Chris Gray is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Right-Wing Tropes, Gaslighting, and High-Paid Spies Following the historic union victory at the JFK8 fulfillment center on Staten Island, Amazon Labor Union (ALU) is gearing up for the next election at LDJ5, the 1,500 worker sort center across the street. Following the historic union […]
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Written by an Amazon Worker. Workers at the JFK8 Amazon Fulfillment Center in Staten Island have dealt a stunning blow to the corporate giant by voting ‘Yes’ for the Amazon Labor Union (ALU), 2654 for and 2131 against. This decisive result proves once and for all that one of the richest and most powerful companies […]
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Kshama Sawant is a Seattle City Councilmember and a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. This article was originally published with Jacobin. Starbucks workers in Buffalo, New York, voted in December to become the first recognized union at the coffee giant in the country. Inspired by the victory, workers have launched a national wave of organizing […]
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Quinn Angelou-Lysaker is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Debates have broken out in workplaces and school board meetings across the country as the Republican Party fights to ban Critical Race Theory (CRT) from the classroom. This debate is only one aspect of a culture war accelerated by the George Floyd rebellion in […]
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Socialist Answer to Climate Chaos Youth: Fighting for Our Future Doug Ford Hypocrisy Alberta’s Woes Continue Indigenous Struggles Against Environmental Racism Precarious Renters: Berlin Victory Life of a Precarious University Teacher Socialist Sawant Defeats Right Wing Page from History: Japanese Internment Book review: Five Little Indians by Michelle Good Workers Fight Back … and more […]
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Rob Rooke is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. This is the tale of a US worker. It reminds us how important public health is and why the push from Conservatives, some greedy doctors and big business to privatize Canada’s health needs to be resisted. In fact, public health needs to be expanded […]
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Grace Fors is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Over a year after casting their ballots in the hopes of steering the country away from the right, millions are staring down the looming threat of a Republican sweep in the midterms. In a press conference marking Biden’s first year in office, a reporter […]
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Greyson Van Arsdale is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Starbucks Workers United Fight for Fair Union Elections With more than 30 stores fighting to unionize nationwide, the Starbucks stores in Buffalo are no longer an outlier — they’re the spark to a growing flame. Starbucks workers from Buffalo, who have won their […]
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Workers’ unity essential to fight the threat of war. Political and economic earthquakes are being prepared globally as the forces of US and Chinese imperialism move from a state of cooperation to open competition. As these forces collide, shock waves ripple around the world dis-organising, disrupting, and re-organising the relationships between the different imperialist powers. […]
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Bryan Koulouris and Calvin Priest are members of Socialist Alternative in the US. For the fourth time, Socialist Alternative leader and Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant has won an election, this time while facing off against a racist, right-wing recall backed by big business. This victory is a vindication for a class-struggle approach to elected […]
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