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September 19, 2025

DSA Affirms the Freedom to Organize

Everyday people should be able to organize freely in our own self-interest without fear of state repression. Engaging in peaceful organizing, protest, and criticism of the government and the current social order are our rights, and essential to democracy and freedom. But the right to organize is under attack under the Trump administration. DSA condemns…


September 12, 2025

The Global Sumud Flotilla Does Not Sail Alone: A Call for Solidarity Mobilizations

Two years into the US-backed Israeli genocide of Gaza, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have been murdered and two million now face an escalating famine caused by a policy of deliberate mass starvation. This week, the Global Sumud Flotilla has endured multiple drone attacks against its boats in Tunis while sailing to break the illegal…


August 29, 2025

Racism and State Violence, Then and Now: Hurricane Katrina 20 Years Later

On this day 20 years ago, Hurricane Katrina made landfall over Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, as a high-end Category 3 hurricane. Prior to landfall, Katrina was the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Gulf of Mexico, only to be surpassed by Hurricanes Rita and Wilma later that year, and remains the costliest tropical cyclone on record,…


July 19, 2025

On the Iron Dome Vote

Yesterday, the US Congress once again increased spending on war instead of the services and protections that working people desperately need. In a vote of 221 to 209, Congress approved H.R.4016, the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, sending a staggering $831.5 billion to the Pentagon. This money will be used to fund militarism abroad and…


June 27, 2025

DSA NPC Statement on Zohran Mamdani’s Primary Win

In New York City, socialism has won. Time and again, the capitalist class have told working class New Yorkers that providing the basic necessities of affordable housing, efficient transit, and universal child care are not possible, and they should be grateful for the crumbs they do provide. But working class New Yorkers across all different…


June 20, 2025

On the Release of Mahmoud Khalil

Today, after spending more than 100 days in illegal detention over 1400 miles from his wife and newborn son, Mahmoud Khalil is set to be freed, as a federal judge in New Jersey has ordered his immediate release. Mahmoud, a Palestinian-American who graduated from a master’s program at Columbia University while in detention, is a…


June 10, 2025

End the Raids, Lift the Ban, Drop the Charges!  DSA Stands with Immigrants/¡Acaben con las redadas! Levanten la prohibición de viaje y retiren los cargos! DSA se mantiene en solidaridad con los inmigrantes.

en español On June 4th, 2025, the Trump administration re-enacted a travel ban preventing nationals from twelve countries from entering the United States. Two days later, ICE began violent, military-style raids in Los Angeles, detaining over a hundred Angelenos, including labor leader David Huerta, president of the SEIU California State Council. Following a clear message…


March 24, 2025

DSA Condemns the Genocidal US-led Escalation in West Asia

The Democratic Socialists of America condemn the US-led escalation against Yemen, Palestine, and the West Asian region. Since March 16th, the US military has conducted deadly bombing campaigns in Yemen, with British support, killing at least 50 people and injuring hundreds more through the targeting of residential areas and civilian infrastructure. Two days later, on…


March 10, 2025

On the Detention of Mahmoud Khalil

Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian American student at Columbia University and a US permanent resident, has been illegally detained by ICE for organizing against the US-supported genocide in Palestine. In detaining Khalil, the Trump administration and the Department of Homeland Security have made clear that they are more than willing to violate constitutionally protected rights to…