LSC’s 2025 Resolution Signature Recommendations
A month ago, LSC published our initial slate of resolutions for the 2025 DSA National Convention and attempted to articulate what we hope will be a productive, decisive orientation to the pre-convention process. Our caucus has been delighted by the vibrant member engagement with the resolution submission process, and we believe, given the large number of resolutions that have been submitted since our prior statement, that it would be helpful to aligned DSA members for us to list other proposals we recommend signing.
Firstly, LSC is proud to announce our latest caucus-endorsed proposals:
Equality Before Convention
DSA's National Political Committee is DSA's highest governing body while the National Convention is not in session. The NPC therefore holds significant influence over Convention, such as in approving the requirements for member-submitted business to reach the Convention floor. Under current practice, the NPC may exempt itself from those requirements, privileging motions brought by the NPC over those brought by rank-and-file members. This proposal closes that loophole and requires equal treatment of member-submitted and NPC-submitted resolutions.
Special Convention Overhaul
A Special Convention is the only mechanism available to DSA’s membership to overrule or exercise oversight of our elected leadership, but the high thresholds to call a Special Convention, the expense entailed by holding one, and the substantial disruption an irregular Convention could cause to DSA’s regular functioning all render the mechanism unusable in a practical sense. This amendment lowers the thresholds to call Special Conventions while restricting their scope and cost, providing DSA’s membership with a functional emergency process for holding DSA’s leadership to account.
LSC Amendments
In the interest of good faith debate, LSC members have authored or coauthored amendments to some resolutions which the caucus could not support as written, or which we felt could otherwise be improved. We urge DSA members to sign both our amendments and their base resolutions:
Rural Organizing Under the GDC
Signature Recommendations
We ask DSA members to consider signing the following resolutions. LSC is not currently endorsing and does not necessarily support all of these resolutions as written, but we do believe that they meaningfully address important issues facing DSA and thus merit consideration by Convention. This list is also not an exhaustive list of all proposals LSC may be supporting.
PC: Ecosocialism Within Ecological Limits: Expanding the Green New Deal
CB: Require National Conventions to be either hybrid or virtual
CB: Fix Constitution Contradicting Itself Regarding Secretary and Treasurer
CB: Bylaws Amendment Clarifying Setting Fee Structures for the Organization’s Print Publications
CB: Fair Representation via STV Delegate Elections
R: For a Robust & Centralized National Resource Library
R: Resolution for the Organizational Merger of QSWG and TRBA
R: Take the Fight to the Rural Front
R: Rejecting the Normalization of Zionism and Occupation
R: For a Socialist Party in Years, Not Decades
R: A Fighting Socialist Program for DSA
R: Anti-Imperialism in the 21st Century
R: For a Politicized and Member-Driven Growth & Development in DSA
R: Principles for Party Building
R: Democratic Discipline: A Uniform Process for Electoral Censure Across DSA
R: Democracy for All: An NEC Subcommittee for Voting Rights
R: Staff Relationship to Members in a Democratic Organization
R: Organize the Masses! For the National Political Committee as Organizing and Political Leadership
R: Locals-First DSA: Increase Dues Income for Locals and Stabilize National Budgeto
R: For Working-Class Member Leadership
R: For a Fighting Anti-Zionist DSA
R: Building a United Front Toward 2028
R: Fighting Back in the Class War: Preparing for May Day 2028
R: Fight Fascist State Repression & ICE
R: Towards a Multilingual DSA / Hacia un DSA Multilingüe
R: Proposal to Launch a Member-Led National Design Committee
R-A: Democratic Socialists and the Labor Movement Need Each Other
As before, to sign resolutions proposed for the 2025 National Convention, DSA members will require access to the National Forums. One of our members has authored a useful guide to show DSA members how to register for forum access to sign resolutions.
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