The UK left is regrouping in the wake of the Labor Party's neoliberal lurch. Can socialists reawaken the left into a dedicated political force?

DC's restaurant wars wage on! Locals have joined the workers' fight for union recognition, aligned against the skeevy Stephen Starr.

Faith and community advocates across Louisiana are calling for compassion, transparency, and accountability as immigration enforcement actions continue to separate families and destabilize communities.

We would like to clarify that this was not a DSA event and that Central IN DSA has absolutely no relationship with Mr. Hornedo.

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Este fin de semana, la Oficina de Aduanas y Protección Fronteriza, fuerza policiaca personal de Trump, empezará a ocupar nuestra ciudad y secuestrar a nuestros vecinos para terrorizar a la comunidad inmigrante e intimidarnos a quienes nos oponemos. Charlotte Metro DSA condena esta invasión. Nos mantenemos en solidaridad con la clase trabajadora de todas las naciones . Lucharemos contra esta invasión con toda la gente de consciencia.

Estos ataques son parte de una historia larga del estado fomentando la división entre personas de la clase trabajadora para debilitar y amenazar a nuestras comunidades con agentes armados cuando parecemos demasiado fuertes.

Previamente en este año, iniciamos nuestra campaña para boicotear a Avelo. La aerolínea Avelo es una aerolínea de bajo costo que está bajo contrato con ICE para llevar a cabo vuelos de deportaciones. Estamos pidiendo a la gente que participe en el boicot para generar presión a la empresa y la Ciudad de Concord, ciudad de donde despegan los vuelos, para que cesen el contrato. Con este fin llevaremos a cabo una protesta el día 29 alrededor del aeropuerto Concord-Padgett, les invitamos a que se nos unan.

Otros grupos de la comunidad están trabajando activamente para luchar contra este fenómeno.

Por favor revisen y utilicen la red de migrantes de las Carolinas y su línea directa para reportar secuestros (704) 740-7737

Y también visiten Siembra NC para obtener detalles sobre el entrenamiento en vigilancia de ICE el 17 de noviembre.

Nuestro objetivo es organizar y unir a la ciudad para resistir estos secuestros. Por favor acérquese a nosotros para colaborar o involucrarse.

En Solidaridad,

El Comité Directivo de Charlotte Metro DSA

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Today, Customs & Border Patrol, Trump’s personal police force, will begin occupying our city and abducting our neighbors to terrorize the immigrant community and cow domestic opposition. Charlotte Metro DSA condemns this invasion. We stand in solidarity with the working class of all nations. We will fight this invasion with all people of conscience.

These attacks are a part of the long history of capital & its state fomenting divisions among the working class to keep us weak and siccing armed agents on us and our communities when we appear too strong.

Earlier this year we began our Boycott Avelo campaign. Avelo airlines is a budget airline that has a contract with ICE for deportation flights. We are asking people to boycott the company and help us put pressure on the company and the City of Concord where they fly out of to get them to drop the contract. To that end, we’ll be having a protest on the 29th by the Concord-Padgett airport. We invite you to join us.

Other groups in the community have also been actively fighting back. Please check out the Carolina Migrant Network and use their hotline to report abductions: (704) 740-7737. 

See Siembra NC for details about their upcoming ICE Watch trainings.

We aim to organize and unite the city to resist these abductions. Please reach out to collaborate or get involved. 

In Solidarity,

The Charlotte Metro DSA Steering Committee

DSA-LA Statement on Historic Los Angeles City Council Vote to Update the Rent Stabilization Ordinance

After historic wins around the country for an affordability agenda, Los Angeles just won a massive victory for renters.

Let’s start with what was approved by city council on Wednesday:

4% RENT CAP FOR RSO UNITS
A reduction in maximum yearly rent increases in rent-stabilized (RSO) units from 8% to 4%. Capping rent increases at 90% of general consumer inflation, as long as that means that rent will only go up between 1% and 4%.

END TO LANDLORD UTILITY PRICE GOUGING
The elimination of a 1-2% rent increase loophole for utility costs.

RENT BANKING DEFEATED
– “rent-banking” proposals failed at city council. Rent banking would allow landlords to compensate for a low-inflation year by increasing the rent cap based on high-inflation years.

LA tenants will save billions of dollars over the next decade because of this transformative reform. Money that would’ve gone to large corporations and financial elites will now stay in our families and communities.

DSA-LA, with the Keep LA Housed Coalition, organized for an even bolder rent cap of 3% instead of 4%, capped at 60% of inflation instead of 90%. This was supported by the Democratic Socialist bloc—Councilmembers Soto-Martinez, Hernandez, Raman, and Jurado— and other progressive councilmembers, but not approved by a majority of council. While final compromises to our initial demands made city council passage possible, they also mean that hundreds of millions of dollars could’ve been saved by renters and more families kept out of houselessness if the original version were approved. A bloc of councilmembers in Yaroslavsky, McOsker, Blumenfield, Rodriguez, Lee, and Harris-Dawson, would rather concede to the status quo that favors a billionaire-first agenda. This is why electing more Democratic Socialists to office, and supporting them with more socialists doing work on the ground, is so important.

After the last week, three things are now clear:

Affordability is a national crisis whose effects are deeply felt in Los Angeles.

There is a growing movement for an unapologetic affordability agenda and it is changing the political reality in the country and in our city. When we organize, we win.

We need more of our elected leaders to take up the most ambitious demands of this movement, and to be bolder in their support for obviously popular goals like making housing affordable for everyday Angelenos.

It is time to make it absolutely clear what we are fighting for, so that no politician misses the message: Affordability is the mass movement of our time, and it is about more than just money. It is a movement for human dignity.

The coalition that achieved Wednesday’s unbelievable win for renters has transformed what we thought of as politically possible, forcing this reconsideration of the RSO formula for the first time in 40 years. DSA-LA is proud to be a part of that.

But there is more work to be done! The bigger our movement, the bigger our wins. Join DSA and help build a better Los Angeles.

By rejecting Thrive!, voters are saying that they want their money to go to the things they care about: the library, infrastructure, social support systems.

Author: Shane M., former Co-Chair of the Street Corps Working Group and a member of the Mass Work Caucus Contradictions and A Movement Out Of Touch When I started Street Corps back in 2021, I had the goal of doing my part to address our organization’s lack of presence among the working class community of […]

How many times have you been told that real change is impractical? That America isn’t ready for something new? That we need to make compromises with an ever more ruthless fascist regime? However, the proof that we can dream bigger is here! Because Zohran Mamdani, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America’s New York City chapter, has won the popular support of his city’s people once more and he is now the Mayor-Elect of the city, the largest in the United States!

With all the attention on Mamdani and his organization, the Democratic Socialists of America or DSA, people may be wondering: what is DSA? What is socialism for that matter? What can socialism do for the average American? And what can people do to build the better future that socialism promises?

DSA is the largest socialist organization in America, with over 85,000 members, organizing and fighting for a better tomorrow in scores of local chapters. But what do socialists believe? For us at DSA, we believe socialism is when working people democratically and collectively control our lives and all aspects of our society, whether it be the government, the economy, or the workplace. 

There are many ways in which such an approach under socialism can benefit the average American. Socialists are on the forefront of the struggle for affordable housing, healthcare, access to food, transit, and other necessities of life. Locally, DSA’s Silicon Valley Chapter has been a major contributor in the Measure A campaign to save Santa Clara County’s hospitals from shutdown amidst Trump’s budget cuts, Palestine solidarity work such as No Appetite for Apartheid, mutual aid work with groups like Food Not Bombs and Apoyate, and many more organizing efforts locally. 

In an increasingly inequitable America, where billionaire oligarchs control most of the wealth in the richest country in world history, we believe that all people deserve a share of this hoarded wealth. We don’t want freedom to be reserved for the wealthiest in society; we want freedom for all! That is a dream we believe can become a reality!

Speaking to you from Silicon Valley DSA, Mamdani’s victory has meant many things for us. First, his win has shown working Americans everywhere that the policies we support, from healthcare to affordable housing, are popular among voters. But more importantly, it gives us organizers a window of opportunity to help our community. That includes you. We dream of a better world and believe you can help us.

While Mamdani criticized power and the problems in society, he, more importantly, gave tangible solutions as well, along with a plan to achieve these aims. He met with New Yorkers to hear about the issues that mattered to them, working to find tangible and imaginative solutions to address these issues. We at Silicon Valley DSA are cut of the same red cloth organizing in our local community in the South Bay for years. With their victory, we seek to emulate the impact NYC-DSA and Mamdani have left on their communities to deliver for our own. Be sure to join us and keep an eye on the calendar for future organizing. Just imagine what all of us will bring to Silicon Valley in the years to come. 

Dare to dream big! A better world is possible. And when we fight, we win!

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On November 4th, a 1% sales tax was passed (52% to 48%) in Mecklenburg County to fund the P.A.V.E. Act.

We remain opposed to the sales tax increase. The working class had no say in the P.A.V.E. act, yet we are those with the most to lose. With the current $20 billion transit plan, we will also gain the least. We will not be able sit on the new governing Transit Authority Board of Trustees, but we're free to be harassed and kicked off transit by the new transit police force. There are no guarantees that these transit expansions will be completed, and that this tax money will actually go towards transit or bike infrastructure.

We support transit when it serves the working class. This Bill does not. It serves to support corporations.

Bills like the P.A.V.E. act get passed because these politicians don’t care about workers, only their corporate donors.

We're building an organization by and for the working class that can stand up to the capitalist class and fight for reforms like fast, free, reliable, and comprehensive public transit. We hope you will join us!

In Solidarity,

Charlotte Metro DSA