Democratic Socialists of America

  • DSA’s budget crisis has been a long time coming

    Andy Sernatinger assesses the severe budget crisis that has surfaced within the  Democratic Socialists of America.

  • DSA after the 2023 convention

    The window for revolutionaries in the DSA is still open, if “open” means the opportunity to work with other socialists in the unions and movements, to win a layer of activists to revolutionary politics, and to advance the projects of left and revolutionary regroupment, argue Tempest members Giselle Gerolami, Ron Lare, and Peter Solenberger.

  • Two donkeys, one large and blue, a second smaller and red.

    The DSA moment is over

    Andy Sernatinger looks at the crisis facing the Democratic Socialists of America, arguing that DSA’s ‘moment’ has passed.

  • Racism, self-determination, and the dissolution of the Palestine working group

    The DSA voted to dissolve the BDS and Palestine Solidarity Working Group (BDSWG) and force it into the International Committee despite protest from both groups. To ignore the gravity of this decision and its implications would be a disastrous mistake–a mistake reflected in the celebration of the new DSA leadership.

  • Did the DSA Convention Move Left?

    Andy Sernatinger analyzes the developments from DSA’s 2023 National Convention.

  • Trapped in the Democratic Party

    Tempest’s Ashley Smith describes how Joe Biden’s economic program represents “imperialist Keynesianism” designed to rival China, ameliorate domestic social inequalities, and neutralize challenges from both the Left and the Trumpian right. The Left must build an alternative.

  • a dead rose against a red background

    The blush is off the rose

    Ahead of the Democratic Socialists of America’s 2023 Convention, Natalia Tylim assesses the state of the organization.

  • Time for DSA’s internationalists to show solidarity with Ukraine

    Tempest reader John Lawrence writes in support of amendments to DSA convention proposals on internationalism and Ukraine solidarity.

  • On the Chicago race for mayor

    Kirstin Roberts argues that given the stark political choice, the broad mobilization of left and movement forces in support of Brandon Johnson, and the groundwork laid over the last decade by union and social struggles in Chicago, the elections offer real opportunities for socialists committed to political independence.

  • Making sense of Chicago’s election

    Joe Allen sets the Chicago mayoral election in historical context and argues that the choice on offer, however stark, also reflects the political limits of the strength of the Left and our (social and trade union) movements.

  • Report from the Front: Rally in Pilsen

    Joe Allen reports on a tax-Amazon rally in his Chicago neighborhood of Pilsen and nearby Little Village.

  • A large distinctive orange fish swims in a school of other fish.

    Class independence and the broad parties

    Tempest’s Andrew Sernatinger responds to a debate with Left Voice on how revolutionary socialists should relate to broad parties.