The Fight for PPE and Our Lives in the Eyes of a Socialist Nurse
COVID-19 SpotlightNYC nurse Tre K returns to reflect on how the COVID-19 crisis has exposed the failures of the healthcare system and her union’s leadership.
Healthcare
De Blasio’s NYC Care Plan: Neoliberal “access to care” vs. a socialist single-payer system
SpotlightBy NYC-DSA Healthcare Working Group On January 8th, 2019 Mayor DeBlasio announced a new proposed program for changes to NYC’s healthcare system that his administration […]
Will Public Union Power be the Downfall of the NYHA?
SpotlightNYC’s powerful public unions have voiced their serious concerns about the proposed New York Health Act…but there’s light at the end of the tunnel. Here we discuss what NYC-DSA, as an organization invested in both strong unions and universal healthcare, can do to help guide both sides of the argument towards resolution.
What’s Next? Healthcare.
SpotlightBy Jen J Andrew Cuomo may not have been defeated, but he will face a radically different Senate in January. With the destruction of the […]
Reflections on the Single-Payer Strategy Conference
SpotlightBy Jen J “Everybody in, nobody out,” the crowd chanted as the 2018 Single-Payer Strategy Conference opened. The chant set the tone and captured the […]
DSA Lobbies for NY Health Act
SpotlightBy Chi A NYC-DSA members headed to Albany on June 5 for the annual Lobby Day in support of the NY Health Act. If passed, […]