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Check out the latest updates from our Working Groups
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Below you’ll find the latest updates from across Boston DSA, including local events and actions that we are supporting, campaigns our Working Groups are focusing on, and local political news.
Mass Labor Fought Apartheid and Won. We Can Again.
[[{"value":" By Richard S Cambridge, MA – Massachusetts labor activists were some of the first movers to confront South African apartheid and push for US divestment and sanctions. These efforts bore...
Brandeis Staff Organize a New Union on Campus
[[{"value":" By Freddy R WALTHAM, MA – Research associates, academic administrators, department coordinators, and academic advisors started 2025 by voting to unionize under SEIU 888 at Brandeis...
UAWD Steering Committee Moves To Dissolve Reform Caucus
[[{"value":" An effort by the majority group to dissolve the reform caucus highlights on-going internal tensions over the direction of the caucus By Henry De Groot Tensions within the Unite All...
Working Mass
Working Mass is a collaborative project of many Massachusetts DSA chapters and working groups, including Boston DSA’s Labor Working Group, Cape Cod DSA, and Worcester DSA. Read more on their website.
Mass Labor Fought Apartheid and Won. We Can Again.
[[{"value":" By Richard S Cambridge, MA – Massachusetts labor activists were some of the first movers to confront South African apartheid and push for US divestment and sanctions. These efforts bore...
Brandeis Staff Organize a New Union on Campus
[[{"value":" By Freddy R WALTHAM, MA – Research associates, academic administrators, department coordinators, and academic advisors started 2025 by voting to unionize under SEIU 888 at Brandeis...
UAWD Steering Committee Moves To Dissolve Reform Caucus
[[{"value":" An effort by the majority group to dissolve the reform caucus highlights on-going internal tensions over the direction of the caucus By Henry De Groot Tensions within the Unite All...
Political Education Working Group (PEWG) blog
Political education is the shared learning process needed to inform, mobilize, and advance our work. The PEWG blog is maintained by Boston DSA’s Political Education Working Group and focuses on providing different insights and perspectives on socialism. Read more on their website.
“Inbuilt”: Zionism, Gaza, and Genocide
But transfer was inevitable and inbuilt into Zionism – because it soughtto transform a land which was ‘Arab’ into a ‘Jewish’ state and a Jewishstate could not have arisen without a major...
Same old fascists can’t co-opt our pro-Palestine movement
Don’t be fooled: failed politicians and Proud Boys tried to spread antisemitic bile at Harvard. DSA anti-fascists won’t let them On November 11, 2023, several members of Boston DSA, a mix of...
No Justice For Faisal – Cambridge City Council Rejects Move For Police Accountability
In January, Cambridge police killed Arif Sayed Faisal, a 20-year-old UMass student experiencing a mental health crisis. Despite multiple protests and community outrage in the 5 months since the...
Take Back the Grid blog
Take Back the Grid is the action arm of Boston DSA’s EcoSocialism Working Group. Its goal is to democratize, decarbonize, decommodify, and decolonize energy utilities here in Massachusetts. You can read more on their website.
April Roundup
This Earth Month, some of our campaigns heated up, while we took time to plan our future priorities. Strategic Planning We held our annual Strategy Meeting at the Beacon Hill Friends House with some...
March Roundup
photo credit: Marilyn Humphries Winter Rate Hikes In early March, the Ecosocialism Working Group co-hosted the Boston Fee Party rally with the Fix the Grid campaign – delivering the message that our...
February Roundup
As we close out February, ecosocialists in the Boston area are keeping busy by supporting area campaigns and planning social events so we have something to look forward to as we slog through the...