This article was written by the Editorial Board of Socialist Alternative in the US. The Gaza Strip is an area roughly the size of the city of Philadelphia where over two million Palestinians live. It’s been occupied since 1967 and has lived under blockade conditions since 2007. It has been described with justification as the […]
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This is a statement of the Executive Committee of Socialist Alternative in the US. Fight The Right & The Billionaire Class In 2024 On June 5, activist and professor Cornel West declared an independent left challenge for the US presidency in 2024. His announcement has already drawn widespread media coverage and his campaign launch video […]
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This article was written by the Editorial Board of Socialist Alternative in the US. The chaotic scenes as the Republicans try to elect a speaker for the House of Representatives demonstrates the fractured nature of US politics, especially of the Republicans. When Trump was running for office, he was lambasted by liberals for his protectionist […]
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Build a Mass Movement Against the Right! Roe v Wade has been overturned. This is a historic defeat for the women’s movement and represents a victory in the right-wing campaign to undermine the bodily autonomy of women and queer people across the country. Despite overwhelming support for legal abortion, tens of millions now live in […]
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The fightback against the attempt to recall Kshama Sawant, member of Socialist Alternative and elected to the Seattle City Council is reaching its peak as ballot papers have been sent out to voters and need to be completed by 7 December. Why do the right-wing want to remove her? The answer is simple. Since her […]
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This verdict should put the final nail in the coffin that the courts can save us from the far right. THE SYSTEM IS GUILTY. The far-right, the police that shot Jacob Blake and celebrated Rittenhouse, and the courts that protect them both all represent the same racist system: capitalism. If we’re going to defeat the […]
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This article was written by the Editorial Board of Socialist Alternative in the US. The far right threat isn’t going away after their attempted coup on January 6. Immediately, they are planning another series of armed rallies and possibly more attempts to overrun legislative buildings starting this Saturday, January 16, and culminating in a potential […]
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The celebrations have begun. Trump has clearly lost, and he will be out of the White House early next year. A massive sigh of relief is being exhaled by tens of millions of people across the country and hundreds of millions across the world. Yet we should recognize that the pandemic, climate change, economic crisis, […]
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Our movement is beating Jeff Bezos (again)! Seattle City Council’s Budget Committee voted for a tax on Amazon and big business that will raise $240 million annually. This victory is the result of determined class struggle by a democratically-organized grassroots campaign, including 27,000 signatures on our ballot initiative to Tax Amazon. Our movement will remain […]
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Two weeks after the dawn of a working-class rebellion, led by young people of color, shook the political establishment to its core, there is a growing discussion about where the movement should go from here. Because of the strength of the movement, the same Democratic Party politicians who presided over the social conditions that led […]
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