Program Committee Reading Group

At our 2024 Convention in July, delegates voted for Resolution 18 - For a YDSA Program Committee.
The resolution outlines that a committee will be created to research historical programs, debate, and draft a political program for YDSA to consider at the 2025 YDSA Convention.

The Program Committee is inviting all YDSA members to attend it's reading group this fall! The content and dates of each session are:

  • 11/1 - Programs of the Old Left
    • Platform of the Socialist Party of America (1912), and more!
  • 11/8 - Programs of the New Left I: Student Movement
    • The Port Huron Statement (1962)
    • Documents from the Independent Socialist League (1964)
    • Selections from "Where We Stand", "ISC Program of America In Brief", and more
  • 11/15 - Communism, Anti-Imperialism & Decolonization I
    • Programme of the Communist Party of Indonesia (1953)
    • Founding Statement of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (1967)
  • 11/24 - Programs of the New Left II: Colonial Struggle in the U.S.?
    • Ten-Point Program of the Black Panther Party (1966)
  • 12/6 - Programs in the 21st Century I
    • Program of the Economic Freedom Fighters
  • 12/13 - Programs in the 21st Century II
    • TBA
  • 12/27 - Programs in the 21st Century III
    • TBA