Democratic Socialists of America

The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is a social democratic non-profit organization in the United States. It was founded in 1982 out of a merger between the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (DSOC) and the New American Movement (NAM).

A key founder was Michael Harrington, an anti-communist social democrat and Zionist^[1] with a Catholic social teaching. The DSA held pro-American position in the Cold-War, such as supporting Perestroika^[2] and condemning China after the riots in Tianenman Square^[3].

The DSA largely remained a tiny and irrelevant social club inside of the Democratic Party until 2015, when Bernie Sanders launched his 2016 presidential campaign. Since then, the DSA has grown into a much larger organization with different caucuses (factions).

Some of these factions include Marxist Unity Group^[4], which generally shares similar beliefs to the Cosmonaut^[5] blog and the Weekly Worker^[6], the publication of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Provisional Central Committee).

There are also attempts at entryism being lead by groups such as Socialist Alternative, and Socialist Revolution.

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[1] ttps://www.newagebd.net/post/opinion/234806/history-of-us-activism-for-palestine

[2] ttps://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/16/opinion/l-in-spirit-of-glasnost-a-half-toast-to-perestroika-us-left-supportive-478689.html

[3] ttps://democraticleft.dsausa.org/files/sites/6/1989/07/DL_1989_V017_04_final.pdf

[4] ttps://www.marxistunity.com/

[5] ttps://cosmonautmag.com/

[6] ttps://weeklyworker.co.uk/

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