Gimme a Break!

Lital and Edward are once again joined by Monica, who has been helping organize a united-front demonstration in defense of Cuba happening in New York City (and elsewhere! ) on July 17th. We talk about why it's essential to fight to defend the gains of the Cuban Revolution against U.S. imperialism, why the Communist Party's market reforms are throwing open the doors wide for the gusanos a...

In a special episode of Gimme a Break! Lital and Edward are joined by Tom from Transit Workers for a Fighting Union to talk about the supposed "Red Wave" elections in NYC that has so many DSAers celebrating. Sorry, we're here to burst your bubble. Tom explains how workers really see DSA as little different than the liberal Dems who make it impossible for them to live in NYC and made...

Lital and Edward are joined by Elliot from the Committee for One Fighting Transit Union (COFTU) and Chantelle from the Maoist Communist Union (MCU) and Teamsters Mobilize (TM) to talk last month's Labor Notes conference. Both were part of a panel held the same weekend as Labor Notes, "A Militant Critique of Labor Notes: For a Fighting Workers Movement," and talk both their experienc...

Lital and Edward are joined by Anissa from Adolfina and Tenants Against Privatization (TAP) and Mika from the Defend the Projects Committee to discuss Mamdani's plan to privatize public housing, how tenants are fighting back against the "socialist" mayor scheming with real estate interests to screw black and brown New Yorkers, the link between the fight to defend public housing and...

***This episode was recorded before the latest "ceasefire."*** Lital and Edward are joined by Tara from Chicago to discuss JBA's effort to put forward a resolution calling for Chicago DSA to take a side with Iran in the US-Iran War. We talk about what arguments were raised against the resolution, how we got bumped off the agenda "for lack of time" twice, and why its in the...

In a special episode of Gimme a Break!, Lital and Edward interview Monica from JBA-NYC and Jason from Labor Militant, just back from a trip to Rhode Island to campaign for independent DSA candidate Brittany Kubicek in her bid for Rhode Island's 5th House District. We talk about their experience canvassing in Providence before airing an interview Jason and Monica did with Brittany while in Rho...

Lital and Edward are joined by Max from East Bay DSA to talk about the June 2 primary elections in California. How should DSAers, socialists of all stripes, and working people vote in these elections? For the "Vote Socialist" slate! Max motivates a resolution JBA promoted in EBDSA calling for this, the excuses of the DSA Right and Left for not supporting it, why "socialists" ar...

In the first ever episode of Gimme a Break! Edward and Lital sit down with Monica from NYC-JBA to discuss the struggle for No More 24 inside DSA, why the NYC-DSA leadership overturned the rank-and-file's support of the struggle to stand with Zohran, and what role Marxists should play in DSA. We also motivate our petition for a special meeting in NYC-DSA to overturn the leadership's blata...