Thoughts on the national convention from the Marxist Unity Group caucus.

by MARXIST UNITY GROUP - 2023 DSA NATIONAL CONVENTION DISCUSSION

An argument against the "Uniting Against the Ultra-Right" resolution at the upcoming national convention.

by PARKER MCQUEENEY - 2023 DSA NATIONAL CONVENTION DISCUSSION

An argument in favor of the “Towards a Party-Like Electoral Strategy” resolution for the upcoming national convention.

by JACK LUNDQUIST - 2023 DSA NATIONAL CONVENTION DISCUSSION

An argument against the “Democratize DSA 2023" resolution at the upcoming national convention.

by CONNELL HEADY - 2023 DSA NATIONAL CONVENTION DISCUSSION

Glen Hardie reflects on the way in which the work of communist activist and Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) co-founder Mark Ashton is presented in 2014 film ‘Pride’ and argues that socialists, like the queer community represented by the real LGSM, must be ‘out’: open and explicit about who and what they are.

Matthew Strupp traces and critiques the intellectual trajectory of Chinese ‘New Left’ philosopher Wang Hui.

Talking about socialism in the abstract is not enough, argues Luke Pickrell. We need a roadmap, and the slogan of the Democratic Republic shows the way forward.

S.A. Reed reports on the June 5th protest against Cop City in Atlanta and offers a potential path forward for the movement against the U.S. police state.

Splits and purges are no solution to the problem of disagreement in the socialist movement. Marisa Miale calls for unity in diversity in the context of the DSA.

Luke Pickrell of Marxist Unity Group emphasizes the centrality of radical democracy to the communist project and reintroduces the construction of the democratic republic as the foundational political goal for socialists today. He emphatically asserts that if socialists are to defeat the tricephalic hydra of capitalist domination, we must aim for the heart – “the source and parent of all the other atrocities” – the US Constitution.

Comrade Holden of Marxist Unity Group deconstructs the question of the “housing crisis” in New York City through questions about power, protagonism and agency, and urges that an expansion of the tenant-worker self-organization movement is crucial to facilitate its historically necessary merger with the socialist movement broadly.

Gil Schaeffer responds to Anton Johannsen, arguing that socialists cannot be indifferent to the principle of equality under law.

Luke Pickrell argues that recent political events in the U.S. reveal the necessity of the Marxist Unity Group’s ‘Winning the Battle for Democracy’ resolution for the 2023 DSA national convention. The resolution can be read and signed here.

Gil Schaeffer looks to the Civil Rights and Anti-Vietnam War movements as examples of how the modern left can best articulate its opposition to the current agenda of US imperialism.

Luke Pickrell and Myra Janis critique the 2019 updated party program of the Communist Party, USA, arguing that the CPUSA’s continued commitment to the Popular Front produces an unwieldy document incapable of charting a strategic path forward for socialists.

Francis Babeuf reviews director Edward Berger’s new Netflix-produced screen adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque’s 1928 anti-war novel ‘All Quiet On The Western Front,’ arguing that Berger’s alterations of the novel’s original narrative produce a reactionary framing of WWI.

S.A. Reed reviews two historic programs of American socialist parties, arguing for the importance of a good program and party-building strategy.