Gimme a Break!

Just Break Already Caucus of the Democratic Socialists of America
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The official podcast of the Just Break Already Caucus.

  1. 4d ago

    Midterms: Declare independence from DSA Dems—Elect Independent Socialists!

    In a special episode of Gimme a Break! Lital and Edward talk up the independent socialist candidates in the midterms and why working people should cast their ballots for them and not the DSA Democrats. Make sure and get out the vote this Tuesday–elect independent socialists! You can find out more about the candidates we highlighted in this episode on their websites, linked below: Brittany Kubicek (DSA–Rhode Island) Joe Tache (PSL–Massachusetts) Rosa Pepper Macias (Workers Voice–Connecticut) Andre Easton (PSL–New York) Greg Levy (PSL–Ohio) Working Class Party candidates in Michigan and Illinois Ben Davis (Socialist Party of Indiana) Aaron Reveles (Peace and Freedom–California) Read ISA-R and JBA's joint statement supporting the Reveles campaign. As always, you can find all of JBA's resolutions, petitions, statements and everything else we're up to at our Linktree! Follow us on X @cleanbreaknow and on Instagram @dsa_justbreakalready. We are also proud to announce we have launched the United Front for a Clean Break with comrades from ISA-R and Labor Militant. If you want to join the fight for a clean break, check out our points of unity on our X and Instagram accounts! We're always up for debate! Send us a DM if you're with another DSA Left caucus and want to debate the way forward or to send us your feedback, comments, criticisms, fan mail and hate mail. We read all our comments–leave us a review, it helps boost us in the algorithim–and share with your friends inside and outside DSA! Send us Fan Mail

  2. Oct 21

    Fight state repression of anti-ICE activists! Support Prairieland defendants and Minnesota 15!

    Lital and Edward are joined by Jon Piper from the Partisan Defense Committee, Hannah, a supporter of the Prairieland defense effort, and Cam, one of the defendants in the ongoing witchhunt by the Trump administration in the Minnesota 15 case. We talk about the Trump regime's persecution of anti-ICE activists, zoom in on both these important cases, and explain why everyone on the left should be taking up the defense of the Prairieland defendants and the Minnesota 15. You can follow the work of the Partisan Defense Committee on Instagram and X. Check out their website! The PDC-initiated united-front rally in defense of the Prairieland defendants is coming up on October 24. We'd love to see you there–join us and many, many other organizations standing together against Trump regime repression by endorsing at the link above. Check out the fundraisers for the Minnesota 15 and the GoFundme for Maricela Rueda. Follow the work of the DFW Support Committee on their website, Instagram, and on X and check out the website of the Minnesota 15 Anti-Repression Committee as well as their Instagram. As always, you can find all of JBA's resolutions, petitions, statements and everything else we're up to at our Linktree! Follow us on X @cleanbreaknow and on Instagram @dsa_justbreakalready. We are also proud to announce we have launched the United Front for a Clean Break with comrades from ISA-R and Labor Militant. If you want to join the fight for a clean break, check out our points of unity on our X and Instagram accounts! We're always up for debate! Send us a DM if you're with another DSA Left caucus and want to debate the way forward or to send us your feedback, comments, criticisms, fan mail and hate mail. We read all our comments–leave us a review, it helps boost us in the algorithim–and share with your friends inside and outside DSA! Send us Fan Mail

  3. Oct 12

    The Crisis in DSA: What is to be done?

    Lital and Edward sit down for a special episode to discuss the unfolding crisis in NYC-DSA, sparked first by his funding of Zionist groups to "fight anti-semitism," deepened by his showing up at a liberal Zionist vigil on October 7th, then capped off by sending NYPD to repress anti-ICE demonstrators after ICE shot a man in the Bronx earlier this week. We talk about the bureaucratic repression of YDSA by the NYC-DSA Steering Committee, the false effort to throw everything on Tisch and get Mamdani off the hook (promoted by Darializa and the DSA Right alike) and how to go forward. As always, you can find all of JBA's resolutions, petitions, statements and everything else we're up to at our Linktree! Follow us on X @cleanbreaknow and on Instagram @dsa_justbreakalready. We are also proud to announce we have launched the United Front for a Clean Break with comrades from ISA-R and Labor Militant. If you want to join the fight for a clean break, check out our points of unity on our X and Instagram accounts! We're always up for debate! Send us a DM if you're with another DSA Left caucus and want to debate the way forward or to send us your feedback, comments, criticisms, fan mail and hate mail. We read all our comments–leave us a review, it helps boost us in the algorithim–and share with your friends inside and outside DSA! Send us Fan Mail

  4. Oct 12

    Clean Breakers of the DSA, Unite!

    Lital and Edward are joined by Stephen from International Socialist Alternative - Revolutionary (ISA-R) and Em from Labor Militant to discuss the launch of the United Front for a Clean Break in the DSA. JBA, ISA-R, and LM launched the United Front in September and we present both the recording from our first national Zoom call and some commentary on our points of unity in this episode as well as what's been going on lately in DSA between the Raman endorsement and Mamdani's move to give millions to Zionist groups to "combat anti-semitism." You can find our points of unity on the United Front for a Clean Break's socials, we're on Instagram and X. To join the UFCB, shoot us a DM! We are planning a subsequent national Zoom call, which we'll announce on our socials – stay tuned. To follow the work of the Just Break Already Caucus, check out our Linktree and follow us on X and Instagram. You can find all of ISA-R's publications on their Linktree. They are on X @Intl_SocAlt_Rev and on Instagram @isa_revolutionary. You can find Labor Militant on X here and here on Instagram. Labor Militant is also part of the United Front for a Workers Party, which you can find here on X, here on Instagram, here on Facebook, and here on TikTok. As always, we love to get your love letters, hate mail, comments and criticisms. Shoot us a DM - ours are always open. Leave us a rating and review, too! It helps us get seen–share an episode with a friend in DSA, your friends who hate DSA, whoever you can! Send us Fan Mail

  5. Sep 27

    Let’s talk DSA-LA: Why we’re not knocking doors for Zionist, pro-cop Nithya and you shouldn’t either!

    Lital and Edward are joined by Julie from JBA-LA and Lindsay from International Socialist Alternative (Revolutionary) to talk about the battle in DSA-LA over endorsing Zionist cop-lover Nithya Raman for mayor. Despite a spirited effort by these comrades and even a split on the DSA Right (who'd have thought?), Raman was endorsed by the LA branch and is facing off against another "progressive" Dem, Karen Bass (supported by every DSAer on the city council) in November. We talk about the situation in LA today, what socialists should be doing instead of door-knocking for Dems, and much, much more! You can find all of ISA-R's publications on their Linktree. They are on X @Intl_SocAlt_Rev and on Instagram @isa_revolutionary. As always, you kind find all of JBA's resolutions, petitions, statements and everything else we're up to at our Linktree! Follow us on X @cleanbreaknow and on Instagram @dsa_justbreakalready. We are also proud to announce we have launched the United Front for a Clean Break with comrades from ISA-R and Labor Militant. If you want to join the fight for a clean break, check out our points of unity on our X and Instagram accounts! We're always up for debate! Send us a DM if you're with another DSA Left caucus and want to debate the way forward or to send us your feedback, comments, criticisms, fan mail and hate mail. We read all our comments–leave us a review, it helps boost us in the algorithim–and share with your friends inside and outside DSA! Send us Fan Mail

  6. Sep 15

    Saving Debs from His Epigones

    Lital and Edward are joined by Professor Jacob Zumoff to save Eugene Debs from his many self-professed disciples. We talk Debs' views on everything from industrial unionism to class independence to black liberation and anti-imperialism...and why Sanders, Mamdani, and AOC claiming him would have the father of American socialism rolling in his grave. Jacob is a research associate at the Prometheus Research Library, which you can follow on X and email at library@prl.org if you'd like to visit! The PRL has an event coming up on September 24th featuring Jacob's book, The Red Thread, which you can register to attend here. Also make sure to check out Jacob's book The Communist International and U.S. Communism, 1919-1929. As always, you kind find all of JBA's resolutions, petitions, statements and everything else we're up to at our Linktree! Follow us on X @cleanbreaknow and on Instagram @dsa_justbreakalready.  We're always up for debate! Send us a DM if you're with another DSA Left caucus and want to debate the way forward or to send us your feedback, comments, criticisms, fan mail and hate mail. We read all our comments–leave us a review, it helps boost us in the algorithim–and share with your friends inside and outside DSA! Send us Fan Mail

  7. Sep 1

    Labor Battle at C&H Sugar–Defend the Crockett 10!

    Lital and Edward are joined by Emily Turnbull, retired longshore worker and former member of ILWU Local 10's executive board, and Max from JBA in East Bay DSA to discuss the battle at C&H Sugar and the fight to defend the Crockett 10, trade unionists and socialists facing potential prosecution after cops charged the picket line they were on in July. We discuss the united front rally outside the courthouse in defense of the Crockett 10, how the strike is connected to the battle to defend Cuba and get justice for the Negros 19 in the Philippines, what East Bay DSA has (and hasn't) done to drive struggle forward, and what's next for the ILWU and JBA in East Bay DSA. You can follow Emily for updates @EmilyTurnbullLocal10 on Instagram. As always, you kind find all of JBA's resolutions, petitions, statements and everything else we're up to at our Linktree! Follow us on X @cleanbreaknow and on Instagram @dsa_justbreakalready.  We're always up for debate! Send us a DM if you're with another DSA Left caucus and want to debate the way forward or to send us your feedback, comments, criticisms, fan mail and hate mail. We read all our comments–leave us a review, it helps boost us in the algorithim–and share with your friends inside and outside DSA! Send us Fan Mail

  8. Aug 20

    Why is it so hard for DSA to endorse independent socialists?

    Lital and Edward are joined by Dan from International Socialist Alternative (Revolutionary) for a postmortem on the Sawant campaign. Dan recently wrote a letter to Cosmonaut replying to Socialist Majority Caucus support David Duhalde on the question of DSA endorsing Sawant. DSA didn't endorse Sawant in a pretty brazen display of sectarianism, and all wings of DSA celebrated her not making it past the primary to face off against arch-Zionist Adam Smith. Despite that, Sawant got an impressive 17% of the vote (nearly 25,000 votes). You can find all of ISA-R's publications on their Linktree. They are on X @Intl_SocAlt_Rev and on Instagram @isa_revolutionary. As always, you kind find all of JBA's resolutions, petitions, statements and everything else we're up to at our Linktree! Follow us on X @cleanbreaknow and on Instagram @dsa_justbreakalready.  We're always up for debate! Send us a DM if you're with another DSA Left caucus and want to debate the way forward or to send us your feedback, comments, criticisms, fan mail and hate mail. We read all our comments–leave us a review, it helps boost us in the algorithim–and share with your friends inside and outside DSA! Send us Fan Mail

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The official podcast of the Just Break Already Caucus.

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    Just Break Already Caucus of the Democratic Socialists of America
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    2026
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