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  • Mass Work Caucus: A Vision for Revolutionary Change Grounded in Everyday Struggle

    Mass Work Caucus: A Vision for Revolutionary Change Grounded in Everyday Struggle

    In a world where capitalism’s crises grow more acute with each passing day, the need for a truly revolutionary socialist movement has never felt more urgent. Yet within the broad left, a crucial question persists: How do we transform our principles into mass movements powerful enough to challenge, and eventually overthrow, the capitalist system? An…

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  • Option 2: Reclaiming the Working Class after the 2024 US Presidential Election

    “Everybody thought the way to fight fascism was to get Kamala Harris elected.” — Anonymous  “It should come as no surprise that the Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them.” — Bernie Sanders Bernie Sanders issued a statement on Wednesday outlining for America what happened…

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  • Who Are Delta Air Lines Shareholders?

    Who Are Delta Air Lines Shareholders?

    This article was originally written for the Delta Workers Organizing Committee newsletter, Blue Notes, by Pat G (Delta ramp worker and TCDSA member). While it is specific to Delta Air Lines, we include it here because a great number of generalized conclusions can be drawn from it. One ruling class myth is that somehow Wall…

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  • Post-Convention Reflections and Invitations from the Labor Branch

    Post-Convention Reflections and Invitations from the Labor Branch

    The Labor Branch Organizing Committee wants to share some reflections and opinions about the TCDSA Convention, and also invite you to an important labor event. On one hand, DSA union activists were understandably disappointed that our labor priority proposal did not make it in the top three priorities of the TCDSA Convention. On the other…

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  • Steering Committee Reflection from an Outgoing At-large Member

    Steering Committee Reflection from an Outgoing At-large Member

    It has been an honor to have been able to serve this past year on the 2023-2024 Steering Committee of our chapter. It was a successful convention season, with a new chapter priorities process bearing a renewed focus for our chapter and elected leadership containing both incumbents and a slate of new chapter leadership. Furthermore,…

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  • Two Chapter Ex-parliamentarians Review the Convention

    Two Chapter Ex-parliamentarians Review the Convention

    Deb K R Hi, comrades. For those of you who don’t know me, I am Debra Keefer Ramage or Debs (she/her pronouns.) I was one of the first co-chairs elected in 2016 under our then-new constitution and bylaws (which I also had a major hand in writing, so please forgive me if some of them…

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  • No Reform, No Ideas, Just Spending

    No Reform, No Ideas, Just Spending

    On July 18th, 2024 the Minneapolis City Council voted 8 to 4 in favor of a massive 21% pay increase for the Minneapolis Police Department. Council Member Jamal Osman missed the vote but said he would have also voted in favor. Despite calls by critics, the contract does not reform the police except to grant…

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  • The Value of Trees and Labor

    The Value of Trees and Labor

    A version of this article was originally published in the Nokomis Messenger. MPRB Arborists maintain 600,000 trees that cover 29.8% of Minneapolis with an urban canopy. Recent rain, hail, and wind gusts, as well as the LiUNA 363 labor union strike, has highlighted the precarity of our tree canopy, as well as how much work…

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  • We Get What We Organize For: Smith Foundry Update 

    We Get What We Organize For: Smith Foundry Update 

    Background Smith Foundry is an iron foundry that manufactures iron castings in the East Phillips neighborhood of South Minneapolis. Smith began operations in 1923 but was purchased by Canadian private equity firm “Zynik Capital” in 2022. Holding the dubious distinction of being the largest emitter of lead in Hennepin County, little has changed inside the…

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  • Solidarity Culture

    Solidarity Culture

    There’s been a lot of discussion in the steering committee and the chapter as a whole about solidarity culture. That’s because there is a great desire on the part of many chapter members to have useful, comradely debate and discussion about the very serious issues facing the working class and TCDSA. We want to be…

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  • OpenSliding into Democracy

    OpenSliding into Democracy

    Hello Comrades! As you all know, at our last general meeting, the chapter debuted a new online meeting organizing tool: OpenSlides. This was our first run with OpenSlides, and we did have some important success with it. We were able to successfully reach a quorum of people logged into the OpenSlides and capture a record…

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  • Labor Notes 2024 – Watching History Be Made

    Labor Notes 2024 – Watching History Be Made

    One of the best moments of the Labor Notes weekend was what didn’t happen: Sean Fain couldn’t give his talk at the Friday night panel because he was busy overseeing the UAW victory at the Volkswagen facility in Tennessee, bringing 4,000 more workers into the union (though he did knock it out of the park…

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