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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.
UFCW Local 1445 Secures New 4-Year Contract for Stop and Shop Workers
[[{"value":" By: Jason M MARLBOROUGH, MA – On Sunday morning, February 15th, Stop & Shop workers organized under United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 1445—which represents nearly...
Is the Labor Movement Growing or Shrinking? The Incredible Views of the AFL-CIO
[[{"value":" Boston Common (Working Mass) By: Chris Townsend This article was originally published in Marxism-Leninism Today on February 21, 2026. These positions are the authors’ own and do not...
Emmanuel College Dining Hall Workers Win First Contract with UNITE HERE Local 26
[[{"value":" Workers at Emmanuel College after ratifying their first contract (UNITE HERE 26) By: Frederick Reiber BOSTON, MA – Dining hall workers at Emmanuel College voted to unionize with UNITE...
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.
Is the Labor Movement Growing or Shrinking? The Incredible Views of the AFL-CIO
[[{"value":" Boston Common (Working Mass) By: Chris Townsend This article was originally published in Marxism-Leninism Today on February 21, 2026. These positions are the authors’ own and do not...
Emmanuel College Dining Hall Workers Win First Contract with UNITE HERE Local 26
[[{"value":" Workers at Emmanuel College after ratifying their first contract (UNITE HERE 26) By: Frederick Reiber BOSTON, MA – Dining hall workers at Emmanuel College voted to unionize with UNITE...
Principled, Programmatic, and Partyist: Introducing Worcester DSA’s Approach to Electoral Work
[[{"value":" By: Shane Levett & Stefan Neumayer This article was originally published by Cosmonaut Magazine in January 2026. These positions are the authors’ own and do not represent the...
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...