Can a model designed in advance rally the people who would build it?

Nithya Raman has won the official endorsement of DSA-LA following weeks of contentious yet constructive debate in Geese by both sides of the question. J. Ryder argues that the entire chapter should now mobilize and unite under a permanent campaign to build a socialist pole in LA and defeat Karen Bass to meet the crucial challenges ahead against the establishment.

Washington, D.C. has been occupied by the National Guard and federal police for more than a year. Trump has extended the occupation through inauguration day 2029. Andy C provides an overview of the federal occupation of D.C., locating its roots in the Trump administration’s experience of the 2020 uprisings. Whether we’re headed for a People’s January 6th or if you see more hot summers on the horizon, the left needs to pay attention to what’s happening in the streets of D.C.

The Democratic Socialists of America’s electoral project is ascendant. But as the organization grows, so does a strange problem: candidates within DSA running against other candidates endorsed by DSA. In her latest, Roxanne R. argues that to maintain electoral discipline and respect democratic deliberation, it is necessary to stop the spoilers.

The Marxist concept of progress has often been the subject of much debate. In his debut for Geese, moving from the American Revolution to Haiti’s revolution to today, Bobby argues that we must clarify the distinction between Marxist and liberal concepts of progress and understand history as a sequence of mistakes that we reflect on, not a determined sequence of events.