Ballots close Tuesday at midnight for Anti-War Working Group elections. If you read our previous post, you know that the stakes are high for protecting and expanding anti-war work in NYC-DSA. If you’re a chapter member, make sure to submit a ballot for the Long Haul Slate, an experienced group of comrades committed to anti-war and anti-imperialist organizing. Read our platform below:

Anti-War Organizing for the Long Haul

As the U.S. brazenly escalates its imperialist ambitions around the globe and deploys militarized police at home, our primary obligation as socialists in the imperial core is to fight for the liberation of oppressed, colonized, and exploited people both here and around the world. NYC-DSA is expanding with a new generation of socialist politics while learning how to grapple with governance. From within this context we must leverage our power as workers, students, organized tenants, and people of conscience to systematically interrupt imperial domination.

This aim requires the steady mass work of building up class power to fight capitalism and imperialism through a diversity of tactics: electoral and legislative organizing, strategic campaign work, mass mobilizations, political education, community and workplace organizing, and coalition-building across the anti-war movement.

The Long Haul Slate comprises organizers who have invested in the day-to-day work of sustaining and growing the Anti-War Working Group. This work isn’t always flashy — it’s the research, field organizing, relationship-building, political education, and administrative tasks that happen between the street protests and rallies that makes AWWG powerful for the long haul.

Our Platform

1. Local Campaigns: Bring the Fight to the Home Front

From land sales to weapons shipments, the war machine has deep roots in our communities; disrupting imperialism is a local issue, and we are dedicated to fighting the empire in our backyards.

Long Haul candidates have:

• Founded and led field, research, labor, and communications work in the chapter’s Break the Chain campaign to end weapons shipments to Israel out of JFK.
• Founded and led AWWG’s Municipal Palestine Policy Committee, which leverages relational organizing to target economic and military-industrial ties between the City and the Israeli occupation.
• Served as field leads on the chapter’s Arms Embargo Now campaign.
• Supported the reintroduction of Zohran Mamdani’s Not On Our Dime legislation targeting the illegal activity of Zionist charities.

2. Political Education: Build the Anti-War Base

The U.S. working class has been subjected to the longest and most sophisticated propaganda campaign in history. The ideological project of white supremacy, capitalism, and imperialism cannot be erased overnight. It will take years of dedicated, concerted popular education on the historical legacy and current praxis of socialist and anti-war movements to build the class base necessary to overthrow imperialism.

Long Haul candidates founded and have led AWWG’s Internationalist Education Subcommittee, developing educational film screenings and mutual aid fundraisers, workers’ circles seeking to foster anti-imperialist consciousness in the labor movement, and reading groups on topics such as neocolonial resource extraction in the Congo.

3. Coalition Building: Towards a United Front Against the Empire

We’re not in the struggle on our own; the task of defeating empire is foremost the task of cohering the anti-war movement and offering the political leadership our socialist politics presents. Long Haul candidates have led coalition-building in AWWG with organizations like the Palestinian Youth Movement, Cuba Sí, Venezuela Solidarity Network, and others through rapid response and protest contingent work and shared organizing projects.

A nimble, flexible, and strategic orientation to mass mobilizations allows us to respond effectively to acts of U.S. imperialist aggression, from the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro and the renewed embargo on Cuba to U.S. airstrikes on Iran and Lebanon.

Our Plans for AWWG: What We’re Building For in 2026

• Renew Break the Chain as a chapterwide campaign, this time with priority status
• Develop an AWWG rapid response team to mobilize quickly in response to new escalations
• Reintroduce the Not on Our Dime campaign to rescind nonprofit status from organizations that fund Israel’s crimes
• Strengthen labor ties, including by mobilizing an anti-imperialist labor contingent for May Day 2026
• Build a research database for long-term knowledge sharing
• Offer an Anti-Imperialism 101 poli ed course to all NYC-DSA members
• Work with the Electoral Working Group to develop and align NYC-DSA’s candidates with an anti-war electoral platform
• Designate liaisons between AWWG and other chapter working groups and bodies to strengthen internal collaboration and infrastructure
• Create subcommittees to work in solidarity with anti-imperialist struggles around the world and empower members to take on leadership roles
• Develop a concrete local strategy and demands around the war on Iran and the kidnapping of President Maduro

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