Socialist Alternative

Our newspaper goes beyond just telling the story of frontline struggles. We provide the socialist analysis, strategy, and tactics needed to win. Socialist Alternative comes out 10 times a year.

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Our organization prides itself on the clarity of our analysis and program. But we also feel the need to step up our game. For this reason we present a political journal, Socialist World, initially coming out three times a year.

SA In Action

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Kshama Sawant Speech After Court’s Ruling on Right-Wing Recall Attempt

September 16, 2020

https://youtu.be/1otoNhlh6nE "Dear friends and fellow activists, I want to thank everyone in the movement,...

Socialist Alternative In Action

Over 1,500 Attend Historic Virtual Marxist University

August 2, 2020

Socialists from 37 countries attended the largest ever international gathering of International Socialist Alternative (formerly the CWI) between July 18 and 25.

Documents & Leaflets & Statements

DSA Candidates Sweep New York State Primaries — Socialist Alternative Statement on Next Steps for the Socialist Movement

July 29, 2020

The June primary results are finally in, with a clear result: “Socialism won,” as victorious New York State Assembly candidate from Queens,...

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Amazon TAXED! Lessons of the Tax Amazon Victory in Seattle

July 9, 2020

The Tax Amazon movement and Seattle’s working class won a historic victory on Monday, July 6. Following a three year struggle against...

Fighting Racism

Kshama Sawant Tax Amazon Victory Speech

July 7, 2020

https://www.facebook.com/SocialistAlternativeUSA/videos/715010949073187/ Speech delivered by Socialist Alternative member, and Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant during a historic City Council meeting that passed a...

Socialist Alternative is in political solidarity with International Socialist Alternative.
Visit the ISA website to learn more about socialist organizing around the world.

Worker's Movement

New York City’s Authorities Botch School Reopening

Workers' Movement September 16, 2020

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

Amazon and UPS Are Spying on Drivers – Workers Should Fight Back

Workers' Movement September 15, 2020

Crisis at USPS: Attempts to Undermine the Postal Service Require A Fightback

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Teachers Union Threatens Strikes against Unsafe School Reopenings

Health Care August 19, 2020

COVID-19 Crisis Shows Internet Should be Public Utility

U.S. Politics July 31, 2020

Theory

Socialism: How Would a Planned Economy Work?

Theory August 13, 2020

Defense of democratic socialist planning a fundamental task for successful social transformation Peter Delsing, LSP/PSL (ISA in Belgium)

“Dripping with Blood and Dirt”: How British Capitalism Relied on Slavery

Fighting Racism August 6, 2020

Socialists and the State: How to End Racist Policing

Fighting Racism June 17, 2020

Capitalism and COVID-19: Why We Need a Planned Economy

Theory June 2, 2020

Review of No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age

Theory May 28, 2020

Fighting Racism

The Whole System Is Guilty – Justice for Breonna Taylor

September 24, 2020

The below is the text of a leaflet Socialist Alternative members distributed at protests the night of the non-indictment in Breonna Taylor's...

The Haitian Revolution and the Abolition of Slavery

September 19, 2020

Review of The Black Jacobins by C.L.R. James (published 1938) Max Toynbee, South London Socialist Alternative and NEU...

BLM Takes the Court: Sports on Strike

September 3, 2020

On August 26th, exactly four years since Colin Kaepernick began his peaceful protests of systemic racism and injustice in the United States,...

Revolt for Black Lives in Kenosha

September 2, 2020

Jacob Blake: unarmed, Black, father, and paralyzed from the waist down. Seven shots in his back at point blank range from a...

Soaring Rates of Domestic Violence and Attacks on Abortion Rights: How COVID-19 is Amplifying Women’s Oppression

August 17, 2020

More than 160,000 people have died from COVID-19 in the U.S. Almost 50 million people have filed for unemployment. With dramatic underreporting...

The Sacrifice of Tara Reade – Democrats Betray the #MeToo Movement

May 16, 2020

Jeffrey Epstein. Harvey Weinstein. Brett Kavanaugh. Donald Trump. Powerful, well-connected men have used their money and influence within the billionaire class to...

Russia’s “Virus Trade Union” Needs Solidarity to End Victimization and Sexism at Wildberries

May 13, 2020

Virus Trade Union, Sotsialisticheskaya Alternativa (ISA in Russia) Most workers in Russia have no trade union protection, even when...

Two Deadly Pandemics: COVID-19 and Violence Against Women

May 9, 2020

Leslie Kemp, Socialist Alternative (ISA in Canada) Canada’s deadliest mass shooting started after the gunman assaulted his partner. The...

Southern Europe: New Economic Crisis, Old Structural Causes

September 21, 2020

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

Argentina: Vultures Celebrate Foreign Debt Agreement

September 1, 2020

After months of negotiations and ever-increasing concessions by the government of Alberto Fernández, finally on Tuesday, August 4, an agreement with the...

FDR and the Limits of the New Deal

August 10, 2020

In the course of the past five years, there has been an enormous shift in political discourse in the U.S. on the...

Education Under Attack: Defund the Police and Tax the Rich to Fund Our Schools

July 2, 2020

Teachers are currently faced with an impossible task: educating students online, many of whom don’t have access to technology, with little warning,...

Socialist Alternative Publications

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

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

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

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

Youth and Students

Workers' Movement

New York City’s Authorities Botch School Reopening

September 16, 2020

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

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

July 28, 2020

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

Defund the Police & Tax the Rich to Fund Our Schools!

Economy June 27, 2020

Teachers are currently faced with an impossible task: educating students online, many of whom don’t have access to technology, with little warning,...

Youth Continue Climate Strikes

Environment December 16, 2019

Collins Dictionary has declared “climate strike” as the word of 2019. It’s no surprise considering that millions of people, overwhelmingly young, have...

College Admissions Scandal: The Myth of Meritocracy Under Capitalism

Youth & Students April 23, 2019

In March, news broke of the indictment of dozens of individuals who had participated in a wide-ranging scheme to fraudulently admit students...

Oakland Teachers Strike: A Victory Filled With Lessons

Los Angeles Teachers Strike for an End to Privatization

Workers' Movement January 20, 2019

Community Blocks Privatization of Houston Schools

Workers' Movement May 2, 2018

Over 100 students, teachers, parents, and activists attended a special meeting of the Houston Independent School District (HISD) Board of Education on Tuesday, April...

Environment

Climate Change: The Devastating Prospects of Increasing Prolonged Droughts

September 6, 2020

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

Environment

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Socialist Alternative is in political solidarity with International Socialist Alternative. Visit the ISA website to learn more about socialist organizing around the world.

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Socialist Alternative is in political solidarity with International Socialist Alternative.
Visit the ISA website to learn more about socialist organizing around the world.