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A group working to unite Marxists in DSA around programmatic communist politics and the goal of a mass socialist party-movement. https://t.co/13FKTFRpIH
A communist future
Joined February 2021
MUG has submitted a resolution to the National Political Committee for DSA’s stance on the presidential election: No Votes for Genocide.
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Every DSA member in congress has voted, against DSA'S official position, for tens of billions of dollars in arms for an imperialist proxy war. Now the Congressional Progressive Caucus retracts its weak criticism of US policy in Ukraine after only a day.
Jayapal: “The Congressional Progressive Caucus hereby withdraws its recent letter to the White House regarding Ukraine.”
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Free the Merrimack Three!.
This morning, @MerrimackPD swiftly acted to put an immediate stop to these individuals committing felonies at @ElbitSystemsLtd. These individuals published video recordings of their crimes in Merrimack on a Pro-Palestine handle on X. Thank you, MPD and Elbit for all you do.
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"That's an ass backwards approach to public safety!".MUG comrade @CliffConnolly speaks against Cop City in Atlanta and brings down the house. (1/2) #StopCopCity
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A spectre haunts the National Review this Halloween.
The DSA as a radical left-wing political force has achieved a level of penetration into the Democratic Party, including among prominent elected officials, that no radical-right organization even comes close to matching. | Robert Stilson .
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Though Biden has dropped out of the presidential race, the left cannot claim a mere change in personnel as a victory. The Democratic Party’s capitalist funders have demanded a replacement behind closed doors, and the party has happily obliged.
Joe Biden has long been a warmonger and a perpetrator of genocide, a shill for corporations, an enemy of immigrants and the environment, and a failure to the working class. He has earned a disgraceful end to his career. RSVP:
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Socialists don't vote for state intervention against the workers movement. We need to radically rethink the political approach that's gotten us here and start to act like a real opposition party, not imagine that when the capitalist Democratic Party is in power, we somehow are.
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Cut beyond the cold war bullshit (on both sides) and history will prove than Lenin was the Russian Empire’s most consistent and vociferous democratic-republican in the first decade of the 20th century, following the tradition of the Levellers, Tom Paine, the Chartists, and Marx.
LOL "democracy".
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MUG condemns Professor Isserman’s categorization of us and other DSA comrades as sectarian entryists. Our goal is to forge DSA into a mass socialist party united around the advanced section of the class. Standing firm against Zionist colonialism is key to that vision.
Concern for Palestine, entirely legitimate in itself, furnished a convenient stick for DSA’s new sectarian leadership to beat the group’s moderate wing if they weren’t willing to embrace the most extreme positions on the Palestinian question.
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This is a joint statement with our comrades in Red Star on the uprising in Palestine and our work on the National Political Committee.
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MUG SWEEP!!! We want to thank all NEC members who ranked our comrades Megan R, Curtis R, and Mike B. All three have made it! We’re excited to use our presence to grow the NEC into a national party-building center for chapter electoral efforts driven by members, for members.
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🧵We are excited to announce the candidacies of Marxist Unity Group's members Amy Wilhelm (Seattle DSA) and Rashad X (Lakefront DSA) for National Political Committee!
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We're excited to reveal our new logo with the help of a fun character inspired by the @DSA_Labor mascot!
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"If you took the additional 67 million dollars being proposed for this cop city site and put it towards our compensation, you would see a massive increase in patient outcomes and patient care. I know that you all gave yourselves a $12,000 raise a couple years ago!" #StopCopCity
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East Palestine, Ohio and its surroundings have been engulfed in flames and immense clouds of toxic fumes. Marxist Unity Group charges Joe Biden, Democrats, Republicans, the EPA, Ohio state government, corporate media, Norfolk Southern, and their Wall Street owners as responsible.
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MUG congratulates YDSA members for successfully making the case to keep NCC stipends. For a negligible cost, YDSA has implemented MUG's ideal vision for paid political leadership in DSA and we are heartened to hear YDSA has reaped the benefits.
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The Supreme Court serves the most reactionary sections of the ruling class, using the power of judicial review to strike down the right to abortion, gut environmental protections, and wage war on the unhoused in the name of the Constitution. 🧵.
In the last week of its term, the Supreme Court decimated the regulatory state, declared open season on the unhoused, and crowned the president king. There is no way out of this crisis other than winning the battle for democracy against the capitalist regime.
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Marxist Unity Group is a DSA faction calling for transformation of the organization into a mass party based on a clear Marxist program and class independence. Applications to join MUG are open through August 24th! Join us - link below!
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"The proletariat has nothing to lose but its chains, but with the aid of democracy it has the whole world to gain." -V.I. Lenin, Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution.
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This decision is possible because of the minoritarian and undemocratic US political system and working women will suffer as a result.
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At our 2025 Congress, Marxist Unity Group voted to run our incumbent NPC members Amy and Rashad for this year’s DSA Convention. Here’s what they have to say about the road ahead:.🧵👇.
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MUG is recommending @meganromer Megan R #1 and @apellitteri43 Alex P #2 for DSA Co-Chairs in the election starting today. Hear one of our NPC members @yacomradeRashad on why you should rank Megan #1:
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Good morning to the 38% of DSA members who call themselves Marxists and the 27% who call themselves Communists.
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After onboarding our latest round of applicants, MUG has nearly doubled in size to 69 members. We’re a small group, but proud of our humble intervention so far and dedicated to building up DSA and the wider left into a Marxist party capable of conquering political power! 🍻🚩.
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MUG has joined with comrades across other caucuses to put forward a concise motion to revise the convention agenda, adding important political debate about motions that were not included in the original version.
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While we respect the democratic decision of the National Political Committee, we are disappointed the majority voted against our proposal to support the No Votes for Genocide campaign emerging within the Uncommitted movement. Read our statement here:
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Statement on DSA's budget priorities. "Our comrades in B&R have put forward a proposal to eliminate $500,000 from the Personnel budget. MUG will be supporting this as we think it is the best chance to keep DSA alive.". More about budget priorities here:
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🧵Daniel Ellsberg faced over a century in prison for revealing the machinations of the US empire. Today, whistleblowers continue to be ruthlessly pursued. There’s no freedom of the press, nor are the inner workings of government accessible, intelligible, or accountable.
Daniel Ellsberg dies at 92. He leaked the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Vietnam War history, in 1971. The former Defense Department official hoped giving newspapers the 7,000-page document would end the conflict.
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Rank MUG 123 for National Electoral Commission Steering Committee! Experienced as both chapter leaders and electoral organizers, our candidates will bring a focus on democratic discipline, a member-run NEC, and a revolutionary party.
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Students are setting up encampments in solidarity with the people of Gaza. We need to be organizing for Palestinian liberation and aiding students in the fight for a free Palestine. A complete academic divestment from militarized Israeli institutions is just one demand. ACT. NOW.
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MUG’s Open Letter to socialists in Congress has been published in Socialist Forum. We make the case that independence isn't a distant end goal, it’s the foundation of our project + the best road to power for socialists. Working-class history shows this!.
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🧵 We are excited to announce MUG member Hailey Sowa’s candidacy for YDSA's National Coordinating Committee. Hailey is running on a six-point platform to transform YDSA into the youth wing of a mass socialist party. Here’s what MUG stands for in YDSA:
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DSA needs an open and member-driven NEC. Agitating against the Constitutional order requires tribunes of the people in office at every level. Electeds need our organization behind them at every step of the way. That’s why MUG is endorsing Ben L for the NEC steering committee.
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Marxist Unity is refounding and expanding itself from a small group of collaborators on convention proposals to a structured membership group. Our Points of Unity, Rules, and Code of Conduct are now accessible on our website.
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Last month, at the Democratic National Convention, the Democratic Party demonstrated in the eyes of millions that they have no intention of backing down from their commitment to ethnic cleansing and colonization, refusing to even allow a Palestinian speaker on the stage.
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Vote Amy and Rashad for an NPC Majority that Puts Membership in Control!
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DSA members must speak with one voice against militarism and war. We need a socialist caucus in congress separate from the pro-imperialist "Progressives".
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🧵 In response to the growing reactionary movement against transgender rights, Marxist Unity Group presents this statement outlining a socialist approach to fighting the right and defending trans communities:
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Leaders of the Uncommitted movement across the country, sparked by Vote Uncommitted New Jersey, have begun a campaign calling on the public to withhold their votes from Kamala Harris until she secures an arms embargo against Israel.
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For DSA's 2023 convention, MUG members have helped draft 7 resolutions. We need your help collecting 300 signatures in support by dues-paying members of DSA by April 14th!. Take a look, sign on, and share with your friends!.
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🧵The Marxist Unity Group, and our NPC candidates Amy and Rashad, are proud to be in the struggle for DSA to follow its anti-imperialist platform consistently and unapologetically.
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The NPC has just voted to open our national comms committee to new membership! We want to express deep appreciation for our comrades in @dsaRandR, who first proposed this idea and have tirelessly campaigned for member-driven comms over the past few months.
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We made some changes for the second edition of our reader on classical Marxist political strategy: it’s now all killer no filler
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Marxist Unity Group is proud to announce we are running Connell (@cra_h06) and Nick (@woodsoffin) for DSA's Democracy Commission. Please vote for them to work on putting membership in control!
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Happy New Year to all, including to our many enemies and those who have fought us and lost so badly they just don't know what to do. Love!.
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Socialism and progressivism are different political trends that represent the interests of different classes. Socialists in congress should organize a caucus separately from progressives and the Democratic caucus entirely in order to advance an independent working class program.
As the Whip of the Progressive caucus, I want to remind folks @RepJeffries and @RepKClark are active members of CPC who are running for the top two leadership positions of the Dem caucus. For the first time @USProgressives members will hold two of the top three leadership posts.
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Rashad: “It’s not just about winning for winning’s sake, it’s about winning politics that we think will help urgently change the world. Because I don’t want to just fight for a democratic socialist republic, I want to live in one.”
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We’re excited to announce our recommendations for the 2023 convention! . DSA has the chance to elect an NPC majority committed to political independence and putting membership in control, and to pass resolutions putting DSA on the path to a mass party. Let’s make it happen!
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It is our responsibility as socialists to use every source of leverage we can to end the genocide against Palestine. We believe the working class, organized as an independent political force, has that leverage.
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Cop City is an international issue! @overallsthinker spoke after waiting for 14 hours to say #StopCopCity
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For Palestine, for democracy, and for socialism, we call on the National Political Committee to vote yes on No Votes for Genocide.
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The "Squad" saves their opposition to Democratic leadership for backrooms, censoring the socialist position from the entire working class. 🧵.
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We commend DSA Madison comrades for their political courage on this. Clearly many members feel electeds repping the DSA brand should be accountable to our politics.
Today we're sharing an open letter from our chapter to DSA's National Political Committee calling for Rep. Jamaal Bowman to be expelled from DSA. You can read the complete letter here:
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There are two fundamentally opposed theories of change developing within DSA. The first sees the role of socialists as the strongest fighters within a broad progressive camp. The latter thinks socialists should operate as a militant minority, independent of other class trends….
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Thanks for helping us sign up…. ⚖️ 330 for winning democracy.🕊️ 357 for anti-militarism.🗣️387 for increased member input.🇵🇸400+ for Palestinian liberation.🛎️400+ for accessible leadership.🫡 400+ for disciplined reps.🎙️800+ for expanded media. Next stop: DSA convention 2023 🌹.
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But to do that, we must organize together at a national scale. Uncommitted organizations and DSA chapters across the country can only force Harris’s hand with a mass movement united around a clear political message: no embargo, no votes.
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Uncommitted showed that the Palestine movement is a threat to the Democratic Party’s complicity in genocide and imperialism. Without carrying that threat through to the General Election, it will be reduced to a symbolic exercise.
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In case you missed our 2022 perspectives document approved by our recent congress:
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Sign our resolution Winning the Battle for Democracy to commit DSA to the core strategic goal of overthrowing the undemocratic slaveholder constitution and achieving a democratic republic of the working class!.
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This movement is the basis of a new party, one that we talk about often in DSA, one committed to fighting for a better world. If we fail to act now, we fail to cohere the movement into a permanent base for democratic socialism.
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SCOTUS has cited the Equal Protections Clause of the 14th Amendment to rule 6-3 against affirmative action. This ruling lays bare the reactionary nature of our Constitution.🧵👇.
Supreme Court Bars Affirmative Action at Colleges, Exempts Military and Legacy Admissions
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That the people of Ohio had to overturn the abortion ban themselves shows how unrepresentative our political institutions are. We need to defend against conservative schemes like this one by going on the offensive to win the battle for a truly democratic political system.
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🧵The 8-1 ruling, including 2 Dems, is a blow to labor. Any workers' movement must reckon with the Supreme Court and the Constitution. Workers need a clear political alternative: a democratic republic with unrestricted rights to organize and strike!
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The world’s problems require big changes - tasks the Constitution is designed to frustrate and strangle. Minoritarian checks grant a capitalist minority freedom & liberty to tyrannize the majority. @RepBost is resisting a growing awareness that democracy has yet to be achieved.
Today we celebrate #ConstitutionDay. Signed on September 17, 1787, the U.S. The Constitution lays out the fundamental values of liberty, freedom, and self-governance and it continues to be my life’s mission to make sure its principles are upheld.
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🧵We are proud to announce our Labor Strategy Position Paper.
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❤️🔥Fund the Future, Build the Party!❤️🔥.A statement from the youth of Marxist Unity Group on the defunding of YDSA.Read here👇.
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We've been saying this.
the wise dsa centrist bowed their head solemnly and spoke: "there's zero difference between radical democracy & democratic centralism. you wrecker. you fucking horizontalist".
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We are proud to endorse MUG member Steven Raney's candidacy for YDSA's National Coordinating Committee at-large! Steven is running to continue MUG's work on the NCC and serve YDSA in independent political struggle. Read MUG's NCC priorities and six-point platform for YDSA 👇🧵
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Perspectives of MUG - Adopted by Marxist Unity Group at the November 2023 congress.
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We are excited for the opportunity to democratically debate our approach to the 2024 election. america is not a democracy and we want to build an alternative political culture. We think a clear call for no votes for genocide will help present that alternative.
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🧵MUG is supporting 2 amendments during signature gathering:. 1. @DSACommunists' "Local EWOC Amendment to the National Labor Commission Consensus Resolution". 2. @breadrosesDSA's ""Act Like an Independent Party" amendment. Sign on!.
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Convention has APPROVED to Make Room for Politics. Adding to the Debate Schedule.- Towards a Party-Like Electoral Strategy 🗳️.- A Fighting Campaign for Reproductive Rights and Trans Liberation ⚕️.- Make DSA an Anti-Zionist Organization in Principle and Praxis 🇵🇸.
MUG has joined with comrades across other caucuses to put forward a concise motion to revise the convention agenda, adding important political debate about motions that were not included in the original version.
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congrats to mug member Donald Parkinson. His involvement in @CosmonautMag has played a huge role in deepening political discussion and strengthening socialist intellectual culture (especially among non academics) and he will help take our pubs to commanding new heights.
Great news: I’m officially going to be on the editorial board of the DSA publication Socialist Forum. A new era is beginning!.
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MUG is recommending the Strike Wave Slate for NLC Steering. Anyone eligible remember to cast your ballots! The mutual integration of the socialist and labor movements is one of the key tasks of our times, and we trust these comrades to diligently carry the work forward.
🌊 STRIKE WAVE 2.0 NLC SLATE ANNOUNCEMENT! 🌊. We are a multi-tendency slate of @breadrosesDSA & @DSAcommunists organizers with the goal of merging the socialist movement and the labor movement, turning DSA members from labor supporters to active labor organizers!. 1/4
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Happy May Day! To celebrate we’re reopening our membership application. Join us in our fight for democracy in our workplaces, DSA and the USA. Apply below by May 15th!
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Vol 1 of MUG on the NPC is live! What should you expect from MUG on the NPC? How are we positioning DSA to lead the fight for democracy? How are we transforming DSA into an independent mass party and ensuring we follow our anti-imperialist platform?
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Here's our draft amendment to the Democracy section of the national political platform! It clarifies DSA's oppositional stance to the US constitutional order and lays out necessary features of a political order in which the working class can come to power.
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Comrade Alf: “There is talk of how ‘if we’re oppositional, it’s demoralizing, people need hope.’ I think it’s clearer now than in any other situation that this is the time where being oppositional is hopeful.” If you like what you hear, check out this episode of Left on Red!.
Fill up your MUG with some hot @MarxistUnityDSA special this morning!! . Annie and Alf come to *Caucus in Bio* to talk about what Marxist Unity Group stands for, wants to do in DSA, and why you should join if interested . Listen now 🍻.
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🧵MUG's candidates have proudly signed the NPC Leadership Pledge. DSA has been mired by too many opaque bureaucratic decisions, and Amy and Rashad signed this pledge because we want to ‘throw open the books,’ giving members the transparency needed in a mass party.
Red Star is excited to announce the first round of commitments to our NPC leadership pledge, a Candidate commitment to build a robust, rigorous socialist democratic culture! First up, Red Star's own candidates @meganromer, @A_CommonName, and @HanginOutOnline have signed.
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Mad props to the emerging pro-party bloc on the NPC. It is always necessary to have institutional checks on bureaucrats—even the best intentioned ones—to make sure they remain accountable to the rabble.
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At our founding congress, Marxist Unity Group approved this perspectives document as a summary of the outlook of our majority on the burning political questions of the present situation .
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Harrison Cole, a fourth generation UAW member and leader of @WayneStateYDSA, is being slandered by Northites who apparently have nothing better to do than create fake controversies with other left groups. Here is their account.
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Youth lead the way! We are excited to announce a new application period exclusively for members of YDSA. All YDSAers are encouraged to apply to join MUG between now and April 30th - see the link below!
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Attacks on mifepristone, the most commonly used abortion method in the US, are further proof the US is not a country by the people, for the people. DSA and the working class must champion a democratic republic! Sign to discuss at DSA's 2023 convention.
Matthew Kacsmaryk’s decision claiming to overrule the FDA’s approval of abortion drug mifepristone—23 years late—is an appalling and indefensible abuse of power that will go down in history as one of the judiciary’s most humiliating and lawless moments.
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The Supreme Court is anathema to democracy. Fight the Constitution—demand a new republic—abolish judicial review.
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“The Democratic Party is a dead end. Democratic Socialism is our path. Let DSA be your vehicle.” -Rashad X.
Thank you everyone who attended the rally encouraging people to vote uncommitted on June 4th in the Dem primary. Our rally can be seen online if you haven’t had the chance to attend. When you attend the rally by watching the video, be sure to take the pledge to vote uncommitted!
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There would be no #JuneteenthDay without militant struggle. Fighting against the slavers nation and constitution, fighting for black liberation. We are not a democracy.
There would be no #JuneteenthDay without the declaration made on the 4th of July. We are a nation founded on freedom 🇺🇸.
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MUG members in New York City wrote these reflections for NYC-DSA members to consider at tomorrow's Bowman endorsement forum.
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An Imperial Crown ‘adorns’ England’s unelected ruler like Judicial robes ‘adorn’ our unelected Supreme Court Justices. The working class needs a political party centered on the alternative to minoritarian rule. For a democratic republic in England, the US, and across the world!
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Applications to join MUG are OPEN. 'In any country with a working class majority, “democracy means the dominion of the working class, neither more nor less.”' .-Friedrich Engels. APPLICATIONS CLOSE 8-24.
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There is now a page on our site with the preface and table of contents for the political education curriculum on Marxist political strategy that the first group of Marxist Unity members recently completed.
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DSA's electoral success has brought in many new members, but it has also created much controversy. To discuss these opportunities & challenges, MUG and R&R have invited folks from tendencies across DSA for a discussion on electoral strategy. Join us!.
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Join us to hear MUG's NPC candidate Amy, along with other comrades & candidates, discuss the state of DSA & the most pressing issues facing our movement & organization! @breadrosesDSA @dsaRandR @dsa_lsc @redstarcaucus @DSASocMaj @GroundworkDSA . Register:
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Amy: “I’m looking forward to continuing [. ] the fight for democracy in our workplaces, in our homes, in our country, in our world, the fight for a democratic constitution. We can bring that to DSA; we can bring it to the world.”
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One week left to apply to MUG as a YDSA member! Curious about MUG? We have written a caucus guide to the different YDSA caucuses (ourselves included) - see how we define ourselves in relation to the other vibrant factions in YDSA .
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Shout out to East Bay for showing out and in particular MUG member @LukePickrell giving a speech in the third photo.
🇵🇸FREE, FREE PALESTINE🇵🇸.DSA-endorsed electeds in Richmond made history by becoming the 1st US city to call for an end to Israeli apartheid & all existing and future US military aid! 1/4🧵
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Bebel and Liebknecht managed it as a duo surrounded by reactionary Prussian landowners. They did have an organization backing them but their oppositional stances also helped build it. Let's not make excuses for our failure thus far to produce genuine Tribunes of the People!.
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