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The Importance of Membership Work

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by Jaime Schneider The period we are living through is one of profound importance for the workers’ movement across the globe, and in particular for the American socialist movement. Over the last year, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), once near-moribund, have exploded back to life in response to the action of the American regime.  Madison Area DSA’s number of Members in Good Standing (registered members who pay dues to DSA National) has increased from 402 in February of 2025 to 750 in February of 2026, an 86.5% increase. (Refer to the report of the Membership Committee in the 2026 … Continue reading The Importance of Membership Work

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Monthly Round-Up – March 2026

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By a Comrade This article is written by a DSA member and does not formally represent the views of MADSA as a whole or its subgroups.  Welcome to Vol. 8 of the monthly round-up! The content in this publication overlaps significantly with our DSA newsletter and monthly General Membership Meetings. To sign up for the newsletter or check out an upcoming General Membership Meeting, visit: https://madison-dsa.org/events/ MADSA Annual Convention a Success The chapter held our annual convention on the evening of Friday March 20th and the full day of Saturday, March 21st. MADSA members elected new leadership for the coming … Continue reading Monthly Round-Up – March 2026

Anticapitalism, Homelessness, housingLeave a comment

The Capitalist Attitude Towards the Homelessness Crisis

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by Patrick Russell The unfairness and absurdity of modern homelessness can be summed up in a single number: there are 28 vacant homes for every homeless person. Although this fact diminishes the complexity of homelessness, its simple cruelty reveals America’s greatest contradiction: a nation of abundance and a nation of destitution. Society holds in its hands the ability to provide for all, yet chooses not to. The inherent inequality of the economy only deepens its inhumanity as prices rise, real wages stagnate, and social services are cut. Homelessness is growing at record rates, mostly among the youth and elderly, and … Continue reading The Capitalist Attitude Towards the Homelessness Crisis

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The Case for At-Large Executive Committee Elections

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by Alex P. and Adithya P. Building the resilience to productively work through conflict is one of our most important tasks in building DSA into a real party – one that many leftist organizations struggle with. Without a healthy democratic culture and structure, political disagreements metastasize and become intertwined with personal grievances, a toxic cocktail that can boil over and implode chapters (including our own in 2022-23). Selecting leadership can require navigating divides within a chapter that may not always be entirely reconcilable. Leaders have to be able to build some level of ideological or strategic unity to collectively execute … Continue reading The Case for At-Large Executive Committee Elections

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On Interest Rates and Central Banks

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by Skye Winspur I want to make the case that democratic socialists should care about interest rates set by central banks. While I do not worship capitalism, or trust the stock market at all, I do see the value to our society in having central banks. The US Federal Reserve was created, as almost all the US government’s “deep state” institutions have been – Social Security, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and Medicare are other examples – as a response to repeated failures of capitalism. Financial panics in 1857, 1873, 1893 and 1907 were distressing enough to the investor class, … Continue reading On Interest Rates and Central Banks

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Abolish Borders: Why we can’t stop at ICE

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by Emerson Shaw The government and ICE are using the threat of deportation to strike fear into our hearts. It is because they want to stop people and workers like us from working together — from trying to create genuine positive material change in our lives and workplaces. How and why does the owning class align with and use the state to prevent our unity? They know that when we are divided is when we are most exploitable. They want to convince us that immigrants and citizens are somehow fundamentally different, despite immigrants living and working in the same community … Continue reading Abolish Borders: Why we can’t stop at ICE

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Bobby Gronert: Why MADSA should endorse Francesca Hong for Governor

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by Bobby Gronert and Wesley Hoy Comrades of UW-Madison YDSA and Madison-Area DSA, As we approach one of the biggest decisions in the history of Madison-Area DSA and UW-Madison YDSA, we want to share our thoughts on the question of endorsing Francesca Hong. This question comes at a time of crisis. Wealth continues to accumulate in the hands of those who already have it, as life gets worse for those destitute and barely getting by. No longer able to satisfy our bloodlust purely overseas, Nazi admirers have been armed by the state and sent to walk our streets; “a force … Continue reading Bobby Gronert: Why MADSA should endorse Francesca Hong for Governor

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MADSA’s Electoral Strategy & The Fran Hong Endorsement

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by Aaron L Since the April 2025 Chapter Convention, MADSA has slowly been reconfiguring its electoral strategy. Two key events emerged from the 2025 Chapter convention. First was the passage of a pair of resolutions: “Doing Politics in Public,” and “Towards a Local Political Program.”  These resolutions oriented the chapter to the work of mapping out the city’s power structures, our membership’s distribution within the city, and interfacing with the public to generate a political program based on the needs of the city’s population. The second key event was the Electoral Working Group’s failure to recharter. This all pointed MADSA’s … Continue reading MADSA’s Electoral Strategy & The Fran Hong Endorsement