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Never Another Trump: Why We Need a Working Class Party

Working people in the U.S. are facing a crisis of massive proportions. Decades of neoliberal attacks on unions and the gains of...
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Kshama Solidarity Campaign: Fighting Back Against Right-Wing Recall

Big business and the right wing are furious about the impact of socialist politics in Seattle and are going all-out to try...
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Stop the Station and End Gentrification: Defund the Pittsburgh Police to Fund Housing!

Pittsburgh became a major flashpoint in the Black Lives Matter movement two years ago after the police murder of unarmed teenager Antwon...
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NYC Tenants Fight Evictions on All Fronts: Interview

We interviewed Elin Miller, a tenants rights activist in New York City with the FullTime Tenants' Union and member of Socialist Alternative.
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Socialist Alternative In New Areas: Building in the South

Capitalism’s crises are worsening everywhere, and as working class people look for genuine solutions, many are turning to socialist ideas. Socialist Alternative...
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Why 2020 Is The Year To Join Socialist Alternative

2020 has been a nightmare of a year. The year kicked off on an apocalyptic note with the Australian wildfires and the...
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Justice for Walter Wallace Jr.

On Monday, the Philadelphia police shot and killed Walter Wallace Jr., a Black man with a history of mental illness. After a...
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Texas Republicans Close Ballot Drop Boxes and Force In-Person Voting Amidst Pandemic

UPDATE ON 11/1: Since the publishing of this article, further attacks from conservatives and Republicans in Texas have further jeopardized hundreds of...
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Racist Voter Suppression in Florida Foreshadows Chaotic Election Results

As we head into a contentious presidential election, Florida finds itself in a decisive position in the electoral landscape. If Trump is...
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Stop the Station and End Gentrification: Defund the Pittsburgh Police to Fund Housing!

Pittsburgh became a major flashpoint in the Black Lives Matter movement two years ago after the police murder of unarmed teenager Antwon...
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No More Names: Winning a World Free of Transphobic Violence

For transgender and genderqueer people, November 20 is a day of grief – a day that we honor the memory of trans...
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Scandal in International Institutions: Sex for Jobs, Food, Land

How neo-colonial capitalism underscores abuse by imperialist institutions Rose Lichtenstein, Workers and Socialist Party (ISA in South Africa)
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Amy Coney Barrett is Confirmed: How Do We Fight Trump’s Reactionary Supreme Court?

On Monday, the Senate approved Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court by a vote of 52-48, creating the most conservative court...
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Poland: Mass Movement in Defense of Abortion Rights

Covid Can’t Stop Mass Anger! Paweł Nowak, Alternatywa Socjalistyczna (ISA in Poland) Following last Thursday’s...
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Economy

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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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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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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Culture

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

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

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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...

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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Smoke Fills Skies as Climate Crisis Goes Unchecked

Photos of an eerie, dark orange sky covering Oakland, San Francisco, and other Bay Area cities circulated the internet earlier this month,...
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The New Climate Normal: Capitalism is Killing the Planet

In almost every metric to measure extreme weather, the Earth is breaking record after record, from the hottest heat waves to the...
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Climate Change: The Devastating Prospects of Increasing Prolonged Droughts

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

California Wildfires: A Socialist Perspective

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

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...
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