Socialist Alternative Magazine #21

No to War! Build an Anti-War Movement Revolutionary Youth Ontario: Kick out Ford Workers Need a Real Pay Raise Polarization Comes to Canada Quality Childcare Needed … and much more from Canada and abroad! For printed copies, please send us an e-mail to [email protected] Please consider making a donation to help with our costs and […]

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Starbucks Workers Have a Golden Opportunity

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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Socialist Alternative Magazine #20

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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Right-Wing Recall Defeated: How Kshama Sawant and Socialist Alternative Won (Again!)

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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Kshama Sawant Recall Defeated

Kshama Sawant is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. “The Wealthy Took Their Best Shot at Us, and We Beat Them. Again.” On the day that the vote count in the Seattle recall election showed the majority of votes against the recall, Kshama Sawant spoke at a Solidarity Campaign Press Conference. This is […]

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Don’t Let the Right-Wing Remove Kshama Sawant

The fightback against the attempt to recall Kshama Sawant, member of Socialist Alternative and elected to the Seattle City Council is reaching its peak as ballot papers have been sent out to voters and need to be completed by 7 December. Why do the right-wing want to remove her? The answer is simple. Since her […]

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All Eyes on Seattle: Kshama Sawant Faces Off Against Right-Wing Recall Election

Greyson Van Arsdale is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. This winter, Seattle will hold its first-ever December election in recorded history. The ballot question will be on the recall of Seattle’s only socialist councilmember, Kshama Sawant, as the culmination of a year-long effort by big business and the right wing to unseat […]

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Defend Democracy! Defend the Right to Protest!

Hannah Swoboda is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Stand with Kshama SawantOn April 1, in a major development in the recall effort against Seattle City Councilmember and Socialist Alternative member Kshama Sawant, the Washington Supreme Court sided with the right-wing recall campaign. The court’s decision to uphold the recall charges functions as […]

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Big Pharma Puts the World In Danger

Kshama Sawant is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Kshama Sawant Seattle Socialist City Councilmember and Socialist Alternative member Kshama Sawant introduced a resolution on April 26, that was carried 7 – 1 by the Seattle City Council demanding the Biden administration stop blocking the Intellectual Property waivers for the COVID-19 vaccines. Below […]

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Kshama Sawant speaking at a ralley in Seattle

All Out To Defend Kshama Sawant!

Thursday, April 1, the Washington State Supreme Court gave the green light to the billionaire-backed, right-wing recall campaign against Kshama Sawant…

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