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Democratic Socialists of America (U.S.)

image by William Garrison, 17 May 2024 and Tomislav Todorovic, 23 November 2024
flag in use: photo

Description of the flag
Young Democratic Socialists of America

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Description of the flag

A red-field flag of the U.S. "Democratic Socialists of America" (founded: March 1982) as seen in Columbus, Ohio (U.S.) June 2022. Per Wikipedia: "The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is a multi-tendency, democratic socialist, and labor-oriented political organization in the United States. After the Socialist Party of America (SPA) was renamed Social Democrats, USA, Michael Harrington formed the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (DSOC). The DSOC later merged with the New American Movement (NAM) to form the DSA." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Socialists_of_America

Original flag photo https://jacobin.com/2023/09/left-electoral-strategy-democratic-party-independent-organization-dsa
William Garrison, 17 May 2024

More photos of the flag:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/...Democratic_Socialists_Flag_Protester.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DSA_at_March_for_Palestine_at_Downtown_Charlotte_May_22
https://progressive.international (image: https://progressive.international/static/)
https://milwaukee.dsawi.org/ (image #1, image #2)

The flag is offered for sale at the DSA online store: https://store.dsausa.org/products/dsa-flag
It is described there as having the ratio 3:5.

image by Tomislav Todorovic, 23 November 2024
image derived from the SVG image of the logo from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org

Another flag displays only the rose-and-handshake logo in white and black on a red field. This might actually be the previous official design, because it displays the official logo of the organization as shown at their website: https://www.dsausa.org/ and seems to be used even more widely than the current official flag.

Photos:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/
https://www.reddit.com/r/vexillology
https://www.reddit.com/r/vexillology/
https://whyy.org/ (image: https://whyy.org/wp-content/uploads)
https://www.alamy.com/minneapolis-may-6-2018
https://www.dsausa.org (image: https://www.dsausa.org)
https://www.heritage.org (image: https://www.heritage.org/sites/default)
https://www.nytimes.com (image: https://static01.nyt.com/images/2019/)
https://www.sfweekly.com (image: https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com)
The ratio seems to be 3:5 here as well, although it may also vary somewhat.

image by Tomislav Todorovic, 23 November 2024
image derived from the SVG image of the logo from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

A less used variant of the above design has a narrow white outline within a wider red border.

Photos:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/
https://www.reddit.com/r/vexillology
Here, too, the ratio seems to be 3:5.

Lastly, the use of plain red flags by the DSA has also been recorded.

Photo:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki

Tomislav Todorovic, 23 November 2024

Young Democratic Socialists of America

image by Tomislav Todorovic, 11 November 2025
based on photo located by William Garrison, 10 November 2025

Seen in https://y.dsausa.org/ (in the rotating banner): A flag of the "Young Democratic Socialists of America" (YDSA); c. Dec. 2022. Per the YDSA website: "Young Democratic Socialists of America is the youth and student section of the Democratic Socialists of America, and a national organization of recognized campus chapters and several hundred activists.

William Garrison, 10 November 2025

More photos:
https://y.dsausa.org
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki
https://paisano-online.com/33814/news
https://y.dsausa.org/the-activist
https://www.gnvinfo.com
https://dailyillini.com/news-stories/university-news/protests-strikes/2024
https://www.nicholsonstudentmedia.com (2nd photo in the gallery)
https://www.instagram.com/uoydsa/p/DQDqYajDlzQ
https://www.instagram.com/uc_ydsa/p/DQM_92ojgOk (1st and 3rd photos in the gallery)
https://www.instagram.com/p/DMYdq_9JzaA (4th and 10th photos in the gallery)
Tomislav Todorovic, 11 November 2025

Logo

image located by William Garrison, 10 November 2025