Hello from Red Star! Curious about what we’ve been up to? Read on to find out! Red Star Convention Amendments! Red Star has authored and co-authored the following amendments to bring to the 2025 national DSA convention! We ask that readers sign on to these amendments through DSA’s| Red Star
Hello from Red Star! Curious about what we’ve been up to? Read on to find out! Zenith Volume 4 Early in May, Red Star released the latest volume of our theoretical journal Zenith: Volume 4. The fourth volume of Zenith is the first collection of Red Star’s writings| Red Star
This is a critical moment for DSA. Our organization has experienced large growth in response to the second Trump administration as more and more people grow increasingly radicalized by capitalist institutions undergoing deepening states of decay. The challenges facing DSA are substantial; capitalism is flailing against its own crises by| Red Star
As socialist projects globally struggle to maintain sovereignty against a crisis-ridden capitalist pole, US socialists and those in DSA must take a broad, non-sectarian approach towards understanding socialist projects, building solidarity through education and people-to-people diplomacy.| Red Star
Lenin’s (and Red Star’s) vanguard arises from organic unity of struggle, not sectarian posturing. DSA’s intelligentsia-heavy composition must anchor itself in the battles of the exploited to both transform its own character and draw the base into revolutionary struggle.| Red Star
Red Star strives to be a Marxist-Leninist center in DSA, as described in Hal Draper’s Anatomy of the Micro-sect. In this piece, Sean T. and Matt M. describe two complementary dimensions of this construct – the ‘faction’ and the ‘tendency’ – as well as how both need to exist in balance.| Red Star
The primarily white character of DSA is shaped by the contradictions within the class position of its base, being both wage-earning proletarians and beneficiaries of imperialist superprofits. We must reckon with the historical attachment to reformism created by this struggle.| Red Star
R.P. Dutt’s 1934 book Fascism and Social Revolution analyzes the rise of fascism in Europe with a class-based lens that many post-WWI histories lack. His analysis of fascism as an expansion of the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie in the context of a failed revolution is instructive to revisit today.| Red Star
DSA finds itself in a defining political moment—amid global crises and the unsustainability of global capitalism, the contradictions that face DSA must be confronted. Joseph H. argues that we must build a foundation that prioritizes member-organizers to raise the roof on a vanguard party.| Red Star
Red Star elaborates on what the caucus is, what we believe, and how we approach DSA.| Red Star
Announcing volume four of Zenith, a journal of theory and practice from Red Star.| Red Star
Christian CW discusses how, of the two dominant labor strategies in DSA – tailism and reformism – neither build a socialist pole in the labor movement nor amount to a strategy that considers the revolutionary role of the proletariat.| Red Star
Hello from Red Star! Curious about what we’ve been up to? Read on to find out! Budget and Finance Committee Report To continue the trend of DSA’s growth in 2025, Red Star is proud to highlight the work of DSA’s Budget and Finance Committee in helping push| Red Star
We’re excited to announce the launch of Red Star’s 🛰️SATELLITE🛰️ program, hosted on our “Orbit” Discord server. Our Satellite program is our new vehicle for an ongoing prospective membership experience for fellow DSA members who want to join us in our work, developing and building a DSA ready| Red Star
The DSA Fund, envisioned as a sister organization to the Democratic Socialists of America, has increasingly diverged from DSA’s core democratic principles. What was once conceived as a complement to DSA’s work has now become a source of significant tension within the movement. While both organizations share the| Red Star
Hello from Red Star! Curious about what we’ve been up to? Read on to find out! NPC Meeting Debrief (Jan 26th, 2025) This year has already come with some major updates from our treasurer John! First off, John and the Budget and Finance committee have successfully been able to| Red Star
Hello from Red Star! Curious what we’ve been up to on the NPC? Read on to find out! NPC Meeting The November 2024 NPC meeting passed a number of resolutions, including inauguration day actions and inviting working class organizations to the 2025 convention, but there are two big items| Red Star
At the Intro to DSA call on November 14th, which served as the first major interaction that many new members had with the org, there was a last-minute change in the lineup: instead of a winning DSA-endorsed elected, the right wing of DSA (composed in this instance of Socialist Majority| Red Star
Red Star statement on the 2024 Elections With the election called, we now know which faction of capital will be leading for the next four years. The Trump wing was able to secure victory against yet another historically unpopular Democrat, locking in the more brazen face of U.S. fascism| Red Star
Hello from Red Star! Curious what we’ve been up to on the NPC? Read on to find out! Megan’s Chapter Visits DSA Co-Chair Megan has been hard at work supporting chapter organizing and building connections between chapters and the national organization. Since beginning her tenure as co-chair, Megan| Red Star
After the conclusion of a month-long debate period in DSA, the National Political Committee (NPC) broached the issue of whether to endorse United States Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC). In response to AOC’s move towards the Democratic Party’s core and her growing disconnect with the general sentiment of DSA| Red Star
Our Points of Unity, a statement of the shared politics of Red Star, a Marxist caucus in DSA.| Red Star
Too often, DSA is dismissed as a purely social democratic organization, and outsiders discount the communist organizing within it. As a Marxist-Leninist DSA caucus, we reject this narrative. DSA is our political home! We in Red Star are communists who believe that DSA is the most effective place to serve| Red Star