Sign up for our Socialist Canvass to Elect Sean Orr for City Council! Join Sean and DSOV members as we put boots on the ground to fight for Vancouver.

City of Vancouver By-election for two seats on council will take place April 5, with many opportunities for early voting. The DSOV will be endorsing socialist candidates. Find out how to vote, and where and when.

At a recent DSOV Steering Committee meeting it was unanimously agreed that VOTE Socialist return as a working group under the DSOV umbrella, returning to its Vancouver For All roots.

Billionaires for Rustad is holding a press conference and rally Friday morning to celebrate the BC Conservatives for their support of BC’s beleaguered billionaires. Roaches for Rustad will be on hand to show their support.

John Rustad and the newly united right wing in British Columbia are a clear and present danger that require an urgent collective response.

Dispatch Feb 6

The Mutual Aid Working Group needs your help! Every month we distribute fresh produce, staples, and hygeine products to community pantries. By pooling our money and efforts together, we can stretch money a long way. We're able to supply 9 community pantries with a budget of $250. But to do this each month, we need support.

Join hotel workers on the picket line to mark the 1-year strike anniversary on Thursday May 12. We’re calling on Pacific Gateway Hotel to do what’s right and return long-term staff to their pre-pandemic jobs!

This year’s May Day festivities in Vancouver will include the public launch of a new party running in this year’s municipal election: VOTE Socialist.

The DSoV stands in solidarity with the people of Ukraine.

The People’s Budget survey ran from May 1 to September 30, and received 761 responses. By a large majority, 86% of participants supported defunding the Vancouver Police by 50%!

This is both a press conference and a rally. We are in a federal election where housing affordability is on everyone’s minds.

Democratic Socialists of Vancouver encourages its members to volunteer for the Kshama Solidarity Campaign and help out in any way that would be practicable, since the recall is an attack on all working people.

We stand in solidarity with the activists trying to stop old-growth logging at Fairy Creek, with those who have been arrested, and with the journalists who have been denied access to cover the arrests. Here’s how you can help -

Extinction Rebellion Vancouver's 4-day Mayday action started with a bang. In total, a downtown Vancouver intersection was blocked for nearly seven hours by creative disruption efforts which included a large pink boat resting on a trailer with flattened tires.

After several minutes, the crowd rose to their feet while chanting together “the people going to rise like the water, we’re going to calm this crisis down. I hear the voice of my great granddaughter saying stop this crisis now”.

Come learn about socialism and the DSoV. All are welcome to our bi-monthly socialist reading group.

Did you know? - Before 1975, “International Women’s Day” was a day of action known as “International Working Women’s Day” (IWWD). Read more about the history of IWWD and how you can participate in this day of action with your community.

Join us for our inaugural two hour event via Jitsi and hear perspectives from our three esteemed panelists: Gary Porter, Dimitri Lascaris, and Radhika Desai.

For minimizing white supremacist violence, Melissa De Genova should resign -- and the NPA should be shut out of office in 2022.