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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.
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...