There will likely be socialists on the statewide ballot next year in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts — and not just in the Democratic Party.
While a few Democrats in the state legislature identify as democratic socialists — including state representatives Michael Connolly (D-Cambridge), Erika Uyterhoeven (D-Somerville), and Nika Elugardo (D-Jamaica Plain), a party to the left of the Democratic Party plans to run a slate of its own socialists.
