DSA For All
Political novice or seasoned organizer, big chapter or small, every member joins DSA for the same reason: to change the world. A lot.
Yet for all our victories and progress, we did not have the power to prevent the country from sliding dangerously to the right. For all our strongest chapters’ successes, too many members and chapters are left struggling. For all we keep learning and building through organizing on the ground, our national organization appears to be floating further away from these struggles.
We will not accept this. DSA must change into something strong enough to meaningfully influence politics on the scale of the next presidential election, potential general strike, and whatever other national ruptures may come. As strong as we’ve become in so many areas, we are still nowhere near where we have to be.
The only way to build this power is to become a genuine mass political party. That means an organization in the millions, that anyone whose values align with ours can easily hear about, understand, support, join, and learn to organize in.
That means this convention, we must finally change DSA from a disconnected patchwork to a DSA For All.
HOW TO SIGN a RESOLUTION
Each resolution needs 250 signatures from DSA members to be heard at Convention. Here’s how you do it:
Create a DSA Forums account at optin.dsausa.org
Log into the DSA forum thread where a resolution is posted
Click the “Sign On” button at the bottom of the resolution
To sign onto our resolutions, make a DSA forums account and then click all the Sign-On links listed below!
Resolutions
Fight Fascism, Build Socialism
DSA can be the weapon against fascism that millions are desperately searching for. This resolution turns our ad hoc Trump response into a focused national campaign, with resources and a clear mission needed to fight the right.
Sign Here for Fight Fascism, Build Socialism
One Member, One Vote
DSA’s National Leadership and Federal Endorsements should be decided by the full rank-and-file membership of DSA, not delegates or officers. 1M1V puts these powers in the hands of ALL members, inspired by the recent reforms which revolutionized the UAW. These are two resolutions, so sign both!
Sign Here for National Leadership 1M1V
Sign Here for Federal Endorsements 1M1V
Members Decide
The ultimate power to decide DSA’s direction must come from rank and file members. Members Decide enables rank and file members to call for DSA-wide advisory votes on national decisions.
Proportional Representation for Chapters
Equal voting power must apply to national conventions too. The current delegate apportionment system gives some members nearly ten times the effective voting power of others at convention, which this resolution fixes.
Sign Here for Proportional Representation for Chapters
Make DSA More Diverse
DSA must change into a party as diverse as the working class itself. This revives the Multi-Racial Organizing Commission, creates a biennial MROC conference, and funds and promotes best practices for developing diversity.
Sign Here for Make DSA More Diverse
Democratize National Commissions
Leaders of national bodies should be chosen through a standardized process, not a patchwork of arbitrary systems often chosen by incumbents. This ensures national leadership commissions are democratically elected by either the Convention delegates or the NPC.
Sign Here for Democratize National Commissions
A 50 State Strategy
DSA members deserve the strongest chapters possible, in every state of the country. This resolution prioritizes structuring chapters at the scale that members have identified as the most conducive to organizing success.
This is the beginning of the most ambitious DSA agenda in our modern history. This August, we can lay the groundwork for what it will take to change DSA from a patchwork into a DSA For All. But like any socialist project, it will take a critical mass of your support to do it, so please sign on to our resolutions!