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In California, Jovanka Beckles Challenges the Democratic Establishment

October 12, 2018

The battle against the corporate establishment heated up in August when California Assembly District 15 candidate Jovanka Beckles released her bold new platform, calling for Medicare for All, a $20 minimum wage, a green jobs...

Can the Working Class Change Society? Socialists Say Yes

September 10, 2018

One hundred years after the Russian Revolution and 50 years after the revolutionary general strike in France in 1968, many on the left question whether the working class has a central role in changing society....

Committee for a Workers International School Report

September 10, 2018

Socialist Alternative is connected in political solidarity to the broad, cross-border movement for a socialist world through the Committee for a Workers International (CWI). The annual CWI summer school brings together activists from every inhabitable...

The Continued Power of the American Working Class – A review of Kim Moody’s Book: On New Terrain

June 4, 2018

As dynamic teacher strikes in the South are demonstrating the power of workers when organized into a determined struggle, it’s a good time to explore important questions about the strength and capacity of the working...

Seattle Affordable Housing Movement Gathers Momentum

October 2, 2017

That Seattle is in the midst of a housing crisis is indisputable. The latest one-night count of the city’s homeless population found 11,643 people living on the streets. Of those, around 5,000 became homeless in...

Socialist Alternative Talks Strategy at the People’s Convergence Conference

September 30, 2017

Three hundred activists gathered from September 8-10 at the People’s Convergence Conference in Washington, D.C. to discuss what it will take to defeat Donald Trump and what will be necessary to launch a new major...

Bernie Abandons the Revolution: Time to Back Jill Stein

July 13, 2016

Originally published at CounterPunch.org. Bernie Sanders’s endorsement of Hillary Clinton has hugely disappointed millions of his supporters. Many of those inspired by his call for a political revolution had held out hope, even until now,...

Justice for Philando – Stop Repression of Nonviolent BLM Activists

July 12, 2016

The Twin Cities, MN – After days of escalating protests in Minnesota following the police killing of Philando Castile, the Ramsey County Attorney has charged 48 people, including two members of Socialist Alternative MN, with...