What the DSA Actually Wants — and How It Compares to the DFL

"Defund the police by rejecting any expansion to police budgets or scope of enforcement while cutting budgets annually towards zero."

• "Disarm law enforcement officers, including the police and private security"
• "Decertify police unions and associations"
• "Free all people from involuntary confinement"
• "End all misdemeanor offenses" and "end all fines and fees associated with the criminal legal process"
• "End police surveillance and cease all funding" for technologies including CCTV, biometrics, and predictive policing
• "Fire officers with excessive force complaints and freeze new hires"

"We fight for the abolition of capitalism and the creation of a democratically run economy."

• "Social ownership of all major industry and infrastructure"
• "Nationalize and socialize institutions of monetary policy, insurance, real estate, and finance"
• Rather than breaking up big banks, "bring them under working class control"
• "End corporate personhood" and "limit maximum wages"
• "Cancel all student loan and medical debt"
• "Socialize the agricultural system" and shift away from current farming models

"Canceling rent" and "closing eviction courts" while "as landlords exit the market, using state action to acquire private property and transform into public democratically controlled housing."

• "Repeal the federal Faircloth Amendment" to massively expand public housing
• "Cease sale of public housing assets to private interests"
• Pass "universal rent control" and a "universal tenants' bill of rights"
• "Repeal local ordinances that criminalize… squatting and other productive occupation of unused housing"

"Social ownership of all major industry and infrastructure."

• "A four-day, 32-hour work week with no reduction in wages or benefits"
• "End 'at will' employment" nationwide
• "Fully repeal the Taft-Hartley Act" — the foundational law governing union-management relations since 1947
• Federal jobs guarantee for all who want work
• "Decommodify survival, so no one's life depends on their ability to work or to pay"
• "Guarantee publicly available water, energy, transit, food, and other necessities for all, free of charge"

"A new political order through a second constitutional convention to write the founding documents of a new socialist democracy."

• "Abolish the Senate and the Electoral College"
• "Transition to a Parliamentary system"
• Pack the Supreme Court: "additional seats to break the counter majoritarian conservative majority"
• "Extension of voting rights to non-citizens"
• "End all disenfranchisement based on criminal conviction" — including for those currently incarcerated

"DSA operates in the heart of a global capitalist empire that has wrought untold suffering on billions of people and the environment."

On alliances & military:

• "Immediately withdraw from NATO"
• "Close all US foreign military bases"
• "Dramatically slash US military spending"
• "Combat the massive carbon footprint of the US military-industrial complex by struggling to dismantle US empire"
• "Renounce the use of nuclear weapons"

On adversaries & geopolitics:

• "Support normalization of relations with Cuba, Iran, Venezuela, and other countries targeted for resisting US imperialism"
• "End nationalistic posturing toward China" and "turn away from a new Cold War with China"
• "Stop using economic and financial sanctions to punish other countries" like Cuba, Venezuela, and Iran
• "Discontinue US support of Israel's oppression of the Palestinian people, including an end to all military aid"
• "Stop seeking to dominate the world"

On U.S. institutions abroad:

• "Abolish USAID, NED, Voice of America, and other governmental agencies that cynically disguise capitalist control as aid and journalism"
• "DSA will work for the release of all political prisoners incarcerated for their resistance to US imperialism"
• "Support creation of a new global monetary order… to replace the current order that privileges the US dollar"

"Our response to this aggression is not reform, but full abolition of anti-immigrant policies, structures, and laws."

• "Grant immediate and unconditional Amnesty for all immigrants, regardless of current immigration status"
• "Demilitarize the border and end all immigrant detention… abolish ICE"
• "End all deportations and enforcement actions"
• "Legalization of all living in the U.S. at this time, including voting rights and a path to citizenship for every US resident"
• "Extension of voting rights to non-citizens who otherwise meet durational residency requirements"
• "End E-Verify and allow for legal employment to all persons regardless of immigration status"
• "Welcome those displaced by climate crisis" with open borders

"Public ownership and funding of our healthcare system, including hospitals and other healthcare providers, pharmaceutical research and production."

• Single-payer Medicare for All — "no copays, no fees, no deductibles and no premiums. Ever."
• "Universal Coverage: Coverage for all United States residents — non-citizens included"
• "Free medical school, nursing school, and other training for healthcare workers"
• "Free abortion on demand" and "free fertility treatment for all"
• "Allow trans minors to access gender affirming care without parental consent"
• "Fully decriminalize sex work nationwide"

"Nationalize fossil fuel producers to phase them out as quickly as necessary — no new fossil fuel projects can be authorized or built."

• "Decarbonize the economy within a decade"
• "Establish public ownership of energy utilities and the electric grid"
• "Encourage replacement of individually-owned vehicles" with free public transit
• "Divert funds away from our government's bloated militarized budget… until global climate funding greatly exceeds military spending"
• "Combat the massive carbon footprint of the US military-industrial complex by struggling to dismantle US empire"