• TCDSA endorses Minneapolis United for Rent Control (MURC)

    TCDSA endorses Minneapolis United for Rent Control (MURC)

    Here’s what you can do: Sign MURC’s petition to help hit the goal of 20,000 signatures by the summer, when the City Council decides to put these amendments on the ballot. Take a few minutes to fill out how you would like to be involved. When you’re done, share it with your friends! Follow MURC…

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  • TCDSA statement on the Derek Chauvin trial

    TCDSA statement on the Derek Chauvin trial

    Twin Cities DSA stands in solidarity with George Floyd’s family as the trial of the man who murdered him begins. We recognize that the state rarely holds police who harm people accountable because the intertwining of capital, the state, and police violence defines fascism. We hope that Derek Chauvin’s trial is the exception. We also…

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  • The Page amendment; Educators’ solidarity; COVID-19 and safe reopening of schools

    The Page amendment; Educators’ solidarity; COVID-19 and safe reopening of schools

    A big subject in local educational news has been the struggle between teachers’ unions and school districts over when and how it is safe to return to in-person classes. As we explained in the October 2020 Education Section, it’s a complex issue. For some teachers, in-person learning is what they want most, and for some…

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  • Between the World Wars – A Three Part Series

    Between the World Wars – A Three Part Series

    For Political Education Snippets Red Vienna – Between the Wars Part I The Political Education Committee is presenting three three-part series of Political Education Snippets over the next nine months. The first series is called Between the Wars, and will examine three manifestations of attempts at social change in different parts of Europe between 1919…

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  • How do we relate to each other, comrade?

    How do we relate to each other, comrade?

    What is a comrade in a 21st-century socialist organization? In the 20th  Century it meant you were “under discipline,” a cadre in an organization of “professional revolutionaries.” But many of these organizations were based on a centralized, hierarchical model developed in Czarist Russia. They evolved hierarchies within structures of white supremacy, hierarchies that advantaged hetero-masculinity,…

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  • Book Review: Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas

    Book Review: Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas

    This is an insightful and dangerous book. Its ideas have wormed their way into my consciousness and changed the way I see things. I will never again watch a TED Talk, listen to an Aspen Idea NPR broadcast, the Clintons, Trump, Bill Gates, or Joe Biden without them being colored by what I learned from…

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  • Reaching Consensus: Democracy and Rules of Order

    Reaching Consensus: Democracy and Rules of Order

    Robert’s Rules of Order probably seem to many, especially the younger of us, to be ancient and nearly irrelevant. But these rules are comparatively recent, and far more modern and adaptable than you may realize. Henry Martyn Robert published his pamphlet of “Rules” in 1876, a mere 145 years ago, and almost 100 years after…

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  • Minnesota’s Vaccine Rollout Strategy: A Socialist Perspective

    Minnesota’s Vaccine Rollout Strategy: A Socialist Perspective

    From the Twin Cities DSA Health Justice Working Group The Health Justice Working Group interviewed TCDSA member Pat for a socialist perspective on Minnesota’s vaccine rollout strategy. Pat is a PhD student studying occupational and environmental epidemiology at the University of Minnesota, as well as a graduate research assistant. Pat also works in local public…

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  • Marathon Refinery Strike Report

    Marathon Refinery Strike Report

    At 5 PM on Thursday, January 21, 200 workers represented by Teamsters Local 120 at the Marathon refinery in St Paul Park walked off the job in Minnesota’s first strike of 2021. They offered to return after 24 hours, but the company has decided to lock them out instead, content to continue working with scabs…

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  • Solidarity with Teamsters Local 120

    Solidarity with Teamsters Local 120

    Twin Cities Democratic Socialists of America stands in full solidarity with Teamsters 120 union members striking and actively picketing at the Marathon Oil Refinery in St Paul Park.  Their willingness to stand up for safe working conditions and to protect union jobs in the middle of bone-chilling winter conditions is a shining example of earnest commitment…

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  • A Page Out of the Neoliberal Playbook: Defunding Public Schools

    A Page Out of the Neoliberal Playbook: Defunding Public Schools

    The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis is seeking to change the Minnesota constitution so that instead of establishing a uniform system of public schools, it “guarantees a quality public education.”  On the surface, the Page Amendment seems like an improvement. However, the new language strips away the mandate for the state to fund public schools.…

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  • Internal Organizing: Being Ready for the Next Crisis

    Internal Organizing: Being Ready for the Next Crisis

    Three political threads swept the Twin Cities this year. Presidential campaigns. Coronavirus. The police murder of George Floyd on May 25. Each of these threads intensified each other and manifested all the symptoms of the capitalist exploitation and racist oppression that characterizes the United States. Every crisis brought out millions of people with demands on…

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