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Last Wednesday’s far right terror on the Capitol Building in DC is a reminder of the urgency to build an organized left in the US. As Socialist Alternative has ...
The reemergence of a socialist movement in the United States, and rapid growth of organizations like Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and Socialist Alternative (SA), is of enormous historical ...
Watch or read the speech delivered by Socialist Alternative member, and Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant during a historic City Council meeting that passed a $200+ million tax on the top 3% of ...
The political polarization which has taken place in the U.S. over the past decade is continuing to deepen. On balance, the majority of society has been moving to the left – just one example is Black ...
A new women’s movement is emerging in response to the election of the misogynist Donald Trump, starting with the 2017 women’s marches and now with the #MeToo campaign. The potential power of the ...
Bia Lacombe was formerly Chief of Staff of Kshama Sawant’s City Council office. Marxists fight for the independent interests of the working class. The reality is that neither Trump or Harris represent ...
By Ramy Khalil, Vote Sawant Campaign Manager Everybody knows you have to accept corporate money and work within the two-party system to get elected, right? Not so with Kshama Sawant. In November 2013, ...
The New Deal itself is the subject of much debate and many misconceptions. For example, did the New Deal help end the Great Depression? To what extent did the New Deal help working Americans survive ...
As a new generation of socialist activists are being forged out of the turmoil in American society, they will look to previous movements for successful methods of struggle. Marxists believe it is ...
Young people today are living in a world rife with crisis. The cost of living crisis, numerous wars, and a killer climate, just to name a few. It’s no wonder huge sections of young people have ...
On October 8, 1912, the Kingdom of Montenegro declared war on the Ottoman Empire. Montenegro was soon joined by Serbia, Greece, and Bulgaria, initiating the First Balkan War. This was seen as a war of ...