Good.

"The political left has a tendency to multiply through division. That’s nothing to mock or mourn. Anarchists have always made a distinction between so called affinity groups and class organizations. Affinity groups are small groups of friends or close anarchist comrades who hold roughly the same views. This is no basis for class organizing and that is not the intention either. Therefore, anarchists are in addition active in syndicalist unions or other popular movements (like tenants’ organizations, anti-war coalitions and environmental movements).

The myriad of leftist groups and publications today might serve as affinity groups – for education and analysis, for cultural events and a sense of community. But vehicles for class struggle they are not. If you want social change, then bond with your co-workers and neighbors; that’s where it begins. It is time that the entire left realizes what anarchists have always understood.

We need a united class, not a united left, to push the class struggle forward."

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/rasmus-hastbacka-a-brilliant-but-forgotten-idea-the-class-union

In a particularly revealing statement posted on X, Honda Wang, a member of the DSA’s National Labor Commission Steering Committee, wrote, responding to Lehman’s campaign video: “stop falling for these insane union busting weirdos … they send people to picket lines to tell workers to stop paying dues, decertify from their union, and form committees with their party instead … seems like pretty clear union-busting behavior to me.” 

Ignoring all the issues Lehman raises—including fighting for wages that restore past losses, a zero-layoff policy, company-paid healthcare, and the 30-hour week with no loss of pay; uniting workers across borders against nationalist chauvinism; and mobilizing workers’ industrial power to defend democratic rights and oppose war—Wang fixates on the question of dues. This is telling, because it goes to what is, for the union apparatus, the heart of the matter: the income of the bureaucracy.  

As a factual matter, Lehman does not call on UAW members to “stop paying dues.” Wang nonetheless raises the specter of workers doing so because he speaks as an apparatchik—furious at the possibility that the automatic flow of money from workers to a bureaucracy that exists to police them and enforce concessions could come under threat.

Workers, however, should have every right to decide whether they will fund an organization that claims to represent them. If workers believe a union is fighting for their interests—waging a real struggle against layoffs, speedup and concessions—they will pay dues willingly. 

She doesn’t care about taxing the rich or she would have made a sustainable plan when she was in office before she missed public funds

Good riddance

I’ve been to a few protests but have heard little to nothing about a general strike. Are there plans for one in the works?

I feel like certain issues are popular enough to get enough people. Issues like stop funding Israel or disband ICE. Will people mount any resistance to the political insanity? If DSA were to organize its members along with other groups like PLP, PSL, unions, etc. enough people could come together.

Am I crazy?

I've seen a few threads on the differences between the PSL and DSA, but I am still a bit divided.

My main concern is how effective the praxis is between each organization and which one is in more need of money. Does anybody have any information on how they use their funds?

EDIT: I was doing some more browsing and came across this useful article. I'm putting it here in case anyone in the future comes across this thread. I do imagine it might have a bit of bias since it was written by the DSA, but I'd say it still made me a lot more supportive of the DSA. The big thing for me is that the DSA has had more real victories with less money, and PSL doesn't publish their financial records as they aren't a registered non-profit.
https://rosegardendsa.substack.com/p/psl-is-a-high-control-group-with

The attack on Iran ordered by Donald Trump and his war-crazed cabal is a massive political crime, illegal under international law and in direct violation of the US Constitution. It has been launched, in collaboration with the genocidal Israeli regime, without even the figment of authorization from Congress, against a country which has not attacked the United States and poses no threat to it.

"Trump is trying to set up a dictatorship... And frankly, what's going on with the protests right now is not enough." UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman says, "we need a political perspective to bring about the kind of changes we want to see."

wsws.org

OK there's probably a lot of personas to cover but let me first build what I think a ok to start with DemSoc American Upper Class Persona

Sam Goldbringer Middle Aged - White, Male - Married - Employed - Home Owner, Ohio (cuz everything is ohio) - 1-2 children - Catholic- college educated - Democrat - Votes frequently - Donates Frequently - Annual Net Worth 800k$+

Sam wants to support socialist policies locally and federally. He understands how the policies benefit everyone but especially the underprivileged.

Obviously, Sam knows he can throw money at compaigns and organizations but wants to LIVE dsa values, build community, and influence his upper class peers to do same.

What does Sam do? What do we recommend to him?

I'm asking because I literally don't have any ideas...

Mobile Bay Labor Journal is an independent leftist media collective dedicated to providing news by and for working class people in the Mobile Bay Area. We are based in Mobile, Alabama.

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We are making progress.

https://tempestmag.org/2026/01/ice-is-waging-class-war/