Check out this interview done by
@GreenLeftOnline
with B&R NPC member Laura Wadlin (
@explauratory
). Laura talks about the political situation in the US, the Trump threat, her assessment of the Kamala Harris campaign, and how DSA should respond.
We are excited to announce a new series of events where we'll hear directly from socialists who are deeply involved in the socialist and labor struggles in China, to better understand the Chinese working-class movement and to explore possibilities for US-China labor solidarity.
We are disappointed that DSA members
@AOC
,
@CoriBush
, and
@RepBowman
voted to stop workers from going on strike. Only workers should be able to decide when and under what conditions they withhold their labor. (4/4)
DSA's Bread & Roses caucus calls on all socialists & progressives to help build pressure to defeat the coup in Bolivia! We call on
@DemSocialists
@BernieSanders
@AOC
and others to join
@IlhanMN
and
@jeremycorbyn
in standing in solidarity with the people of Bolivia & Evo Morales.
Our comrade Jane Slaughter connecting the Labor Notes conference, the solidarity encampments for Gaza, and the troublemaking labor wing of movement. "The issue of today of course is not just abstract international solidarity — which is easy to sing about — it's Palestine."
B&R is disappointed in a majority of the NPC’s decision to significantly cut YDSA’s funding. YDSA is one of the most strategic and sustainable parts of our organization. Although NCC stipend were saved due to successful organizing by YDSA members and their DSA allies, 1/8
✅ B&R's amendment to the electoral consensus resolution, Act Like an Independent Party, PASSES 79% to 21%!!!
Political independence means leading from the left as democratic socialists—we're excited to help build the foundations for a working class party in our electoral work!
What a great convention! More analysis to come but for now we want to say a huge congratulations to our three NPC candidates — Alex Pellitteri, Kristin Schall, and Laura Wadlin — who are now all NPC members! 💪🌹👏
If you find yourself with more time on your hand to read and study than ever before, we highly suggest checking out this starting place for developing your socialist politics!
B&R NPC member Kristin Schall plus Sam Heft-Luthy respond on DSA's behalf in The Nation to attacks from a disgruntled former member. DSA is standing strong for Palestine because of years of robust, member-driven democratic discussion. Read more below!
🚨 Bread and Roses is excited to announce our slate for the DSA national officer positions. These Marxist organizers are committed to a rank-and-file labor strategy, political independence, and transparency and democracy for all members!
We couldn’t be prouder of
@jpforlou
tonight. A cadre candidate, an organizer first, and the kind of working-class fighter Louisville deserves. Congrats JP! 🍞🌹
First DSA win of the night! Congratulations to
@jpforlou
for winning a seat on the Louisville Metro Council! We know JP, the first DSA member to win a seat on the body, will be a champion for Louisville's working class, and fight for reinvestment in green energy and social
✅ The YDSA consensus resolution PASSES 72% to 28%!
Congratulations to our YDSA comrades for securing a commitment to build and support YDSA—a key priority for Bread & Roses.
Bread & Roses is proud to be running a slate with
@DSACommunists
for the leadership of DSA's National Labor Commission this year. Get in comrades, it's going to be another strike wave! 🌊
🌊 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
Here are two messages from comrades arrested and released this morning from the NYU encampment, including NCC member Erin and student organizer Charlie.
Their message is clear: Get involved! Demand divestment! No student repression! End the genocide in Palestine! 🌹🇵🇸
On this May Day, our solidarity is with everyone around the world — students, workers, people from all walks of life — struggling to end Israel's genocidal war on Gaza and to free Palestine. Last night we saw brutal repression, but this movement won't stop. ✊🌹🇵🇸
It's not just Columbia. It's not just New York. It's not just students. It's not just the US. It's the world standing up for Gaza right now. We all must join this fight.
📣 Introducing the Bread & Roses slate for DSA's National Political Committee!
Laura Wadlin (
@explauratory
), Portland OR
Kristin Schall (
@MarxandCookies
), At-Large
Alex Pellitteri (
@apellitteri43
), NYC
Who are these dedicated Marxist organizers?... 🧵
Congratulations to Marianela D’Aprile, Megan Svoboda, and Natalie Midiri from our slate on their election to DSA’s National Political Committee. And to Dave Pinkham and Sean Estelle who we also endorsed as well as all the other comrades from DSA who were elected!
#dsacon2019
🎈✊
We are very excited to announce the election of B&R members Sofia (
@marxistgirl__
), Laura (
@CarpenterLauraG
), and Gilman to DSA’s National Political Committee. And congratulations to all the members of the new NPC, and to all the candidates who ran.
#DSACon21
B&R is excited to announce our slate for YDSA NCC at the 2024 YDSA Convention: Carlos C & Uma C for YDSA Co-Chair and Daniil S & Jeffrey C for NCC At-Large. Our slate is ready to fight for YDSA autonomy, movement democracy, and strong labor and student unions.
B&R’s Plan for a Powerful DSA outlines that DSA should:
✊ Build working class power w/ electoral & labor work
📣 Be a tribune for socialism & rooted in the multiracial working class
🗳️ Be a democratic org w/ political & accountable leadership + resources for our ambitious goals
B&R’s NPC members have proposed a settlement with staff on layoffs that would allow us to move on in the immediate term and focus on the 2024 election and the inspirational student movement for Palestine. This proposal is very similar to one B&R NPCers submitted in January.
Bread & Roses is proud to present “A Class Struggle Fundraiser” for DSA KY House candidate
@bell4ky
and PA senate candidate
@paul_prescod
. Plus St. Pete City Councilman
@richiejfloyd
will host as a treat 🍞🌹
We have a world to win — one that prioritizes the needs of the many over the greed of a handful.
DSA will help get us there. We should use this year's convention to make DSA powerful nationally and in every local chapter across the country.
Read more:
It's our 5th birthday. We'd like to thank our hundreds of members, our comrades in DSA and the labor movement, bread, and roses for helping us make this special day even better. Here's to many more years organizing with great democratic socialist cadre. 🍞🌹🫡
The 2023 DSA National Convention endorsed an ambitious agenda. DSA members need to step up to make it possible by giving more in dues to DSA. B&R members will do our part.
✅ B&R's resolution to have full-time, paid political leadership in DSA PASSES!
We're excited to raise DSA's national profile and grow our organization with leadership that can meet the political moment. Let's be tribunes for socialism across the country!
We are excited to introduce our slate for the 2021 National DSA convention: Sofia Guimarães Cutler, Gilman Bagga and Laura Gabby!
Visit the Bread & Roses website for more information about our convention vision and our Plan for a Powerful DSA:
Good morning DSA! Today we want to give a huge shout out to Laura Gabby (
@CarpenterLauraG
), Sofia Cutler (
@marxistgirl__
), and Jake Colosa (
@YDSgAy
), all outgoing members of the NPC from B&R. Their principled leadership helped put DSA on the right path. 💪🌹
✅ The DSA Labor consensus resolution, Our Role in a Resurgent Labor Movement, passes with 95% support!!
The amended resolution affirms our priorities in DSA's labor work—building Labor Notes, supporting democratic reform, and creating a militant rank & file-led labor movement!
🎉 Bread & Roses had a GIANT caucus breakout last night at 2023 DSA National Convention!
We heard from B&R members on why they joined, fellow comrades who want to join, and fellow travelers who support our convention proposals.
🏗R30 for National Matching Funds PASSES!
B&R is proud to have introduced this resolution that will build DSA chapters into permanent, visible hubs of community organizing AND lessen administrative burdens so we can supercharge our organizing work!
#DSACon21
#DSACon2021
University of São Paulo students striking against austerity. Bread & Roses members Cyn Huang and Oren Schweitzer argue in YDSA’s The Activist for YDSA to build solidarity with the strikers.
This 4th of July millions of Americans are choosing which genocidal geriatric should be the next President. But it doesn't have to be this way. Hear from our YDSA Co-Chair Candidate Uma about our vision for class struggle elections.
Under DeSantis, democratic and civil rights, public institutions, and unions are under attack. Now, elected officials are being removed from office.
On Monday 9/25 at 8 p.m. ET, Florida B&R members will discuss organizing against the right. Register at:
What are the conditions facing the global working class? How can socialists in the U.S. best help build its power? Those questions are what Bread & Roses attempts to answer in our new Tasks & Perspectives for 2022-2023. Check it out!
Congratulations to Bread & Roses members Carlos, Jeffrey, and Uma who were elected to the YDSA National Coordinating Committee!
Our NCC members are excited to push for our vision for YDSA and support bold chapter organizing over the next year!!
Much love to our comrade Alex who ran a great campaign for co-chair.
We’re also very excited to announce that from B&R we elected Sarah as National Labor Commission co-chair and 3 members (Danny, Frances, and Ramsin) to the Democracy Commission.
Losing a DSA election is never fun, but I’m proud to have contributed to a competitive yet clean election that offered distinct political visions for DSA and had 90% turnout! This campaign was a group effort, and as you’ll see below, I have a lot of people to thank!
All four Bread and Roses resolutions passed today at the YDSA convention!
👩🔧 Establishing a Rank and File Pipeline
📚 Developing a Robust National Political Education Program
🤝 Growth and Diversification
📝 Adopting a National Tasks and Perspectives Document
B&R members on the NPC will be withdrawing the resolution "Proposal for Voluntary Layoffs.” We have maintained we would support an alternative viable staff proposal so are glad Red Star put forward the “Resolution to Freeze External Hiring & Complete Critical Finance Hire.”
Dozens of civilians have already been killed today. We condemn the killing of any civilians and call for those responsible to be held accountable. But we refuse to pretend that this is a conflict between two equal parties, much less an act of aggression by the Palestinians.
What could DSA be by 2030?
🚩 A party-like electoral org
✊A union organizing center and solidarity network
🌎 A key part of the international left
👥A powerful democratic membership group
Read more about the B&R slate for NPC and our vision for DSA!
We had a great time talking yesterday with a packed house of
@YDSA_
members at the YDSA Conference about B&R's politics and vision for socialist student organizing! DSA's next generation of organizers are on the move. 😇😍🤠
Congratulations to the six members the Bread and Roses slate elected to the YDSA NCC!
Co-Chairs Neah H and Labiba C.
At-Large members Nickan F, Cerena E, Emmaline B, and Dahlia W.
Congratulations as well to all the comrades in YDSA elected to the NCC. 🌹✊
B&R member Quentin K. (
@tallnutwallnut
) was interviewed on
@CHAPOTRAPHOUSE
about his experience organizing a union at his Starbucks store, the retaliation that he faced, and the solidarity he received from fellow DSA comrades!
We’re off to a great start! Big kickoff rally with speeches by Chicago Cochair Sveta Stoytcheva, NPC member Sofia Cutler, YDSA member Oren Schweitzer, and B&R NPC candidate Alex Pellitteri. 🍞🌹
Our NPC candidates worked hard to get income-based dues passed with overwhelming support, and we're excited to see comrades across DSA already joining in to make it a reality! Together we'll make DSA the durable, member-funded mass organization we need. 🌹
We're excited to announce our support for 5 standalone resolutions and constitution/bylaws changes for the 2023 DSA National Convention. Our proposals are about democracy in DSA and the USA. You can sign on to support any or all of these proposals here.
We are excited that our resolution R5: Towards a Student Strike for Palestine passed at the YDSA Convention earlier today. Our members are ready to organize their campuses to build power and long-term organization to win a ceasefire & end university complicity in the occupation!
Congratulations to Bread and Roses members Dahlia, Jake, and Rafi for being elected to the YDSA National Coordinating committee, and Cyn for national Co-Chair!
Congratulations to all members of the new NCC, the future of the socialist movement is in good hands.
Good morning! B&R endorses a YES vote on R30!
Our chapters can accomplish much more with matching funds to open offices & hire staff. Louisville DSA put together this short video in support of R30, showing what opening an office has done for them!
#DSACon21
#DSACon2021
🚨 Bread & Roses is proud to announce our slate for the National Electoral Commission SC! When it comes to class struggle at the ballot box, we know these comrades will fight for our top priorities: Democracy, Independence, and Coordination.
We want to be clear that the price of moving on, 5 months later, is a loss of funding for convention mandates. YDSA is playing a leading role in a historic upsurge on campuses, and they are doing so after having their budget cut in half and crucial leadership stipends taken away.
Alex Pellitteri (NYC-DSA,
@apellitteri43
) was the campaign manager for DSA-endorsed Assemblymember Marcela Mitaynes and served on the NYC Socialists in Office committee. He helped start Hunter College YDSA and was a leader in the New Deal 4 CUNY campaign. Vote for Alex for NPC!
Three giant steps for DSA! Our first reflection on the historic 2023 DSA National Convention, from Keith Brower Brown and Frances Reade, up now over at
@socialistcall
.
As a general recommendation: VOTE NO on calling the question so we can have debate!
Convention is meant to be political—let's hear out all speakers in favor and against resolutions. Constantly calling the question will spend more time on procedural motions instead of debate.
Pumped about the election of all 9 members of the Strike Wave Slate to DSA’s National Labor Commission. The slate was supported by us and
@DSACommunists
. We’re excited to work with all of DSA’s tendencies to help build a militant, left-wing, and democratic labor movement.
Thank you to the members of the NLC for their trust in us and in everyone who ran!
We're excited to work with Hannah & Kelsea to continue and expand DSA's incredible labor work and to help build a militant, democratic labor movement that can take on the capitalist class and win.
B&R leadership voted to endorse this petition because we agree it’s important for the DSLC Steering Committee to be fully elected by the DSLC membership.
Sarah Hurd (Chicago DSA), cochair of the National Labor Commission and B&R member, giving an amazing speech about the achievements of the NLC in last 2 years. 🔥✌️
"We have to intercept people at this pivotal point in their lives and ask them 'What if you got a job that could help you shut down the entire fucking economy?' That's the rank-and-file strategy."
Our YDSA Co-Chair candidate Uma on labor organizing and mentorship in YDSA.
B&R is excited to announce our electoral and internationalist amendments for the DSA Convention.
🌹 "Act Like an Independent Party" (amends NEC reso)
🌎 "For a Class-Struggle Internationalism" (amends IC reso)
Will you be one of the 300 cosponsors?
All people have the right to resist occupation. We offer full solidarity to the Palestinian resistance. There’s no freedom for the working class of any country without freedom for Palestine.
B&R delegates are running for NYC-DSA’s 2022 chapter convention to build power in the state, power in the workplace, and an organization strong enough to meet the moment.
Rank them at the top of your ballot by this Friday, September 23!
🎉 We've passed these B&R proposals at DSA national convention so far:
✅ Act Like an Independent Party
✅ Full Time National Chairs
✅ National Activist Conference
✅ Democracy Commission
✅ A Democratic DSA Editorial Board
Let's also elect NPCers who will carry out this work!
It's the anniversary of the "Bread & Roses" textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts! The strike is an important date in the history of the workers movement in the US, and also happens to be where we got the name for our caucus from. 🍞🌹🪧✊
#OnThisDay
in 1912 the "Bread & Roses" textile strike began. Organized by the Industrial Workers of the World, it began when worker pay was cut & united workers from 51+ nationalities, many of them women. This historic act of solidarity resulted in wage increases & overtime pay.
Encampments are growing across the country to call for Palestinian liberation and University Divestment in the Israeli military.
The time to act is NOW. 🇵🇸 FREE PALESTINE! 🇵🇸
Bread & Roses is proud to say that its resolution to Form a National Committee for Reparations to Black People passed at
#DSACon21
with overwhelming support on the consent agenda!
We must build a multiracial socialist movement, uniting working people against our common enemies.
B&R’s NPC members explain why they’ll be voting against a proposal to renew an extremely expensive contract for DSA’s national harassment grievance officer.
We must invest more in organizing than consultants, which is why B&R NPC members are voting against a new and extremely costly contract with our NHGO. They explain their decision and the need for more transparency around staff salaries.
Marianela D'Aprile, Marsha Niemeijer, Megan Svoboda, Natalie Midiri, and Rachel Zibrat are five of the sharpest and most dedicated DSA organizers we know. We're proud to support their candidacies for National Political Committee of
@DemSocialists
. 🌹✊
#dsacon19
Last night’s debate made clear what DSA and the hundreds of thousands of voters who supported Uncommitted in the primaries have been saying for months: Biden must drop out.
B&R comrade and
@HoustonDSA
member
@kasamangcerena
asks the electoral plenary panel, "what is necessary for our organization to implement in the next two years to build a working class party?"
Read up on B&R's vision for DSA's electoral work here:
✅ The NPC recommendation to allow full-time, paid political leadership in DSA PASSES 81% to 19%!
This opens the door for us to pay our political leaders like other political parties across the world—vote YES later today on MR
#3
, B&R's proposal for full-time national chairs!
B&R member Paul Heideman breaks down what the Super Tuesday results mean. Bottom line is that the work of building a working-class base for socialist politics is long and difficult, and we're just at the beginning with no easy shortcuts available.
Socialists in the U.S. must organize to end our government’s longstanding support for these crimes. We are proud of NYC-DSA’s Not on Our Dime campaign, led by DSA elected Zohran Mamdani. And we encourage all DSA and YDSA members to get involved in their chapters’ BDS organizing.
We are mobilizing to support the demonstrations against police brutality rocking this country. We call on all those in DSA and beyond who are able and can take the risks to join this critical movement.
Palestinians have endured more than 60 years of shootings, bombings, house demolitions, torture, and theft of their land at the hands of the Israeli state. They have lived for decades under a system of military occupation and apartheid designed to eliminate them as a people.
Meet Uma from University of California - Santa Barbara YDSA, running for YDSA National Coordinating Committee Co-Chair on the Bread & Roses slate!
Check out B&R's vision for YDSA here:
Next week: you're invited to join DSA's Bread & Roses caucus,
@meaganmday
of Jacobin Mag, and
@maridapr
from DSA's National Political Committee for a discussion about where the socialist movement is headed after the Bernie campaign.
We're proud to be in DSA and B&R with our comrade Jesse Brown. Check out this 🔥 interview with him about how he's building people power as a city councilor in Indianapolis.
Indianapolis City Councilor Jesse Brown (
@JesseForIndy
), a DSA member, has already attracted a lot of attention for fighting against the GOP, even when that upsets Democratic leaders. Brown sat down with The Call to talk about how he got here.
Huge shout to all the DSA candidates who won elections last night! And special shout to
@CentralInDSA
and B&R member Jesse Brown on his election to the city council of Indianapolis! ✊🍞🌹
DSA congratulates
@JesseForIndy
and
@CentralInDSA
! A champion for public transit that works for working people, housing for all, and unions for all, Jesse is ready to fight for the people of District 13!
Excited to earn the endorsement of R&R comrades for our cochair candidate Alex Pellitteri. R&R, like us, want to see a member-driven DSA with strong political leadership. A DSA working hard in the labor movement and towards a new party!
R&R urges DSA delegates to rank
Alex P. (
@apellitteri43
)
#1
and Megan R. (
@meganromer
)
#2
for DSA Co-Chairs!
We need strong, left-wing leaders representing DSA. That means putting forward the need for an independent party, a fighting labor movement, and resisting US imperialism.
👋 Come meet the Bread & Roses slate for the DSA NPC!
B&R has a convention vision of a Plan for a Powerful DSA and we want you to hear about it from Gilman, Laura, and Sofia on Thurs, 7/8 at 8pm EST!
🔗 RSVP and register for the Zoom link here: