ROC DSA is stepping into 2025 with the same momentum that has been steadily building our movement. Our membership continues to grow, as the realization sets in that we must do more than vote every four years to make the world a better place. Without the unified action of the working class, the gains that have been won from their struggle—through strikes, protests, and resistance—are eroded and overturned.
Month: February 2025
Stand for the Truth
By Jean Allen At the December General meeting, in a breakout group talking about what to do with a second Trump administration, comrade Lara (who wrote “Post-Election Reds” for our December issue)…
Observing Nature: Eastern Skunk Cabbage
By Lara Have you ever met eastern skunk cabbage (Symplocarpus foetitdus)? Now might be a good time to do so! It is one of our first plants to emerge from the ground,…
Chapter Statement: 2025 Endorsements
ROC DSA endorses the following candidates because we believe their platform, both in writing and in action, aligns with our vision for the future of Rochester. A Rochester city government with both…
Prison Abolition is a Working Class Interest
by Gregory Lebens-Higgins
The confrontation with capitalism requires a mass movement of workers unified in common cause. The working class cannot risk division, and must resist the isolation of large segments of its membership. In the prelude to the Civil War, Northern abolitionists appealed to worker solidarity, recognizing, as Marx did, that “Labor cannot emancipate itself in the white skin where in the black it is branded.” Their arguments inform the ongoing struggle against the prison-industrial complex.
Ceasefire Today, Liberation Tomorrow
The following set of comments were given at DSA rallies held after a long-awaited ceasefire was declared on Sunday, January 19. The first is from a rally organized by ROC DSA and…
Oppression & Exploitation & H1B
Socialists should not get dragged into the worthless ‘debate’, where full human beings are reduced to their culinary tradition and the cheapness of their labor. We should work together with migrants to break down the walls the state erects between us. Full, political equality across the people who live in an area should be the norm, and as socialists we must fight for it.
Trans Community is Under Attack, What Do We Do? Stand Up! Fight Back!
This document provides a brief overview of Trump EOs, which directly target transgender people, as available at the Federal Register on February 1st, 2025.
Getting Grounded – Spring Will Come
Dreaming over brightly colored seed catalog photos of veggies and flowers is an intense secret pleasure shared by gardeners and farmers. The colder it gets and the deeper the snow, the more intense the longing for spring.
Press Release: Rochester Grants Pass Resistance
by Rochester Grants Pass Resistance Rochester Grants Pass Resistance condemns this proposal to discard hard fought legal freedoms for those with mental illness in the name of ‘safety.’ Mental healthcare changes should…