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UAW Workers Were Confident To Fight For More

November 23, 2023Ty Moore

Ty Moore is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. “We lost everything on one contract [in 2009]. There’s no reason why they can’t give this stuff back to us in one contract.” – Jerry Coleman, five-year temporary worker at the Stellantis Jeep plant in Toledo (NPR) Millions of workers watched the auto workers […]

Socialist Alternative councilwoman Kshama Sawant leads a protest march in Seattle, WA

Seattle and the Socialist Surge in the U.S.

July 28, 2019Ty Moore

Ty Moore is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Seattle’s Socialist City Councilmember, Kshama Sawant, is in the midst of a major fight for re-election. U.S. elections are long and expensive compared to most of the world. Seattle city elections are in two parts: a primary that runs through August 6 and then […]

Jeff Bezos Wants to Buy Seattle City Council

May 31, 2019Ty Moore

Ty Moore is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. The business-backed campaign to defeat Kshama Sawant is likely to make this City Council race the most expensive in Seattle history (the 2015 campaign to unseat Sawant set the previous record!). Three months before the August primary, which will select the top two candidates […]

Seattle’s Housing Crisis Fuels Polarization in City Council Elections

May 10, 2019Ty Moore

Ty Moore is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. In the four years since city and county officials declared a “State of Emergency” on homelessness, the situation has gone from bad to worse. Unfortunately, the dangerous, right-populist ideas animating “Seattle is Dying” are likely to gain growing support in the absence of any […]

Police Lawsuit Aims to Silence Kshama Sawant – Defend Seattle’s Voice for Working People

April 8, 2018Ty Moore

Ty Moore is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Seattle’s socialist City Councilmember Kshama Sawant is facing two defamation lawsuits, the aim of which is to silence an outstanding representative of working people and the oppressed. The first is from two police officers who shot and killed a black man in 2016. The […]

Neo-Nazi Violence in Charlottesville Reawakens the Resistance

August 15, 2017Ty Moore

Ty Moore is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Mass Demonstrations and a Left Alternative Needed to Fight the Right The vicious white nationalist violence in Charlottesville and across the country this weekend has acted as a collective wake up call. A powerful left challenge must be built against racist violence, vigilante intimidation, […]

Confrontation between workers and police at a 1934 Minneapolis strike

Revolutionary Teamsters

July 20, 2014Ty Moore

Alan Jones and Ty Moore are members of Socialist Alternative in the US. Celebrating the 80th Anniversary of the 1934 Minneapolis Strikes This year marks the 80th anniversary of one of the greatest labor revolts in U.S. history: the strikes of the Minneapolis Teamsters in 1934. Led by socialists, this historic strike opened an era […]