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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.
The Wilson Cuts: Somerville Mayor Lays Off Union Organizers, ‘Disappears’ Mental Health Counselors
[[{"value":" Above Gilman Square in Somerville (Working Mass) By: Chris Brady SOMERVILLE – On May 20, Somerville Mayor Jake Wilson joined the Greater Boston Labor Council (GBLC) for their municipal...
Militant Rank-and-File Stays in Leadership of Massachusetts’ Largest Labor Union
[[{"value":" Incoming President Matt Bach speaking to delegates after winning the election (Nicholas W) By: Nicholas W BOSTON – On May 8-9, 2026, the Massachusetts Teachers Association (MTA) held...
The Dungeon Over Lowell: How the Data Center Boom Divided One City’s Working People
[[{"value":" Markley Group’s data center in Lowell, Massachusetts (Honest Future for Lowell) By: Matt Wolfinger LOWELL – In the Sacred Heart neighborhood, a massive black box looms over the...
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.
The Wilson Cuts: Somerville Mayor Lays Off Union Organizers, ‘Disappears’ Mental Health Counselors
[[{"value":" Above Gilman Square in Somerville (Working Mass) By: Chris Brady SOMERVILLE – On May 20, Somerville Mayor Jake Wilson joined the Greater Boston Labor Council (GBLC) for their municipal...
Militant Rank-and-File Stays in Leadership of Massachusetts’ Largest Labor Union
[[{"value":" Incoming President Matt Bach speaking to delegates after winning the election (Nicholas W) By: Nicholas W BOSTON – On May 8-9, 2026, the Massachusetts Teachers Association (MTA) held...
The Dungeon Over Lowell: How the Data Center Boom Divided One City’s Working People
[[{"value":" Markley Group’s data center in Lowell, Massachusetts (Honest Future for Lowell) By: Matt Wolfinger LOWELL – In the Sacred Heart neighborhood, a massive black box looms over 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...