The Detroit Socialist Archives

Check out this series of articles about climate activism: Detroit Demands a Green New Deal!

May 2022

Remember That Flood? — The Detroit Socialist

Union Nurses Support You, Let’s Support Union Nurses

Fuel for Thought: Lessons from Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet…

That One Time with Rashida — Detroit Democratic Socialists of America — Medium

The Kids Will Be Alright

Adding Reproductive Rights to the Michigan Constitution

April 2022

The Dream: No More Jerry

What We’re Watching: The Wind That Shakes the Barley

March 2022

The Dream: Beware of Babies

The Dream: Spiegelman Rulz

The Current Situation in Ukraine from a Socialist Perspective

Ukrainian-Americans Mobilize

The Dream: The Cats of Woodbridge

Comerades in Coffee: Solidarity and Community

A Bipartisanship Win in Lansing — For Corporate Subsidies

The Dream: The Conspiracy

February 2022

The Dream: Toxicity

The Dream: Free Food

January 2022

LEO Wins Big: Or How I Found a Good Fight and Got in It

Review of Michael Albert’s No Bosses: A New Economy for a Better World

November 2021

The Dream: The Problem with Mice

The Dream: Pests Control

The Dream: Smoking in Solidarity

October 2021

Troublemakers School is coming to Detroit

The Dream: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner

University Workers Fight for Union Contracts

September 2021

Socialists in Unions: Lessons from A Democratic Socialist’s Fifty-Year Adventure by Milt Tambor

The Dream: The Gas Light

SHUT DOWN: James Craig’s Speech Announcing His Run for Governor Shut Down by Detroit Will Breathe…

The Dream: The Extraction Agenda

Why I Joined DSA: From Armchair to Action

The Right to Vote for Top Officers: UAW’s One-Member-One-Vote

August 2021

The Dream: The March

Why I Joined DSA: I no longer felt it was all my fault

The Problem is Capitalism: Lessons from A People’s History of Detroit by Mark Jay and Philip…

DSA 2021 National Convention Debrief

The Dream: Power Rally in Dearborn

“Don’t Moan, Organize”: Lessons from On New Terrain by Kim Moody

July 2021

The Dream: Parking Lot Politics

Who’s afraid of Proposal P?

The Dream: The Art of War

From the Couch to the Canvass

June 2021

The Dream: Lifestyles of the Poor & Blameless

Metro Detroit DSA Endorses Detroit for All 2021 Slate

The Dream: Slaughtering Pigs

May 2021

A NEW UNION PRESIDENT AT WAYNE STATE

The Dream: On the Pursuit of Happiness

The Dream: Paranoia

Whose Budget? Their Budget…

April 2021

Metro Detroit DSA Takes Part in National May Day Effort

The Problem Not the Solution: Lessons from The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale

The Dream: Rejection

Georgina Ginger Snap & Ghost Cat Regi

Detroiters Say No to Police Evictions

Electoral Committee Forms Plans for Detroit Municipal Elections and Beyond

The Dream: Dinner Roles

March 2021

Picket Lines and Political Pressure

One Member One Vote Campaign

PMC Pandemic Precarity: Will You Be Next?

The Dream: Awkward with Consent

Teamsters Local 337 on Strike!

Community Representatives Voice Opposition to City of Detroit Budget Priorities

Black Metropolis - Lessons from Black Detroit: A People’s History of Self-Determination

Canvassing Tips from an Introvert

The Dream: The Cruel Hand of Venus

Exciting Opportunities

Class Struggle Under Capital- Lessons from Wrecked: How the American Automobile Industry Destroyed…

February 2021

The Dream: Pressure

Whose Budget? Our Budget!

The Dream: The Other Woman

A Matter of Life and Death: Striking in the Era of Covid

January 2021

Union Drive Wins!

When General Speaks From the Grave

Radical Creativity in the Fight for Liberation- Lessons from Detroit: I Do Mind Dying

Letter from Rosa in a Time of Crisis

Refusing Accountability: Rick Snyder’s Crimes of Capitalism in Flint

The Dream: I Heart Social Programs

Georgina Ginger Snap & Ghost Cat Regi

Tracking Stingray: Detroit’s Bottom Feeder

Commodification Haiku

Sorry to Bother You, but Capitalism is Killing the Planet

“Malarkey”: A Union Member’s Argument for Medicare for All

The Dream: Strange Bedfellows

Strategies for Creating Change in Detroit

December 2020

Detroit DSA Endorses Landis Spencer

Metro Detroit DSA’s “Fight for Our Lives” Town Hall Supports the Green New Deal

The Dream: Soft Spot

The Machine Haiku

The Dream: Health (S)care

Jefferson Chalmers Demands A Green New Deal

Capitalism Haiku

Too Cool For School Too: The Interviews

The Dream: Lessons from Kenosha

November 2020

Waawiyatanong Resists

Too Cool For School

SHUTOFF: Will You Be Next?

The Dream: Crabs in a Barrel

How Postal Workers Saved The Election

Keep On Truckin’ With TDU During COVID

What Comes Next?

The Dream: Really Black

October 2020

Smile! You’re Under Surveillance

The Leftist Case to Defeat Trump

No Joe: The Socialist Case Against Biden

Why I Joined DSA: Just a City Boy…

Why I Joined DSA: Bernie Was Just the Beginning

Open Letter to “Vote Blue No Matter Who”

What Can We Learn From the U-M GEO Strike?

Liberation Festival: “We’re on the Freedom Side”

UAW Corruption: Whose Job is Cleaning House?

The Dream: The Path to Socialism!

RoboCop’s Real Legacy

September 2020

Detroit DSA’s Primary Wins

The Dream: Racism is a Symptom

The 1863 Race Riot: POLICE AND PROPERTY IN DETROIT

Liberation Mondays Unify Activists To Defund The Police

A Police Department with a City

The Detroit Socialist: Comics Syndicate

August 2020

The Detroit Socialist: Comics Syndicate

What Ever Happened to the Police?

City of Detroit Spends an Inordinate Amount on Police While Strangling Vital Public Services

Project Green Light and the New Jim Code

Teachers Demand: #OnlineSavesLives!

FURLOUGHED: Will You Be Next?

DSA Defends Reproductive Health Rights

Demanding an End to Racism and Police Violence

July 2020

The Right Argument for Dismantling the Police

Organizing 101 with Detroit DSA

In Defense of Our Public Housing: Ferndale for All

A Revolutionary Engaging Other Revolutionaries: An Interview with Yusef “Bunchy” Shakur

Canvassing Under COVID, A Unique Opportunity To Reach Voters

June 2020

Protesting Rent, Foreclosure and Eviction in Detroit

May 2020

Juking the Stats: We Can’t All Be Outside Agitators

Statement by Detroit Democratic Socialists of America in Support of Uprisings in Protest of the…

Detroiters Deliver a Message: Save the Postal Service

Detroit DSA endorses Abraham Aiyash

How to Stop Mass Evictions

Medicare for All: Is The Battle of Ideas Over?

Metro Detroit DSA Endorses Rashida Tlaib

Rashida Tlaib’s Town Hall: “DSA is my chosen family”

Surviving at Kroger During COVID-19

Introducing MI-CORE: A New Radical Voice for Michigan Educators

“In Debt Till I Die:” Why We Need College for All

No More Half Measures: We Need College for All

March 2020

Organize your Workplace against COVID-19

DSA Canvasses for Bernie All Over Metro Detroit

February 2020

Students and Workers Say #FixtheElevators

October 2019

Ferndale mayor candidate Melanie Piana rakes in thousands from developers — and even a Republican…

One Hundred Years of Socialism in One Activist

August 2019

Bernie Blackout Outside the Detroit Democratic Debate

In Conversation with the Israeli Left

July 2019

YDSA Fights Privatization and Job Loss at Washtenaw Community College

Hello Darkness, My Old Friend: Covering the First Democratic Debates

July General Meeting: Teacher Strike Wave, Schools, and Local Politics

June 2019

Say It Loud, Say It Proud: Democratic Socialism Is the Future

Detroit Pride 2019: Nazis, Rainbow Capitalism, and the DSA Response

Don’t Rain On My Corporate Pride Parade

Head to Head in Michigan: Bernie Matches Biden’s Margin Against Trump in New Poll

Detroit DSA June Meeting: New Leadership, New Ideas

May 2019

Can We Agree Billionaires Shouldn’t Make Our Laws?

Labor for Bernie 2020 Kicks Off in Detroit

Medicare for All Town Hall Draws Crowd, and Controversy, in Livonia

Take It From a Charter School Teacher: No One Is In Charge

Detroit Bus Riders Fight for Lower Fares for the Low-Income

DSA Regional Conference Builds Ties

Warren’s “Green New Military” Proposal: The Latest Evidence that Bernie Is Better — By a Mile

April 2019

On the specter of higher wages

Ending the stigma around abortion

Wayne State honors Spanish Civil War veterans

Bail the mothers out

Medicare for All comes to Michigan

Detroit DSA’s Task Force on a Green New Deal takes shape

Troublemakers go to school

March 2019

Detroit DSA March meeting: Clean water, Medicare for All, and the ties that bind

Wayne State students wary of being #waynestated

February 2019

Detroit DSA February Mega-Meeting: The Green New Deal, Bernie, and chapter elections

What’s in the Green New Deal?

Understanding the Medicare for All bills

Socialist Feminists spend Sunday at Cass Park

What We’re Reading — Angela Davis: An Autobiography

Making the Rust Belt Green Through a Federal Great Lakes Authority

White Shirt Day and the future of the labor movement

The Dead

Inside the inside/outside strategy

Spain in our Hearts: Socialist Reading Circle

Looking back and moving forward: Yesterday’s victories can inspire today’s struggles

DSA monthly abortion clinic escorts

January 2019

Don Mongrain for Michigan Democratic Party Progressive Caucus Vice-Chair

Auto Workers Caravan and Detroit DSA team up with workers from Canada and Brazil to protest GM

GM plant closings: Now is the time to take back what we’ve earned

A Green New Deal for Flint!

A brief history of the establishment (and disestablishment) of the Poletown auto plant

Why I joined the collective action

After the protest: Celebrating international solidarity

Making banners, making demands

The art build: design and protest

My experience fighting for a Green New Deal

Making the revolution sexy

Dancing in the streets

Get Up, Get Down: Sound and Solidarity

To change everything, it’s going to take everyone

Which Side Are You On? The Two Faces of Politics in Detroit

“We’ll Be Back”: Mass Action at Auto Show Prom

Rashida Tlaib, a rep for the many

Night School 2019 edition

Oakland University professors’ union fights for safe classrooms

DSA targets for-profit charter schools

Rashida Tlaib and Poletown worker Sean Crawford speak out on factory closings

What is to be done about electoral politics?

Hope for Flint?

Medicare for All!

Holding Whitmer’s Feet to the Fire

Sunrise demands a Green New Deal

All that is solid melts into air: on the film “Poletown Lives!”

An engineer speaks out

Make Detroit the engine of a Green New Deal

November 2018

Socialist Reading Circle

Brake! Light! Clinic!

Class conflict and a workers’ union

Socialist Night School

Michigan Midterms: A View From the Ground

2018 Electoral victories

Building DSA Flint. Who’s In?

Will You Be Next? DSA Member’s Health Insurance Jumps 50%

DSA Fights to Remove Insurance CEO from Governor Whitmer’s Transition Team

Detroit DSA Backs Hotel Strikers

Charlesetta Wilson of UNITE HERE visits Detroit DSA