New Gimme a Break! In this special episode, Lital and Edward talk to Monica from JBA & Jason from @labormilitant, just back from campaigning in Rhode Island for independent DSA candidate @brittanyforri, who they interviewed for the podcast! Check it out:
https://t.co/E2YXEVqZII
@Himedanshi2199@workertenant No the difference is we want MUG to put its money where its mouth is and join us in fighting for a split with the Dems. There’s no road to “hegemony” for the left while it promotes Dems
While we love poetic language, this piece rings hollow. MUG has forces in NYC and national to make a fight. Why won’t you guys support our petition for a special meeting? There’s no chance at socialist integrity if you won’t even fight.
https://t.co/Fn6qn9aY4X
it makes no tactical sense to call a special meeting right before chapter convention, you're asking people to gather 1400 signatures to call a redundant meeting when you could just prepare a convention reso
How is it wrecking to push petition 4 special meeting? Why don’t you support petition? Is having NYC-DSA on record opposing nomore24 not an outrage? You got better way to get DSA to support nomore24? We’re all ears. How does MUG call 2 vote 4 Dems = organizing 2 break from Dems?
@cleanbreaknow You're doing slander and wrecking because they don't agree with you in one tactic? Do you think yourself so highly that anyone who disagrees with your petition, that you have done zero organizing around other than post about, is against the revolution? Cry-bully harder dorks.
"Election day!" he shouted
A socialist for mayor
The comrade got elected
He happy, was for fair
But after the election
He got an an awful shock
A great big socialistic bull
Did rap him on his block
And Comrade Block did sob
"I helped him get his job!"
Adam Smith is the guy who drafted the bill to merge the U.S. military with the IDF and is a genocidal Zionist who called pro Palestinian protesters fascist
But the DSA left is ok with him defeating Kshama Sawant because Kshama said mean things about DSA
Deeply unserious people
There is plenty to criticize Smalls about (chiefly the lack of any real strategy to beat Amazon). But his rejection of AOC and Dems is correct, and essential to beat back attacks on workers. Lest we forget: Backstabbing Dems like AOC helped Biden break rail strike!
Chris Smalls shot to prominence for playing a key role in the shock union win at a New York Amazon warehouse. He was charismatic and energetic at a time labor needed both.
But in the years since, his own ego has overwhelmed his political contributions. https://t.co/OhMu1dVEFf
🚨GET YOUR DUMB *SS OUTTA HERE!🚨
A Black Panther party leader in Newark calls out Hasan Piker and other phony internet activists for failing to understand what the revolution fights for.
If @nycDSA believed this you wouldn’t endorse Dem Zionist AOC who supported Biden as he armed genocide! Dems are also responsible for Israel’s crimes & not just Mamdani’s police chief and his other pals that death marched.
https://t.co/nZewS9Sysj
Genocidaire Bezalel Smotrich, leader of the Israeli settler movement, has no place in NYC — he should be arrested to face justice for his horrific crimes against Palestinians and humanity. Every politician who marched with him aligned themselves with Israel’s crimes.
JBA and @labormilitant canvass for @brittanyforri, running as DSA independent socialist for the General Assembly of House District 5 in Providence, RI. Workers need working-class candidates, not Dems!
There are 2 many libs in DSA. Especially leadership. We must fight for a revolutionary org. This requires a split w/ the Dems & a fight against leaders who embrace them. "Old Reds" called those with bombast, who refuse this: centrists. Must fight them 2.
https://t.co/7ieBxF8weY
“I can’t be in DSA y’all got too much reformists and liberals”
Ok my guy look there is no pure org. That’s idealism. You’re trapped in this country with literal fascists that wanna fuck you up and destroy your life. They are in power. You cannot wall yourself up in a castle of books. Your coworkers are liberals, or conservatives. Most people are not whatever type of communist you think you are. I say think you are, because you are not a Communist. You are a fan of communism, yes, student of Communism, yes, but no Communist. Communists are in organizations, practicing and developing our ideology. The old Reds would call you a fellow traveler.
You need to be in an org with people who have your back, and a national network. If I’m in Chicago or KC or Philly or Miami and wanna link up with comrades from my org I know where to go. Same thing, someone comes to STL they can drop by our meetings or events. That’s important. You need a community. You’re miserable and doomerist and nihilistic because you ain’t got one besides crazy people on the Internet.
I am endorsing @ButchWare for Governor of California!
Butch Ware is running independent from the Democratic and Republican parties as a Green Party candidate. He is calling for a universal, single-payer healthcare system, CalCare, free at the point of use for every Californian. His campaign is also fighting for free public higher education in the state and canceling state-held student debt.
Butch Ware is demanding that ICE detention centers on state contracts be closed, all state cooperation with ICE be ended, and that all residents be given access to social programs regardless of immigration or citizenship status. He is calling for a statewide $25/hour minimum wage and for a publicly owned energy grid built by unionized public-sector workers. Butch is calling for California's $800 billion+ in public pension funds to be divested from weapons manufacturers and corporations tied to war crimes.
The billionaire class and California’s Democratic Party, which absolutely dominates the state’s political machinery, are threatened by these demands. They have gone to shocking lengths, including removing him from the ballot entirely.
I urge California’s working people to write in Butch Ware on the ballot.
Shockingly, far from supporting Butch Ware, the overwhelming majority of labor leaders have endorsed billionaire Tom Steyer for Governor. These include the leaders of California Nurses Association, California Teachers Association, California Federation of Teachers, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) 3299, UNITE HERE, and the California AFL-CIO.
The leadership of the California Democratic Socialists of America formally issued a “No Endorsement” recommendation in their 2026 Primary Voter Guide, but shamefully they have all but endorsed Steyer by claiming that “Tom Steyer is somehow running the most progressive campaign,” and that “the most progressive of the current viable candidates for governor is Tom Steyer.”
New episode of Gimme a Break! Lital & Edward talk to Max from East Bay DSA about California elections and why DSAers should “vote socialist,” not billionaire Steyer or any other Dem!
Listen here, Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get podcasts:
https://t.co/lUBA837Wuv
There's no electoral road to black liberation. Building labor/black power means fighting the politicians, parties, & union misleaders that DSA promotes. Socialists must fight 4 labor to defend the oppressed because it's the only way to defend themselves!
https://t.co/QRv8zCbQkW
New in L&A: Six years after the George Floyd Uprising, Marisa M. surveys political trends around policing on the Left. Both willingness to oppose the political power of the police and a program for Black liberation remain necessary pillars for any socialist electoral project.
We agree! Here in the belly of the beast, fighting in DSA for clean break with Dems is not popular right now but definitely only correct thing for communists to do.
If you’re a DSA member, take a look at this resolution in the thread here. I’d love to hear your thoughts—we must make sure this body can become another tool for us to tell the story of how the working class will take power.