Conor Payne is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). The Billionaires Own the Casino The price of shares for GameStop went up 700% in the past week due to what people have called a “bloodbath” with small investors, organised through a subgroup on Reddit, going against a Wall Street hedge fund’s prediction […]
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Grace Fors is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Drastic Action Needed to Contain COVID As Joe Biden takes office, the state-by-state heat map of COVID transmission is a sea of red. The sheer depth of the crisis is prompting him to propose bold measures on the issue of the pandemic. No less of […]
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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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Tom Crean is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. A devastating pandemic has triggered a deep economic downturn which comes only a decade after the Great Recession that already exposed capitalism’s rot. Institutions have lost credibility and political polarization is at unprecedented levels. Beyond this, the clock is ticking towards irreversible climate change. […]
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Keely Mullen is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Build a Movement to Defeat the Far Right First came the notification: “Pro Trump mob breaks into Capitol building.” Then, “Congressmen being told to hide beneath their chairs,” followed by, “They’ve shot into the chambers.” The storming of the Capitol shocked hundreds of millions […]
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Dan Kavanaugh is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Why we should unite against the corporate, right-wing recall campaign Big business, corporate Democrats and the right wing are once again going after Seattle’s socialist councilmember, Kshama Sawant, this time with a right-wing recall campaign. After Amazon and big business failed to defeat her […]
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Rebecca Green is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Millions and millions of ordinary people are experiencing a tornado of escalating crises: from COVID-19, social isolation, unemployment and evictions, to the climate meltdown and food insecurity. It is no wonder people are struggling to cope. In August, the Center for Disease Control released […]
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Erin Brightwell is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. With Democratic Party hopes for a bigger majority in the House dashed by a combination of anti-Trump voters who went with Republicans down ticket and 71 million Trump voters, it didn’t take long for the fireworks in the Democratic House caucus to start going […]
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Bia Lacombe is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Big business and the right wing are furious about the impact of socialist politics in Seattle and are going all-out to try to remove Councilmember Kshama Sawant from City Hall with a recall campaign. This recall effort to remove Kshama Sawant from office comes […]
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Tom Crean is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. What should a new party of the left based on the interests of working people look like? Working people in the U.S. are facing a crisis of massive proportions. Decades of neoliberal attacks on unions and the gains of working people have created the […]
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