Look Who Radical Socialists Are Cozying Up To For Power In America

The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) partners with some of America’s biggest adversaries, including Cuba, Venezuela, and China. Through these foreign relationships, the radical socialist group learns how to organize and build power across all levels of government, The Daily Wire found.

DSA International Committee co-chair Jana Silverman made a series of shocking admissions about the leftist group’s role in cooperating with international communist and authoritarian governments and parties.

While supporting Angela Gonzales-Torres’s congressional campaign in California, Silverman, who describes working from America as working from the “belly of the beast,” said she has nearly daily calls with Brazil’s Workers’ Party, Colombia’s Pacto Histórico, and Mexico’s Morena party. According to Silverman, these parties tell her the DSA needs to “build the socialist bench in the federal government.” Gonzales-Torres won her race for California’s 34th Congressional seat along with five other new DSA members elected to the U.S. House of Representatives last week.

On a Washington Brazil Office 2022 podcast, Silverman said she has a “moral” and “political” obligation to “work with our political partners in Brazil,” and noted that the DSA sends members to support leftist parties worldwide. Concluding her remarks about Latin American solidarity, Silverman said the group’s work was important as it allowed the movement to “[press] our members of Congress to sign onto a letter,” and that by showing their support for Brazil, the movement gains a better foothold with the approximately one million Brazilians who live in the United States.

The DSA’s International Committee’s Political Education page prominently features roughly 80 videos between 2019 and 2025. In these meetings, members of the DSA and sometimes DSA leadership from the National Political Committee meet and discuss “solidarity” and tactics with members of foreign adversaries of the United States or people sympathetic to their causes.

In one such 2024 video, DSA National co-chair Ashik Siddique appears on a panel with Cuban diplomat David Ramírez Álvarez, who is currently under investigation by U.S. authorities for coordinating an influence operation, according to a Fox News report. There are approximately 145 organizations in the United States with revenues nearing $1 billion involved in the Cuban operation, according to Fox News.

In the video, Siddique refers to the DSA’s “Cuba solidarity work” as a project from within “the belly of the beast,” adding, “We as DSA should intervene on Cuba to end the embargo,” while referencing meetings he had in Havana with Cuban officials. The United States has maintained an embargo against Cuba since 1962 and recently increased the pressure when President Donald Trump placed the country on the State Sponsors of Terrorism List at the end of his first term.

According to the Fox News report, Ramírez Álvarez attended a meeting in May with socialist activists; there, he discussed existing congressional legislation and directed them on how to effectively lobby and build allies in Washington and across the nation to pressure lawmakers to develop a more pro-Cuba position. The DSA and several union groups sent representatives to the meeting.

Earlier this week, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced an investigation into the DSA and its alleged ties to foreign interference networks like that of Cuba.

The DSA displays its coordination with foreign parties and governments.

In the same 2024 video featuring Siddique and Álvarez, Cheryl LaBash — who currently serves as the co-chair of the National Network on Cuba, another group under federal scrutiny — highlighted how activist Bill Camp dedicated his life to coordinating labor groups in the United States to pressure lawmakers into more pro-Cuban policies. According to LaBash, nearly every labor council in California passed resolutions calling for an end to the blockade. Camp helped found Building Relations with the Cuban Labor Organization (BRWCL), where he spent much of that time bringing delegations of union organizers to Cuba.

When Camp died, Chris Bender, a leader in BRWCL, said, “We have organized numerous labor delegations to Cuba and then followed up with dozens of local unions and major central labor councils statewide, with resolutions against the blockade and to remove Cuba from Washington’s State Sponsors of Terrorism list (SSOT) during [Camp’s] decades-long activism with Cuba. … Now we have 13 Labor Councils, 11 Local unions, 8 regional labor groups and 2 democratic clubs. – totaling 33 organizations that have passed resolutions.” Rep. John Garamendi (D-CA) also spoke at an event celebrating Camp’s life, and Lianys Torres, a sanctioned Cuban ambassador, sent her well wishes.

LaBash implied that several major unions — including United Auto Workers, the Flight Attendants Union, and the Service Employees International Union — that have passed measures calling for an arms embargo on Israel could be convinced to support the Cuban communist government. These unions collectively represent several million people.

Republican lawmakers are trying to combat the growing network of Cuban influence. In August, Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) raised the issue with the International Association of Machinists (IAM), saying that he is “concerned that IAM member dues are financing efforts to change U.S. policy related to the Cuban regime, a State Sponsor of Terrorism, instead of supporting American workers’ priorities.” Cassidy’s letter names several of Camp’s close associates, including IAM officials Mark Friedman and Tom Brandon.

Former President Joe Biden removed Cuba from the State Sponsors of Terrorism List at the end of his administration, only for Trump to re-designate Cuba soon thereafter.

The DSA’s foreign communist ties travel well beyond Cuba.

On September 20, 2021, the DSA’s International Committee held a virtual meeting with Tings Chak, a member of Tricontinental, a group tied to the Chinese Communist Party through its association with the Shanghai-based tech billionaire Neville Roy Singham. At the conclusion of the meeting, the DSA reviewed its opposition to a pending anti-China bill in Congress. The DSA then signed a letter formalizing its opposition to the bill. Major portions of the bill ultimately passed.

The DSA also led a meeting with a Venezuelan Vice Foreign Minister Carlos Ron before the 2024 Venezuelan election. Despite evidence that the election was stolen by the communist regime, the DSA advocated in favor of the ruling-class communists.

DSA IC is proud to sign onto this letter condemning the efforts of the Venezuelan extreme right wing and western media’s efforts to undermine Venezuela’s elections.

— DSA International Committee (@dsa_intl_comm) July 28, 2024

The DSA has even advocated for lifting sanctions against North Korea. In January 2022, the DSA wrote, “For over 70 years, the U.S. has waged a continuous war against the people of Korea,” and that the “DSA joins alongside many Korean organizations including Korea Peace Now, the International Strategy Center, Women Cross DMZ, and Nodutdol for Korean Community Development to call for an end to the U.S. travel ban on North Korea, lifting of sanctions, and formally moving to end the Korean War in order for the peninsula to finally begin the process of peace, self-determination, and reconciliation without the U.S. economically and militarily imposing its geopolitical interests in Korea’s affairs anymore.”

Across multiple countries and movements, the DSA consistently uses the playbook Silverman laid out, leveraging DSA officials at the local, state, and federal level, and labor unions to pressure officials into their favored communist policy.

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