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🌹Socialism Beats Fascism: Electoral, Labor, and Fighting the Right

DSA must seize this moment to fight back, win over millions of new socialists, and defeat the capitalist class. To do that, we support an ambitious strategy aimed at 2028. We will run a comprehensive campaign to fight the far right in the streets, in the halls of power, at the ballot box, and on the picket line. We will run a slate of socialists for Congress to mobilize millions around a socialist program. We will prepare for the generational opportunity for the working class of a general strike on May Day, 2028. And finally, we will bring together labor unions and other mass organizations into a left-labor coalition to run a Presidential candidate in the 2028 Democratic primary. DSA is the only organization that can lead the nationwide opposition to Trump, and at this convention, we have the chance to launch campaigns that will change the world.

🇵🇸Solidarity with Palestine

We will always stand with Palestine, and as socialists in the heart of empire, we have a moral responsibility to build an organization that can stop this genocide. We pledge to support a unified democratic socialist strategy for solidarity with Palestine, to intervene in the labor movement to force an arms embargo, to protect Palestinian activists from the deportation machine, and to fight against attempts to persecute activists at home. 

🪴We are Fighting the Clock

We pledge to fight for an ecosocialist strategy for DSA. Urgency is not optional. To build a liveable future for all, DSA must use every strategy in our toolkit—from union contract demands, to legislative campaigns, to ballot initiatives, and more. We will support the Building for Power campaign to strengthen local chapter organizing for ecosocialist demands that tackle the existential climate crisis today, while building the mass party that can take on the capitalist system that causes it.

🌈A DSA for All People

The working class is multiracial, multi-gendered, multicultural, multilingual and multi-generational. To truly represent the working class, DSA must create an internal environment welcoming to working people of all backgrounds, as well as externally recruit to proactively bring those people into DSA. We pledge to support the revival of the Multi-Racial Organizing Committee, recommit to the Trans Rights and Bodily Autonomy campaign, and build a DSA that truly represents all.

🗳️Mass Party, Mass Democracy

Pulling off our most ambitious agenda ever will require winning true, democratic member buy-in. To build a party for the masses, we need to build a party that can be run by the masses, starting with the mass of members we already have. National DSA cannot continue as a parallel organization navigable only by insiders who primarily use its levers to exert top-down pressure on chapters rather than represent them. We must replace the opaque processes and baroque national systems with simple One Member, One Vote policy and referendums that any member can easily understand and participate in. We must stop standing at forks in the political road with no way for members to actually resolve questions like our stance on the 2024 presidential election, and give ourselves the power to pick directions.

It’s time to turn national DSA from a caucus battleground into the foundation of the first mass party the United States has seen in a century. It’s time to mean it when we say “I believe that we will win.”