A Better World is Possible
Connecticut DSA is a statewide chapter of Democratic Socialists of America, the largest socialist organization in the United States. Our members are organizers – in the streets, workplaces, and neighborhoods – where we are bringing workers, tenants, and all exploited peoples into class struggle, building power in our movement for democratic socialism.
Connecticut is the wealthiest state in the most prosperous country on Earth, and one of the most unequal places in America. Workers and tenants are exploited to produce decadent living standards for capitalists, while basic necessities such as housing and healthcare become more expensive.
We believe that ordinary people can achieve genuine freedom only by building an organized, multiracial, working-class majority capable of confronting the ruling class and developing collective power in the workplace, the community, the state, and the environment we share. Members of the working-class majority include all people who sell their labor to the capitalist class to live—as well as those even more deeply exploited: the unemployed, the undocumented, and the incarcerated.
We recognize that resisting and ultimately dismantling capitalist exploitation and imperialist warfare requires us to draw together all people organizing against intersecting forms of oppression. We demand a radical redistribution of wealth, resources, and power.
Want to join the class struggle and fight to win? Then you should be a part of DSA! Becoming a dues-paying member of DSA gives you a right to vote on our strategic direction and step up for leadership opportunities, but more importantly, it gives you thousands of comrades across the US who are fighting for a better world too!
Pictured above: CT DSA Ceasefire Resolutions Reflection Panel This past September, Connecticut DSA convened to reflect on efforts in the past year to pass municipal ceasefire resolutions across the state. The reflection panel focused specifically on the experience of...
Last month, Amazon Teamsters and Starbucks Workers United (SBWU) launched a Holidays strike and were joined by dozens of CT DSA members across the state, with thousands of workers across the country walking off their jobs ahead of the busiest season in their...
Greetings from Francesca and Bryan, your newly elected CT DSA chapter co-chairs! We are honored and humbled by this responsibility, with the rest of our Steering Committee, to steward our chapter through our continued struggle for socialism in Connecticut.
The term “social housing” has gained traction on the US Left today. Prominent political currents in the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) have become more comfortable using the term to gesture vaguely at some more just allocation of housing than what currently exists. For example, DSA’s “Building for Power” (B4P) campaign encourages DSA chapters to “…work with tenants and/or tenant unions as well as building trades unions to retrofit social or other tenant housing,” operating under the assumption that social housing is an existing thing that can be improved upon.
Connecticut DSA (CTDSA) condemns the arrest on Monday morning, 4/22/2024, of over 40 protesters by the Yale Police Department (YPD) and New Haven Police Department (NHPD) at Yale University’s Gaza solidarity camp in Beinecke Plaza. We stand in solidarity with those who were arrested and all students calling for Yale to divest from apartheid Israel and its genocidal actions in occupied Palestine. We celebrate the efforts and leadership of student organizers, including National Students for Justice in Palestine, SJP chapters and other Palestine solidarity formations, Yale YDSA, and National YDSA in the growing wave of college occupations.
Pictured above: CT DSA Ceasefire Resolutions Reflection Panel This past September, Connecticut DSA convened to reflect on efforts in the past year to pass municipal ceasefire resolutions across the state. The reflection panel focused specifically on the experience of...
The term “social housing” has gained traction on the US Left today. Prominent political currents in the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) have become more comfortable using the term to gesture vaguely at some more just allocation of housing than what currently exists. For example, DSA’s “Building for Power” (B4P) campaign encourages DSA chapters to “…work with tenants and/or tenant unions as well as building trades unions to retrofit social or other tenant housing,” operating under the assumption that social housing is an existing thing that can be improved upon.
Tens of millions across the globe have stood up in opposition to the Israeli genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, and the broader settler-colonial occupation and apartheid regime managed by the Israeli state across the historic lands of Palestine. As we write today, Israel is intent on completing a genocidal expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza. It appears that no one is safe from Israeli bloodlust. Indeed, as if to prove the point, on April 1, Israeli occupation forces murdered with impunity seven aid workers of the World Central Kitchen traveling in three clearly-marked vehicles. These killings added to the over 40,000 martyred Palestinians and hundreds of other slain humanitarian aid workers. An end to Zionism is the only viable political solution.
Following the labor of love and principled example from chapter secretary Jason R. in reviewing CT DSA’s organizing in 2021, it is my honor to reflect on our efforts this past year in building democratic socialism and working class power in Connecticut.
A retrospective on the 2021 efforts of Connecticut DSA.