Only 10% of the US is in a union. Who’s going to lead it?

The biggest of those unions I’d guess would be AFL-CIO, which I suppose did a okay job leading the Minnesota strike

Roughly one in four Minnesota voters either participated in the January 23 day of shutdown and protest against ICE, or have a loved one who did…Of those participants, 38% percent stayed off the job, either because they did not go to work, or because their employer closed for the day of action… 45% of voters ​“generally support the call for no work, no school, no shopping as a form of protest.” https://inthesetimes.com/article/labor-general-strike-minnesotans-ice-protest-trump-cbp

Keep in mind those numbers are voters in minnesota, not super great for a bunch of “progressive” people.

Even the national strike on the 30th wasn’t terrible, but neither had any economic effect. There just isn’t enough organization, especially in key industries. People aren’t educated on unions, even in communist circles a ton of us are running around without a clue what good union organizing looks like.

My concerns aren’t that they are doing it in an unlawful way, my concern is that they are doing it period.

Inserting a layer of bureaucracy into the process doesn’t make it in anyway better or okay.

No but you don’t understand, suddenly now that the media is telling me how bad ICE is, I care about this. When a blue president is in office the media doesn’t talk about it, so I just assume everything is okay again.

Not talking about things = progress!

Gonna second the soatok hate. This guys just been signals #1 fanboy for the last several years and it really gets on my nerves.

Facebook is what free’d me of having to interact with my local DSA /hj

Local DSA posts everything on facebook, I don’t have facebook and won’t post my face onto there to make it happen.

I email them but they just tell me check the facebook

I try to join the discord but they want to see me at events first, which I can’t find, because they are posted on the facebook and I can only scroll down 3 posts before I get asked to login.

I give them my number and my signal but they don’t reach out.

🙃

Bandcamp is where you go to download/buy stuff for a band you already know and like. I rarely if ever have listened to music through the website itself, nor have I found new bands through it.

Since most people aren’t going to want to dig through an article and then twitter for a video

Chemical weapons being used outside of the school

A student being assaulted

I wonder why 35-44 has so many unsure responses

Common .world user L

Love some Red Phoenix

I mean, was it a case of being cultish or was it a case of not having the time to be a fully active party member?

There is a difference, and there is no shame in not having that level of commitment. You can always participate in the various mass/front orgs.

If you are an American, join the insert party that I’m a member of

PSL gets a lot of love on lemmy, that’s fine, lot of PSL members here evidently. You can just as easily join any of the other parties that will reflect your personal line better or worse. All the big rallys and protests I see are run by a wide combination of parties and groups (although I’ll admit PSL and FRSO are usually the largest by attendance).

Always remember you’re joining to do work, it’s not just a cool club you join so you can go to a protest once a year and say “look at me I’m a communist now” (you can do that outside the party too!). You can join PLP, you can join the Avakianites, you can join one of the 100s of trot orgs, any of em, just don’t join a party you know nothing about and be disappointed when you disagree on something. Study the party program. See what kinda positions the party has held in recent history. Be ready to dedicate substantial regular amounts of time to this group. Different parties will have you spending your time differently, but they all will appreciate a member keeping themselves busy.

I got you fam.

NOoOooOO you can’t call out the failings of our dSSa Democrats! Voting and organizing around them is the only thing American leftists are allowed to doOoOOO. 😤

I use Disroot. Idk if sign-ups are always open though.

Opportunists when they see a tactic with a 100year track record of not working

“if you don’t compromise and vote for the social fascist you’re actually a silly ultra leftist baby wawawa”

I do agree with that, but what will separate him from the rest is if he calls attention to the fact that its happening and still holds firm to his beliefs when the entire establishment is against him.

My issue isn’t that he isn’t pure enough, it’s that he’s running with a bad crowd, and everyone else I can think of who ran with that crowd got neutered into being useless. (AOC comes to mind)

He’s already said that he thinks the police department is an appropriate size and wasn’t gonna increase it. But wasn’t the issue that it was already oversized to begin with? Even in DSA, downsizing and cutting funding for the police is a popular position. The fact that some of his most progressive positions are to the right of many DSA members I’ve met IRL and online does not invoke confidence.

What I see often too is supporters of DSA-Democrats defending their move to the right in order to be more palatable to the general public and win an election, but when you do this YOU become more right wing, the PUBLIC does not move more left. You must always challenge capitalism to have an effective socialist program.

Socialist in words only. No socialist is running as a democrat. Plain and simple.

Yes, I know that its nothing to do with socialist philosophy. Way to entirely misread my point.

He’s a self-described democratic socialist, while being a social democrat. DSA has actual democratic socialist members, just not ones that would stoop as low as to run as a democrat. Anyone who’s had the displeasure of attending a few DSA meetings can see the wide spectrum of ideologies represented within it, more than half of which can hardly be called anything remotely socialist.

The nazi’s were self described “socalists” too. Let’s not take people at their words on these things.

Edit: The point being made here is not that nazi’s were socialist (they weren’t) nor is it to paint Mamdani as a nazi. The point is him calling himself a socialist means nothing.