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Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is the largest socialist organization in the United States and the principal U.S. affiliate of the Socialist International, a federation of socialist, social democratic and labour parties and organizations. Jump to: navigation, search The color red and particularly the red flag are traditional symbols of Socialism. ... The official symbol of Socialist International The Socialist International (SI) is an international organisation for social democratic and democratic socialist parties. ...

DSA was formed in 1983 by a merger of Michael Harrington's Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (the largest remnant of the defunct Socialist Party of America) and the New American Movement, a coalition of writers and intellectuals with roots in both the New Left movements of the 1960s and the more traditional leftwing parties of the "Old Left." Jump to: navigation, search 1983 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Edward Michael Harrington (February 24, 1928 – July 31, 1989) was an American socialist. ... The New Left is a term used in political discourse to refer to radical left-wing movements from the 1960s onwards. ... The Old Left is a term used to describe classic 1930s-era Western Leninists, Trotskyists and Stalinists to differentiate them from the Marxists of the New Left who emerged between the 1960s and the 1970s. ...

DSA is organized at the local level, and works with labor unions, community organizations, and campus activists on issues of common interest. Nationwide campaigns are coordinated by the organization's national office in New York City.

Notable DSA members have included United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta, organizer and SDS veteran Steve Max, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney, literary critic Irving Howe, feminist activist and journalist, Gloria Steinem, actor Ed Asner, author Barbara Ehrenreich, scholar and activist Cornel West and political columnist Harold Meyerson. Jump to: navigation, search The United Farm Workers of America (UFW) are a labor union that evolved from unions founded in 1962 by César Chávez and Dolores Huerta. ... This article needs to be wikified. ... The Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was a radical student activist movement in the United states founded in 1959. ... The AFL-CIO is the largest labor union federation in the United States. ... John Sweeney (born May 5, 1934 in The Bronx, New York) is the president of the AFL-CIO. An AFL-CIO vice president since 1980, he was elected president of the AFL-CIO at the federations biennial convention in October 1995 and has been re-elected twice since then. ... Irving Howe (1920-1993), was born Irving Horenstein, the son of immigrants who ran a small grocery store that went out of business during the Great Depression. ... Feminism is a social theory and political movement primarily informed and motivated by the experience of women. ... Gloria Steinem. ... Ed Asner Yitzhak Edward Asner (born November 15, 1929 in Kansas City, Kansas) is a Jewish-American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as Lou Grant on Mary Tyler Moore, and later continued in a spinoff series, Lou Grant. ... Jump to: navigation, search Barbara Ehrenreich (born August 26, 1941) is a social critic and essayist. ... Cornel Ronald West (born June 2, 1953 in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is a prominent American scholar and public intellectual. ... Jump to: navigation, search Harold Meyerson is Editor-at-Large of The American Prospect. ...

While many DSA members are also members of the Democratic Party, electoral politics have been a secondary concern throughout the history of the organization. The main aim of DSA is to promote socialist ideas within the broader progressive social movements in American politics. On electoral questions, the organization supports what it calls the "left wing of the possible." DSA remained neutral in the 2000 Presidential race and decided to back John Kerry in 2004. DSA members have occasionally been elected to public office at the local, state, and federal level, both as Democratic Party and non-partisan candidates. Jump to: navigation, search The Democratic Party, founded in 1792, is the second-oldest political party in the world (after the Tories of the United Kingdom). ... John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is the junior United States Senator from Massachusetts. ...

In August of 2005, DSA announced that its membership had increased by some 13% since July of 2003 as the result of a recent direct mail campaign. [1]

Young Democratic Socialists (YDS) is the official youth section of Democratic Socialists of America.

External link

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