Kshama Sawant is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Letter from Kshama Sawant to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib and Julian Salazar Dear Sisters, I am writing to congratulate you, and other newly elected socialists, on your elections and to outline the lessons of our experience in Seattle since my first election to […]
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Tom Crean is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. How can we really defeat the right? The midterm elections in the U.S. represented a limited “blue wave” and an overall rejection of Trump by the electorate. Republicans were relieved their losses weren’t worse while many progressive workers and youth were disappointed the outcome […]
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Anonymous Google worker, San Francisco Bay Area. #MeToo hit the tech world as thousands, of Google employees, led by women, organized a historic walkout from work on November 1 at 11:10 AM. Spurred by a October 25 New York Times article highlighting that Google “systemically allowed senior executives accused of sexual misconduct to leave the […]
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Against Bolsonaro, defend democratic rights and smash the pension reform! The victory of Jair Bolsonaro in the second round of the Brazilian elections represents a huge political step backwards for the country and the Brazilian people. We do not share the cynicism of bourgeois analysts who speak about the legitimacy of the system and “consolidation” […]
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So after a lot of fanfare, seemingly hard bargaining down to the wire, the media consensus is that Trudeau got the best possible deal for “Canada.” The point about any trade deal is that it is mainly about reconciling the interests of competing capitalist classes, not what is best for the working people of the […]
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Jean Swanson’s election to Vancouver City Council is a step toward a political revolution in this city. News of this historic victory is already rippling around the world. Swanson came fourth highest in the ballot. But it is not just one of 10 seats on Council. Jean’s seat is the movement’s seat on City Council. […]
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Iain Dalton is a member of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales). The rise of fascism in Italy in the early 1920s represented a new, extremely dangerous threat to the workers’ movement. It provoked urgent debate in the early years of the Communist International – before its policy of workers’ unity to defeat […]
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COPE held the most boisterous rally of the Vancouver election campaign in downtown Vancouver on Saturday evening, drawing over 175 people. In addition to music and poetry, attendees heard from council, park and school board candidates followed by an inspiring speech by Kshama Sawant, Socialist Alternative’s city councillor in Seattle. The speeches were frequently interrupted […]
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Bruno-Pierre Guillette is a member of Alternative Socialiste (CWI in Quebec). There is no reason to celebrate the election of a Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) majority government. Not since Maurice Duplessis has there been broad support for a political party that is both intolerant of racialized people and has a right-wing economic agenda. There is […]
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COPE Vancouver City Council candidate Jean Swanson Socialist Alternative’s Seattle City Councillor Kshama Sawant Saturday October 13, 7-9 pm, SFU Harbour Centre Room, Room 1900 With all 2018 COPE candidates: Anne Roberts, Derrick O’Keefe, Barb Parrott, Diana Day, Gwen Giesbrecht and John Irwin. Two fearless activists who brought their fight for social justice to city […]
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