Imperialism, self-determination, and the latest stage of the war on Iran Matt N. also contributed research for this piece  With the recent U.S. attack on Iran and the unfolding war, socialists in the U.S. are faced with how to respond as anti-imperialists within the imper...

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What is meant by self-determination? Christina W. and Andrew T. examine the imperialist war in Iran, and argue that Iran's opposition to U.S. imperialism is foundational to the self-determination of the Iranian people. (1/2)

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Misreading Mamdani’s Victory: Zohran and the Contradictions of Electoralism As Red Star’s 2025 convention platform argues, organization is the principal task of electoralism in DSA. The primary role of elections is not to win reforms for their own sake, but to strengthen DSA,...

in favor of tailing elected officials, along with their demobilizing compromises and capitulations: (5/6) redstarcaucus.org/misreading-m...

In "Misreading Mamdani's Victory", NPC member Hazel W writes about how DSA's pivot to tailing Zohran threatens to displace the organization's role in leading the socialist movement and articulating its aspirations... (4/6)

Critique of the Rank and File Strategy Kim Moody’s Rank and File Strategy, written in 2000, has become a touchstone of modern Socialist Labor Organizing. Primarily this is through Moody’s involvement with Labor Notes and Teamsters for a De...

He finds the Strategy both flawed in its economism and insufficient to the social struggles that are compounding in the US and driving people towards radical politics: (3/6) redstarcaucus.org/rank-and-fil...

In "Critique of the Rank and File Strategy," Joseph H takes a critical eye to the defining theory behind DSA's labor approach of the last decade, Kim Moody's "The Rank and File Strategy." (2/6)

Red Star is releasing two new pieces today: one on labor and one on the challenges facing the socialist electoral project in the US. (1/6)

DSA Venezuela Solidarity DSA stands in solidarity with Venezuela and voices our broad support for self-determination and socialism in the country, free of continued US interference and sanctions.

and sign up for the IC’s Venezuela subcommittee to get involved international.dsausa.org/venezuela-so...

Hands Off Venezuela Call The Trump Administration has started an illegal war against Venezuela. Join us for a mass call to discuss how Democratic Socialists of America is responding and what you can do to resist this illegal ...

Join DSA’s “Hands off Venezuela” mass call this Tuesday at 9 Eastern/6 Pacific: actionnetwork.org/events/hands...

We urge anyone who supports the cause of socialism and an end to U.S. imperialism to take action to bring an end to this campaign of lawlessness, greed, and plunder, especially as the U.S. agitates against other progressive and socialist projects in the region, from Colombia to Cuba to Mexico.

Red Star stands in solidarity with the Bolivarian project and people. We hope for the swift end of these attacks and a humbling renunciation of the Yanqui-imperialist agenda on the international stage, and the triumph of the Bolivarian revolution against US aggression. bsky.app/profile/osit...

Eduardo Galeano’s “Open Veins of Latin America” is also a worthwhile introduction to the historical context of European settler-colonialism in Latin America: library.uniteddiversity.coop/More_Books_a...

A Coup in Venezuela: Imperialism, Fascism, and Class War

As well as a 2019 interview with Mike Prysner covering the attempted coup which sought to place Juan Guiado in power: open.spotify.com/episode/3pQO...

Venezuela in Crisis: Defending the Bolivarian Revolution

RevLeft Radio’s coverage of Venezuela, including a 2017 interview with Geo Maher on the popular forms of the revolutionary project open.spotify.com/episode/2p8z...

Citations Needed: Episode 106: The Sanitization of Sanctions As COVID-19 continues to endanger the health of people throughout the world, it also magnifies a long-existent global humanitarian crisis: The use of sanctions by the United States and other powers as...

Also from Citations Needed: a repudiation of the idea that US-imposed sanctions against Venezuela and other enemy states are anything but tools of collective punishment, mass immiseration, and pretext for further intervention: citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-106-...

Citations Needed: News Brief: As Trump Attacks Venezuela, Media Takes His Absurd “Drug War” Pretext at Face Value In this News Brief, we detail how the AP, Atlantic, Washington Post and New York Times are accepting Trump's framing that his attacks on Venezuela and Colombia are about "going after drug cartels" whe...

Citations Needed also provided an invaluable explication of the “drug war” rhetoric we see Trump repeating today, and the way the media in the United States has played a role in supporting and normalizing the intervention that Trump has carried out. citationsneeded.libsyn.com/news-brief-a...

Citations Needed: Episode 50: Anti-Imperialism and MSNBC-Approved Socialism With recent primary election wins by candidates like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, James Thompson, Julia Salazar and others, the terms “socialist” and “democratic socialist” are everywhere....

Citations Needed has repeatedly covered US propaganda against “authoritarianism” and “dictatorships”, highlighting in particular the way that American leftists have distanced themselves from the Global South to laud European social democratic projects. citationsneeded.libsyn.com/ep-50-anti-i...

New! "Venezuela, the Present as Struggle: Voices from the Bolivarian Revolution" - Monthly Review Venezuela has been the stuff of frontpage news extravaganzas, especially since the death of Hugo Chávez. With predictable bias, mainstream media focus on violent clashes between opposition and governm...

Pascual Marquina and Gilbert are co-authors of “Venezuela, the Present as Struggle”, a collection of testimonials from Venezuela’s revolutionary grassroots: monthlyreview.org/new-venezuel...

Venezuela's Communal Project - Monthly Review

Venezuela has been featured repeatedly in the pages of Monthly Review, such as this interview with Cira Pascual Marquina and Chris Gilbert: monthlyreview.org/articles/ven...

Building the Commune Since 2011, a wave of popular mobilizations has swept the globe, from Occupy to the Arab Spring, 15M in Spain and the uprisings in Greece. Their demands were varied, but what they share is a commitmen...

Maher also wrote “Building the Commune”, an exploration of the different forms of popular democracy that were being developed in Venezuela’s Communes: www.versobooks.com/products/147...

Geo Maher also wrote of the history of the Bolivarian revolution in “We Created Chávez: A People's History of the Venezuelan Revolution”, detailing the social forces and dynamics that supported the leadership of Chávez and Maduro. dukeupress.edu/we-created-C...

Communes and Workers' Control in Venezuela A sweeping, insightful history from below of the Bolivarian Revolution and its efforts to build socialism in the 21st century.

Dario Azzellini’s “Communes and Workers’ Control in Venezuela” describes the depth of revolutionary change that has taken place in Venezuela since the advent of the Bolivarian Revolution, and the kind of power that has arisen from the grassroots as part of it: www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1095-c...

Understanding the Venezuelan Revolution - Monthly Review Press Marta Harnecker's interviews with Hugo Chavez began soon after one of the most dramatic moments of Chavez's presidency—the failed coup of April 2002, which...

In “Understanding the Venezuelan Revolution,” Marta Harnecker, a Marxist theorist and advisor to Hugo Chávez, compiled their discussions into a chronicle of the Bolivarian revolution, which Chávez led and Maduro succeeded monthlyreview.org/9781583671276/

Our Own Path to Socialism: Selected Speeches of Hugo Chávez “Chávez. That was their cry. Chávez. It was enough.” –from the Introduction Hugo Chávez’s speeches are a call to action, challenging us to take up the task of building a socialism that emerges from ou...

“Our Own Path to Socialism,” a collection of Hugo Chávez’s speeches, outlines much of Chávez’s revolutionary leadership in his own words: 1804books.com/products/our...

Hands off Venezuela: Understanding and Defending the Bolivarian Revolution Red Star stands alongside DSA in opposition to the United States government’s acts of escalating aggression against Venezuela, including the abduction of President Nicolás Maduro. In an effort to help...

Against US intervention in Venezuela but want to learn more about the Bolivarian Revolution? We've put together a quick primer on VZ's socialist project, including its popular governance, its situation in the LatAm context, and the US's war to subvert it: redstarcaucus.org/hands-off-ve...

DSA Condemns Trump’s Illegal War Against Venezuela/DSA condena la guerra ilegal de Trump contra Venezuela - Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) The Trump Administration has started an illegal war against Venezuela. This is a nakedly imperialist war to install a US puppet government that will give Venezuela’s oil resources over to US corporati...

Red Star stands alongside DSA in opposition to the US’s acts of escalating aggression against Venezuela, including the abduction of President Nicolás Maduro. www.dsausa.org/statements/d...

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