Completely based #NYCDSA

How Mamdani’s Democratic Socialists Sought Ties With Chinese Officials
https://archive.is/xcbz9

#dsa

NYC DSA is holding a rally tomorrow for 30 employees fired illegally by Rockstar Games, the video game studio behind the Grand Theft Auto series, for organizing with their coworkers.

5pm at 622 Broadway. Show up if you can!

More info: https://actionnetwork.org/events/nyc-rockstar-workers-solidarity-rally/ (You don't have to RSVP!)

#labor #organizing #workers #WorkersRights #unions #gamedev #RockstarGames #NYC #DSA #NYCDSA

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Sorry Chi, Hello Julia?

NYC-DSA narrowly votes to not endorse Chi Ossé. Mamdani supports Lander to challenge Congressmember Dan Goldman for NY-10, while DSA endorses Avilés. Julia Alvarez possible frontrunner to replace Nydia Velázquez in NY-7?

https://hellgatenyc.com/morning-spew-sorry-chi-hello-julia/

#NYC #NYCPol #USPol #NYCDSA #Mamdami

Sorry Chi, Hello Julia?

And more stories to kick off your holiday week.

Hell Gate

Exit Stage Left: On Movements, Mayors, and the Musical Logic of Insurgent Politics

if the movement cannot release its electeds into autonomy, the entire strategy collapses into a kind of ideological helicopter parenting.

#MayorMamdani
#UnderstandMamdani
#NYCDSA

https://seizethemeans.communitarium.org/baslow/exit-stage-left-on-movements-mayors-and-the-musical-logic-of-insurgent

Exit Stage Left: On Movements, Mayors, and the Musical Logic of Insurgent Politics

There are moments in political life when the whole thing begins to take on the texture of a Broadway revival — not the noble kind, mind ...

Seize the Means of Community

New York City DSA leaders break down Mamdani's platform

Mainstream media are just catching up to the fact that DSA is a BIG reason #ZohranMamdani has done as well as he has.
So now they are suddenly beginning to be interested in understanding how it works, how it is organized, and what it stands for.

#NYCDSA
#MamdaniForMayorNYC
#UnderstandMamdani
#MayorMamdani

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoXGRhTsJ1c

New York City DSA leaders break down Mamdani's platform | Inside City Hall

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Meet Jerry Nadler’s 26-year-old challenger

Now that Jerry Nadler, a 78yo Democrat
who has represented the quintessential Manhattan district between Union Square and Central Park for 50 years,
has announced that he is retiring
we need to look more closely at this "strongly progressive" challenger who,
given the nature of the district,
is highly unlikely to seek the endorsement of #NYCDSA

#NYC
#nycpolitics

https://forward.com/fast-forward/759496/liam-elkind-jerry-nadler-jewish-congress/

A young Jewish organizer takes on Jerry Nadler in a generational challenge

Liam Elkind, a liberal Zionist and progressive, campaigns for Congress in a style similar to Zohran Mamdani.

The Forward

#ZohranMamdani And The Divided Democratic Party | Let It Rip

A worthwhile panel discussion (including Claire Valdez and Eon Tyrell Huntley) discussing, first, the #MamdaniForMayorNYC campaign in relation to the politics of Black New York; then #NYCDSA's relation to those politics.

"Where's your approach to racial equity? It cannot just be about the almighty dollar because it wasn't money that was stringing us up from trees."

#UnderstandMamdani

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFknstg1ctI

Zohran Mamdani And The Divided Democratic Party | Let It Rip

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A User's Guide to DSA: 5 Debates That Define the Democratic Socialists

"this book is an invaluable tool for navigating the complex terrain of DSA – and an open invitation to the vital debates on how we can lay the foundations to win a socialist future."

[Published last month, includes articles addressing #MamdaniForMayorNYC ]

#NYCDSA
#DSA
#UnderstandMamdani

Hardcover: https://payhip.com/b/2cv7u
Ebook: https://payhip.com/b/EqAxM
TOC and excerrpts: https://labor-power.org/m/UsersGuideDSA_Excerpts_HardcoverVersion.pdf

Is the DSA on a collision course with AOC?

The socialist organization is committing to a hard line on anti-Zionism that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has so far rejected.

[ The latest surge of visibilty and legitimacy for #DSA, powered largely by the crucial role #NYCDSA has played in the ascendancy of #ZohranMamdani, has made more urgent and consequential the question of what sort of organization they want to be.]

https://www.cityandstateny.com/politics/2025/08/dsa-collision-course-aoc/407434/

Is the DSA on a collision course with AOC?

The socialist organization is committing to a hard line on anti-Zionism that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has so far rejected.

City & State NY

Why I Joined the DSA

From Albany insider to card-carrying socialist, former Cuomo aide Lindsey Boylan , now a whistleblower, reflects on her political journey

Mamdani, his campaign, and the broad coalition of support will be written about for years to come. Among the most important forces behind this historic upset is the New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America.

#NYCDSA
#MamdaniForMayorNYC
#UnderstandMamdani
#MayorMamdani
#ZohranMamdani

https://indypendent.org/2025/08/why-i-joined-the-dsa/

Why I Joined the DSA

From Albany insider to card-carrying socialist, former Cuomo aide, whistleblower reflects on her political journey