It has been over a year since the governments of South Africa and India first proposed that the World Trade Organization waive its restrictive patent monopoly rules and instead share lifesaving Covid-19 vaccine and treatment technology for the good of humanity. Since that time, more than four million people have died from the virus. Countless…
(Traducción al español abajo) The Democratic Socialists of America has always stood in solidarity with progressive and democratic forces in Chile, but now more than ever expresses its unconditional support for the left coalition Apruebo Dignidad, just days away from the historic second round of the 2021 Presidential elections. We hope the Chilean people select…
More than half of Afghanistan’s population faces life-threatening food insecurity this winter in large part because the United States and other Western countries are engaging in economic warfare against the Afghan people. The Biden administration has criminally frozen $9.5 billion in central bank assets that rightfully belong to Afghanistan. After decades of disastrous imperial intervention…
The Democratic Socialists of America International Committee (DSA IC) believes that anti-imperialism and self-determination of all peoples are fundamental and non-negotiable principles in the fight for socialism and workers’ liberation around the globe. In this sense, DSA condemns the Biden administration’s decision to intensify illegal economic sanctions and other punitive measures against the Nicaraguan government…
Translated into Spanish below / traducido al español a continuación DSA International Committee (DSA IC) calls for an end to the US embargo on Cuba, beginning with immediate executive actions from the Biden administration to reverse Trump-era policies and lift restrictions on COVID-19 aid to Cuba. Cuba, a longtime target of US interference, faces a…
The Democratic Socialists of America International Committee restates its opposition to the extradition of Julian Assange to the United States. The U.S. seeks to put Assange, an internationally recognized journalist and publisher of WikiLeaks, on trial for publishing truthful information about the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, its Guantanamo Bay prison camp, and the…
DSA International Committee (IC) supports the rights of Indigenous peoples to self-determination and freedom from political and social violence and land seizure as fundamental socialist principles. Since the uprising of January 1994 in Chiapas, the EZLN (Zapatistas) has continually inspired movements around the world to resist capitalism and colonialism in all its forms. The DSA IC…
Central banking is the latest battleground in the IMF’s war on democracy, equality, and the people of the Global South. DSA must fight back. From Ecuador to the Democratic Republic of Congo, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has been ramping up its efforts to force loan recipient countries to relinquish democratic control of their central…
Since 2014 and beginning with Public Law 113-278 passed by Congress, the neoliberal government of the United States in collusion with other western states have waged a campaign of economic warfare against Venezuelan citizens through a series of illegal sanctions. Also referred to as unilateral coercive measures, this economic blockade was deepened by both Presidents…
The DSA International Committee calls for defunding the military industrial complex and moving the money currently spent on overseas bases, weapons of mass destruction, and other weapons systems toward social programs that will benefit the working class and head off global climate catastrophe. Perhaps due to his military background and despite the U.S.-backed coups in…
