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Socialist Union Leaders Say: Labor Must Go All Out to Support the Alabama Amazon Workers!

Cora Bergantiños-Crespo, President of CPW-UAW Local 4100 (New York City, personal capacity)Martha Harrison, Vice President of TUHNA, a local of PASNAP (Philadelphia,...
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A Socialist Strategy to Win $15 – Lessons from Seattle

Millions of working people around the country, in the midst of this historic crisis of capitalism, have been inspired by the demand...
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Socialist Alternative In Action

More Unions are Endorsing Kshama Sawant Solidarity Campaign

As the billionaire-backed, right-wing recall continues in Seattle against socialist Councilmember Kshama Sawant, more labor unions are responding to the calls of...
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Socialist Alternative In Action

Kshama Sawant: Solidarity To Amazon Workers in Bessemer, AL

Dear Bessemer Amazon workers, As an elected representative of Seattle’s working people, a rank-and-file union member, and a member...
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Fight for 15

Who is Kshama Sawant?

Kshama Sawant was first elected to the Seattle City Council in 2013 with over 90,000 votes, running as a proud Socialist Alternative...
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Fighting Racism

Movie Review: Judas and The Black Messiah

"During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the...
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Socialist Union Leaders Say: Labor Must Go All Out to Support the Alabama Amazon Workers!

Cora Bergantiños-Crespo, President of CPW-UAW Local 4100 (New York City, personal capacity)Martha Harrison, Vice President of TUHNA, a local of PASNAP (Philadelphia,...
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Why We Need to Actively Fight Racism Under Biden

For the last four years, Trump has roused and built a mass base around his reactionary agenda and given encouragement to organized...
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Justice for Casey Goodson, Jr. — Fund Schools, Not Cops!

On December 4 in Columbus, Ohio, 23-year-old Casey Goodson Jr. was coming home from a dentist appointment. He was carrying a bag...
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Women's Rights

Childcare Crisis Wracks Working Parents

The situation could hardly be more stark: working-class parents and children are being dramatically set back financially, physically, and emotionally by the...
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Massive Victory for Women’s Rights in Argentina

Earlier this month, the government of Argentina enacted a law that massively expands abortion access. This is the culmination of an inspiring...
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Poland: The Women’s Strike Movement and the Way Forward

When judges sitting as a “Constitutional Tribunal” ruled to make practically all cases of abortion illegal, even when the fetus has a...
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Argentina: Abortion Legalized! A Triumph for the “Green Tide” Movement

Now we need organization and socialist feminism! Marcos Ariel, ISA supporter in Argentina In a...
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Economy

As 2021 Begins: American Capitalism Faces Multifaceted Crisis

It is clear we are living through a historic transition in the U.S. A devastating pandemic has triggered a...
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Politicians Play With Our Lives: Struggle Needed to Win the Relief We Need

The U.S. government has not provided any relief for ordinary Americans in four months. An entire season has passed since the federal...
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We Have to Fight for a Workers Recovery

In a crisis, the ruling class tends to sugarcoat the real economic situation. Politicians and mainstream media outlets are searching for any...
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Southern Europe: New Economic Crisis, Old Structural Causes

Fighting Left Alternative Desperately Needed Vladimir Bortun, Nikos Anastasiadis, Athina Kariati, Jonas Von Vossole, Guiliano Brunetti
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Socialist Alternative Publications

A contribution to the debate on the historical lessons of the black freedom struggle and on the way forward today.

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Looking back on the greatest general strike in history, the lessons in this pamphlet remain relevant for today's movement.

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A look at the legacy of Bolshevism and the Russian Revolution, as well as its later degeneration at the hands of Stalin.

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On the ground look at the working class revolt that took place in Wisconsin in 2011.

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Youth and Students

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Childcare Crisis Wracks Working Parents

The situation could hardly be more stark: working-class parents and children are being dramatically set back financially, physically, and emotionally by the...
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Workers' Movement

Educators, Parents and Students Pay Most for Establishment’s Failed COVID Response

Last April, as millions lost their jobs and death tolls climbed, Trump promised things would be back to normal by June. Then...
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Unsafe for Now: Fight for a Safe School Reopening

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The COVID pandemic has shaken up society from head to toe. Nothing has been left untouched as nearly 25 million Americans have...

We Need Student Debt Cancellation!

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2021 has begun with a bad joke of a stimulus bill, rental costs maxing out credit cards, and an unchecked pandemic once...

I’m 16 and I Should Have the Right to Vote

Socialist Alternative In Action
Youth today are facing a broad and deep capitalist crisis. Brutal austerity measures have stripped funding for education, student loan debt and...

Isolation, Stress, and Poverty: Capitalism and Our Declining Mental Health

Culture
Millions and millions of ordinary people are experiencing a tornado of escalating crises: from COVID-19, social isolation, unemployment and evictions, to the...

New York City’s Authorities Botch School Reopening

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Tax the Rich and Wall Street to Provide Necessary Resources K-12 schools are reopening across Europe and Donald Trump...

Educators and Parents Must Unite For Safe Reopening and Fully Funded Schools

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Educators and families fundamentally want the same thing out of our public education system: students to be safe and to succeed in...

Environment

Environment

Workers Freeze Due To Billionaire Greed

Capitalism left working people to die in the Texas cold, and the ensuing crisis exposed the complete inability of the free market...
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Environment

Marxism and Climate Change: Engels’ Struggle for a Dialectical Concept of Nature

Arne Johansson, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (ISA in Sweden) Seven of the world’s leading climate and so-called Earth System scientists warned...
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Book Review: The Return of Nature by John Bellamy Foster

Environment
Keishia Taylor, Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland) John Bellamy Foster’s ground-breaking Marx’s Ecology in 2000 demonstrated that Marxism, from...

Tax the Rich to Fund the T: Boston Transit Cuts Highlight Need for Working-Class Mobilization

Environment
Ignoring public opposition, transit officials in Boston approved a sweeping set of service cuts on December 14, following a familiar playbook of...

Smoke Fills Skies as Climate Crisis Goes Unchecked

Environment
Photos of an eerie, dark orange sky covering Oakland, San Francisco, and other Bay Area cities circulated the internet earlier this month,...

The New Climate Normal: Capitalism is Killing the Planet

Environment
In almost every metric to measure extreme weather, the Earth is breaking record after record, from the hottest heat waves to the...

Climate Change: The Devastating Prospects of Increasing Prolonged Droughts

Environment
The Urgent Need for System Change Capitalism is disrupting the existing water cycle through global warming all the...

California Wildfires: A Socialist Perspective

Environment
Remembering one’s experience of a wildfire is like assembling a series of fragments from a broken picture: Startled awake at 3am to...
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