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Puerto Rico After #RickyRenuncia… Old Problems Remain

For united struggle against La Junta and US capitalism Cora Bergantinos, Socialist Alternative, New York
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California Wildfires: A Socialist Perspective

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Democratic National Convention Locks Out Workers and Progressives

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Blazing the Path for a New Left Party

A rebellion has broken out, beginning in Minneapolis (where both authors of this article live) and spreading throughout the country. The uprising...
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The Role of the Working Class in Fighting Racism

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Socialists and the State: How to End Racist Policing

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

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

https://youtu.be/1otoNhlh6nE "Dear friends and fellow activists, I want to thank everyone in the movement,...
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Over 1,500 Attend Historic Virtual Marxist University

Socialists from 37 countries attended the largest ever international gathering of International Socialist Alternative (formerly the CWI) between July 18 and 25.
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DSA Candidates Sweep New York State Primaries — Socialist Alternative Statement on Next Steps for the Socialist Movement

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

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

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...
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The Haitian Revolution and the Abolition of Slavery

Review of The Black Jacobins by C.L.R. James (published 1938) Max Toynbee, South London Socialist Alternative and NEU...
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BLM Takes the Court: Sports on Strike

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

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

After the brutal murder of George Floyd, Robin Diangelo’s 2018 book White Fragility: Why it’s so Hard for White People to Talk...
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Women's Rights

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

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

Jeffrey Epstein. Harvey Weinstein. Brett Kavanaugh. Donald Trump. Powerful, well-connected men have used their money and influence within the billionaire class to...
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Russia’s “Virus Trade Union” Needs Solidarity to End Victimization and Sexism at Wildberries

Virus Trade Union, Sotsialisticheskaya Alternativa (ISA in Russia) Most workers in Russia have no trade union protection, even when...
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Two Deadly Pandemics: COVID-19 and Violence Against Women

Leslie Kemp, Socialist Alternative (ISA in Canada) Canada’s deadliest mass shooting started after the gunman assaulted his partner. The...
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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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Argentina: Vultures Celebrate Foreign Debt Agreement

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

In the course of the past five years, there has been an enormous shift in political discourse in the U.S. on the...
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Education Under Attack: Defund the Police and Tax the Rich to Fund Our Schools

Teachers are currently faced with an impossible task: educating students online, many of whom don’t have access to technology, with little warning,...
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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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New York City’s Authorities Botch School Reopening

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

Educators and families fundamentally want the same thing out of our public education system: students to be safe and to succeed in...
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Defund the Police & Tax the Rich to Fund Our Schools!

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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

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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

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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

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Los Angeles Teachers Strike for an End to Privatization

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Community Blocks Privatization of Houston Schools

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

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Climate Change: The Devastating Prospects of Increasing Prolonged Droughts

The Urgent Need for System Change Capitalism is disrupting the existing water cycle through global warming all the...
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California Wildfires: A Socialist Perspective

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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Over 1,500 Socialists Participate in International Virtual Marxist University

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From July 18-25, over 1,500 activists from 34 countries attended International Socialist Alternative’s (ISA) first ever “Virtual Marxist University.” Socialist Alternative is...

Climate Meltdown & COVID-19: Capitalism is Sick, Working People Pay with their Lives

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In April, as countries across the world shut down and millions sheltered in place during the COVID-19 pandemic, daily fossil fuel emissions...

Climate Change and Environmental Catastrophe in Siberia: A Vicious Circle

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Rob Jones, Sotsialisticheskaya Alternativa (ISA in Russia) If Siberia were a country, it would be the biggest in the...

Billionaires Are Not Our Friends: The Limits of Planet of the Humans

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Michael Barker, Leicester Socialist Alternative (ISA in England, Wales, and Scotland) Planet of the Humans demands our attention and...

The Roots of COVID-19 & Capitalist Food Production

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Despite massive advances in medicine, immunology, virology and technology, the new strain of coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2, causing the COVID-19 illness) is causing human...

Canada: Widespread Wet’suwet’en Solidarity Shakes Trudeau

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By Chris Fofonoff, Socialist Alternative Canada Stop Press On Friday, February 21, Trudeau stated that “the...
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