1.16 DSA Party Discipline, Palestine, BDS and Jamaal Bowman

Today’s episode is about proletarian discipline, party discipline. DSA has recently had an internal debate about Jamaal Bowman’s refusal to support the Palestinian solidarity movement BDS. GRAMSCI Gramci’s Concept of Subaltern https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subaltern_(postcolonialism) DISCIPLINE Jodi Dean’s Article on Discipline https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/11/comrades-political-organizing-discipline-jodi-dean Republican Party Discipline of Liz Cheney https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/nov/15/liz-cheney-wyoming-republican-party-trump DSA’s ban on democratic centralism https://www.dsausa.org/about-us/constitution/#P1N Leninist Discipline https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Party+dicipline Know Your Enemy #36 on Jan 6 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/know-your-enemy/id1462703434?i=1000529390998 ——————— DSA CAUCUSES AND ELECTION SLATES Libertarian Socialist Caucus https://dsa-lsc.org/2021/07/19/lsc-democratic-socialism-a-short-history/ Bread & Roses Caucus https://breadandrosesdsa.org/ https://breadandrosesdsa.org/convention-2021-slate/ The Green New Deal Slate https://keywiki.org/DSA_Green_New_Deal_Slate Socialist Majority https://www.socialistmajority.com/ Renewal Slate https://www.dsarenewal.org/our-npc-slate/ Other DSA Caucasus https://reformandrevolution.org/2021/09/08/whos-who-in-dsa-a-guide-to-dsa-caucuses/ ——————— PALESTINE & BDS History of Palestine https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/throughline/id1451109634?i=1000523361687 Israeli Settlements https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_settlement Natural Resource Extraction during British Mandate https://trafo.hypotheses.org/30714 1936-1939 Arab Revolt https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936%E2%80%931939_Arab_revolt_in_Palestine Palestinians have sovereign authority over their natural resources https://imemc.org/article/wafa-un-general-assembly-passes-vote-affirms-palestinian-sovereignty-over-their-natural-resources/ DSA departed from the Socialist International https://www.leftvoice.org/DSA-Votes-for-BDS-Reparations-and-Out-of-the-Socialist-International/ NY DSA Revolutions Per Minute podcast on the BDS Movement https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/revolutions-per-minute-radio-from-new-york-city-democratic/id1450411809?i=1000524165027 J Street’s Rejection of the BDS Movement https://jstreet.org/wrong-way-oppose-bds/#.YcFAIy-cZQI ——————— JAMAAL BOWMAN DSA “Unity For Unity, not Unanimity: Palestine, Jamaal Bowman, and DSA” https://docs.google.com/document/d/1d_FBOWt5JqyFvQn5BQuqDBvLe67rLCXKbI0CABhJHx4/edit Jamaal Bowman https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/11/democratic-socialists-j-street-bds-israel-palestine-iron-dome-aoc Jamaal Bowman Tempest Timeline https://www.facebook.com/tempestmag/photos/a.144058903928771/411153303885995/?type=3 DSA Caucus’s Response to Jamaal Bowman https://www.tempestmag.org/2021/12/on-not-expelling-jamaal-bowman/ DSA BDS & Palestine Solidarity WG https://palestine.dsausa.org/bowmans-j-street-zionist-propaganda-trip-to-apartheid-israel-must-not-stand/ DSA Statement https://www.dsausa.org/statements/on-the-question-of-expelling-rep-bowman/