Monthly Archives: March 2022

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Five Reasons We Need Political Education

Daphna T, Steering Committee NPEC Adapted from a talk given at the 2021 DSA National Convention, lightly edited for publication.  As socialists, we are doers. We want to change the world, so we throw ourselves into activism and organizing. But in order to be effective we need all our chapters…

NPEC 2021 Round Up, Part Two

We asked NPEC members to share their thoughts on the following question: Looking forward to 2022, what is the ONE thing (method, text, issue, debate, etc) you believe is going to be crucial to focus on in political education (broadly defined) in DSA? Evan M, Mid-Hudson Valley DSA Oftentimes, and…

What is the State?

Per D, NPEC What is the state? Is it just the “executive committee of the ruling class,” as Marx wrote? Or is it a field of struggle that socialists should aim to control? The National Political Education Committee is exploring these questions, and more, in a new series of “The…

The Socialist Program: Lessons and Prospects

Alexander G, NPEC In accordance with the diversity of the long history of the international worker’s movement, there have emerged different perspectives of the nature and purpose of the political program. After 1991, what lessons, pros, cons and principles should we extract from this rich history of the political program…

Host a Screening of Naila and the Uprising

Simon J, NPEC + BDS/Palestine Solidarity  Naila and the Uprising was produced by Just Vision, a production company that has also produced several other educational films about Palestine. The DSA BDS & Palestine Solidarity Working Group launched a film screening for Naila and the Uprising in commemoration of the First…