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Strike for Black Lives
PDF By Ayo As the United States is rocked by protests over the murder of Black people by the police, many of us — especially Black people like myself — find we must do what any sane person would hope would never be necessary: demand recognition for the value of Black lives from a hostile…
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Police Brutality is a Symptom of a Bigger Problem
“Who are the police protecting from us?” PDF By Alexander J King At the start of 2020, America was focused on gossip, the never-ending primary, and conflict in the Middle East. Looking at the January 2020 CNN archives, there are 122 references to the nascent pandemic with only three before January 17th, 45 references to…
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A Quick Look at Police, Property, and Privilege
PDF by Rayyan Chami The police exist to protect property in a society where there are people so poor that they question the right of some people to “own” things that everyone needs to survive, i.e. the “ownership” of land, industry, transportation, etc. from which is derived the power to exploit others and profit from…
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Mutual Aid vs Charity
PDF by Richard Lyon The COVID-19 pandemic has rapidly engulfed the entire globe. Most of the people on the planet have had their lives impacted by this crisis. The efforts to control the spread of the disease are creating major economic disruption. Governmental organizations at all levels are experiencing often contradictory demands for responses to…
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Dual Power and Prefigurative Politics
PDF An Annotated Bibliography of Key Texts For Reading-Inclined LibSocs Prepared by Mark Rizzo for the LSC Political Education Committee Dual Power: A Strategy To Build Socialism in Our Time by the DSA-LSC Dual Power: A Strategy To Build Socialism In Our Time is a collaborative text meant to express the shared strategic vision…
Pamphlets
One of the initiatives the Libertarian Socialist Caucus is most proud of is our DSA-LSC Pamphlet Program. In the interests of expanding discussion and debate within the DSA, we have offered to publish Caucus members’ opinions in pamphlets that can be distributed online in PDF form.
Unless otherwise stated, these pamphlets do not represent official positions of the Libertarian Socialist Caucus arrived at via consensus; rather, they represent solely the views of the author(s).
PDFs for printing are available upon request.