News & Perspectives
Check out the latest updates from our Working Groups
Recent Chapter Updates & Endorsements
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.
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...
Interview: Lamplighter Brewers Drum Up Community Support Before Union Vote
[[{"value":" February 22 solidarity day for Lamplighter Workers organizing with UFCW 1445 (PC: Maritza S) By: Maritza S CAMBRIDGE, MA – In early February 2026, Lamplighter workers filed for union...
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.
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.
Interview: Lamplighter Brewers Drum Up Community Support Before Union Vote
[[{"value":" February 22 solidarity day for Lamplighter Workers organizing with UFCW 1445 (PC: Maritza S) By: Maritza S CAMBRIDGE, MA – In early February 2026, Lamplighter workers filed for union...
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...
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.
On the Ground in Oak Grove: statement from a long-time Boston antifascist
On July 2nd 2022, a large force from Patriot Front, the largest Neo-Nazi group in America, marched through downtown Boston. They assaulted an onlooker, but the situation was deescalated by FBI...
Things We’re Reading: May Edition
Hello Comrades, The Political Education Working Group (PEWG) is re-committing itself to its mission of continued political education, both for the members of the working group and for the chapter as...
Boston DSA Statement on new BDS resolutions and dissent from the NPC
Following our December 19th General Meeting, the members of Boston Democratic Socialists of America voted to pass four resolutions that chart a path toward more consistent solidarity with the...