Caucus Statement Endorsement of Prison Strike We, the Libertarian Socialist Caucus of the Democratic Socialists of America, have voted to endorse the upcoming prison strike which incarcerated people across the country have declared and which will be taking place...
Caucus Statement Statement of Solidarity with Puerto Rico “No somos pequeños, es que estamos de rodillas”[1] -Pedro Albizu Campos On May 1st, recognized around the world as International Workers’ Day, Puerto Rican unions, students, feminists and activist organizations called a...
Pamphlets Cooperation Against Catastrophe By Reed Ingalls This text was written as part of the LSC Pamphlet Program: as such, it is also available in a format for online reading and one for printing. The post reflects...
Pamphlets Medicare-for-All, Mass Mobilizations and Lessons from SDS for DSA By @topmagi This text was written as part of the LSC Pamphlet Program: as such, it is also available in a format for online reading and one for printing. The post reflects only...
Pamphlets Guns, Agency, And The Lies We Tell Ourselves About Liberal Democracy A Caucus member argues that gun violence has to be understood as the result not of gun ownership but in reaction to capitalism's abridgment of people's agency....
Caucus Statement Statement in Solidarity with Sex Workers Targeted by the FOSTA/SESTA Bills Bills recently passed by the US Congress—the “Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act” (FOSTA) in the House and the “Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act” (SESTA) in the Senate—are a dangerous enactment of...
Caucus Statement Endorsement of DSA Accountability Sample Chapter Bylaws At the end of December, we published a statement criticizing a draft sample chapter bylaws document. We were pleased that the NPC extended the timeline for the new sample bylaws. We are now...
Caucus Statement Statement in Solidarity With Striking Teachers The West Virginia teachers’ strike -- just like any working class strike - shows that true power comes from the workers, not the capitalists, whether they be business owners or legislators. But we hope and believe that it is only the beginning....
News Endorsement of the NPC reform and transparency proposal being brought to the NPC meeting this upcoming weekend The DSA Libertarian Socialist Caucus has voted to endorse reforms Presented by Dele Balogun, in consultation with various DSA members, the DSA Accountability Group, and some members of NPC, found here. If you’...
News Addendum for National Electoral Strategy Proposal National Electoral Committee has created a document to guide DSA electoral strategy, LSC has built an Addendum that addresses holes in the document and centers the creation of bottom up libertarian municipalism through...
Caucus Statement Statement in Solidarity with Afrin and the Rojava Revolution #HandsOffAfrin #DefendAfrin The people of Afrin are facing the violence of a Turkish state bent on the ethnic cleansing of the Afrin Canton. Turkey, the second largest army in NATO, has started a...
Caucus Statement Statement of Support for Striking Prisoners We, members of the DSA Libertarian Socialist Caucus, stand in solidarity with Operation PUSH and the striking prisoners who are risking their lives to bring to light the unethical, irrational, systematic abuse and...
Caucus Statement Statement on Sample Bylaws Overview At the DSA’s 2017 National Convention this past summer, an amendment was passed which became Article III, Section 2 of the organization’s bylaws. It reads as follows: The NPC shall...
News Statement Regarding a Disciplinary Matter in East Bay DSA On December 6, 2017, East Bay DSA (EBDSA) and Libertarian Socialist Caucus (LSC) member Jetta Rae Robertson received a member conduct notice from EBDSA’s Local Council informing her they were pursuing disciplinary...
News Statement of Support for the Movement in St. Louis We have been asked to tell people what's going on and direct people to the jail fund (a bare minimum of 150 have been arrested). Here is the jail fund. Here is, briefly,...
Pamphlets How to Have a Party How do we overcome the Democrats? Elaborating on the inside-outside strategy the author proposes the creation of a socialist “dual party” which coordinates campaigns and eventually politicians both within and outside the Democratic Party ballot line so they act as a unified bloc....
Pamphlets Why Socialist Job Guarantees Are Better Than Universal Basic Income A polemic against the idea that a Universal Basic Income is the best way of overcoming wage labor. The authors argue instead in favor of a self-managed socialist job guarantee, in which access to labor is guaranteed as a human right....
Pamphlets How To Sign Up For DSA RocketChat Everything you need to know about DSA Rocket Chat, which is both a good resource in itself and necessary for membership in the Caucus. Includes sign-up instructions, a user’s manual, and a fun guide to some of our favorite channels....
Pamphlets Organizing Beyond the Point of Production Marxists tend to emphasize the importance of organizing labor in workplaces or “the point of production.” In this pamphlet, the author sketches out the limitations of a dogmatically labor-centric approach and outlines the radical potential of workers’ cooperatives and participatory budgeting....
Pamphlets The Coming Health-Care Fight A mini-manifesto for the more intense and militant struggle which will be necessary to make health care for all a reality in the United States, written by an ICU nurse at the University of Chicago....
Pamphlets Provisional Procedures and Guidelines The General Assembly will be the main meeting of the Libertarian Socialist Caucus during the Convention. These are its rules....
Events General Assembly of the DSA Libertarian Socialist Caucus When: Friday, August 4th 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM Where: 750 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60607-3603...
Pamphlets Founding Document We take libertarian socialism to encompass those parts of the socialist movement which have historically seen the surest path to socialism in the creation of independent institutions in civil society that give the working class and ordinary people direct power over their lives....
News Statement on the NPC Election It has recently come to our attention that a newly elected member of DSA’s National Political Committee, Danny Fetonte, was a union organizer field representative for the Combined Law Enforcement......
