Members of Mamdani’s DSA pledge to ‘support’ and ‘defend’ China: ‘Survival of Chinese socialism is a crucial matter’
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Published July 30, 2026, 6:43 p.m. ET
About a dozen Democratic Socialists of America activists have publicly pledged to “support” and “defend” China amid an apparent push by the communist nation to court members of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s party.
Friends of Socialist China, a London-based group, touts 952 signatories on its pledge to “support the People’s Republic of China and to promote understanding of Chinese socialism.”
Eleven self-described DSA or DSA International Committee members are among those that “resolve to support, defend and build understanding of Chinese socialism,” The Post found.
The Times of London first reported on the DSA signatories.
The pledge argues that “the global advance to socialism is indispensable if humanity is to survive and to flourish,” while decrying capitalism as “totally incapable of solving the problems of poverty and inequality” and being “ inextricably linked with war, empire, racism, misogyny, alienation, and environmental destruction.”
The document lauds China as “the most prominent force pushing for the establishment of a multipolar system of international relations and a new international economic order” and “a global leader in the struggle to avoid climate breakdown.
“As such, the continued survival of Chinese socialism is a crucial matter not only for the Chinese people but for all humanity.”
The Post previously reported that in order to meet a rising interest in the Chinese Communist Party, the DSA launched a monthly seminar last year about “modern China and lessons for US socialists.”
Among the wild claims made during the DSA’s first CCP seminar was that China has a “strong democracy.” There was no mention of China’s tight restrictions on freedom of expression.
A few weeks before the launch of the seminar series, a five-person DSA delegation flew to Beijing to celebrate China’s 80th anniversary of the victory against Japan.
