WORKERS RESIST
Building a Democratic Class-Struggle Workers' Movement
We organize to remember and use our power
Workers Resist brings together class-struggle unionists, working-class activists, and revolutionary socialists organizing to build working-class power in our workplaces, unions, communities, and the socialist movement.
WHO WE ARE
We Are Workers.
We are class-struggle unionists, working-class activists, and revolutionary socialists.
We come together in the labor movement because it is where working people are already organized, already confronting the power of capital every day, and already capable of fighting back.
We believe workers have the power not only to win better wages, benefits, and working conditions, but to transform society. Our task is to build the organization, leadership, solidarity, and confidence necessary to turn that potential into power.
We organize to remember and use our power.
Why Workers?
Every school, hospital, warehouse, airport, factory, office, rail yard, and delivery network runs on our labor.
That gives working people enormous potential power.
Amazon workers. UPS workers. Airline workers. Hospital workers. Packinghouse workers. Educators. Stagehands. Transit workers. Janitors. Farm workers. Millions of us, together, possess the economic and social power to bring society to a halt — and the collective capacity to build something different.
But power doesn't come automatically from being a worker. It has to be organized.
That's why we prioritize building a strong class-struggle tendency in our unions, community organizing campaigns, tenant unions, and other concentrations of frontline workers.
January 23, 2026 — Day of Minneapolis Mass Strike. 5,000 working-class people — including aircraft cleaners, baggage handlers, and other service workers — gather to shutdown MSP airport to protest ICE abductions and murders.
ORGANIZING IN PRACTICE
Power Is Built Through Struggle.
On January 23, 2026, hundreds of thousands of workers across Minnesota participated in a mass strike against ICE and the federal occupation of our communities. It’s no accident that the following week, the Minnesota ruling class called for (and got) a dismantling of Operation Metro Surge. Members of Workers Resist played an important role alongside union members, community organizers, socialists, faith leaders, immigrant organizations, and thousands of others in helping build the action.
January 23 showed what becomes possible when workers move beyond protest and begin exercising their collective economic and social power.
It also showed us something else: moments of mass resistance don't sustain themselves. They require organization—relationships built beforehand, workers prepared to lead, democratic institutions capable of making decisions, and structures that can carry the struggle forward after the moment passes.
That's the kind of movement we are trying to build.
WHAT WE BELIEVE
The working class has the power to change the world.
Workers in education, healthcare, logistics, transportation, manufacturing, warehousing, and other frontline industries possess enormous economic, social, and political power when organized together.
Workers must lead the socialist movement.
We want a DSA and a movement in which frontline workers are not guests or constituencies to be mobilized, but organizers, political thinkers, and leaders—with meaningful opportunities for political education, leadership, and struggle.
Socialism must be rooted in the working class.
Without deep roots among frontline workers, victories in elections and social movements alone cannot build the power necessary to overturn capitalism and create a socialist society.
The fight against fascism requires working-class power.
The organized working class has a unique capacity to disrupt business as usual, defend our communities, and unite people across the divisions the right exploits.
Our unions must become fighting, democratic institutions of working-class power.
We organize to build a class-struggle tendency in our unions, organizing campaigns, tenant unions, and other concentrations of frontline workers.
We believe socialism is possible.
We organize to build a class-struggle tendency in our unions, community organizing campaigns, tenant unions, and other concentrations of frontline workers.
Socialism or barbarism.
We have a world to gain.
OUR STRATEGY
From Worker Anger to Worker Power.
Capitalism creates anger every day. Anger alone does not create power. Organization does.
Workers Resist is building a network of workers across industries who can learn from one another, develop strategy together, support one another's struggles, and build power in their workplaces and unions.
Our priorities are to:
build class-struggle organization among frontline workers;
transform unions into democratic, fighting institutions controlled by their members;
identify and develop rank-and-file leaders;
connect workers across industries, unions, and communities;
provide political education rooted in organizing and struggle;
turn solidarity into a habit through showing up for one another's fights; and
bring more workers into the socialist movement through struggle alongside them.
We don't want workers to be an audience for political movements. We want workers to lead them.
INSIDE / OUTSIDE DSA
Inside DSA. Outside DSA. Rooted in the Working Class.
Workers Resist is an inside-outside caucus in Democratic Socialists of America.
We organize within DSA because it has built the largest democratic socialist infrastructure in the United States: chapters across the country, dues-based funding, democratic structures, and thousands of people committed to building a socialist future.
We want DSA to become more democratic and more deeply rooted in the frontline working class — a place where workers don't enter as guests, but develop as organizers, political thinkers, and leaders.
But working-class power cannot be confined to any one organization.
That's why we also organize outside DSA — in unions, workplaces, organizing drives, tenant struggles, solidarity campaigns, and broader movements of working people and other political groups.
Some Workers Resist members are also members of other caucuses within DSA.
Our allegiance is to the working class.
Workers Resist is a bridge between socialist organization and working-class struggle — bringing socialist politics into workplaces and communities while bringing the experience, leadership, and power of workers in struggle back into DSA and the socialist movement.
ORGANIZING NOTES
Ideas for the Struggle.
Analysis, debate, organizing lessons, labor history, and political education from Workers Resist’s Substack. Read more →
ORGANIZE WITH US
Workers Resist is building a democratic class-struggle workers' movement rooted in frontline workers and the labor movement.
Whether you're active in your union, organizing in your workplace or community, a DSA member, or just beginning to find your place in the movement, we'd love to organize with you.
Ready to take the next step?
The future belongs to those who organize.
