The Democratic Socialists of America is mulling staff cuts as it laments a lack of funds to hire ‘capable comrades’ to work all day to push socialism in the US.
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.
The trio complained that the “financial crisis,” as some members of the DSA’s National Political Committee (NPC) described the situation in a proposal to cut staff, comes at a particularly bad time.
They believe the opportunity is ripe to foist socialism on the American people due to a revival of labor struggles and the Biden administration’s support for Israel in its war against the Hamas terror group.
Ideally, the organization would be “scaling up our operations to meet this moment, hiring fellow capable comrades who are excited to be paid to spend every working day thinking about how to get us closer to socialism.”
Instead, the DSA is “treading water,” deep in a financial hole because “top directors mismanaged our dues.”
“As a result, we are now left holding the bag and tasked with cutting expenses just to keep the organization afloat,” the trio said, adding that the DSA needs to come up with $2 million to break even.
Part of the plan put forward by some members of the DSA’s political committee is to cut $500,000 from staff-related expenses and “ask for volunteers from both director-level and bargaining unit staff to have their position cut.”
