At the 2017 convention, DSA passed a harassment grievance policy, often known as Resolution 33. This was a positive development, as previously, DSA did not have any coherent process for handling these problems. Unfortunately, this policy and its implementation have proved to be inadequate to handling the wide variety of internal conflicts and abuses that…

The Libertarian Socialist Caucus (LSC) of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) aspires to create a socialist society freed from all forms of hierarchy and domination. We see fascism as the ultimate manifestation of hierarchy, domination, and authoritarianism, and our commitment to antifascist organizing is an outgrowth of our left-wing politics. That is why we…

Introduction Last fall we, the Libertarian Socialist Caucus of the Democratic Socialists of America, drafted and committed to a platform for the DSA National Convention of 2019 that would, in our words, “Democratize Everything.” Various times over the course of our Caucus’s short history we’d identified and confronted serious problems in the organization caused by…

The National Convention of the Democratic Socialists of America, where we will be deciding on the membership’s proposals and electing the new National Political Committee is just a few weeks away. We have recently received yet another last-minute surprise, which was only brought to the attention of the membership through Steering Committee member Zac Echola’s…

Last fall the DSA Libertarian Socialist Caucus laid out our platform for building working class power in the United States with our Dual Power strategy statement. A critical section of this statement is the section “Industrial Democracy” formulated with input from our syndicalist working group: There already exist models of workplace direct action and of…