SOCIALISTS MUST LEAD

As Democratic Socialists we share a belief: that it is our duty to organize the working class to fight for socialism, and win it. DSA is the only organization that can do that. This is what DSA members from across the country have formed the Groundwork Caucus to do.

To meet the challenges of our new political moment, DSA members will have to develop a strategy and political direction much more deliberately than we have in the past. To build a mass socialist politics that keeps growing, leading, and winning nationwide.

The truth is: we are up against the most powerful people in the world. It’d be a whole lot easier to retreat from our ambitions. To either turn inward and fight each other instead of capitalists, or settle for becoming “Democrats+”, running progressive campaigns that are socialist in name only.

But that’s not what we joined DSA to do. The far right, economic inequality, and global temperatures are rising fast–but we’ll rise faster. Because we know from experience that to become the mass, socialist movement history and future deserves: Socialists Must Lead.

HOW?

In order to truly contend with the interlocking crises of capitalism in our new historic moment, we are united around what we call the Class Alignment strategy — an active, materialist effort to reshape our political terrain by building class consciousness among sectors of workers receptive to socialism and maximizing solidarity across our profoundly divided working class. That means organizing for:

• Green New Deal Unionism

• A US Pink Tide

• Ecosocialism or Extinction

• International Solidarity

• Queer Liberation

• A United, Multiracial Working Class

• The Party Socialists Deserve

Our extensive Tasks & Perspectives outline the hows and whys:

And if you believe that Socialists Must Lead too, applications to join Groundwork and get involved with our organizing are open now.