'We're creating new ideas': US socialists plan the return of the Left in America

November 26, 2019 By Mathieu Magnaudeix

Maria Svart is the national director of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), an activist organisation funded by its members, whose numbers have swollen tenfold since Donald Trump became president. Mediapart's New York correspondent Mathieu Magnaudeix interviewed her about the Democratic primary candidate Bernie Sanders, the rising star on the Left congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and the return of the Left in the United States.

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Since 2011 Maria Svart has been the national director of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), the largest political structure to the left of the Democratic Party in the United States. “We're an organisation, not a party,” she points out.

'We're creating new ideas': US socialists plan the return of the Left in America

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