Democratic Socialists of America in Financial Crisis, Can’t Afford to Hire ‘Capable Comrades’

The Democratic Socialists of America is mulling staff cuts as it laments a lack of funds to hire ‘capable comrades’ to work all day to push socialism in the US.

Members of the Democratic Socialists of America gather outside of a Trump owned building on May Day in New York City, N.Y., on May 1, 2019. Spencer Platt/Getty Images

A Marxist caucus of the country’s largest socialist organization, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), accused top leaders of having mismanaged funds, leaving the organization in a dire “financial crisis” and facing layoffs.

The left-wing group, which counts Squad members Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) among its ranks, is facing a “big deficit” and “a lot of talk about what to cut,” according to a trio of members of Bread & Roses, a national caucus of Marxist organizers within the DSA.