Who We Are
Boston DSA is the Eastern MA chapter of Democratic Socialists of America.
We are working against the oppressive capitalist system in its many forms. We see these oppressions — economic inequality, patriarchy, white supremacy, to name a few — as interlinked, intersecting, and inseparable.
Join us in building mass movements for the world we deserve and growing an openly socialist presence in communities and politics in the Greater Boston Area.
Get Involved
Join a Boston DSA Working Group
Boston DSA’s working groups carry out the external political work of the chapter. Working groups are centered strategies such as labor organizing (supporting striking workers and educators) or socialist electoral politics (challenging the legislative system). Learn about the working groups and find your organizing home within the chapter.
Working Group Spotlight: Palestine
Join the Palestine Working Group! We’re fighting Warren and Markey by building a mass base around three critical issues – a permanent ceasefire, ending weapons shipments to Israel, and delivering immediate relief for Gaza. For the first time in history, the American people are on the side of Palestine – help us organize them!
Recent Endorsements
Boston DSA endorses Evan MacKay for State Representative
Boston DSA is proud to endorse Evan MacKay for State Representative in the 25th Middlesex district! Evan is the former president of the Harvard Graduate Students Union, a local organizer on issues of social, racial, economic, and environmental justice, and an active...
Boston DSA endorses Marcos Candido for Lowell City Council District 8
Boston DSA is proud to endorse Marcos Candido for Lowell City Council District 8! Marcos is running for City Council to lower the cost of living, implement healthy transit initiatives, and provide better childcare support.
Boston DSA endorses Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler for Cambridge City Council
Boston DSA is proud to endorse Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler for Cambridge City Council At-Large! Jivan is running for re-election to continue building a more affordable, sustainable, and just Cambridge.
Related News & Updates
Boston DSA endorses Evan MacKay for State Representative
Boston DSA is proud to endorse Evan MacKay for State Representative in the 25th Middlesex district! Evan is the former president of the Harvard Graduate Students Union, a local organizer on issues of social, racial, economic, and environmental justice, and an active...
Boston DSA 2025 Voter Guide
Boston DSA has finalized our Voter Guide for the 2025 general elections in Boston, Somerville, and Cambridge! The guide can be found at this link.
Boston DSA endorses Marcos Candido for Lowell City Council District 8
Boston DSA is proud to endorse Marcos Candido for Lowell City Council District 8! Marcos is running for City Council to lower the cost of living, implement healthy transit initiatives, and provide better childcare support.
Upcoming Events
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Turnout Tuesdays 6/2, Evan x EWG Phonebank
June 2, 2026 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
OnlineJoin the Boston DSA Electoral Working Group to turn out DSA members in support of Evan MacKay's State House campaign!
Every Tuesday, from 6 pm to 7:30 pm, we will meet on Zoom to ask DSA comrades to show up and help win this race.
Stop by for as much time as you have to help us make calls. No experience required!
It's recommended (but not necessary) to have a laptop/desktop/tablet as well as a phone for this event.
*Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork:* https://actionnetwork.org/events/turnout-tuesdays-62-ewg-for-evan
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Abolitionist History Walking Tour: In Commemoration of Anthony Burns
June 2, 2026 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Outside the John Adams Courthouse, Pemberton Square, Boston MA, 02108This event is a history walking tour from the courthouse where Anthony Burns was detained, down the path he was escorted by federal marshals, to the end of Long Wharf where he was deported back into enslavement in Virginia.
On June 2nd, 1854, federal marshals deported Anthony Burns from Boston to Virginia. He was born enslaved there but had risked his life to escape to the free state of Massachusetts as an adult. He had started a new life in the Black community of Boston and was working humbly when one day he was kidnapped by federal slavecatchers. The Fugitive Slave Act had recently passed, granting the federal government the of use terrifying new powers to kidnap and enslave Black Americans, even against personal liberty laws passed in free states like Massachusetts. The organizing of the abolitionist community of Boston to the Fugitive Slave Act and the detainment of Anthony Burns can offer today’s immigrant justice activists powerful insights on how to organize communities against a tyrannical federal government tearing apart local communities.
The tour will end on Long Wharf, with a brief ceremony to commemorate the 172th anniversary of Burns’ deportation. The full itinerary of the tour will be sent to guests 48 hours before the tour. The tour is led by a Boston Public Schools teacher and Democratic Socialists of America organizer.
As part of the commemoration, attendees are asked to bring and carry a small stone for the duration of the tour and to drop the stone into Boston harbor at the end of the ceremony.
*Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork:* https://actionnetwork.org/events/abolitionist-history-walking-tour-in-commemoration-of-anthony-burns