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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No Trust in the Same Political Establishment That Killed George Floyd! #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd George Floyd gasped “I can’t breathe,” again and again, for nine long minutes. This is murder. It is murder at the hands of the Minneapolis Police. Yet the recent racist killings of Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery, and the countless cases of racist […]
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Minneapolis — No Trust in Mayor Frey or Trump’s FBI George Floyd suffocated to death with a Minneapolis Police Officer’s knee to his neck on May 25th, 2020. Video of Floyd’s murder released by the Washington Post clearly shows the police lied about Floyd resisting arrest. Murdered as someone who “looked like a suspect,” the events surrounding […]
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Kshama Sawant Re-Elected Despite Corporate PACs Spending $4 Million to Buy City Council Despite big business and Amazon going all-in behind corporate candidates in all seven city council races, Seattle voters rejected Jeff Bezos’s bid to flip the council to the right. In Seattle’s most-watched, most expensive, and most polarized council race in decades, Socialist […]
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Amazon’s money bomb backfires! Amazon spending $1 million trying to buy Seattle City Council has provoked anger. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren take to social media to warn against the danger of letting Amazon buy Seattle’s City Council elections and support our campaign along with others running against Amazon-backed candidates. Thank you to Bernie Sanders […]
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On Tuesday, Oct 15, Amazon dropped a $1 million bomb on the Seattle city elections, in a flagrant attempt to blow up Seattle’s democratic process and drive out Seattle’s socialist Councilmember Kshama Sawant. This brings their total spending to a RECORD-SMASHING, totally unprecedented $1.5 million! Only US citizens and Green card holders can donate to […]
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Kshama Sawant’s Speech On June 12, at short notice, the corporate politicians on the Seattle City Council voted to repeal the Amazon Tax on big business that would fund affordable housing. Here is a speech by Councilmember Kshama Sawant, a member of Socialist Alternative
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This article was first published in 2008, but is even more relevant today with a Trump presidency, Black Lives Matter and rising struggles across the US. This year marks the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who was killed on April 4, 1968 while supporting striking Memphis sanitation workers. Unfortunately, […]
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