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LSC Statement on the Budget Crisis
DSA is in the midst of a financial crisis that threatens the very basis of our organization. Declining membership numbers and financial mismanagement in previous years will force us to make many difficult decisions in the coming months to ensure we can continue our work. During the two prior NPC terms (2019-2021 and 2021-2023), DSA…
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LSC Opposes “Resolution for Quarterly Reports from Chapters and Dues Share”
The Libertarian Socialist Caucus of DSA fundamentally disagrees with “Resolution for Quarterly Reports from Chapters and Dues Share,” a resolution proposed for the January 14th NPC Meeting, which calls for chapters to have mandatory quarterly calls with Field Organizers. If chapters miss two meetings in a row, their dues share income is completely withheld; if…
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LSC-DSA: Our Caucus’ Vision for the DSA 2023 Convention
Overview If the last decade featured historic gains for the left in places even the most ardent partisans had abandoned, it has also been an era of crisis and repression that has fostered increasingly general political confusion. Today, socialists have achieved breakthroughs inside and outside the state from Rojava to Barcelona to Chiapas to New…
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DSA and the NHGO
The NPC has already voted to terminate the contract but the argument for the NHGO as a staff position rather than another consultant remains important. As we build a mass organization that will win socialism for the multiracial working class, conflict and harm are inevitable. People enter DSA with a wide range of emotional regulation,…
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LSC Recommendations on NPC Resolutions & Constitution & Bylaws Changes.
Resolution No. 1 – State Organization NPC Comments: “Commit to building our power and organization at the state level and adopt standardized bylaws for state organizations.” “The DSA Constitution and Bylaws currently allow for state and regional organizations. To support chapters in the creation of state organizations the NPC recommends the creation of state organizations…
