California DSA News Archive

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2026

July 2026

  1. An Open Letter to the California Labor Movement

  2. How member power won UTLA’s historic contract

  3. Reflections on the Oliver Ma Campaign for Lieutenant Governor

  4. Oliver Ma campaign built chapter electoral capacity

  5. BOOK REVIEW - Bernie for Burlington: The Rise of the People’s Politician, by Dan Chiasson

  6. A Tale of Two DSAs: Conversations between Chapter and Statewide Organizing from the Perspective of a Silicon Valley Delegate to California DSA (’25 – ’26)

  7. Why we Have to Defeat Republicans in California

  8. Mai Vang: Sacramento’s Progressive Candidate for Congress

  9. San Diego’s Measure A: From New York City to San Diego

June Mini 2026

  1. The Rise (and Fall ?) of the Billionaire Tax‍

  2. Book Review: Under the Perfect Sun: The San Diego Tourists Never See‍

  3. Local DSA Chapters and the June Primaries‍

  4. Toxic Leak in OC Threatened Community‍

  5. Trump Red Scare, DSA Beware!

May 2026

  1. Join Teachers Pushing for Historic Victory for Palestine!

  2. Rolling Back Surveillance Capitalism: Get the Flock Out of Your City

  3. Chant Your Comrade’s Name

  4. The Politics of Distraction: Fascism and the Iran War

  5. What if? A Week in North Hollywood During the Long Nightmare of a Socialist Near-Future

  6. May Day Action by Hundreds of Protestors Slows Oakland Airport

  7. Taxing the Rich Opens the Door to Democratic Socialism

  8. After the 2026 Election, the Battle for Control of the State Democratic Party Is On

April Mini 2026

  1. NO WORK, NO SCHOOL, NO SHOPPING

  2. Mayhaps: May Day and the Rebirth of Labor’s Imagination

  3. Billionaire Blues Fuels Dishonest Direct Mail

  4. Fighting Fascism By Supporting Democrats in the Critical 2026 Elections

  5. LA Socialists’ Debates Reflect the Left’s Growing Strength‍ ‍

March 2026

  1. All Out Saturday to No Kings!

  2. Let’s Tax the Rich This Year: A California Red series

  3. HR-1: A Health Care Catastrophe

  4. Stop and Smell the Roses: A Look Back on Canvassing for Mamdani

  5. They Formed Their Own Committee

  6. Democratic State Party Convention Mostly More of the Same

  7. For a Third Party, Against Realignment

February Mini 2026

  1. State of Play: Electoral Strategy in Los Angeles (Part 2 of 2)

  2. Economic Inequality Means Income and Wealth: Why We Endorsed Both “Tax the Rich”

  3. Ballot Measures for November

  4. East Bay Starting to Move Toward May Day

  5. 2025 California Red News Quiz Winners

  6. CA DSA Endorses Oliver Ma for Lieutenant Governor of California

January 2026

  1. One Day Longer, One Day Stronger with Striking Starbucks Baristas in Los Angeles

  2. People Over Billionaires Protest San Diego

  3. Venezuela: An Ecosocialist View

  4. We Need to Tax the Rich. Are Unions Going About it the Right Way in California?

  5. Book Review: From the Free Speech Movement to the Factory Floor

  6. State of Play: Electoral Strategy in Los Angeles (Part One of Two)

  7. Why we need to use the “F” word

  8. UAW Workers Fight to Politicize Public Science and Education

  9. CA DSA December State Council Meeting Recap

2025

November 2025

  1. FUN Work Points to May Day

  2. An Angeleno in New York

  3. People vs. Billionaires in San Francisco

  4. PALESTINE ORGANIZERS WIN: Divestment from Israel Becomes Policy for Alameda County

  5. Fighting Fascism with Prop 50 Support

  6. Silicon Valley DSA Helps Pass Measure A (Along With Prop 50)

  7. Democratic Party Organizing Against the Genocide: Progress, but Far to Go

  8. On Using All the Tools We Can in the Struggle Against Fascism

October 2025 Mini

  1. Onward, Not Sideways: A Socialist Case for Voting Yes on Prop 50

  2. Labor 101: Socialists and the Labor Movement

  3. Municipal Social Housing: What can California learn from Seattle’s win?

  4. Build the anti-fascist movement: All out on the streets October 18

September 2025

  1. Labor Day: Starting to Build

  2. Socialists Can’t Sit Out the Prop 50 campaign

  3. Against the CA DSA Prop 50 Endorsement

  4. Rebuttal to Andrew T and Ian H’s brief against California DSA’s Prop 50 support

  5. Toxify the Brand: How a Mass Movement is Punishing a Deportation Airline

  6. We Caught the Bus! Retaking Bay Area Public Transit

  7. Banners Across the West Coast Call Out Chevron’s Ties to Genocide and Climate Change

August 2025 Mini

  1. The Case for California Redistricting

  2. DSA-LA Organizes to Fight Fascism with Democratic Socialism National DSA Convention Report-Back

  3. All Out for Labor Day

  4. A Chapter Is (Re-) Born

  5. National DSA Convention Report-Back

  6. Meet Your 2025-26 CA DSA State Committee!

July 2025

  1. What California Labor History Has to Say About the New York Mayor’s Race

  2. Devastation for Medicaid, Opportunity for Fightback

  3. East Bay DSA Joins With Federal Unionists to Fight Trump’s Attacks

  4. How to Survive Horrible Things Part 3: Ceremonial Freedoms

  5. Critique Is Not Dismissal: In Defense of Honest Reflection Within DSA

  6. Response to Hazel W’s “Critique is Not Dismissal”

  7. California DSA Chapters Swell the Ranks of “No Kings Day”

  8. Book Review: “Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism,” by Yanis Varoufakis

June 2025 Mini

  1. This Dumpster Fire of a Reichstag Fire

  2. Fund a California for all: a statement on the California Budget

  3. Get on the Bus! Retaking Bay Area Public Transit

  4. Zohran Mamdani: Why California Socialists Should Care About the NYC Mayoral Race

  5. Prelude to a Rural Organizing Committee Application

May 2025

  1. Lessons From a Local Election

  2. Too Soon for a Summary Dismissal: A Response to Hazel W’s “Reflections on California DSA”

  3. How to Survive Horrible Things Part II: Enduring Eugenics

  4. Gathering Mass

  5. The Echoes of Fascism: Musk’s Political Rhetoric and Eco’s Fourteen Points

  6. Reflections on May Day 2025

  7. April State Council Meeting Report

  8. Poverty Lawyer You Want to Speak of Terror?

  9. ADEMS: Toward a Party By, Of and For the Vast Majority?

April 2025 Mini

  1. From April 5th to May Day

  2. Bernie is Naming and Shaming the System that Oppresses Us

  3. Federal Workers Are Organizing to Fight the Trump/Musk Oligarchy

  4. April 5: It’s Okay to Sit One Out

March 2025

  1. Best Guess: How do we defeat the fascists?

  2. SB 332: A Very Big Deal

  3. Big Hospitals Putting Community Clinics Out of Business

  4. Federal Workers Fight Back

  5. “Labor 101: Socialists and the Labor Movement” Series Coming in April on Zoom

  6. How to Survive Horrible Things Part 1

  7. BOOK REVIEW: A People’s History of SF’s Most Notorious Neighborhood

  8. BOOK REVIEW: Don't Get Burnt: Lessons From Radicals About Sustainable Organizing

  9. Come to California DSA 101 on March 30th

  10. April 5: National Day of Action Against Trump 

February 2025 Mini

  1. Winning a Sanctuary Ordinance in LA

  2. The Fires and DSA-LA: Part Two

  3. California DSA 101: a contribution to movement building

  4. February 2025 California DSA State Council Report

  5. Stop the Coup: mobilize and organize!

January 2025

  1. The Los Angeles Fires and DSA

  2. A short list of essential readings on fascism

  3. Coalition of labor, community, and faith groups wins victory for the BDS movement in California

  4. Is Mass Mobilization on Climate Possible? The Chevron Action of 1-17-2025

  5. Optimism of the Will: How Labor Can Survive and Ultimately Thrive in the Trump Era

  6. California DSA and Higher Education Labor United (HELU)

  7. New Film Documents Amazon Union Drive

  8. Book Review: We Are The Union

2024

December 2024 Mini

We took a break for the holidays!

November 2024

  1. California DSA ARCH Campaign Builds a Base for the Future

  2. An interview with Richmond Progressive Alliance stalwart Gayle McLaughlin

  3. Assessing East Bay DSA’s electoral work

  4. The Election in Los Angeles: in short, we organize

  5. San Diego DSA Electoral Work

  6. Invitation to help take over the California Democratic Party

  7. DSA Flomentum

  8. Rank-and-File CSU Faculty Join Together and Win

  9. “Stop Fueling Genocide” Campaign Takes Root in Our Golden Petrostate

  10. When we fight for the working class, we win

October 2024 Mini

  1. How East Bay DSA supports Jovanka Beckles for State Senate

  2. ARCH campaign, facing opposition dirty tricks, ramps up

  3. DSA-LA’s support boosts Jurado for LA City Council

  4. Silicon Valley DSA working to elect endorsed candidates

  5. Desert conversations: My Reno trip to canvass against Trump

  6. 2024 California DSA General Election Voter Guide

September 2024

  1. The ARCH Campaign to Cap Rents and Build Public Housing Heats Up

  2. Notes on socialist education in the Sacramento Valley

  3. ‘Labor 101 for Socialists’ study group is ready for you

  4. Why the U.S. celebrates Labor Day about four months late

  5. “Not another bomb” rally in Los Angeles

  6. Burbank City Council races powered by DSA

  7. Jillian Burgos for City Council District 2

  8. Social housing in Vienna

  9. September 7th State Council Meeting Recap

  10. Letter to the Editor: Medicare Advantage, Kaiser and California health care

  11. “#Stop Fueling Genocide” Campaign Launched by DSA International Committee

August 2024 Mini

  1. The Energy Has Changed. The Underlying Politics Have Not

  2. Regardless of the result in November, the task of socialists remains the same

  3. Chevron Confronted for Complicity in Gaza Genocide and Planetary Destruction

  4. Medicare Advantage: the Floating Crap Game that Threatens Medicare

July 2024

  1. A Personal Account of the LA Palestine Encampments

  2. California DSA Organizes for Propositions 5 and 33—the ARCH Campaign

  3. California Electoral Roundup

  4. SF Reds Book Review

  5. Reader Survey Report

  6. Three Body Problem Review

June 2024 Mini

  1. California Red Reader Survey

  2. June CA DSA State Council Meeting Report

May 2024

  1. Academic workers call “standup strike” across UC system

  2. At San Francisco State, a Democratic Movement for Palestine

  3. CA DSA Ecosocialists busy with buckets of organizing

  4. Book Review - Unite and Win: A Workplace Organizer’s Handbook

  5. Book Review - J. Stitt Wilson

  6. Need affordable housing? Join the ARCH Campaign

  7. Social Democracy: An Alternate History, by Autumn Chen

  8. Labor Notes 2024

April 2024 Mini

  1. A Tale of Two Labor Candidates

  2. CA DSA adopts ballot measure proposal

  3. International Workers Day 2024

March 2024

  1. For Palestine Solidarity, Bay Area Union Members Step up and dig in

  2. EWOC: The Santa Cruz connection

  3. Film Review: Open Country

  4. Socialism on a Living Planet

  5. Mexico solidarity outreach tour continues

  6. May Day Video Available for Screenings - Free to DSA Chapters

  7. Socialism in one city?

  8. March 2024 California DSA State Council Meeting Report

February 2024 Mini

  1. California DSA Voter Guide

  2. Update: CFA reaches TA

  3. Why I am running for Congress in California’s 7th District

January 2024

  1. California Faculty Association: On strike, shut it down!

  2. East Bay DSA organizes local Labor for Palestine

  3. COP and CARB: An Ecosocialist Reflects

  4. DSA chapters help with Mexican Solidarity events

  5. Whither Single Payer?

  6. The Elephant in the Room

  7. Community College Labor Studies offer courses for Democratic Socialists

  8. Southern California Organizing Retreat

  9. First ever California DSA Socialist News Quiz Results

  10. December 2023 State Council Meeting Report

2023

December 2023 Mini

  1. California DSA and Labor: The Year in Review

November 2023

  1. DSA Active in Campaign for Ceasefire and Palestine Liberation

  2. A Win for Socialism in Orange County

  3. SF Nurses Fight VA Scheduling Change Caused by Outsourcing & Cost-Cutting

  4. Canvassing Contra Costa about local fossil fuel drilling

  5. Planned Parenthood Gives Birth to a Union

  6. Electoral Committee report

  7. We didn’t shut down APEC, but a lot of APECers had a bad morning

  8. UAW Strike: A big win for the working class

October 2023 Mini

  1. Wrapping up the WGA Strike

  2. Shut down the CEO summit! APEC Needs to Hear from Us—A Lot of Us

September 2023

  1. DSA-LA and Coalition Partners on Path to Make LA a Sanctuary City

  2. UAW Autoworker strike comes to California

  3. 2023 National Convention Report-back

  4. The Silicon Valley chapter’s view of the Convention

  5. Maturing DSA: A personal view of the convention

  6. Cone bites Robotaxi

  7. Australian Alien: Where the ILWU Came From

  8. Ecosocialism in a Petrostate

  9. Nuclear logic is simple —and dead wrong

  10. From the DSA Staff Organizer’s desk

  11. UPS/IBT Strike Ready campaign: the San Diego experience

  12. Deliberating the Goods in Logistics Day School

August 2023 Mini

  1. California’s Year in Strikes

July 2023

  1. WGA/UTLA Picket

  2. DSA Members Get Strike Ready in Support of Teamsters

  3. East Bay Transit campaigns link workplace demands to broader political struggles

  4. Amazon DSP Strike Support in the Inland Empire

  5. Months-long Medieval Times Strike Unites Performers in Support

  6. DSA Members Help to Organize WGA/UTLA Picket

  7. Help me organize a statewide DSA presence in the impending CSU strikes this fall

  8. Social housing bills and more: a California legislative update

  9. Join the CA DSA Ecosocialist Working Group

  10. Labor Committee Report

  11. Hello from your 2023 CA-DSA State Committee!

May 2023 (First Issue)

  1. Oakland teachers end strike, ratify TA

  2. DSA-LA supports striking WGA members

  3. A Brief History of Socialism in California

  4. DSA-LA’s Childcare for All Campaign

  5. East Bay DSA organizes itself to support the Oakland Education Association

  6. California DSA establishes Working Group to build working class power for Ecosocialism

  7. UTLA signs tentative agreement for 21% raise over 3 years

  8. On The Emergency Practice of Mutual Aid

  9. Reel Work May Day Labor Film Festival

  10. Silicon Valley Bank: A guide to understanding the crisis

  11. Winning Elections in Los Angeles

  12. 2022 Labor Committee Report

  13. 2022 Electoral Committee Report

  14. The State of Medicare for All in California

  15. Fairfax Becomes the Smallest Jurisdiction in California to Pass Rent Control

  16. Taxing California’s Wealthy: A Snapshot