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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.
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...
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OPINION: The Myth of Limited Capacity in DSA
[[{"value":" Left: Evan MacKay, DSA-endorsed for State Rep (25th Middlesex). Right: Rep. Erika Uyterhoeven, seeking endorsement for State Senate (2nd Middlesex). Photos courtesy: Evan MacKay &...
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.
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OPINION: The Myth of Limited Capacity in DSA
[[{"value":" Left: Evan MacKay, DSA-endorsed for State Rep (25th Middlesex). Right: Rep. Erika Uyterhoeven, seeking endorsement for State Senate (2nd Middlesex). Photos courtesy: Evan MacKay &...
Losing Your Whole World To Win a World – A Review of Defiance by Loubna Mrie
[[{"value":" By: Travis Wayne Loubna Mrie was marching up the hill in a sweeping blizzard in Vermont the first time I met her. Mrie’s first words: “I have bagels.” She handed us a large box of...
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.
60 Years of Failed Policy: Boston DSA Leads the Way in Ending the Embargo on Cuba
Sixty Years after the US Navy’s Caribbean fleet first created a picket around the island of Cuba, the United States’ cruel and aimless embargo of Cuba continues. Despite decades of red scare...
Fund, Fix, and Free the T! Boston DSA statement on T closure
Painting credit: @Lizzie Rutberg Today, in an unprecedented and historic move, Governor Charlie Baker’s MBTA will shut down the entire Orange Line for thirty days of emergency maintenance. This, the...
Standing where I am now: Five years since the streets of Charlottesville
Chalked messages of love and courage on the pavement Where we left off Five years ago I was at the counterprotests to Unite the Right, the fascist gathering in Charlottesville, Virginia, that...