Building Up

Welcome to Groundwork’s newsletter, Building Up. Here we’ll share our perspective about National DSA internal politics and the NPC, as well as highlight efforts Groundwork members are doing across the country and ways that you can get involved in our campaigns!

Class Alignment Electoral Strategy Part 1: Why Elections?
Groundwork Towards a Socialist Future Groundwork Towards a Socialist Future

Class Alignment Electoral Strategy Part 1: Why Elections?

Our introduction to Groundwork’s Class Alignment Electoral Strategy explores why we engage in electoral politics, what the central problem is in today’s socialist movement, and how we can fight it.

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Groundwork for DSA-LA
Groundwork Towards a Socialist Future Groundwork Towards a Socialist Future

Groundwork for DSA-LA

Hear from your 2025 DSA-LA Co-Chairs about why you should support Groundwork’s Building the Socialist City slate!

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Democracy or Dominion: Why Socialists Must Marginalize the Authoritarian Right
Tom Lorre Tom Lorre

Democracy or Dominion: Why Socialists Must Marginalize the Authoritarian Right

Socialism depends on the full flowering of mass democracy — not just elections, but the ability of ordinary people to govern their workplaces, communities, and lives. The authoritarian Right’s project is the opposite: permanent minority rule maintained through fear, repression, and hierarchy. Before the Left can democratize the economy, we must expand the meaning of democracy.

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Harness Street Power: Endorse No Kings!
Tom Lorre Tom Lorre

Harness Street Power: Endorse No Kings!

This moment is more than an obligation; it is an opportunity. By joining the popular front against fascism, we can show the millions of outraged working people in this country that we need more than a return to the collapsing neoliberal order that Kamala Harris offered voters in 2024. We can show up on the streets and declare that to fight fascism, we must build socialism.

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Zohran’s Victory Shows We Need to Run a Socialist for President
Charlie Heller Charlie Heller

Zohran’s Victory Shows We Need to Run a Socialist for President

Zohran’s campaign is proof of concept that campaigns for executive offices present the best opportunity for the Left to spread our message to an audience of millions of working people. To recreate the effects of Zohran’s campaign at a national level, delegates at the 2025 DSA convention should vote for R33. 

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