Meet the Candidates
The 2025 DSA National Convention will be held in Chicago from Friday, August 8 to Sunday, August 10. For more information, please check the official DSA convention website. Bread & Roses is proud to be proposing a host of ideas to the convention and running a number of candidates for DSA's National Political Committee.
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Our Proposals
Fighting Back in the Class War: Preparing for May Day 2028
Authors: Will B (Chicago), Sarah H (Chicago)
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This resolution lays out a political vision and tasks for DSA in the leadup to politicized mass strikes and mobilizations on May Day 2028, a goal date that was put forward by the president of United Auto Workers and has been embraced by unions around the country.
Workers Deserve More, Forever: For a Coherent and Continuous Program Befitting DSA’s Political Growth
Authors: Michaela B (NNJ), Alex P (NYC), Zev R (NYC), Oren S (NYC)
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This resolution enshrines the popular, existing Workers Deserve More program as DSA’s platform. It creates a committee to 1) propose edits to the NPC based on political commitments made by delegates at convention, 2) coordinate a public campaign to popularize Workers Deserve More using digital, press, print, video and social media interventions, and 3) create political education training events to ensure WDM is incorporated into chapter campaigns and DSA elected officials’ platforms.
For Working-Class Member Leadership
Authors: Laura W (Portland), Alex P (New York City), Kristin S (Mid-Hudson Valley)
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This resolution instructs the NPC to implement more stipends for elected leaders in next year’s budget. National leaders are almost all unpaid, which makes it very difficult to spend the time necessary to lead politically! We want our national leaders to come from a variety of backgrounds, not just white collar professionals or high income earners who have relatively more free time.
Staff Relationship to Members in a Democratic Organization
Authors: Laura W (Portland), Kristin S (Mid Hudson Valley), Alex P (NYC), Hayley BB (Portland)
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This resolution clarifies the political role of staff and their relationship to members and elected member-leaders. Staff make members more collectively self-sufficient, and the NPC has the greatest responsibility in ensuring that!
Proposal to Launch a Member-Led National Design Committee
Authors: Kristin S. (Mid-Hudson Valley DSA)
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This resolution restores member control over branding and art for DSA by re-launching a national committee that was active several years ago and created beautiful materials for the whole organization.
We collaborated with Groundwork to write: Unite Labor & the Left to Run a Socialist for President and Build the Party.
Authors: Allan F. (At-Large), Nate K. (Atlanta), Taylor C. (At-Large), Jordan B. (Seattle), Frances G. (Los Angeles), Ben D. (Metro DC), Alex P. (NYC), Kareem E (NYC)
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This resolution calls for DSA to bring together labor unions and other mass organizations into a left-labor coalition to run a presidential candidate in the 2028 Democratic primary. This coalition — which can lay the foundations for a workers’ party — should also run a national slate of down-ballot candidates in the 2026 and 2028 elections on a common pro-labor platform.