Kailyn Nicholson and Kshama Sawant are members of Socialist Alternative in the US. Aaron Bushnell’s death by self-immolation is an extreme expression of the desperation millions of working and young people in the United States and across the globe feel as the Israeli government’s brutal assault on Gaza nears the five-month mark. Despite a global […]
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Kshama Sawant is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Originally published by the Nation Standing in the Seattle City Council chambers on February 21, an Indian-American tech worker named Naresh recalled the caste discrimination he has faced beginning at age 5 in India. His voice quivered with anger as he thought about the […]
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Kshama Sawant is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. This article was originally published by The Stranger. This is now the tenth year I’ve had the honor to serve as an elected representative of Seattle’s working people. Workers in Seattle, through getting organized alongside my socialist City Council office, and my organization, Socialist […]
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Kshama Sawant is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. A socialist cannot be a strike breaker. This needs to be the end of any pretense by DSA that the “Squad” is socialist, and should result in their expulsion from the organization. Failing that, the Squad’s betrayal of the working class becomes DSA’s betrayal. […]
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Kshama Sawant is a Seattle City Councilmember and a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. The day the Supreme Court announced their overturn of Roe v Wade, tens of thousands took to the streets across the country. The shameful, right-wing ruling runs counter to the support for legal abortion by the majority of American […]
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Kshama Sawant is a Seattle City Councilmember and a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. This article was originally published with Jacobin. Starbucks workers in Buffalo, New York, voted in December to become the first recognized union at the coffee giant in the country. Inspired by the victory, workers have launched a national wave of organizing […]
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Kshama Sawant is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. “The Wealthy Took Their Best Shot at Us, and We Beat Them. Again.” On the day that the vote count in the Seattle recall election showed the majority of votes against the recall, Kshama Sawant spoke at a Solidarity Campaign Press Conference. This is […]
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Kshama Sawant is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Kshama Sawant Seattle Socialist City Councilmember and Socialist Alternative member Kshama Sawant introduced a resolution on April 26, that was carried 7 – 1 by the Seattle City Council demanding the Biden administration stop blocking the Intellectual Property waivers for the COVID-19 vaccines. Below […]
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Thursday, April 1, the Washington State Supreme Court gave the green light to the billionaire-backed, right-wing recall campaign against Kshama Sawant…
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Kshama Sawant is a Seattle City Councilmember and a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. The reemergence of a socialist movement in the United States, and rapid growth of organizations like Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and Socialist Alternative (SA), is of enormous historical importance. This is not only because Marxism is beginning to […]
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