Lital and Edward are joined by Summer and Em from Labor Militant and United front for a Workers Party to discuss Kshama Sawant's independent socialist campaign for Washington's 9th Congressional District. We do a deep dive into why every socialist should vote for Kshama, the dynamics within DSA and the broader left and why so many self-described socialists are sitting this race out (sectarianism!), where the working-class is at right now and why Kshama's dalliances with the Greens undermine her campaign.

Since we recorded this episode, Kshama has endorsed Andre Easton's campaign in the Bronx, a positive development!

You can find Labor Militant on X here and here on Instagram. 

You can find United Front for a Workers Party here on X, here on Instagram, here on Facebook, and here on TikTok. To sign up for the August 1st phonebank for Kshama, the August 8th Socialist Town Hall in Seattle, or UFWP's August National Meeting, click here.

If you'd like to hear more about the clown car of characters running against Kshama, check out UFWP's latest articles here.

For background on the 2024 IAM strike at Boeing, check out these articles from Workers Vanguard.

Also worth reading: a letter by Movement for Kshama, an initiative of UFWP that responds to Kshama's sectarianism, republished in Workers Vanguard.

As always, you can follow the work of the Just Break Already Caucus at our linktree, where we post all of our statements, petitions, and resolutions. You can also follow us on X and Instagram. We're always looking to debate others on the DSA Left. If that describes you, shoot us a DM! We'd be happy to have you on.

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Lital and Edward are once again joined by Monica, who has been helping organize a united-front demonstration in defense of Cuba happening in New York City (and elsewhere!) on July 17th. We talk about why it's essential to fight to defend the gains of the Cuban Revolution against U.S. imperialism, why the Communist Party's market reforms are throwing open the doors wide for the gusanos and U.S. rulers to foment counterrevolution, and what socialists and anti-imperialists can do right now in the belly of the beast to fight back.

JBA recently put out a statement outlining what DSA should do to defend Cuba, which you can read here. To read all our statements, resolutions, and petitions (and see what else we've been up to lately), check out our Linktree, follow us on X and on Instagram.

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In a special episode of Gimme a Break! Lital and Edward are joined by Tom from Transit Workers for a Fighting Union to talk about the supposed "Red Wave" elections in NYC that has so many DSAers celebrating. Sorry, we're here to burst your bubble. Tom explains how workers really see DSA as little different than the liberal Dems who make it impossible for them to live in NYC and made their lives a living hell. We also talk about Melat Kiros' win in Colorado and pour water on the notion this represents a real leap into national relevance for DSA.

You can follow TWFU on Facebook and X.

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Lital and Edward are joined by Elliot from the Committee for One Fighting Transit Union (COFTU) and Chantelle from the Maoist Communist Union (MCU) and Teamsters Mobilize (TM) to talk last month's Labor Notes conference. Both were part of a panel held the same weekend as Labor Notes, "A Militant Critique of Labor Notes: For a Fighting Workers Movement," and talk both their experiences on the job, at Labor Notes, and what strategy is needed to rebuild the labor movement in the United States. Not surprisingly, they don't see DSA's current labor strategy as being up to snuff.

You can check out the panel Elliot and Chantelle participated in at Labor Notes here. 

The Committee for One Fighting Transit Union's website can be found here and you can follow them on X and on Instagram.

You can find the Maoist Communist Union on their website, on Instagram, and on YouTube. They also have a Telegram channel.

Teamster's Mobilize can be found here on their website, as well as on Instagram.

As always, the best way to follow the work of the Just Break Already Caucus is by taking a look at our Linktree, where we post all of our statements, resolutions, petitions, and everything else we've been up to lately. You can follow us on X and Instagram. Love the show? Hate it? Have commentary or comments? Want to come on the show and debate us? Our DMs are always open! Shoot us one, we'd love to get your feedback and anything else you want to send our way.

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Lital and Edward are joined by Anissa from Adolfina and Tenants Against Privatization (TAP) and Mika from the Defend the Projects Committee to discuss Mamdani's plan to privatize public housing, how tenants are fighting back against the "socialist" mayor scheming with real estate interests to screw black and brown New Yorkers, the link between the fight to defend public housing and the Puerto Rican struggle against imperialism, and why DSAers should fight Zohran to save public housing.

You can follow Adolfina @adolfinabk on Instagram, TAP @tap_ny on Instagram, and the Defense the Projects Committee @defendtheprojectscommittee on Instagram.

You can follow all the work of the Just Break Already Caucus at linktree.com/dsa_justbreakalready. We've got a new statement out calling for DSA to defend Cuba you can read there, as well as all our statements, resolutions, petitions, and pamphlets. We're @dsa_justbreakalready on Instagram and @cleanbreaknow on X.

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***This episode was recorded before the latest "ceasefire."***

Lital and Edward are joined by Tara from Chicago to discuss JBA's effort to put forward a resolution calling for Chicago DSA to take a side with Iran in the US-Iran War. We talk about what arguments were raised against the resolution, how we got bumped off the agenda "for lack of time" twice, and why its in the interests of American workers to stand with Iran and fight for the defeat of the U.S. and Israel in this reactionary war.

You can find our original resolution, "Mobilize Labor to Defend Iran!" here:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DT_3UCf9NrKsZlVM_9rLNdSxCWVU8iSl/view

You can also read our reply to Bread & Roses here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cbOTC_s4n13PI75Hbd_JZElLJGs07VPR/view

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In a special episode of Gimme a Break!, Lital and Edward interview Monica from JBA-NYC and Jason from Labor Militant, just back from a trip to Rhode Island to campaign for independent DSA candidate Brittany Kubicek in her bid for Rhode Island's 5th House District. We talk about their experience canvassing in Providence before airing an interview Jason and Monica did with Brittany while in Rhode Island. 

Check out Brittany's campaign website here, sign up to get involved and donate to the campaign: https://brittanyforri.com/. You can follow her @brittanyforri on Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube!

You can follow Just Break Already @cleanbreaknow on Twitter and @dsa_justbreakalready on Instagram! We also have a linktree with links to all our statements: linktree.com/@dsa_justbreakalready.

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As always, we welcome your comments, critiques, hate mail and everything in between! If you're a member of another DSA caucus and want to debate the way forward, or if you're a DSAer ready to join the fight for a clean break, shoot us a DM!

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Lital and Edward are joined by Max from East Bay DSA to talk about the June 2 primary elections in California. How should DSAers, socialists of all stripes, and working people vote in these elections? For the "Vote Socialist" slate! Max motivates a resolution JBA promoted in EBDSA calling for this, the excuses of the DSA Right and Left for not supporting it, why "socialists" are saying vote for Billionaire Democrat Steyer, and how to go forward.

You can read the resolution here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1c5T_xCKkaF6trFJ49furAA_WKVMaDjoE/view

This is the first in a series of episodes on working-class candidates in the 2026 midterm elections. Stay tuned for more by subscribing, liking, following, sharing, and letting everyone you know know about Gimme a Break! Love it, hate it? Let us know! We look forward to getting the opportunity to debate other caucuses on the podcast in the future. Reach out, our DMs are open!

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In the first ever episode of Gimme a Break! Edward and Lital sit down with Monica from NYC-JBA to discuss the struggle for No More 24 inside DSA, why the NYC-DSA leadership overturned the rank-and-file's support of the struggle to stand with Zohran, and what role Marxists should play in DSA. We also motivate our petition for a special meeting in NYC-DSA to overturn the leadership's blatant disregard of the will of the membership, which you can find here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSerEQQRWFapmky2FluopFpan16AqlMSJK5i7Qhg9sAZrcl9Tw/viewform

Sign the petition and send it around! The DSA Left can't afford to roll over (again) for Mamdani if it wants to be a real Marxist opposition within DSA.

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