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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.
To Call Allston Home
Article on The Crimson's website: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/4/4/allston-transience-scrutiny/ Repost from The Crimson, April 4 2025, title image credits to Joanna Lin.
How Structured Organizing Can Help Win Elections
[[{"value":" By: Henry de Groot Henry De Groot breaks down how election campaigns can learn from organizing methods refined in the labor movement Grassroots Campaigns Need More Than Mobilizing...
The Fall and Rise of Massachusetts Rent Control
Triple-decker apartments in Brighton. (Working Mass) By: Kelly Regan BOSTON, MA – “Uprooting members of a community degrades the public sphere,” observed Ben Greer, a Boston DSA member in...
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.
How Structured Organizing Can Help Win Elections
[[{"value":" By: Henry de Groot Henry De Groot breaks down how election campaigns can learn from organizing methods refined in the labor movement Grassroots Campaigns Need More Than Mobilizing...
The Fall and Rise of Massachusetts Rent Control
Triple-decker apartments in Brighton. (Working Mass) By: Kelly Regan BOSTON, MA – “Uprooting members of a community degrades the public sphere,” observed Ben Greer, a Boston DSA member in...
From the Free Speech Movement to the Factory Floor: A Collective History of the International Socialists
[[{"value":" By: Steve Early This was originally published by California DSA on January 26, 2026. DSA’s “rank-and-file strategy” has 60s roots at UC Berkeley “The lessons of the International...
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.
Why Mayor Wu’s Rent Control Proposal is Lacking
Boston City Hall Photo by Naquib Hossain on Flickr On Feb. 21st Boston DSA emailed out the following call to action to Boston residents encouraging them to give public testimony on how the Mayor’s...
Step right up, come one come all, to defend Fall River
The first thing I want to say about our December 10 defense of the Fall River Pride Committee’s drag story time is that we succeeded. I wanted to start out that way because between all the various...
PUBLIC STATEMENT BY BOSTON DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS OF AMERICA IN SUPPORT OF RAIL UNION WORKERS
The rail freight carriers that employ approximately 125,000 unionized employees have spent years prioritizing shareholders and executives, making record profits for the railroad industry. At the...