Ashik Siddique

Ashik Siddique (born 1988) is an American democratic socialist political activist. Siddique is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), where he was elected as national co-chair from 2023 to 2027 Siddique works as a research analyst at the National Priorities Project of the Institute for Policy Studies. but lost to an incumbent.

Siddique joined the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) in 2017. After DSA's 2023 National Convention, Siddique and Megan Romer were elected as national co-chairs, a newly created position. In 2025, Siddique and Romer were re-elected as co-chairs. an ecosocialist caucus that supports the democratic road to socialism.

Political activity In 2019, Siddique argued that the national military budget should be cut substantially in favor of the National Priorities Project's "Poor People's Moral Budget", which would greatly increase social spending.

In 2020, Siddique argued that DSA's Green New Deal hopes would falter without building "organized power to do anything about it", such as expanding labor unions. In 2024, Siddique argued that DSA must identify where DSA's electoral project will succeed and build "five-year and longer-term program" to win.

In December 2023, Siddique joined a five-day hunger strike outside the White House calling for a cease-fire in Gaza, alongside DSA members including Zohran Mamdani, Rashida Tlaib, Cori Bush, and Cynthia Nixon. In March 2025, Siddique spoke at a protest for detained pro-Palestine activist Mahmoud Khalil outside Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse. In April 2025, Siddique described the detention of pro-Palestinian activists and student protesters as an "alarming step in the direction of authoritarianism" in the United States. In July 2025, Siddique and DSA rejected US representative Andy Ogles' call to denaturalize Mamdani as "xenophobia and Islamophobia".

In August 2024, Siddique spoke at the March on the DNC.

In July 2025, after Zohran Mamdani's win in the Democratic primary for Mayor of New York City, Siddique took the 9–10 a.m. slot on C-SPAN's Washington Journal to speak about DSA and democratic socialism. In November, Siddique argued that DSA's rapid growth and Mamdani's general election win proves the popularity of "democratic socialist ideas" and "the hunger for a real alternative to the status quo", which "the Democratic party has not really presented". Siddique highlighted that Mamdani first entered politics in 2017 to canvass for a pro-Palestine New York City Council candidate. In December 2025, Siddique criticized Mamdani's retention of Jessica Tisch as Police Commissioner.

In October 2025, co-chairs Siddique and Romer visited Stockholm for a meeting with the Swedish Left Party, German Die Linke and Norwegian Socialist Left Party. Siddique praised Claudia Sheinbaum's presidency in Mexico and hoped to field a similarly successful DSA candidate in the 2028 US presidential election.

Personal life Siddique grew up in Brooklyn, New York City, in a Bangladeshi Muslim family.