MEET JOE TACHE
Joe Tache is a youth worker, community organizer, and socialist based in Boston. For over ten years, Joe has been part of — and been shaped by — organizations and movements in Massachusetts. Joe has worked alongside dedicated activists in movements against worker exploitation, war, police brutality, gentrification, and many other issues. He dedicates much of his time to writing and educating about the root cause of these issues: capitalism.
Joe enrolled as a business major at Northeastern University in 2013. As a young adult shaped by the social fallout of U.S. wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya, the Great Recession, and the murder of Trayvon Martin, Joe entered college seeking answers on how to make a positive impact on society. He did not find them in the classroom, where every business course taught the same general thesis: cash is king and all else is secondary.
After the 2014 police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Joe began his involvement in student and community activism. On campus, he participated in movements in solidarity with the dining hall workers’ union, opposing Northeastern’s encroachment on Roxbury (a historically Black, working class neighborhood), advocating for improved treatment of students of color, and supporting Palestinian self-determination. Off campus, Joe joined the Boston movement for affordable housing and canvassed against a statewide ballot measure attacking public education. In 2016, he co-created a 7-part podcast series, Colored: Crack Cocaine, the War on Drugs, and the Making of Post-Civil Rights America, which told the story of the “war on drugs” and mass incarceration from the perspective of community leaders in Boston.
After graduating college in 2018, Joe began working as a HiSET (High School Equivalency Test) instructor and mentor for first-generation college students. Later, he ran a high school after-school and summer program that focused on workers’ rights. He has a passion for creating environments in which young people feel safe, supported, and empowered.
Through years of activism and community work, Joe learned that the issues impacting working class people have not only a common cause, but a common solution: socialism. In 2018, Joe joined the Party for Socialism and Liberation to fight for a society that prioritizes people’s needs over billionaires’ profits. In all that time, he has lived in Roxbury and provided leadership to countless movements for justice in Greater Boston: for dignified and affordable housing in Roxbury, for justice for Arif Sayed Faisal — a UMass Boston student killed by the police in Cambridge, and for an end to the U.S.-Israeli genocide in Gaza. Joe has served as a key volunteer (and between 2022-2024, staffer) at the Boston Liberation Center, building relationships with community members from Roxbury and all throughout the state who visit the BLC. He has also supported the growth of the PSL and the socialist movement throughout Massachusetts: in Amherst, Lowell, Springfield, Worcester, and beyond.
During this time, Joe has also organized and taught political education classes on crucial topics such as Black history and the immigrant rights movement, emphasizing the need for us to understand our history so that we can shape our collective future.
Shaped by a decade of experience in the struggle, Joe Tache is running for U.S. Senator in Massachusetts, determined not only to build a successful campaign, but to build a working class party and movement capable of winning the society we all deserve.
