This May Day, we continue to honor the generations of workers who fought for dignity on the job and the workers today who are carrying that fight forward. The work isn’t finished, and neither are we. We organize✊🏽We fight✊🏿 We win✊🏻

Happy May Day to workers in fields, mines, sweatshops, kitchens, delivery bikes, factories, homes, on the street & beyond. To freedom fighters, caregivers & the ancestors who make our work possible. May we work for freedom, for a world with no rulers, no kings, where all labor & lives are valued.

BREAKING: Activists have shut down multiple intersections throughout downtown Washington DC in opposition to Trump's attacks on workers, DC Home Rule, climate, and international peace. The actions kick off #MayDay events across the country.

Happy #MayDay! We at IC are in solidarity with @criticalresistance.bsky.social, Black Alliance for Just Immigration, @detentionwatchnetwork.org, and many other groups in demanding that ICE be abolished. Scroll through these graphics to see just what we mean! #NoICE #StopICE #AbolishICE (1/2)

This is going to be great.

Happy National Library Week. In less than 10 years, U.S. spending on immigration policing & detention increased by 171% while funding for libraries didn't even keep up with inflation. Some priorities. 🤔

I will be speaking about my new book BLUE POWER tomorrow evening (Tues) in Washington, DC. Register at the link below.

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In America today, police enjoy unmatched power, but it wasn't always like that. Learn how this came about, in our next @nightschool-dc.bsky.social. RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/blue-...

We need your help - BAWG is aiming to raise $2,000 for 2,000 pregnancy tests, 6,000 condoms, and 800 doses of Plan B (emergency contraception)! Every dollar counts! Donate here: actionnetwork.org/fundraising/2nd-annual-pack-party-pride-fundraiser?clear_id=true (1/2)

Metro DC DSA Street Team and book exchange, @afterstormmag, and @nova_mutualaid, are tabling at the DC Black Cat Bookfair from 2-8pm on Saturday, April 25 at St Stephen and the Incarnation Episcopal Church. RSVP: dcblackcatbookfair.com/ (1/3)

Congratulations to my pal @stschrader1.bsky.social! His new book Blue Power - which Ruthie Gilmore called a ‘tour de force’ - is out today!

Next session! Blue Power with Stuart Schrader

Starting now!

TONIGHT!!!

Next session! Labor, Imperialism, and Zionism with Jeff Schuhrke. (Hybrid)

Most Americans are oblivious to the fact that the US helped "liberate" the Philippines from Spain in 1898 and then decided to keep it as a colony in one of the most racist & bloody conquests in US history. Just read the incredibly genocidal captions (see alt-text) in this popular book from the era.

Next session! Labor, Imperialism, and Zionism with Jeff Schuhrke. (Hybrid)

DC folks: I will be speaking about my new book BLUE POWER on Tues 4/21 at the Shaw Library, with @nightschool-dc.bsky.social Details and registration here: actionnetwork.org/events/blue-po…

It's hard to square "Marx was an accelerationist" with the attention paid to things like child labor and women's exploitation in Capital. I agree he saw the potential of harnessing productive forces but that's not the same thing. Relations of production matter too - and I'd argue they're paramount.

The current war on Iran is UNIQUELY unpopular by U.S. standards.

Man, I wish some lefty did a five-part podcast series on the modern history of Iran: thedigradio.com/History%20of...

For @truthout.org I wrote an analysis of the mass deportation boom during 2025. Amid all the spectacle, the passage of the funding bill in July was an ominous milestone in the history of U.S. immigration policy and the Trump administration's aspiring fascism. truthout.org/articles/tru...

Three free (and very relevant) e-books available from @haymarketbooks.org right now "Unbuild Walls" by @silkys13.bsky.social "Border and Rule" by @harshawalia.bsky.social and my "The Case for Open Borders" www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/525-fr...

Happy Birthday Dr. Davis. Thank you for everything.

an injury to one is an injury to all

If looking for an educational resource on immigration enforcement, I created this @haymarketbooks.org online lecture "Punishing Immigrants: U.S. Immigration Enforcement and the PIC." It's designed for teaching and political ed. Breaks down terms, history, and data. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArmH...

Next session! Abolition 101

Sign up is open for our 10 Spring 2026 Reading Groups! Metro DC DSA will host reading groups on political economy, Black Power and Palestinian Resistance, labor and organizing, and many more! Sign up today! forms.gle/zkba8NaQpEMa...

Today!

The DMV continues to be under siege by militarist authoritarians. Want to fight fascism from the heart of the empire? Join DSA and fight to build socialism! Metro DC DSA is holding its Local Convention on December 6 and 7... mdcdsa.org/chapterupdat... (1/7)

The RENTAL Act was bad and rotten from the start. It’s like sole source sports betting - we’ll continue to discover it’s even worse than we already thought.

Please stop using language that suggests that people with criminal records are appropriate targets for this administration's violence. One in three adults has a criminal record. Stop playing sacrifice games with fascists. Stop surrendering entire categories of people in your own mind.

anyway ludicrous to think the right question is “how did DHS lose its way??” and not “why did we build a domestic security super agency in the first place, and who has that power served”

On Thursday, Starbucks baristas in 40+ cities launched an open-ended, national ULP strike. Workers are putting it all on the line and need customers and allies to back them up! Join striking baristas and community supporters building union power. RSVP now: bit.ly/4pbwwy7

Next session! Join us!

Tomorrow!!!

Next session!

Come out this weekend to canvass for Metro DC DSA’s endorsed candidates, Frankie Fritz and Omodamola Williams!

At Socialist Night School, you’ll learn about how one rich person being able to buy and dismantle the Washington Post and turn it into his own propaganda rag is the antithesis of Democracy.

Tonight!!!

Took about 20 years. And I never thought a book about enslavers using deputization to give themselves policing power would be relevant to our times. But we are where we are. My book, White Power: Policing American Slavery, is now available for preorder. a.co/d/29c7EIP

What are you reading this weekend?

Next session! Why We Organize

Next session! Why We Organize

I’m really looking forward to our next @nightschool-dc.bsky.social session with @joshpage.bsky.social and @joesoss.bsky.social. Join us!