Red Star DSA

Red Star DSA

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Marxist-Leninist caucus building revolutionary politics in the Democratic Socialists of America. 🌹 🚩✊ 💫 redstarcaucus.org

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Drawing from the writings and speeches of Fidel Castro, journalist Marta Harnecker reviews the strategic line, political program, and class perspective of the leadership of the revolutionary movement in Cuba that toppled the US-backed Batista dictatorship in January 1959.

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October 7th marks 3 years since the Israeli occupation launched its brutal escalation against Palestine, culminating in the genocide in Gaza. This is the culmination of 78 years of the Zionist project. Today we stand in solidarity with Palestinian resistance, and you should too

redstarcaucus.orgWe Do Not Condemn Hamas, and Neither Should YouLet us begin at the end: The fight for Palestinian liberation will, without question, succeed. Palestine will be free! When, on that long-awaited day, the people of Palestine look around at who stands...
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Recent electoral success has thrust DSA and its program into the media spotlight. Rather than retreating and capitulating in response to attempts to discredit us, DSA members should expect our leaders to shout it from the rooftops. Read more below: redstarcaucus.org/dsa-should-d...

redstarcaucus.orgDSA Should Defend Our Program: Red Star Statement on Workers Deserve MoreRecent electoral success has thrust DSA and its program into the media spotlight. Rather than retreating and capitulating in response to attempts to discredit and undermine us, DSA members should expe...
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Overblown claims of disenfranchisement and veiled threats from leaders of NYC-DSA are muddying the waters on a consequential political conversation about the 2028 presidential race. Read Red Star's statement on the AOC debate and the poor political conduct it has brought on.

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In our latest piece, Nasser A and Jairo explain why AOC's attempt to bridge the gap between DSA and the Democratic Party is a bridge to nowhere. Check it out below:

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Winning elections isn't the end goal; building working-class power is! Socialists need to use campaigns as tools to heighten the political consciousness of the masses by drawing their attention to the contradictions of "democracy" within capitalism. Here's how we do it:

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What is meant by self-determination? Christina W. and Andrew T. examine the imperialist war in Iran, and argue that Iran's opposition to U.S. imperialism is foundational to the self-determination of the Iranian people. (1/2)

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In "Misreading Mamdani's Victory", NPC member Hazel W writes about how DSA's pivot to tailing Zohran threatens to displace the organization's role in leading the socialist movement and articulating its aspirations... (4/6)

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In "Critique of the Rank and File Strategy," Joseph H takes a critical eye to the defining theory behind DSA's labor approach of the last decade, Kim Moody's "The Rank and File Strategy." (2/6)

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Red Star stands in solidarity with the Bolivarian project and people. We hope for the swift end of these attacks and a humbling renunciation of the Yanqui-imperialist agenda on the international stage, and the triumph of the Bolivarian revolution against US aggression. bsky.app/profile/osit...

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We urge anyone who supports the cause of socialism and an end to U.S. imperialism to take action to bring an end to this campaign of lawlessness, greed, and plunder, especially as the U.S. agitates against other progressive and socialist projects in the region, from Colombia to Cuba to Mexico.

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Citations Needed has repeatedly covered US propaganda against “authoritarianism” and “dictatorships”, highlighting in particular the way that American leftists have distanced themselves from the Global South to laud European social democratic projects. citationsneeded.libsyn.com/ep-50-anti-i...

citationsneeded.libsyn.comCitations Needed: Episode 50: Anti-Imperialism and MSNBC-Approved SocialismWith recent primary election wins by candidates like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, James Thompson, Julia Salazar and others, the terms “socialist” and “democratic socialist” are everywhere....
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Citations Needed also provided an invaluable explication of the “drug war” rhetoric we see Trump repeating today, and the way the media in the United States has played a role in supporting and normalizing the intervention that Trump has carried out. citationsneeded.libsyn.com/news-brief-a...

citationsneeded.libsyn.comCitations Needed: News Brief: As Trump Attacks Venezuela, Media Takes His Absurd “Drug War” Pretext at Face ValueIn this News Brief, we detail how the AP, Atlantic, Washington Post and New York Times are accepting Trump's framing that his attacks on Venezuela and Colombia are about "going after drug cartels" whe...
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Pascual Marquina and Gilbert are co-authors of “Venezuela, the Present as Struggle”, a collection of testimonials from Venezuela’s revolutionary grassroots: monthlyreview.org/new-venezuel...

monthlyreview.orgNew! "Venezuela, the Present as Struggle: Voices from the Bolivarian Revolution" - Monthly ReviewVenezuela has been the stuff of frontpage news extravaganzas, especially since the death of Hugo Chávez. With predictable bias, mainstream media focus on violent clashes between opposition and governm...
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In “Understanding the Venezuelan Revolution,” Marta Harnecker, a Marxist theorist and advisor to Hugo Chávez, compiled their discussions into a chronicle of the Bolivarian revolution, which Chávez led and Maduro succeeded monthlyreview.org/9781583671276/

monthlyreview.orgUnderstanding the Venezuelan Revolution - Monthly Review PressMarta Harnecker's interviews with Hugo Chavez began soon after one of the most dramatic moments of Chavez's presidency—the failed coup of April 2002, which...
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Dario Azzellini’s “Communes and Workers’ Control in Venezuela” describes the depth of revolutionary change that has taken place in Venezuela since the advent of the Bolivarian Revolution, and the kind of power that has arisen from the grassroots as part of it: www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1095-c...

haymarketbooks.orgCommunes and Workers' Control in VenezuelaA sweeping, insightful history from below of the Bolivarian Revolution and its efforts to build socialism in the 21st century.
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Against US intervention in Venezuela but want to learn more about the Bolivarian Revolution? We've put together a quick primer on VZ's socialist project, including its popular governance, its situation in the LatAm context, and the US's war to subvert it: redstarcaucus.org/hands-off-ve...

redstarcaucus.orgHands off Venezuela: Understanding and Defending the Bolivarian RevolutionRed Star stands alongside DSA in opposition to the United States government’s acts of escalating aggression against Venezuela, including the abduction of President Nicolás Maduro. In an effort to help...
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“Our Own Path to Socialism,” a collection of Hugo Chávez’s speeches, outlines much of Chávez’s revolutionary leadership in his own words: 1804books.com/products/our...

1804books.comOur Own Path to Socialism: Selected Speeches of Hugo Chávez“Chávez. That was their cry. Chávez. It was enough.” –from the Introduction Hugo Chávez’s speeches are a call to action, challenging us to take up the task of building a socialism that emerges from ou...