330,188,679—this is the number of days that the average American will need to work in order to make what Elon Musk earned the day after Donald Trump’s election victory. Trump’s new cabinet, including Musk, is estimated to be worth $474 billion, equal to what 59 million average Americans have in their savings combined.
Most of us continue to live paycheck to paycheck, our wages are eaten by inflation, and it seems like the whole system is working against us. Never before was the gap between the haves and have nots been so big.
Socialist Alternative organized protests across the country the day after Trump got elected. We are committed to help fight his right-wing attacks on working and oppressed people.
We don’t have Amazon’s $2.5 trillion dollars which they use to fight union efforts. We rely on small donations to help organize in our workplaces against the billionaires.
Can you donate $250, $500, or $1,000 to help fight the Trump/Musk right-wing billionaire agenda?
Capitalism is in a global crisis. There are 56 military conflicts around the world today—more than at any time since World War II. Over a million people have died in the war in Ukraine and millions face starvation in Gaza, Sudan, and Haiti. The recent dramatic developments in Syria point towards a Middle East in complete crisis with no force pointing towards an end to the misery.
$2,443,000,000,000 was spent on the military by world powers, led by the US, China, and Russia, increasing their spending for nine years in a row. This is about ten times over what it would take to end world hunger. It would take 2% of US spending on the military to end homelessness in the US, but no major political party is even pretending to care.
International Socialist Alternative took part in protests across the world against the horrendous wars in Gaza and Ukraine. We need mass movements to fight imperialism!
We do not have the US military $850 billion which they use to bomb people across the world. We need your help in organizing anti-war protests and combating militarization.
Can you donate $100 or $200 to help fight militarization and war?
9,363 natural disasters were recorded in the last 24 years, an average of 390 each year. And yet, the most polluting powers have not even bothered to pretend to seek a solution when they boycotted the annual UN Climate Change Conference (COP29). Those who did attend agreed on less than a third of the money required to start combating climate change.
The crisis in the US healthcare system was not mentioned by either presidential candidate. Private insurers profit by AI to deny health claims. We face mounting debt while private healthcare companies make billions in profits and CEOs get millions in stock options. It is clear that we need a universal healthcare system, paid-for by taxing the rich.
Instead of confronting the biggest issues facing working people, right-wing forces around the globe are using mass anger to fuel hatred against migrants and asylum seekers, LGBTQ people, women, and other oppressed groups. It is clear that the dictatorship of the billionaires is holding humanity back from progress.
Faced with a reactionary Trump administration, backed by far-right forces and a right-wing Supreme Court, there’s a desperate need to rebuild a mass movement of working people to push back right-wing reaction. We need to pose a left-wing alternative to the thoroughly corporate Democratic Party and build a new political force fighting against war and imperialism, against attacks on immigrants and all oppressed people, for fully-funded social programs, free high-quality healthcare, public education, and affordable housing. We need mass investment to transition away from fossil fuel and into high-quality green energy, well-paid union jobs, and an end to the power of Wall Street.
There’s a Way Forward
The dire situation around the world might feel very demoralizing, but we need to remember that it is regular working people like us who produce Tesla’s wealth, oil Netanyahu’s tanks, process fossil fuels—and we can stop it too.
Across the world, working people are fighting back. Young people organized mass protests in Kenya and brought down the government in Bangladesh. Port workers in the US went on strike in East Coast and Gulf Coast ports; workers in South Korea went on the first ever Samsung strike and launched a general strike calling for the president’s resignation; Machinists at Boeing shut down production for two months; Tesla faced a strike in Sweden; and tens of thousands of postal workers are on strike in Canada. Earlier in the year, a general strike took place in Argentina to oppose right-wing Javier Milei’s anti-worker regime; a general strike took place in Israel against Netanyahu’s sabotage of a hostage deal; and general strikes took place in Guinea and Nigeria against austerity measures and arrests of trade union organizers.
Very few of us have any illusions that government officials, oil executives, or the courts will get us out of this crisis. Looking back at history, every major victory working people won took a mass struggle that challenged the whole system.
Socialist Alternative is committed to help build that struggle.
In 2024, our members were out protesting the Israeli genocidal war against the Palestinian masses; we organized an international campaign to release hundreds of people, including our member, jailed in Nigeria for protesting against government austerity; we worked alongside workers at Amazon and the US Post Office to fight for a strong union; we organized students to fight for LGBTQ rights; we protested against racist police brutality; and we organized a fight for full reproductive care and abortion rights.
We need your help in the fight against the bosses and their corporate right-wing representatives. Socialist Alternative is part of an international organization (ISA), carrying out a struggle against all forms of billionaire rule and oppression. From China to Nigeria, Israel-Palestine to Quebec, from Sweden to Brazil—we are out on the streets organizing workers, students, and community members to win a world free from poverty and oppression, a world where regular people are in charge of their own lives, where we democratically decide on how to run society—a socialist world.