Democratic Socialists of America in Financial Crisis, Can’t Afford to Hire ‘Capable Comrades’

A Marxist caucus of the country’s largest socialist organization, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), accused top leaders of having mismanaged funds, leaving the organization in a dire “financial crisis” and facing layoffs. The left-wing group, which counts Squad members Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) among its ranks, is facing a “big deficit” and “a lot of talk about what to cut,” according to a trio of members of Bread & Roses, a national caucus of Marxist organizers within the DSA. The socialist organization, which played a major role in pushing the Green New Deal into the highest reaches of the Democratic Party, is in a “seven-figure” hole that is probably “too big to fundraise our way out of,” the three socialist activists lamented in a Jan. 18 post on The Call, a publication of the Bread & Roses caucus....