monday 6/30. We’re looking for art pieces, handmade items, one-of-a-kind socialist collectibles, experiential gifts (a weekend stay at a vacation property, a dance lesson, concert tickets, a tattoo, perhaps?) or some funky or creative thing we haven’t even thought of! Funds raised will go directly to Convention costs, helping it stay affordable for working-class comrades from around the country.

And say hi to comrades in the Convention Solidarity Journal! This year’s National Convention will feature a printed Solidarity Journal that will be distributed to all Convention attendees and shared online. You, your chapter, working group, or committee can place an ad in the Solidarity Journal to send a message of solidarity or of celebration to your chapter, work, or comrades. The deadline to purchase an ad is Friday 7/18. 

Please note that Solidarity Journal messages advocating for or against any convention proposal, NPC candidate, slate, or DSA caucus will not be accepted. Journal space is available in three sizes, plus text-only solidarity messages. Ads should be sent as PNG, JPG, or TIFF files, color or black and white. You can find more details and buy your ad here.

Save the Date: DSA Fund’s A World To Win Fellowship Nominations Open Wednesday 6/18

Nominations for DSA Fund’s inaugural A World To Win fellowship open Wednesday, June 18th!

Organizers in every state are bringing new communities into the movement for democratic socialism, often with little support or recognition. They’re organizing new DSA chapters or bringing new comrades into growing chapters. They’re organizing workers or building tenant unions. They’re fighting for immigrant rights and trans rights. They’re bringing democratic socialist messages to new audiences, whether knocking on doors or posting TikToks. They are organizing everywhere, online and offline, small towns and big cities, red states and blue states.

DSA Fund’s A World To Win fellowship is for organizers doing groundbreaking work to bring new communities into the movement for democratic socialism. The fellowship includes a $5,000 award, a set of virtual workshops with democratic socialist luminaries, and opportunities to share their work with comrades across the country. Start thinking today of who you want to nominate!

Fundraising Committee Membership Applications are Open!

“Yes, that campaign sounds cool, but how are we going to pay for it?” If this question doesn’t scare you a bit and you have some experience fundraising either in your DSA chapter or outside DSA, you might just be a good fit for the DSA National Fundraising Committee! This committee helps us fundraise to keep DSA solvent at a national level, through things like dues campaigns, one-off fundraisers, and small-dollar donor asks, as well as helping chapters learn to fundraise for their own work. Whether your experience is in event planning, non-profit giving, fundraising communications, or anything of the like, or maybe you’ve just got a track record of throwing great fundraisers for your chapter, apply to become a member of the Fundraising Committee today!

Send Chapter News to Democratic Left

Our member publication Democratic Left is looking for news items for “Chapter & Verse,” its monthly wrap-up of chapter news. Check out the April edition for examples of the chapter campaigns, events, and accomplishments DL hopes to cover in this feature. 

Items can be submitted using the form available here. The editors want to highlight the amazing work DSA chapters across the country are accomplishing. Chapters interested in showcasing their efforts regularly may want to consider designating correspondents who will regularly submit items. Questions can be sent to edboard@dsacommittees.org.

Socialist Forum 2025 Convention Special Issue — Call for Pitches

As the DSA Convention approaches, Socialist Forum is accepting pitches for pieces debating the merits and demerits of the resolutions up for debate at our national convention in August on a rolling basis. We are interested in pitches of essays of a variety of lengths (preferably between 1,000-2500 words) tackling proposals and issues related to the upcoming convention. This could be an essay discussing the specificities of DSA’s position on anti-Zionism or a pitch to discuss or elaborate on a particular proposal having to do with DSA supporting more electoral fights across the country. You can find last Convention’s issue here for reference. Please email submissions or questions to socialistforum@dsausa.org.

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El Comité Nacional de Educación Política de DSA (NPEC) se complace en anunciar el lanzamiento de nuestros primeros módulos curriculares traducidos al español con tres módulos introductorios titulados: ¿Qué es el capitalismo?, ¿Qué es el socialismo? y ¿Por qué la clase trabajadora?

Estos módulos, incluyendo recursos prácticos para el desarrollo de organizadores socialistas principiantes y potenciales, se han utilizado para facilitar la educación política fundamental en todo el país desde su publicación en inglés hace dos años.

Esperamos traducir más de nuestros materiales educativos en futuras publicaciones. Si le interesa colaborar con el NPEC en este proyecto, escríbanos a politicaleducation@dsacommittees.org

Enlace a los módulos de español/Link to the modules in Spanish

DSA’s National Political Education Committee is excited to announce the release of our first translated curriculum modules, featuring all three of our introductory modules in Spanish: What is Capitalism, What is Socialism, and Why the Working Class!

These out-of-the-box modules containing guided resources for developing new and prospective socialist organizers have been used to lead foundational political education around the country since their publication two years ago.

We hope to make additional translations of our committee’s educational materials available in future releases. If you are interested in assisting NPEC with our translation efforts, write to us at politicaleducation@dsacommittees.org

Authors: Jesse D, Aiden S, Jesse J (Electoral Working Group leadership)

The city of Portland is six months into its grand experiment in a new form of government. Portland City Council’s expansion and the multi-member geographic districts are providing new horizons of political action for the socialist movement and the city’s broader progressive milieu.  When thinking about our relationship with the new system, we find it important to refer to the past – in order to understand the present and to fight for a better future. 

Historically, candidates elected by people-powered movements to Portland city council have had short shelf lives. Their elections came as shocks to the establishment, who then fought to claw back those seats for the capitalist interests which dominate our city: the developers, the metro chamber, and their intersection in the Democratic Party of Oregon. For example, Commissioners Chloe Eudaly (elected 2016) and Jo Ann Hardesty (elected 2018), were identified by the establishment as part of the left. They both served single terms and then faced well-funded and aggressive opposition in their second elections, resulting in losses in 2020 and 2022 respectively. 

The second round of elections under the new system will fall first in Districts 3 & 4, where three DSA members are going to be up for re-election. It is imperative that we create a vigorous campaign plan to maintain our socialists in office. It is in the interest of all chapter members, and the city at large, that we succeed in that plan in 2026.

If you believe in our councilors’ mission – building a city that works for everyone, and not just the rich – consider these actions to get involved in defending our mandate:

1: Commit your time to the Electoral Working Group, which meets every third Thursday (find our next meeting on the chapter calendar here)

• Train with other members on how to run an electoral campaign, how to launch a canvass, how to be an effective canvasser, and fight for the candidacies of our DSA councilors on the front line!
• Attend the National Electoral Commission‘s upcoming “Electoral Academy” training series. This series is filled with important nuts-and-bolts trainings addressing all aspects of campaign work.
• Make an outreach plan for your non-DSA network: Highlight the work of our councilors to your non-DSA friends, coworkers, and family members. Encourage them to commit to donating to our Socialists in Office re-election campaigns or to canvass when we launch our field campaigns. Watch and listen for updates on these campaigns in chapter general meetings, Electoral Working Group meetings, and via direct communications (texts, emails, etc.).

2: Help prepare the chapter for a vigorous campaign

• Make the jump to solidarity dues to fund the chapter’s work between campaigns.
• Are your friends stoked about socialists on city council? Ask them to join the chapter!
• Keep up the good work in your Working Groups, Committees, and caucuses. We’re not just running on our councilors’ achievements but everything we do as a chapter!

3: Keep active with the chapter’s interventions at city hall

• We’ve seen greater group cohesion in our Socialist bloc when the chapter is organizing and mobilizing around our councilors’ legislative priorities.
• Bolster working groups’ policy priorities in the chapter (Renter’s bill of Rights, Family Agenda, public power etc.).

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