Socialist Forum

Tens of thousands of university students established encampments on more than 200 campuses across the country in the run up to graduation ceremonies. Our interview with YDSA organizer Erin Lawson from NYU points to the movement’s rapid expansion and the prospects for a revival in the fall semester.

May Day is an opportunity to reflect on DSA’s involvement in the labor movement and the efforts our organization has made to connect with and support workers internationally. He also talks about the importance of the holiday as a global holiday for solidarity and coming together.

Growing labor’s power today will depend on our own dogged efforts against the grain of today’s social and political conditions.

A history of general strikes provides valuable lessons as we prepare to meet UAW President Shawn Fain’s call for a general strike in 2028.

DSA should stick to the long-term project of building a fighting labor movement and eventually a political party representing its interests.

A politics of care is necessary to address the issues with care work as an often neglected, frequently exploited form of labor.

A father and son, both members of DSA, talk about the challenges facing our organization and our movement.

The history of struggles for a democratic constitution remains relevant because the U.S. was not a democracy in the past and it isn’t now.

Without safeguards, paid political leadership could undermine what it seeks to bolster—member democracy.