Kshama Sawant – How Socialists Win on City Council

Kshama Sawant, a member of Socialist Alternative in Seattle, has an incredible record that shows what can be achieved as a socialist city councillor with a class-struggle approach to politics. Using the city council seat as a platform to lead mass campaigns against the rich establishment powers in Seattle and Washington State, Kshama and Socialist […]

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What’s Behind the Taiwan Strait Crisis?

Vincent Kolo is a contributor to chinaworker.info. The chain of events sparked by Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan on 2–3 August signals a further escalation of the Second Cold War — the imperialist power struggle between the US and China. Predictably, Pelosi’s trip brought forth a furious reaction from Xi Jinping’s regime in the form […]

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Oil-Slicked Progress: Climate Bill, Cowritten By Coal Baron, Makes History

Meaghan Murray is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is being touted as the largest climate bill in U.S. history – but what does that actually mean, when the bar was so low to begin with? President Biden’s original climate legislation for the IRA crumbled in mid-July, when […]

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Seattle First Abortion Sanctuary City

Bia Lacombe is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. How Working People & Socialists Won Last month, thousands of local activists and young people in Seattle won a landmark victory in the abortion rights struggle — led by the office of socialist City Councilmember Kshama Sawant, we succeeded in our fight to make […]

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A Big Win For Abortion Rights in Kansas

Keely Mullen is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. In kicking abortion rights back to the states, the right hoped that they’d see a clear path to near-total abortion bans across the country. Well, the results this week in Kansas should serve as a kick in the teeth. In a landslide victory, and […]

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Five Months After the Invasion of Ukraine

An epoch defining war and its effects War in Ukraine is now entering its sixth month. Entire cities such as Mariupol and Severodonetsk have been annihilated. Thousands of civilians and tens of thousands of soldiers on both sides have been killed, whilst probably ten times more have been wounded. Although some have now returned, over […]

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Socialists and the US-China Cold War

Vincent Kolo is a contributor to chinaworker.info. Rather than hitting the pause button on the imperialist US-China Cold War, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has fast forwarded processes. “The Russian invasion of Ukraine has put an end to the globalization we have experienced over the last three decades,” says Larry Fink, chairman of Blackrock, the world’s […]

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We Need Action NOW to Defend Abortion Rights

Kshama Sawant is a Seattle City Councilmember and a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. The day the Supreme Court announced their overturn of Roe v Wade, tens of thousands took to the streets across the country. The shameful, right-wing ruling runs counter to the support for legal abortion by the majority of American […]

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Roe Overturned, Take the Streets!

Build a Mass Movement Against the Right! Roe v Wade has been overturned. This is a historic defeat for the women’s movement and represents a victory in the right-wing campaign to undermine the bodily autonomy of women and queer people across the country. Despite overwhelming support for legal abortion, tens of millions now live in […]

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We Won Back Pride! Threat of Mass Demonstrations Beats Back Right-Wing Aurora Mayor

Ryan Hartson is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Working people and queer people in Illinois’ second largest city won a clear victory against law and order politics and policing last week. In mid-May, the organization behind Aurora, Illinois’s Pride march, Aurora Pride, made the decision to ban uniformed police from marching in […]

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