#Groundworkers
Turns out the secret handshake to building socialist power is… there isn't one. 🤝

Meet incoming Assemblymember Illapa, alongside Groundworkers Tyler and Luz, showing what happens when socialists in office organize shoulder to shoulder with seasoned and newer members alike.
October 23, 2026 at 2:08 PM
DSA can lead and deliver what New Yorkers need — a permanent, fully funded Department of Community Safety. We thank the Groundworkers who organized over several months to make this campaign a reality: Lizzy O., Farudh E., and Rasha H.
October 8, 2026 at 9:48 PM
Having seen groundworkers in action, I wasn't surprised, and yet...
October 3, 2026 at 2:13 PM
This piece was first published in @geesemag.bsky.social by GWers; we are reposting with permission to kick off our GW Abolition Series. Here, we outline how taking a mass politics approach to community safety can revitalize the movement for abolition.
www.groundworkdsa.com/building-up/...
From Defund to Delivery: Building Real Community Safety for an Abolitionist Future — Groundwork
This piece was originally published in Geese Magazine by three Groundworkers; Farudh E., Lizzy O., and Rasha H. We are reprinting it in full below with permission.
www.groundworkdsa.com
September 21, 2026 at 10:19 PM
And if people with a talent for details make for good groundworkers, we assume they'd also make for good planners, teachers, and overseers.
September 21, 2026 at 12:02 AM
August 27, 2026 at 9:45 PM
'I was actually at my allotment growing concrete at the time, as three groundworkers and a bricklayer can testify'
October 21, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Based on government plans, the estimated number of new workers required to build 1.5m homes would be
20,000 bricklayers
2,400 plumbers
8,000 carpenters
3,200 plasterers
20,000 groundworkers
1,200 tilers
2,400 electricians
2,400 roofers
480 engineers

& that's just England! Any available in Europe? 🤔
December 14, 2024 at 8:55 AM
If anyone wants to get involved into the mass politics and eco socialist wing of DSA come join us in groundwork on Tuesday

actionnetwork.org/events/lets-...
Let’s Win Socialism Everywhere: Groundwork Lessons from the Field
Socialism is ascendant across the country, and elections won by a multiracial, multi-generational working class movement show its durability. Join Groundworkers to reflect on historic victories in N...
actionnetwork.org
June 27, 2026 at 1:33 AM
Instead of being politicians, are the Tories actually 'piss-poor' groundworkers? ...They seem to do nothing but dig holes for themselves!
February 25, 2024 at 2:08 PM
📢 Groundworkers at Perth Airport are striking as part of a fight to be paid the same as their east coast counterparts.
Unprecedented strike action at Perth Airport
www.smh.com.au
August 21, 2025 at 10:44 AM
How much to rent, install and operate a tower crane V pissing off groundworkers excavator operator every 20 minutes for a bundle of steel..
November 23, 2024 at 10:19 AM
It shoukd be born in mind, some will always work below the standards that are set.
#BarefootedBuilder

constructionenquirer.com/2022/03/22/bar…
Barefoot builders found on Manchester housing site
Shocked safety inspectors find catalogue of blunders including groundworkers without boots
www.constructionenquirer.com
January 26, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Bring back the days of anonymous forums with specific threads. Sort of. Depending on who exactly the "we" is here (Groundworkers? Organization leaderships? Influencers? etc.) Invite (some) people to message you long-form thoughts and then post some of them anonymously as sorts of discussion threads?
November 22, 2024 at 8:51 PM
Just had Otter transcribe this quote from an interview I'm working on:

"one of our groundworkers spoke to XX in a really horrible way"

As:

"One of our grandmas spoke to XX in a really horrible way".

Just think of the malapropisms that could slip into stories because they don't stand out
June 6, 2025 at 6:49 PM