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LSC Says: Stop The Spoilers
LSC reaffirms our commitment to ensuring membership accountability for DSA elected members by announcing our support for the resolution “Stop the Spoilers: For the Expulsion of Spoiler Candidates.” Candidates that choose to remain in a race against the chapter endorsement are using undue influence to directly undermine the will of DSA’s membership. This is, plain…
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Workers Deserve More From AOC
In a recent interview on ABC, Congressmember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez publicly proclaimed that she is not a member of DSA nationally, and is only a local member of the New York City DSA chapter. DSA’s membership is not a part-in-part-out system; all members of our organization are members at the national level, with chapters being the…
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2026 yLSC Delegation Statement on Anti-Corruption
As members of the yLSC delegation to the 2026 YDSA Convention, we are deeply disappointed to learn about the news concerning the NCC Co-Chair race. Any abuse of power by a Y/DSA staffer for personal political gain is unacceptable in a democratic socialist organization. Personal membership data is inherently extremely confidential and sensitive, and it…
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Official yLSC 2026 Convention Guide
This convention guide has been assembled by YDSA members of DSA’s Libertarian Socialist Caucus. It is endorsed by the caucus, and positions within are official LSC positions. We consider the majority of resolutions at the 2026 YDSA Convention to be uncontentious, procedural, or largely apolitical, or so far down on the overflow agenda it is…
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Atomized Democracy: The Case Against “One Member One Vote”
What is “One Member One Vote”? One Member One Vote (OMOV or 1M1V) is a principle which states that each member of an organization can cast one vote on a decision. Labor and parliamentary movements looking to challenge weighted voting systems that gave disproportionate influence to certain candidates, delegates, or constituencies coined the term. Within…