jan Rob
@janpoblano.bsky.social
"But at the head of the gulch, on one of the largest pine-trees, they found the deuce of clubs pinned to the bark with a bowie-knife. It bore the following, written in pencil, in a firm hand: Join the DSA"
He/Him, Trotskyist, DSA, Bi
He/Him, Trotskyist, DSA, Bi
Look at how mild this letter is and then look at how it has thrown the german left into crisis. It takes a lot to make the American left look good!
Linksjugend ['solid], youth wing of the German Die Linke party, presents a translation of their recently-passed resolution on Palestine.
Letter: We Must Never Again Remain Silent in the Face of a Genocide
Linksjugend ['solid], youth wing of the German Die Linke party, presents a translation of their recently-passed resolution on Palestine.
cosmonautmag.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Look at how mild this letter is and then look at how it has thrown the german left into crisis. It takes a lot to make the American left look good!
I despise the "DSA are democrats who want to do something" framing because it neglects our socialist politics...
but liberals are not beating the do-nothing allegations today with their opposition to saturday's protests.
but liberals are not beating the do-nothing allegations today with their opposition to saturday's protests.
December 4, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I despise the "DSA are democrats who want to do something" framing because it neglects our socialist politics...
but liberals are not beating the do-nothing allegations today with their opposition to saturday's protests.
but liberals are not beating the do-nothing allegations today with their opposition to saturday's protests.
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damn if only we had a national democratic party that could help mobilize these instead of a loose assemblage of leftwing groups that are mostly volunteer based and therefor prone to entryism from any fringe actor with money
computer, enhance
December 4, 2025 at 3:55 PM
damn if only we had a national democratic party that could help mobilize these instead of a loose assemblage of leftwing groups that are mostly volunteer based and therefor prone to entryism from any fringe actor with money
Interesting how the actual political position is less important for DSA critics than whether everyone who shows up to the protest is perfect.
We must show up in full force, across backgrounds and movements, to demand money for people's needs, not for a new war!
Join us on December 6 to demand a stop to this war before it starts!
Learn more and plug in at:
👉🏾answercoalition.org/venezuela
(2/2)
Join us on December 6 to demand a stop to this war before it starts!
Learn more and plug in at:
👉🏾answercoalition.org/venezuela
(2/2)
December 4, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Interesting how the actual political position is less important for DSA critics than whether everyone who shows up to the protest is perfect.
Reposted by jan Rob
We must show up in full force, across backgrounds and movements, to demand money for people's needs, not for a new war!
Join us on December 6 to demand a stop to this war before it starts!
Learn more and plug in at:
👉🏾answercoalition.org/venezuela
(2/2)
Join us on December 6 to demand a stop to this war before it starts!
Learn more and plug in at:
👉🏾answercoalition.org/venezuela
(2/2)
December 3, 2025 at 6:51 PM
We must show up in full force, across backgrounds and movements, to demand money for people's needs, not for a new war!
Join us on December 6 to demand a stop to this war before it starts!
Learn more and plug in at:
👉🏾answercoalition.org/venezuela
(2/2)
Join us on December 6 to demand a stop to this war before it starts!
Learn more and plug in at:
👉🏾answercoalition.org/venezuela
(2/2)
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The majority in the US oppose a war on Venezuela. We’re joining the call to mobilize against the Trump administration's push toward a catastrophic war against Venezuela this Saturday, December 6. (1/2)
December 3, 2025 at 6:51 PM
The majority in the US oppose a war on Venezuela. We’re joining the call to mobilize against the Trump administration's push toward a catastrophic war against Venezuela this Saturday, December 6. (1/2)
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This account supports the Argentinian claim to Las Islas Malvinas. However, all other territorial claims by all nations, including Argentina, are illegitimate.
December 3, 2025 at 7:43 PM
This account supports the Argentinian claim to Las Islas Malvinas. However, all other territorial claims by all nations, including Argentina, are illegitimate.
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🚨 BREAKING | Your Party has voted to enshrine trans rights into the party's founding policy documents.
Two motions, which both passed with a supermajority (with 10,000+ people voting) committed the new party to explicitly supporting "trans liberation".
(Source: Your Party)
Two motions, which both passed with a supermajority (with 10,000+ people voting) committed the new party to explicitly supporting "trans liberation".
(Source: Your Party)
December 1, 2025 at 2:51 PM
🚨 BREAKING | Your Party has voted to enshrine trans rights into the party's founding policy documents.
Two motions, which both passed with a supermajority (with 10,000+ people voting) committed the new party to explicitly supporting "trans liberation".
(Source: Your Party)
Two motions, which both passed with a supermajority (with 10,000+ people voting) committed the new party to explicitly supporting "trans liberation".
(Source: Your Party)
Just one more vanguard bro
We desperately need a vanguard that isn't PSL, ACP, DSA or the CPUSA.
December 1, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Just one more vanguard bro
weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1071/...
Interesting analysis shared by Sarah M. on twitter. Despite the weekly worker source, this is really good dissection of the false models of socialism from above/below
Interesting analysis shared by Sarah M. on twitter. Despite the weekly worker source, this is really good dissection of the false models of socialism from above/below
Socialism from below: a delusion
We need to go far beyond slogans, urges Mike Macnair
weeklyworker.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 7:02 AM
weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1071/...
Interesting analysis shared by Sarah M. on twitter. Despite the weekly worker source, this is really good dissection of the false models of socialism from above/below
Interesting analysis shared by Sarah M. on twitter. Despite the weekly worker source, this is really good dissection of the false models of socialism from above/below
Having considered it a bit more, I do think demands like "abolish the senate" can function as a workable demand, seperated from the mechanism needed to obtain it. It identifies the reality—we don't live in a true democracy—and the necessity of struggle—there are no usable legal tools to change it.
Feel like democratic socialists need to get back to that constitutional agitation thing that they were doing from 2017 to 2019 which demands to abolish the electoral college, abolish the senate, and so on. Aziz Rana's scholarship on this country's legal mechanisms should be required reading.
November 30, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Having considered it a bit more, I do think demands like "abolish the senate" can function as a workable demand, seperated from the mechanism needed to obtain it. It identifies the reality—we don't live in a true democracy—and the necessity of struggle—there are no usable legal tools to change it.
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I guess Portland doesn't exist
yes, that's MUG, Red Star, and SOR with more members than the two caucuses which actually do things
November 25, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I guess Portland doesn't exist
For a first attempt, good work from BxB, although still disappointing. Give it a year and this experience might be translated to a win.
NYC-DSA results
Steering overall:
SMC 10
GW 8
BxB 1
Ind 1
CLC overall:
SMC 32
GW 21
BxB 12
B&R 2
MUG 2
Ind 2
Co-chair:
Grace (SMC) 40%
Gustavo (GW) 36%
Alex (BxB) 24%
Labor coordinator:
Olivia (Ind) 52%
Sebastian (GW) 48%
Electoral coordinator:
Alvaro (SMC) 68%
Nicola (B&R) 32%
Steering overall:
SMC 10
GW 8
BxB 1
Ind 1
CLC overall:
SMC 32
GW 21
BxB 12
B&R 2
MUG 2
Ind 2
Co-chair:
Grace (SMC) 40%
Gustavo (GW) 36%
Alex (BxB) 24%
Labor coordinator:
Olivia (Ind) 52%
Sebastian (GW) 48%
Electoral coordinator:
Alvaro (SMC) 68%
Nicola (B&R) 32%
November 25, 2025 at 11:56 AM
For a first attempt, good work from BxB, although still disappointing. Give it a year and this experience might be translated to a win.
Many people are saying this: www.marxists.org/archive/trot...
November 24, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Many people are saying this: www.marxists.org/archive/trot...
People will just say anything on this website
November 21, 2025 at 5:50 PM
People will just say anything on this website
Progressives should probably not support someone who spent millions on defeating a progressive challenger in a different race in his city
This is why progressives should support @saikatforcongress.bsky.social. He's got actually good housing politics and also isn't an insane fascist on Israel-Palestine.
This is rich. Connie Chan says she “built real affordable housing, not the Sacramento version that destroys our neighborhoods.”
She points to new affordable housing on Geary: housing that she didn’t build but that *was* built using “Sacramento version” housing laws & $52M in state funds. 🧵
She points to new affordable housing on Geary: housing that she didn’t build but that *was* built using “Sacramento version” housing laws & $52M in state funds. 🧵
November 21, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Progressives should probably not support someone who spent millions on defeating a progressive challenger in a different race in his city
It's so funny that people are trying to criticize the DSA from the left for not endorsing... an opportunist who has been a DSA member for a month
Bright’s TLDR summarizes it well.
It’s Silicon Valley speak about innovation and ignores that DSA is just another petit bourgeois lobbying group.
It’s Silicon Valley speak about innovation and ignores that DSA is just another petit bourgeois lobbying group.
November 20, 2025 at 3:14 PM
It's so funny that people are trying to criticize the DSA from the left for not endorsing... an opportunist who has been a DSA member for a month
Both the original post here and the quote poster here are engaged in naturalizing that is, in short, dumb.
these posts--from the same poster--a leftist!--speak to how the lure of the imagined natural grips even people on the left. but actually what is "natural" to humanity fucking sucks. most of human history is a story of violence, scarcity, and rape from which we have only recently escaped
November 17, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Both the original post here and the quote poster here are engaged in naturalizing that is, in short, dumb.
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Alex for @socialists.nyc co-chair!
We’re helping to build up NYC-DSA, Brick by Brick! 🧱🌹
www.brick-by-brick.nyc
We’re helping to build up NYC-DSA, Brick by Brick! 🧱🌹
www.brick-by-brick.nyc
November 17, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Alex for @socialists.nyc co-chair!
We’re helping to build up NYC-DSA, Brick by Brick! 🧱🌹
www.brick-by-brick.nyc
We’re helping to build up NYC-DSA, Brick by Brick! 🧱🌹
www.brick-by-brick.nyc
Imagine going through the trouble of radically changing American society after these fascists took power and then just giving power back to "responsible corpos."
November 17, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Imagine going through the trouble of radically changing American society after these fascists took power and then just giving power back to "responsible corpos."
A classless society is possible.
November 16, 2025 at 8:59 PM
A classless society is possible.
Talking about abolitionism has the tendency to bring out the fascism in ostensible allies
you are basically saying some people are born evil. do you really think that?
November 16, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Talking about abolitionism has the tendency to bring out the fascism in ostensible allies
Wow its sooo cool how the NYC DSA's nonsense around local and national dues is actively confusing people who want to join DSA
anyway apparently if you join nycdsa they have stuff they will send you and if you join national you can choose a low income or free dues tier. i don’t understand the split or which one you should do or if joining national joins you to local or if they’re separate but
November 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Wow its sooo cool how the NYC DSA's nonsense around local and national dues is actively confusing people who want to join DSA