COVID-19:The little virus that reawakened Anti-Asian Racism

On my way to work today, I was standing in a subway alcove, in a nearly deserted car. The scattered patrons were a motley crew of essential workers, some masked, some open faced. I don’t wear a mask while on transit (this was written before wearing masks was clearly good policy) – I am well, […]

Continue Reading

A Deadly Cocktail: COVID-19, Race, and Capitalism

Eljeer Hawkins is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. In early March, the first known cases of COVID-19 began to emerge in the United States. It has taken the lives of over 75,000 people across the nation. The deadly combination of COVID-19 and the economic recession has led to a deep crisis for […]

Continue Reading

Socialist Alternative Magazine #14

Climate Justice and Jobs Instability Rising Ontario Struggle Needed Where is Canada’s Women’s Movement? Hypocrisy to Indigenous Peoples No War on Iran 2019: A Year of Struggles Housing Victory … more from Canada and the World If you would like to order copy(ies) contact us at [email protected]

Continue Reading

50 Years of Resistance, White Paper to Wet’suwet’en

Both Justin and his father Pierre Trudeau are good at fine sounding words. But their actions are different. Fifty years ago, Pierre Trudeau’s Liberal government released the White Paper Statement of the Government of Canada on Indian Policy, which proposed eliminating the legislative and constitutional status of Indigenous people, claiming it would end discrimination.   […]

Continue Reading

China: Police state in Xinjiang under global spotlight

China: Police state in Xinjiang under global spotlight What is behind the new found indignation of the US and other governments over China’s repression of its Muslim minorities?  After decades of silence, governments in Washington, Berlin, London, Ottawa and elsewhere have woken up to the brutal repression against China’s ten million Uighur Muslims in the […]

Continue Reading

Caravan Crisis Exposes Corruption of Capitalism

Christopher Carroll is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. A caravan of thousands of migrants has amassed in Tijuana at the US-Mexico border near San Diego. Migrants seeking asylum from violence in their native countries of Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador, they traveled for weeks just to reach the border. Upon arriving, they […]

Continue Reading

Fighting oppression – a Marxist viewpoint

Laura Fitzgerald is a member of the Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland). A materialist analysis of roots & nature of oppression First Published in Ireland in October, 2014 Marxism is a philosophy and world view that seeks to materially analyse reality. Although it was not possible for Marx and Engels themselves to adequately address all […]

Continue Reading

Police Lawsuit Aims to Silence Kshama Sawant – Defend Seattle’s Voice for Working People

Ty Moore is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Seattle’s socialist City Councilmember Kshama Sawant is facing two defamation lawsuits, the aim of which is to silence an outstanding representative of working people and the oppressed. The first is from two police officers who shot and killed a black man in 2016. The […]

Continue Reading

Radical Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. — From Montgomery to Vietnam

This article was first published in 2008, but is even more relevant today with a Trump presidency, Black Lives Matter and rising struggles across the US. This year marks the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who was killed on April 4, 1968 while supporting striking Memphis sanitation workers. Unfortunately, […]

Continue Reading

Brazil: PSOL councillor Marielle Franco murdered in Rio de Janeiro

From mourning to struggle On 14 March, Marielle Franco, a veteran member of PSOL in Rio de Janeiro, was barbarically executed in the city centre. Anderson Pedro Gomes, the driver of her car, was also killed in the attack. Police investigation identified 9 gun shots in the back window of the car, showing that the […]

Continue Reading