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  • Rebellion in Peru Dispatch #2: Second Takeover of Lima

    Rebellion in Peru Dispatch #2: Second Takeover of Lima

    It’s time to turn over 500 years of colonization. The uprising of the people against the infamous regime instated by Fujimori and the US Embassy has many reasons. 500 years worth of reasons. But let’s try to see what is behind the coup today. The region is the richest in minerals in the world. Today…

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  • Twin Cities DSA Little Red Letter #100: Developments in the East Phillips Fight, UMN Graduate Labor Union, and More!

    Twin Cities DSA Little Red Letter #100: Developments in the East Phillips Fight, UMN Graduate Labor Union, and More!

    Twin CitiesDemocratic Socialists of America Little Red Letter #100 Developments in the East Phillips Fight, UMN Graduate Labor Union, and More! For Minneapolis, the last week has seen rapid changes in the fight around the Roof Depot demolition. For more context, see the update written by Connor S featured below. TCDSA members came together Saturday…

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  • Ukraine, Solidarity, and the Age of Inter-Capitalist Destruction

    Ukraine, Solidarity, and the Age of Inter-Capitalist Destruction

    Where Things StandIt’s been a full trip around the sun since Russia invaded Ukraine with the aims of regime change and/or mass territorial conquest. Yet, a year into the conflict, the largest war in Europe since the defeat of Nazi Germany appears further than ever from a conclusion. Since the Russian blitz collapsed in the…

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  • No Demo!

    No Demo!

    The East Phillips Urban Farm fight just had a huge victory! Monday, February 27, was the anticipated first day of demolition of the Roof Depot building. But on Friday, February 24, the judge granted a temporary injunction on demolition for at least two weeks. EPNI needs to raise $10,000 in that time to post bond…

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  • Twin Cities DSA Little Red Letter #99: Standing Up, Fighting Back

    Twin Cities DSA Little Red Letter #99: Standing Up, Fighting Back

    Twin CitiesDemocratic Socialists of America Little Red Letter #99 Standing Up, Fighting Back Our last edition started with a few recent events, ones which put the brutality of the system in sharp focus. Frustration, anger, and grief are all understandable reactions to the ruling class’s tools of oppression and goal of exploitation. Organizing in the…

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  • Dirty Break Debate Night Recap

    Dirty Break Debate Night Recap

    On January 27, 2023, TCDSA’s Political Education Committee hosted their first debate, “ What should be the Democratic Socialists of America’s relationship with the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor (DFL) Party?”

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  • Labor Movie Night: Teamster Rebellion

    Labor Movie Night: Teamster Rebellion

    Protesting low wages, Minneapolis Teamsters went on strike in 1934 in what would become a turning point in the labor movement nationally.

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  • Review – Women Talking

    Review – Women Talking

    Women Talking is a marvelous movie. This is especially true if you have a love of politics and meaningful debate that I do. This movie is based on a book of the same name that is a fictionalized account of actual events at a Mennonite colony in Bolivia established in 1991. The events in the…

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  • Twin Cities DSA Little Red Letter #98: The Brutality of the System

    Twin Cities DSA Little Red Letter #98: The Brutality of the System

    Events from the last couple weeks need to be addressed before anything else. Multiple examples, local and national, of the brutality of our current system.

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  • Rebellion in Peru – Dispatches #0 and #1

    Rebellion in Peru – Dispatches #0 and #1

    Last night the capital city of Peru, Lima, remained occupied by thousands of people. The streets are a feast, a celebration of the power of the workers and indigenous nations standing up against the capitalists.

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  • Far Away From Home: Amazon’s Pattern of Abusing the Vulnerable

    Far Away From Home: Amazon’s Pattern of Abusing the Vulnerable

    It was kind of strange for me as an immigrant, to start working at a company that brags about their “technical advances” and the “logistics and robotics” making it sound like they’ve figured out the magic formula bosses have been after since Merlin the sorcerer. I was curious about it.  We’ve seen the famous scene…

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  • Twin Cities DSA Joins East Phillips Urban Farm Fight

    Twin Cities DSA Joins East Phillips Urban Farm Fight

    This past December, Twin Cities DSA voted overwhelmingly to join the East Phillips Urban Farm fight as part of its 2023 campaign priorities and policy platform. Residents of East Phillips and the East Phillips Neighborhood Institute (EPNI) have been working for years to convert the Roof Depot building into an urban farm, solar array, market,…

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