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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Steve Edwards is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. On September 16, 49,000 UAW members walked off the job at all 55 GM manufacturing plants and parts centers in the U.S., in what became the longest national auto strike in half a century. The determination shown by auto-workers on this strike was exemplary. […]
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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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Although China and the US reached a temporary trade agreement in Washington on October 11, this does not mark a cessation of the conflict between the two imperialist powers which has raged for 16 months. The deal reached, which postpones proposed US tariff increases to 30%, in return for China making bigger purchases of some […]
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Originally published CounterPunch.org on 9/23/2019. In what may turn out to be a preview of the U.S. presidential election, with the ruling class hell-bent on stopping Bernie Sanders at all costs, big business in Seattle is carrying out an unprecedented assault of corporate PAC money against socialist and progressive candidates in this year’s elections. The […]
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Steve Edwards is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. The strike of 50,000 United Auto Workers (UAW) members which began Sunday at midnight at all 55 GM plants in the US has the potential to mark a new stage in the revival of working class action. Teachers, hotel workers, and others made 2018 […]
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Per Olsson is a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI in Sweden). After nearly 18 years of devastating war in Afghanistan, the US government has concluded a preliminary settlement with the Taliban which, as a first step, will mean sending home 5,400 US soldiers within 135 days. In exchange, the Taliban is said to have promised […]
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This resolution was unanimously agreed at August meeting of CWI’s International Executive Committee. We are rapidly approaching a decisive turning point in world relations with a slowdown in the world economy increasingly pointing towards a deeper downturn, including the possibility of a 2008-9 type financial crash. Such a development would find capitalism far less prepared […]
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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 […]
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