Abolitionist
The Abolitionist Working Group (AWG) formed out of the work to Derail the Jail and the Doyle Resolution campaigns to stop the jail expansion and decarcerate Dane County. This group is the home in Madison Area DSA for all abolition-related work. We believe that abolition is a key tenet of socialism as prisons and policing are some of the most direct and personal means of state-driven oppression in our current society.
Labor
We are a community for DSAers active in the labor movement, whether as union members and stewards, union staff, workers center activists, union officers, labor journalists, union retirees, students in labor solidarity groups, labor-oriented intellectuals, or in any other kind of role in the movement!
Electoral
The EWG will work to support MADSA’s work in the following areas:
- Understand the terrain of political, economic, and electoral power at the city, county, state, and federal levels in Wisconsin,
- Develop a policy platform that confronts obstacles to Working Class power and provides clear material benefits to Working Class people,
- Support and run openly Socialist candidates for public office built off MADSA developed political platforms,
- Build MADSA organizational capacity, leadership ability, and membership engagement.
Using these initial strategies, the EWG will”
- Develop and maintain a document with information on how political, economic, and electoral power is wielded at the city, county, state, and federal level in Wisconsin,
- Through programs of broad social inquiry identify local issues to build a policy platform that is representative of the concerns of Working Class people,
- Establish criteria and processes for the identification and endorsements of political candidates by MADSA,
- Developing independent electoral organization including but not limited to field/canvassing operation, campaign leadership, and voter data specific to MADSA and MADSA endorsed candidates.