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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.
This year’s ballot question is dead. Rent control should not be.
[[{"value":" Rent control rally (Matthew Schreiner) By: Timothy Scalona This was originally published in The Boston Globe on July 21, 2026. I had just finished middle school in 2012 when a sheriff...
Supreme Court’s TPS Decision Threatens Millions, Precipitates Mass. Healthcare Staffing Collapse
[[{"value":" Paola (on the right) and members of the Party for Socialism and Liberation at an anti-ICE protest in Boston on Tuesday, July 14. (PC: Matt Wolfinger) By: Matt Wolfinger BOSTON – Last...
“Union-Busting” Law Firm and Business-Backed Trustees Lead MGB Nurses to Largest Nurses’ Strike in State History
[[{"value":" From the nurses’ picket line (Maritza S) By: Chris Brady BOSTON – Healthcare is in a private-equity induced freefall. But after a historic strike and ongoing negotiations, including a...
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.
This year’s ballot question is dead. Rent control should not be.
[[{"value":" Rent control rally (Matthew Schreiner) By: Timothy Scalona This was originally published in The Boston Globe on July 21, 2026. I had just finished middle school in 2012 when a sheriff...
Supreme Court’s TPS Decision Threatens Millions, Precipitates Mass. Healthcare Staffing Collapse
[[{"value":" Paola (on the right) and members of the Party for Socialism and Liberation at an anti-ICE protest in Boston on Tuesday, July 14. (PC: Matt Wolfinger) By: Matt Wolfinger BOSTON – Last...
“Union-Busting” Law Firm and Business-Backed Trustees Lead MGB Nurses to Largest Nurses’ Strike in State History
[[{"value":" From the nurses’ picket line (Maritza S) By: Chris Brady BOSTON – Healthcare is in a private-equity induced freefall. But after a historic strike and ongoing negotiations, including a...
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...