Elan Axelbank is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). This second wave of reformism in power is already proving to be anything but a repetition of the first. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, propelled by mass movements of the working class and rural poor, a wave of left-wing electoral victories […]
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Elan Axelbank is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. The difference between Socialist Alternative and Democratic Socialists of America Many people new to the socialist movement may wonder: What are the differences between Socialist Alternative and Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)? Do they work together? Why join one and not the other? Socialist […]
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Elan Axelbank is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. The largest private sector strike in the U.S. in the past three years has ended. For eleven hard-fought days 31,000 Stop & Shop grocery-store workers across New England struck against company attacks on their wages and benefits. The tentative agreement, which will likely be […]
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Elan Axelbank is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. “The one thing we need more than hope is action. Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come.” – Greta Thunberg, a 16-year-old Swedish climate activist, who helped […]
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Rob Rooke and Elan Axelbank are members of Socialist Alternative in the US. For many years the Oakland School Board has plotted its school privatization plan behind closed doors, closing neighborhood public schools and giving the keys to privately managed Charter schools. No Oakland School Board members ran for office calling for school closures, more […]
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