Can DSA’s rank-and-file strategy rise to meet the challenge of Mayday 2028, or is a new direction needed? Join the debate on October 18th. Speakers from Marxist Unity Group, Bread & Roses, Communist Caucus, and Groundwork will debate their visions for labor strategy in DSA.

Last month, MUG and DSA NPC member Cliff Connolly spoke on WFLA about the need for a democratic political and economic system that gives the working-class majority an equal say in decisions that affect them. America is not a democracy, and DSA is fighting to make it one.

New in Light and Airwaves:We talk with Mike Macnair, author of Revolutionary Strategy about the impetus for his book, the need for the left to reevaluate the history of the Second International, the pitfalls of the first four Comintern congresses, and confusion around the term "bourgeois democracy."

New on MUG's podcast, Light & Airwaves! We talk with Steven Raney about remaking the working class, the Democratic Party “restorers” and “renewers," & why we need a Third Reconstruction & a democratic constitution based on universal & equal suffrage. Listen at the link in our bio 🔝

In Light & Air, Alexander V. begins a new series detailing congressional activity & how attacks on political freedom and fierce gridlock define the current state of American government. Read at the link in our bio 🔝

Old, in Light & Air! For Labor Day, Light & Air is republishing The Wobblies (a courtroom drama which looks at the history of the labor movement through the trial of William D Haywood) in full, with an intro by the editor

Comrades, new in Light & Air, we have a Labor Day double header for all of you. First, we have a second critique of Communist Caucus' recent articles, arguing that the program is a tool to unite sections of the labor movement

Marxist Unity Group deliberated & voted on the following statement to demonstrate our commitment to abolition as a central tenet of DSA's program. The working class cannot rule while a large part of it remains policed & caged. While there is a soul in prison, we are not free.

Ready to join MUG? Applications are open for our fall 2026 reading group cohort! Reading groups (virtual & local in person for some locations) will begin the first week of October, dates/times will be announced soon.

New, in Light & Air! How do we reconcile the forced patriotism of the 250th anniversary with the real facts of our history? This Fourth of July, American socialists must fight to build a new national narrative that can overturn our country's civil religion.