Issues 1 and 2 of Volume 1 of the Democratic Left magazine, the official magazine of the Democratic Socialists of America.
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On the 19th of June, Dept of Homeland Security secretary Kirstjen Nielsen thought dinner at a Mexican restaurant came with impunity from being called to account for separating children from their parents at the border. The Metro DC Democratic Socialists of America had other ideas, showing up inside MXDC to protest. “We will not stand by and let Secretary Nielsen dine in peace, while she is directing her employees to tear little girls away from their mothers and crying boys away from their...
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About 80% of the original Facebook video downloaded from Twitter reposts of segments, plus another poster's footage of DHS secretary Kirstjen Nielsen fleeing to her car. On the 19th of June, Dept of Homeland Security secretary Kirstjen Nielsen thought dinner at a Mexican restaurant came with impunity from being called to account for separating children from their parents at the border. The Metro DC Democratic Socialists of America had other ideas, showing up inside MXDC to protest. Here is...
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On the first of July, the Metro DC Democratic Socialists of America marched on the home of recently retired ICE director Thomas Homan. He has said undocumented migrants "should live in fear" so the DSA threw him a retirement party at his house in Virginia Homan retired just a week ago, but his crimes are not forgotten, and having been retired only a week there is no doubt he played a role in enforcing Trump's family separation policy. Some have gone so far as to claim that ICE agents...
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Socialist strategy in the age of political revolution, from the Democratic Socialists of America, 2016. This document is presented as part of the Radical Democracy Project archive: https://archive.org/details/@radical_democracy_project Check out our website: www.radicaldemocracy.net or follow us on Facebook. Radical Democracy is a political education and consciousness raising project. We believe that people should be directly involved in making the decisions that affect their lives. ...
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The housing justice movement in New York state has made major strides in the last few years. In June 2019, a historic package of rent laws passed in NY state, sending shockwaves through our political landscape and strengthening tenant protections. Yet in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, while millions of tenants have lost income and are unable to pay their rent, our political leadership continues to abdicate their responsibility to the people by refusing to #CancelRent. Organizers in NYC-DSA...
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Considered on its own, the New York Police Department is in the top ten largest armies in the world. Why? As working-class New Yorkers struggle to stay fed and safely housed, the NYPD enjoys nearly unlimited resources and sees no issue with using those resources to oppress and surveil the city's population. On tonight's show, we speak to Khalil from NYC-DSA's Defund NYPD campaign on why socialists' commitment to REAL public safety remains strong. We also take calls live from the WBAI audience....
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The New York State legislative session kicked off in Albany this month with just one elected democratic socialist in office, State Senator Julia Salazar. Today we're joined by Jabari Brisport to discuss about how the NYC-DSA squad plans to change that in 2021. Jabari is one of the 5 NYC-DSA endorsed candidates running for New York State Senate and Assembly: Zohran Mamdani - Assembly District 36, Boris Santos - Assembly District 54, Marcela Mitaynes - Assembly District 51, and Phara Souffrant -...
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Oh what a night. After last night's Democratic Party debacle in Iowa, today we're joined by NYC-DSA endorsed candidate Phara Souffrant Forrest to discuss her grassroots campaign to represent the 57th Assembly District of Prospect Heights, Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, as well as part of Crown Heights and Bedford-Stuyvesant. We'll discuss the real issues facing working class New Yorkers and how a socialists organizing strategy can improve people's material conditions and build worker and tenant...
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This week we cover the relationship between US Empire and the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Danielle Lightfoot and Eric Sturm from DSA join us to discuss the Anti-War Working Group's organizing against imperialism, specifically its efforts to fight for justice in Palestine alongside coalition partners. Later we are joined by Shaina Low from the Defense for Children International - Palestine on the \"No Way to Treat a Child\" campaign. The campaign seeks to pass congressional...
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Tonight we'll continue our series of interviews with the DSA For The Many Slate with David Alexis, a rideshare driver, working class father and climate organizer who is running to represent Senate District 21 in Flatbush, BrooklynMany began 2022 with some hope that with Andrew Cuomo out of office, New York might finally be able to pass a state budget that meets the needs of working class people. The budget was due April 1st and is now five days late. Much of the hold up is because of last...
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As New York City is experiencing major black outs from corporate utility Con Edison in the middle of a heatwave, EcoSocialists are organizing for Public Power. This week we'll be taking to Patrick Robbins about the Public Power Town Hall held this week in Astoria with Council Member Costa Constantinies and Public Advocate Jumaane Williams.
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Capitalism is plunging into a catastrophic crisis as Covid-19 exposes the anarchy of international commodity production. Business and schools have shut down all across the world while states attempt to contain the virus resulting in an unprecedented surge in unemployment. Trump and his Republican Party, the American death cult of private property, have now proposed to offer up millions of human sacrifices to their free market deity in a self-destructive effort to restart the economy. So deluded...
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This summer the IPCC released another devastating report on the climate crisis driven by fossil fuel capital, as like most of the country, we saw the impacts of climate change right here in NYC with heat waves and record rain. Tonight we'll talk with Ecosocialist comrades Brittany Allen and Gustavo Gordillo about how DSA is taking the climate fight to one of the most essential yet resource deprived institutions across the country - our schools- with the Green New Deal for Public Schools...
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The foundation of any city is its housing. Everyone needs a place to live. In New York state the only way we can ensure this is to pass a Universal Rent Control campaign that will expand and strengthen our existing rent protections. Our existing laws expire on June 15th, and we must make them better. Join our host Desiree Frias for a conversation with Dennis Osorio, and Cea Weaver who are working on our Universal Rent Control campaign with NYC-DSA.
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2021 has been another incredibly tough year, with the pandemic and climate crisis exacerbating income inequality and dire living situations for working class people across the globe.Tonight we'll catch up with a few DSA working groups to talk about the organizing they've done to build working class power and solidarity this year and what's coming up for 2022. Our guests tonight are Joel from the BDS and Palestine Solidarity Working Group on the Boycott Puma campaign and the power of a consumer...
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Yesterday two very different visions for the future of New York's energy system were presented at a marathon 12+ hour long budget hearing on environmental conservation. On one hand, New York's regulators argued to stay the course and continue to let the market and capital be the primary drivers of building renewable energy, despite the state having missed it's renewable energy goals year after year and currently only 6% of New York's energy comes from wind and solar. Community advocates and...
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Tonight we're joined live in the studio by Sessi Kuwabara Blanchard and Jacob Clary, organizers from NYC-DSA's Socialist Drug Politics Organizing Committee. We discuss the class politics of drug use, overdose prevention centers AKA safe injection sites, and much more. Learn how the transformative perspective of socialist drug politics offers different ways of understanding drug use and the social forces that shape users' experience.We also return to the South Bronx, where survivors of January's...
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As socialists, we know that healthcare goes beyond direct contact between providers and patients and into issues of budgets, community safety, and long-standing social forces like racism and misogyny. How can we organize for real public health? On tonight's show we're joined by DSA-endorsed Assemblymember, nurse, and organizer Phara Souffrant Forrest of District 57 in Brooklyn to discuss vaccine disparities, Cuomo's austerity baby, and the goals of our movement in Albany. We also hear from...
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In the words of civil rights giant Ella Baker, \"Until the killing of black men, black mothers' sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of a white mother's son, we who believe in freedom cannot rest until this happens.\"As the summer of 2021 continues to heat up, reactionaries and conservatives are escalating their assault on our struggle for multi-racial working-class liberation -- but socialists are continuing to fight back and rack up gains. On...
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Tonight we are joined live from New Jersey by Chigozie Onyema, a North New Jersey DSA endorsed candidate for City Council in Newark. We will also be speaking to Rebecca Martinez and Julian Mesri from the Radical Theatre collective about their production of Songs About Trains.We also caught up with State Senator Julia Salazar to talk to her about the New York State budget, why she voted against it and what socialist in Albany are fighting for with just six weeks left in the legislative session....
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The COVID-19 pandemic is a humanitarian crisis on a global scale, but not every government has an equal ability to respond. In Iran, the effects of US sanctions are devastating the population's ability to adequately protect itself from the coronavirus. Observers estimate that every ten minutes an Iranian is dying. This is a man-made disaster for which the U.S. war machine bears the blame. Today we're talking to members of NYC-DSA's Anti-War Working Group about their campaign to end sanctions on...
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On this week's episode of RPM Underground recorded on occupied Lenape land, we talked with Amin Husain of Decolonize This Place about their Anti-Columbus Day Tour that took place earlier this month on Indigenous Peoples Day and their ongoing work to decolonize museums as well as New York City at large by stopping the development of new jails on stolen land and getting police out of the MTA.
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Tonight we are talking about how care providers have been treated during the COVID-19 pandenic, focusing on vaccines to explain the role they will play liberating us from the COVID-19 epidemic (especially in our communities of color).This is a deeply personal subject and in this episode we hope to honor everyone's values and beliefs while grounding this segment in the science and public health knowledge of our guest.Guest Jamese Lamb is an NYC-DSA Bronx/Upper Manhattan branch member and has a...
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Last week the Governor Cuomo-appointed Public Service Commission approved Con Ed's rate hike which will raise monthly bills for millions of New Yorkers to invests hundreds of millions of dollars in fracked gas infrastructure and earlier in the week National Grid presented to the North Brooklyn community on a controversial pipeline they want to raise rates for. NYC DSA has a different vision for where our energy system should be headed. This week we talk to Andrea Guinn & Daniel Goulden of...
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Bernie is back and he's better than ever. This weekend 26,000 supporters of his campaign gathered in Queensbridge park to celebrate Alexandria Ocasio Cortez's endorsement and prepared to fight to elect a democratic socialist in the belly of the imperialist beast. It was the largest rally of any presidential candidate this year and demonstrates that the energy is with his campaign. Today we're joined today by Charlie Baker to discuss NYC-DSA's efforts to not only elect Bernie Sanders, but to...
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In an age of clicktivism and unproductive Facebook conversations, The People For Bernie Sanders has helped propel Bernie Sanders' campaign for President by translating online organizing to boots on the ground grassroots organizing. Today we'll talk with Kat Brezler and Moumita Ahmed about how the People For Bernie has continued to grow since 2016 and the Bernie policies they're most excited to organize around in 2020.
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We may be across a \"state\" line from each other, but organizers in New York and New Jersey know what unites us is much more than what divides us. On tonight's show, we're joined live by our comrades from North New Jersey DSA to discuss their chapter's organizing to abolish ICE and close immigrant detention facilities, conduct mutual aid and harm reduction work with their communities, and elect socialist and union leader Joel Brooks to City Council in Jersey City. To learn more about...
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Working class struggle continues to spread across New York City and the rest of the country. Wirecutter workers at the New York Times have launched their strike, joining the 3,000 Columbia academic workers on the picket line. 14,000 Kroger workers in Houston have authorized a strike while 24,000 academic workers at the University of California have done the same. Rank-n-file reform slate Teamsters United won a sea-changing victory in leadership elections. New leadership has promised more labor...
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Starting late last year in Buffalo, NY, a union wave has spread all over the country as workers at an ever-increasing number of Starbucks coffee shops are getting organized and making demands on their boss and on the multi-national corporation that employs them. This movement is gaining speed every day - and to help us understand what's going on from a worker perspective, we're joined live in the studio by James, a worker-organizer with Starbucks Workers United in Buffalo. Another national...
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In an effort to exert its power over the Americas, the United States has enforced an embargo on Cuba ever since its revolutionary struggle for independence from American imperialism. The blockade is an effort to force regime change against the will of Cuban people who want to improve their society without foreign interference. Despite the immense suffering caused by the embargo to this very day, socialists in Cuba have made remarkable achievements in education and healthcare. DSA members...
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This week we discuss the importance of political education, with suggested readings for your personal socialist literacy, and talk with three guests from North Brooklyn's political education committee who just finished their inaugural year of Brooklyn Socialist Night School.
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Last week New York defeated the Williams fracked gas pipeline, a massive climate victory and a victory for National Grid ratepayers who would have footed the bill. NYC DSA Eco-Socialist Working Group members were crucial allies, turning up the heat on corporate utility National Grid in the final year of the fight with calls for Public Power. Today we're talking with Jen Chantrtanapichate & Daniel Goulden about the Statewide campaign to fight for ratepayer rights through a Utility Strike...
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Anyone who lives here in New York City knows the sight of mostly empty luxury towers lording over our neighborhoods. These developments generate immense wealth for real estate capital while raising rents for the working class residents who actually live here. As luxury buildings proliferate, tens of thousands are forced into homelessness and millions more pay most of their meager wages to their landlords. Gentrification is a campaign waged by real estate capital and their representatives in the...
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After three long weeks, Putin's war with Ukraine has devastated the region with mass shellings of Ukrainian towns and villages, and bombings that have included hospitals and kindergartens. All of this has been under the banal guise of a [quote] \"special military operation\", words which ring hollow to any Leftist familiar with the lies of Imperial Powers. This assault has taken thousands of Ukrainian lives and made tens of thousands more into refugees. With lines of Russian tanks...
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Sex work is work and we must protect sex workers by decriminalizing their work. We talk to Jessica Raven, steering committee member for Decrim NY, along with Tracy and Maya, sex workers who are organizing within the sex trade. This effort is targeting Albany now, but pushing further not just for decriminalization of sex work, but decarceration of sex workers who are already in jail, vacating the sentences of people who have already been prosecuted and de-stigmatizing sex work.
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*Our apologies for the audio jump cuts that occur throughout this episode. The price for being live on radio. Last week's general election in the United Kingdom was a devastating loss for working-class people around the world. A vulgar nationalism triumphed over democratic socialism. Millions will suffer as Boris Johnson and the Tories offer up the remnants of British social democracy to the highest bidder. We grieve for all those who will continue to suffer from the racism and austerity of the...
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Is the United States in a strike wave? Some sources say that over 150 strikes have occurred since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in March. With once-overlooked workers in grocery stores, restaurants, and warehouses now deemed \"essential\", nurses forced to advocate for proper PPE at their worksites, and teachers navigating the new landscape of school closures and online learning, the conditions are ripe for worker organization.What is a strike? How is it organized? And how...
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A threat to workers anywhere is a threat to workers everywhere. This week, Revolutions Per Minute has two very special guests. Karla Reyes is an organizer with Act Now to Stop War and End Racism, an organization formed to combat imperialism and the endless American war machine. She will be speaking out on the military coup that is currently progressing in Bolivia which forced socialist president Evo Morales to resign under duress and is endangering Bolivia's LGBTQ, indigenous, and socialist...
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ICE's reign of terror is tearing families apart as concentration camps of asylum seekers proliferate along the border. Trump has intensified the war on immigrants, but state violence directed against the workers of the world is a deeply rooted tradition of the American ruling class. Today we're joined by Marvin Gonzalez, Elijah Stevens, and Britt Stern from the Immigrant Justice Working Group to discuss the collective struggle against the deportation apparatus and how we organize for the...
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You're listening to Revolutions Per Minute live on WBAI 99.5fm. We're a socialist radio show and podcast from members of the New York City Democratic Socialists of America. DSA is the largest socialist organization in the United States, with 95,000 members nationwide and NYC-DSA is its biggest chapter. We are run by our 7,000+ members and organizers who are working together to build democratic socialism in all five boroughs. As our returning listeners are well aware of, there is currently an...
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Today we discussed the end of the legislative session in Albany and how a new left coalition, backed by a mass movement, lead to the expansion of working class power. State Senator Julia Salazar, an active member of the Democratic Socialists of America, joined us to talk about fighting for socialism, both as an organizer and an elected official. However before she arrived, we briefly discussed the significance Tiffany Caban campaign on election day and how her victory can continue to build...
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You're listening to Revolutions Per Minute live from the new WBAI studios, a socialist radio show and podcast from members of New York City Democratic Socialists of America. The Democratic Socialists of America is the largest socialist organization in the United States, with 95,000 members nationwide and NYC-DSA is its biggest chapter. We are run by our 9,000+ members and organizers who are working together to build democratic socialism in all five boroughs. A UAW worker on strike at a John...
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As the budget fight continues to heat up in Albany, workers in New York City are continuing the struggle for power and equity on the job and at school. On tonight's episode, we'll visit the picket line at Columbia University, where unionized graduate students are on their second week of a strike to demand fair pay and healthcare. We also hear an update from last Saturday's NYC-DSA march to Tax the Rich and Impeach Cuomo.We're joined LIVE by NYC-DSA endorsed candidate for City Council District...
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Free abortion on demand without apology! For too long, the left has gone without a strong and well-organized response to the attack on abortion rights in the United States. Although abortion is technically legal nationwide, it is nearly impossible to obtain one in many states. Patients and workers must navigate medically unnecessary restrictions on abortions, harassment and violence from anti-abortion protestors, and the many social issues that complicate sexual health, reproductive freedom,...
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Happy Pride Month! As a bisexual woman of color and as a new mom, I am so proud to share this time with you as we celebrate the beauty of the queer community. I am thankful to stand beside all of you as we fight for liberation. Yet the capitalists and the police state have tried to co-opt our struggle. Everywhere you walk in New York you can see banks, corporations, and cop cars decorated with rainbows in an effort to conceal that these institutions remain forces of domination against the...
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\"Like music, politics is the shifting between conflict and harmony to find an equilibrium. Cooperation and mutual aid forms the foundation of the democratic process, which aims to find common ground and solutions to social challenges.\" -- Dorian Wallace, co-composer Fan the Flames of Discontent\"Union (with each other and with the earth) makes us strong.\" -- Bonita Oliver, co-composer Fan the Flames of DiscontentAs pressure on the working class continues to mount, workers...
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Tonight on our show we will be talking about our host Desiree Joy Frias' home of the South Bronx where capitalist interests and government failures are continuing to cost lives. In the middle of brutal winter weather and yet another Covid spike, tenants are once again mobilizing to defend against evictions and build working-class power with all of New York City's residents, including the 1 in 12 New Yorkers who live in public or section 8 housing. Last week's tragic and preventable Twin Parks...
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Last week, many New Yorkers celebrated Thanksgivings, but for members of the Shinnecock Nation it was recognized as a Day of Mourning and the end of Sovereignty Camp 2020, a multi-week encampment led by Indigenous women of the Shinnecock Nation to call on New York State to drop their lawsuit over a monumental billboard the nation has put up to bring in economic development to its members who are suffering from hundreds of years of violent settler colonialism. We'll talk with Shinnecock tribal...
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This past Monday, New York City shut down indoor dining at restaurants and bars as COVID cases continue to rise in the city and across the country. Many restaurants were barely surviving before New York City became the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic earlier this year. With little to no government support to make up for the loss of business needed to maintain necessary restrictions to stop the spread of COVID-19, restaurants and bars across the city are shutting their doors for good. And...
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