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 […]
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Kailyn Nicholson is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. The 2016 Democratic presidential primaries engaged a broad layer of young and left voters – many for the first time – thanks to the heated contest between former U.S. Senator and Walmart board member, Hillary Clinton, and self-proclaimed democratic socialist Bernie Sanders. The sharp […]
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Elan Axelbank is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. The largest private sector strike in the U.S. in the past three years has ended. For eleven hard-fought days 31,000 Stop & Shop grocery-store workers across New England struck against company attacks on their wages and benefits. The tentative agreement, which will likely be […]
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Vincent Kolo is a contributor to chinaworker.info. In July 2018, tariffs were imposed on Chinese imports by President Trump’s government and there was immediate tit-for-tat retaliation by China. This has amounted to the biggest trade war since the 1930s and is increasingly taking its toll on the global economy. IMF chief Christine Lagarde, reflecting the […]
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Dave Carr is a member of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales). After seven years of self-imposed exile in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was dragged from his place of asylum and arrested by the Metropolitan police. This followed the revoking of his asylum status by Ecuador’s president Lenin […]
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Elan Axelbank is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. “The one thing we need more than hope is action. Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come.” – Greta Thunberg, a 16-year-old Swedish climate activist, who helped […]
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Rob Rooke and Elan Axelbank are members of Socialist Alternative in the US. For many years the Oakland School Board has plotted its school privatization plan behind closed doors, closing neighborhood public schools and giving the keys to privately managed Charter schools. No Oakland School Board members ran for office calling for school closures, more […]
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Rob Rooke is an Oakland School parent and member of Socialist Alternative in the US. “I’ve been waiting for this moment for years!” was the sentiment of many teachers at Skyline High where over a hundred blocked the school entrance. Teachers have faced the daily toll of dramatic underfunding. Special education teachers can barely maintain […]
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Christopher Carroll is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. After a six day strike, United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) on Tuesday, January 22, ratified a new contract with the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). This was the biggest and most important strike yet in the nationwide teachers’ revolt that began in […]
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Tom Crean is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. President Trump’s has been forced to retreat from his demand that the Democrats agree to fund a border wall as the price for reopening the government.But while the Democrats refused, under pressure from their base, to cave to this demand, they were in no […]
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