The Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee was a political organization founded by Michael Harrington that advocated democratic socialism in the United States. DSOC was formed in 1973 when Harringt
DSOC button from 1978
Harrington addressing the Socialist International Congress in Vancouver, 1978
First page of Newsletter of the Democratic Left volume 1, issue 1 (March 1973)
Michael Harrington addressing the 1979 DSOC convention
The Democratic Socialists of America is a socialist political organization in the United States, and the largest such organization in US history, with more than 120,000 members as of July 2026. A big
Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee
…was admitted as a full member of the Socialist International. In 1982, DSOC ceased to exist when it merged with the New American Movement to form the Democratic Socialists of America. After years of internal acrimony, the Socialist Party of America (SPA) was headed for a split as the decade of the 1970s opened. In March 1972, SPA…
Michael Harrington was the first chairman of DSA and its most prominent public figure until his death in 1989.
Dorothy Ray Healey, a prominent member of the New American Movement
Barbara Ehrenreich, a socialist feminist and co-chair of DSA from 1983
DSA members marching at an Occupy Wall Street protest in New York City, 2011