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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.
Intellectual Homelessness: The Adjunct and the Disappearing University
[[{"value":" By: Ashraf Hazeyen Every semester, the adjunct professor walks into the classroom carrying the full symbolic weight of the university while possessing almost none of its protections. He...
Greenfield Nurses Prepared to Strike At Franklin County’s Only Hospital
[[{"value":" A crowd gathers to hear speeches from MNA Nurses at Baystate Franklin hospital. (Working Mass) By: Mary Ann Sheppard GREENFIELD – On April 7, unionized nurses at Baystate Franklin...
May Day is Turning Mainstream Again
[[{"value":" By: Chris Brady, James N, Dan Albright, Mitch Gayns MASSACHUSETTS – Working people and unionists coalesced in May Day events throughout Massachusetts on May 1, 2026, which is likely to...
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.
Intellectual Homelessness: The Adjunct and the Disappearing University
[[{"value":" By: Ashraf Hazeyen Every semester, the adjunct professor walks into the classroom carrying the full symbolic weight of the university while possessing almost none of its protections. He...
Greenfield Nurses Prepared to Strike At Franklin County’s Only Hospital
[[{"value":" A crowd gathers to hear speeches from MNA Nurses at Baystate Franklin hospital. (Working Mass) By: Mary Ann Sheppard GREENFIELD – On April 7, unionized nurses at Baystate Franklin...
May Day is Turning Mainstream Again
[[{"value":" By: Chris Brady, James N, Dan Albright, Mitch Gayns MASSACHUSETTS – Working people and unionists coalesced in May Day events throughout Massachusetts on May 1, 2026, which is likely to...
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...