Socialist Alternative

Why I’m Joining Democratic Socialists of America

February 26, 2021

By Kshama Sawant, Seattle City Councilmember The reemergence of a socialist movement in the United States, and rapid growth...

COVID Threat Still Looms: Immediate Action Needed

U.S. Politics February 25, 2021

A Socialist Strategy to Win $15 – Lessons from Seattle

Socialist Alternative In Action February 24, 2021

Marxism and Evolution: The Legacy of Darwin’s The Descent of Man

History February 24, 2021

Workers Freeze Due To Billionaire Greed

Environment February 24, 2021

More Unions are Endorsing Kshama Sawant Solidarity Campaign

Socialist Alternative In Action February 23, 2021

COVID Threat Still Looms: Immediate Action Needed

February 25, 2021

As winter storms blew across the U.S. this February, slowing the vaccine rollout nationwide, something strange happened: COVID numbers dropped dramatically, by...

Chaos in the Capitol: Build a Movement to Defeat the Far Right

#ResistTrump January 7, 2021

Kshama Sawant Denounces Far Right Violence at the Capitol, Calls on Labor Unions, Social Movements, and Socialists to Organize to Shut Down the Far...

Fighting Racism January 6, 2021

As 2021 Begins: American Capitalism Faces Multifaceted Crisis

Economy January 4, 2021

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Why I’m Joining Democratic Socialists of America

February 26, 2021

Environment

Workers Freeze Due To Billionaire Greed

February 24, 2021

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Vaccine Rollout Disaster: We Need a Public Plan For Mass Vaccinations

January 29, 2021

Fighting Racism

Why We Need to Actively Fight Racism Under Biden

January 29, 2021

A Socialist Strategy to Win $15 – Lessons from Seattle

February 24, 2021

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

Kshama Sawant: Solidarity To Amazon Workers in Bessemer, AL

The Aftermath of January 6: Build a Mass Movement Against the Far Right

Unsafe for Now: Fight for a Safe School Reopening

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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

Socialist Alternative In Action

A Socialist Strategy to Win $15 – Lessons from Seattle

February 24, 2021

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

Socialist Alternative In Action

More Unions are Endorsing Kshama Sawant Solidarity Campaign

February 23, 2021

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

Fight for 15

Who is Kshama Sawant?

February 1, 2021

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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Defeat Lightfoot’s Reckless School Reopening! Educators, Parents, and Students Should Decide

January 24, 2021

Melissa Vozar - CTU Member writing in personal capacity Chicago Public Schools have been thrown into chaos by an inflexible...

Fight for 15

Socialist Alternative on the Ground: Chicagoland Nursing Home Strike

January 23, 2021

Zack Murstein is a member of UFCW Local 881 in Chicago, IL and a member of Chicago Socialist Alternative.

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Worker's Movement

Kshama Sawant: Solidarity To Amazon Workers in Bessemer, AL

Who is Kshama Sawant?

Fight for 15 February 1, 2021

Unsafe for Now: Fight for a Safe School Reopening

Why We Need to Actively Fight Racism Under Biden

Fighting Racism January 29, 2021

Socialist Alternative on the Ground: Chicagoland Nursing Home Strike

Fight for 15 January 23, 2021

Theory

Marxism and Evolution: The Legacy of Darwin’s The Descent of Man

History February 24, 2021

Andy Ford, Merseyside Socialist Alternative February 24 is the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s ground-breaking 1871 book, The Descent...

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

Environment December 28, 2020

Book Review: The Return of Nature by John Bellamy Foster

Environment December 27, 2020

Friedrich Engels: A Revolutionary Thinker for a World in Turmoil

History November 28, 2020

No Time to Lose: How Do We Stop the Far Right?

Fighting Racism September 30, 2020

Fighting Racism

Why We Need to Actively Fight Racism Under Biden

January 29, 2021

For the last four years, Trump has roused and built a mass base around his reactionary agenda and given encouragement to organized...

Justice for Casey Goodson, Jr. — Fund Schools, Not Cops!

January 10, 2021

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

Kshama Sawant Denounces Far Right Violence at the Capitol, Calls on Labor Unions, Social Movements, and Socialists to Organize to Shut Down the Far...

January 6, 2021

‘The horrific demonstration of far right violence we’re seeing in DC today is a scary reminder that Trump may have lost the...

Austerity Budgets Are In Our Future: Minneapolis In the Wake of George Floyd

December 19, 2020

Democratic Party-run cities across the country are passing local budgets for 2021 in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic and after a...

Massive Victory for Women’s Rights in Argentina

February 2, 2021

Earlier this month, the government of Argentina enacted a law that massively expands abortion access. This is the culmination of an inspiring...

Poland: The Women’s Strike Movement and the Way Forward

January 30, 2021

When judges sitting as a “Constitutional Tribunal” ruled to make practically all cases of abortion illegal, even when the fetus has a...

Argentina: Abortion Legalized! A Triumph for the “Green Tide” Movement

January 30, 2021

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

Supreme Court Restricts Abortion Pill: Build a Mass Movement for Reproductive Freedom

January 18, 2021

On January 12, the Supreme Court handed down a ruling that would require people seeking medical abortions to obtain the pill in...

As 2021 Begins: American Capitalism Faces Multifaceted Crisis

January 4, 2021

It is clear we are living through a historic transition in the U.S. A devastating pandemic has triggered a...

Politicians Play With Our Lives: Struggle Needed to Win the Relief We Need

December 11, 2020

The U.S. government has not provided any relief for ordinary Americans in four months. An entire season has passed since the federal...

We Have to Fight for a Workers Recovery

October 2, 2020

In a crisis, the ruling class tends to sugarcoat the real economic situation. Politicians and mainstream media outlets are searching for any...

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

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

Unsafe for Now: Fight for a Safe School Reopening

February 1, 2021

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!

January 20, 2021

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 December 19, 2020

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 November 23, 2020

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

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...

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

Slider 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...

Environment

Workers Freeze Due To Billionaire Greed

February 24, 2021

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

Environment

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Socialist Alternative is in political solidarity with International Socialist Alternative.
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