The largest private sector strike in the U.S. in the past three years has ended. For eleven hard-fought days 31,000 Stop & Shop grocery-store workers across New England struck against company attacks on their wages […]
Bernie Sanders has formally launched his 2020 run for the US presidency, vowing to mount “an unprecedented and historic grassroots campaign that will begin with at least one million people from across the country.”
Strike claims a victory
Shutdown horror over: what now?
The system of capitalism is in serious crisis. With massive inequality, impending climate catastrophe, and the loss of confidence in political institutions, it is clear that the foundations of the system are beginning to shake. […]
How can we really defeat the right?
Socialist Alternative held its biggest ever National Convention on October 20-22. Over 300 socialists from across the country gathered in Chicago to talk about the crisis of global capitalism, the rising wave of labor struggle, […]
#MeToo hit the tech world as hundreds, possibly thousands, of Google employees, led by women, organized a historic walkout from work on November 1 at 11:10 AM. Spurred by a October 25 New York Times […]
On Saturday morning, 27 October, a man shouting anti-Semitic slogans opened fire at the Tree of Life Synagogue in the historically Jewish Squirrel Hill neighbourhood, in Pittsburgh. Eleven people were killed during the morning shabbat […]
For mass demonstrations to stop Kavanaugh!
Socialist strategy needed
On Wednesday, June 27, the Supreme Court issued its long awaited decision in the case of Janus v. AFSCME. This ruling is a bold escalation in the ongoing campaign by the right to clear the […]
In what can only be described as a political earthquake, left-wing insurgent Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defeated incumbent and Queens Democratic Party boss Joe Crowley by 15 percent in the primary for New York’s 14th Congressional District. […]
Only days after passing a tax on Amazon and big business in Seattle, corporate politicians repealed the ordinance. Socialists always emphasise that while we must fight to tax the rich, this will always be fiercely […]
On May 14, the Seattle City Council passed a historic tax on Amazon and other big corporations to fund permanently affordable, publicly owned housing. The driving force behind this victory was the strength of our […]
Militant strikes and mass demonstrations of tens of thousands of teachers, students and community supporters have spread like a wildfire across the states of West Virginia, Kentucky, Arizona, and Oklahoma since the end of February […]
Since the end February/early March 9 day strike by teachers and school staff in West Virginia teachers’ strikes and protests have taken place in Jersey City, Phoenix. Now there are “wildcat”, unofficial strikes taking place […]
The March for Our Lives was one of the single biggest days of protest in U.S. history. With hundreds of thousands in D.C., and tens of thousands in major cities across the country, there were […]
“Until they sign it, shut it down!” chanted West Virginia teachers from all 55 counties across the state at a demonstration in the capitol building on the eighth day of an illegal strike. The teachers, […]
Socialist Alternative in the US has published special material for International Women’s Day 2018 in the March edition of its newspaper. This includes a detailed analysis of the mass movements of the ‘60s and ‘70s’ […]
As we publish this, walkouts have been held in schools across the country in solidarity with students in Parkland, Florida. Hundreds of high school students walked out, marched, and rallied in Florida, Maryland, Arizona, Illinois, […]
The publication of Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff shook up the political terrain before the book was even released. Trump is no stranger to bizarre tweets, but his twitter […]
Build a mass women’s movement
On December 14, 2017 the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to give internet providers, such as Comcast and Verizon, the power to give preferential treatment to web content producers of their choosing. Under the current […]
Socialism is rising again
Ryan Timlin, a member of Socialist Alternative and longtime labor activist, ran recently for president of Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 1005, representing Transit Workers in Minneapolis. Ryan won unopposed and therefore is now the […]
In the United States city of Minneapolis, Socialist Alternative member Ginger Jentzen’s City Council campaign is shaking the political establishment to its core. Running on a strong socialist platform, Ginger is fighting for bold policies […]
Trump’s regime is unpredictable and deeply reactionary. In just a few months, he has threatened disastrous war while carrying out attacks on immigrants, LGBTQ people, the environment, women’s rights, and health care – just to […]
After months of promising Dreamers that they had nothing to worry about and that he had a “big heart,” Trump sent out arch-reactionary AG Jeff Sessions to announce the repeal of DACA (Deferred Action for […]
Hurricane Harvey is a historic tragedy affecting millions of people. Socialist Alternative wishes to express our deepest solidarity to all those who have lost loved ones or homes, and will face hardship for weeks to […]
On Saturday August 19, one week after the events of Charlottesville, Virginia, 40,000 people marched and rallied against an alt-right “free speech” protest in the Boston Common. Boston has demonstrated to the rest of the […]
Mass demonstrations and a left alternative needed to fight the right
Attacks will continue – Medicare for All!
Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey last week has led to a spiralling political crisis in Washington. The sharp divisions in the political establishment and within the state apparatus have become even sharper due […]
Big business and DFL establishment join forces…Don’t Let Corporate Cash Buy this Election!
No support for Trump or Assad – For workers’ unity.Working people in the U.S. and around the world were understandably horrified by the images of children dying from Sarin gas in Idlib, Syria. It is […]
Kshama Sawant, Socialist Alternative councillor, speaks.Sisters and Brothers, in just five weeks, Donald Trump has unleashed a series of vicious attacks on one group of Americans after another: From his Muslim ban to the ramping […]
Escalate the resistance toward shutdowns on March 8 and May 1! Donald Trump and his bigoted, billionaires-club administration have ignited a social explosion unlike any that has ever greeted an incoming US president.
Establishment deeply divided as mass resistance explodes. One of the most reactionary, bigoted and predatory Administrations in modern history has officially taken office. The incoming Trump Presidency, from the vicious tweets to the bizarre press […]
Reports from mass women’s marches against Trump. Below we post the editorial from this week’s issue of the Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales) following the mass anti-Trump demonstrations last weekend, […]
Photo gallery selection of CWI actions during weekend of mass protests. Donald Trump’s inauguration saw millions take to the streets of cities across the US and worldwide, on Friday 20 January, and especially on Saturday 21st. […]
Socialist council member speaks. Donald Trump is now Predator in Chief, and head of one of the most dangerous and right wing administrations in U.S. history.
CWI organizes protests as millions prepare to fight Trump’s agenda. On January 20 and 21, as Donald Trump will be marching into the White House to become the new President of the United States, millions of […]
Important precedent for using city bonding authority to build homes. Housing activists in Seattle, organized into the Coalition to Build 1,000 Homes, scored a major victory, winning $29 million for affordable housing in the 2017-2018 budget. […]
Workers need for own party, independent of corporate cash
Mass resistance needed!
Inauguration protests can serve as a launching pad for a massive grassroots resistance to Donald Trump’s new administration
Protest around the world on Trump’s inauguration, January 20 and 21
Authorities agree to re-route oil pipeline
We must prepare massive resistance!
In less than 24 hours, 40,000 people answered our call
A Presidency of chaos and struggle
Polls showed that Donald Trump was the most hated Presidential candidate in the history of this country. Yet the Wall Street, Wal-Mart, warmonger Clinton couldn’t defeat him…
Whoever wins tomorrow will enter office facing unprecedented levels of popular hostility
Change through mass struggle – a new party should act as an organizing and for solidarity
After elections, explosive struggles will provide opportunities to win victories for working people
Support Jill Stein
Political polarisation deepens
We need a new party of the 99% to defeat the billionaire class
Walk out from the Democratic National Convention!
Time to back Green candidate Jill Stein
Still not with her
Orlando – massive wave of solidarity with LGBTQ community
Surge in support for petition initiated by socialist councillor Kshama Sawant
Stand with our LGBTQ Sisters and Brothers! Fight back against Scapegoating & Islamophobia!
Why we need new party of the 99%
15,000 demonstrate
Continuing the Political Revolution
Bernie’s political revolution will be strangled if it remains imprisoned within the corporate-controlled Democratic Party.
Huge enthusiasm for Bernie Sanders’ call for a political revolution leads to serious challenge to Hillary Clinton
Build a #Movement4Bernie to Defeat the Billionaire Class and the Democratic Party Establishment.
Bernie Sanders’ call for a political revolution against the billionaire class enthuses millions
“It’s too late for establishment politics, establishment economics!”
Solidarity message from the Committee for a Workers’ International
Kshama Sawant replies to Obama’s "State of the Union" speech
Human beings have radically altered the Earth, adapting nature in the struggle to survive and thrive…
Socialist alternative to big business popular across the USA
Kshama Sawant’s message to ’Socialism 2015’ event in London
The established political order in the US has been shaken up by Bernie Sanders’ campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination…
A geopolitical weapon for US and Japanese capitalism against China
"There has never been a better time to become a socialist and join Socialist Alternative." – Kshama Sawant
Nationalism, repression and neoliberal economic ‘reform’ hallmarks of Xi’s rule
Seattle City Councillor Kshama Sawant co-signs protest letter to visiting Chinese President Xi
Seattle socialist primary election success
Kshama Sawant, Seattle’s socialist councillor defending seat in primary elections on 4 August
Campaign needs to build independent political power
The aftermath of Freddie Gray’s death
Snapshot of the movement – the fight for $15 in 7 major cities
Coalition of students and workers demand $15 minimum wage at University of Washington
"Why can’t Barack Obama say “Black Lives Matter”?"
From Ferguson to Staten Island
Big Gains for Republicans while Voters Support Progressive Ballot Measures
61% support for Kshama Sawant in her electoral district…Jess Spear`s campaign against one of the most powerful corporate politicians in Washington State gaining momentum…indications of yearning for representation for working class people
Spreading and organising the movement for decent wages
Text of a leaflet handed out by Socialist Alternative members in Ferguson and St. Louis
Spread the protests – unite against racism and inequality
“We’ve only just gotten started”
Celebrating the 80th Anniversary of the 1934 Minneapolis Strikes
Article in British ’Observer’ newspaper
“We have a world to win.”
How Socialists Built a Winning Movement
Pictures from the conference
A socialist strategy
"We need our own political party. Independent of big business, and independent of the parties of big business"
Who would have imagined that in a major American city, at a post election inauguration ceremony attended by 1,000 people, a new, directly elected Mayor and other members of the City Council would be completely […]
Hundreds gather to witness socialist’s historic inauguration
Join the Fight for a $15/hour Minimum Wage!
Obama’s speech falls far short of what’s needed to tackle historic levels of inequality
Black Friday and beyond
“Earth-shattering consequences” in the US and internationally
Victory rally in Seattle sets the tone for struggles ahead and more historic opportunities for the socialist left
Democrat Richard Conlin concedes to Socialist Alternative challenger
Big success for $15/hour minimum wage campaign; breakthrough for independent working class politics
Strongest showing by socialists in decades – Opportunities for working-class politics must be seized
Great momentum for Socialist Alternative’s candidates sees major national lobby group and big business stepping in for opponents
Governmental shutdown reveals again the need for a new party of the 99%
Break with the Democrats, Corporate America’s Other Party of War!
Obama – guilty by omission
Growing prospects for a new movement
Seamus Whelan, a registered nurse and union activist, member of Socialist Alternative, is running for City Council in Boston, and this campaign is helping to build the struggles organized by working people in the city.
In an unprecedented move, the 30,000 strong Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Minnesota State Council endorsed Socialist Alternative candidate Ty Moore for Minneapolis City Council.
35%, over 44,000 votes – Kshama Sawant’s stunning result in Seattle primary
Socialist campaign is gaining support and momentum over Democrat’s challengers
Seattle Gives Green Light to Oust Richard Conlin from City Hall
2013 has seen a continuation unrelenting assault on women’s rights
Anti-foreclosure group Stand Against Foreclosures and Evictions (SAFE), Seattle Socialist Alternative, City Council candidate Kshama Sawant, and other allies gathered to peacefully resist an eviction.
The racist system is guilty!
Socialist Campaign Gaining Broad Support
Rather than paying lip service to issues important to LGBT people, the Kshama Sawant campaign used the opportunity to reach thousands of people with our message of truly fighting for the far-reaching change that LGBT […]
Fighting poverty pay
Disband the NSA! Repeal the Patriot Act!
Tremors of the coming revolt
Teachers at Garfield High school in Seattle, Washington, faced down possible suspension for boycotting the winter Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) test, which purports to evaluate student progress in reading and maths.
NO to Racism and Repression
The bombings today [15 April 2013] at the Boston Marathon are an absolute tragedy and a horror that shouldn’t happen in Boston or anywhere else in the world.
Fight Global Warming!
Socialist Challenges Democratic Party Establishment
What Now? — Reflections from a DC Protester
Secret measure to end collective bargaining over health care for Illinois public employees
Ty Moore accused of civil disobedience at Housing Justice rally
What is more unpopular than cockroaches, traffic jams, and used car salesmen? According to a new poll, the U.S. Congress.
Huge opening for the left
8,000 school bus drivers and matrons have struck for the first time in over three decades
The massive social struggles around the civil war bring up important issues that are played out in the continuing battles today to end racial, class, sexual and gender exploitation under U.S. and global capitalism.
Capitalism Has Failed the Environment
Voters Affirm Marriage Equality in Four States
Sandy was the largest Atlantic hurricane on record. It left a trail of destruction from the Caribbean and across the Eastern seaboard of the United States all the way to Canada.
Historic Opportunities to Challenge Corporate Politics
Prepare to Fight the Bipartisan Policies of the 1%
Prepare to Fight the Bipartisan Policies of the 1%
US elections
Aftermath of Sandy further exposes corporate domination of governing institutions
US presidential race gap closes
Prepare now for a further struggle to defend public education
A promising mass movement was turned into a electoral contest between two corporate-controlled political parties
Interview with Kshama Sawant in Seattle
It’s time to build a left-wing, anti-corporate, pro-worker party for workers and youth
The movement transformed consciousness among the broad mass of workers and young people
Kshama Sawant groundbreaking campaign
The preliminary count shows success for Kshama Sawant, the Socialist candidate, running against Democratic incumbent Jamie Pedersen in 43rd District.
End police brutality, racial profiling, and other racist practices
SWAT team armed with automatic weaponry raids home
“Despite being faced with virtual decimation of the public sector unions, the union leadership shrank from wielding its most powerful weapon: the strike”
Minneapolis anti-foreclosure movement confronts banks, politicians, and police
Anyone interested in socialist ideas is invited to attend
Despite denials by police department officials, racial profiling continues unabated in New York and other cities across the US
A party of the working class is needed to defend workers in Wisconsin and beyond
Continuing actions planned following 5 eviction attempts and 23 arrests in the past week
"During an election dominated by career politicians who are loyal to big business, I am running as a Socialist Alternative candidate to make sure there is at least one independent left-wing, pro-worker candidate in Washington […]
Step up the Struggle for Equality
Perspectives for Struggle in 2012
Lessons from the working-class revolt of 2011
The two major parties are in a state of unprecedented crisis.
Mass struggle wins contract for dockers
On February 26, 17-year old Trayvon Martin was murdered in cold blood. He was unarmed. His only crime was being young, black, and wearing a hoodie.
Fight Against Corporate Politics
Key Battle for the Labour and Occupy Movements
The occupy movement brought opposition to capitalism from the margins into the mainstream
Picket in New York protests against the Kazakh mission to the UN
Police violence follows
"Build actions to put millions in the streets across the US – United mass mobilizations needed to protest police crackdowns, and stop the cuts, layoffs, foreclosures, and tuition hikes"
Tents back up in Seattle as the Occupy Wall Street movement scores another big victory
"Follow Oakland’s example: For mass actions to fight against cuts and foreclosures"
Occupiers’ call for a “general strike” finds positive echo in labor movement
What should the next step be for the ’Occupy’ movement
Let #OccupySeattle stay at Seattle Central Community College!
Big Victory for Occupy Wall Street Movement
600 to 800 students joined student strikes
How can we take the struggle forward?
Struggle continues despite police repression
End the Dictatorship of Wall Street!
Wall street occupation continues and spreads
The Execution of Troy Davis
Divisions Deepen in the Democratic Party
Seattle, Tacoma, and Everett ports all reportedly shut down
When workers shut down GM
SocialistAlternative.org interviewed a package handler, "Steven" at FedEx in Brockton, Massachusetts, who led a union drive with his co-workers.
US recovery strangled and European debt crisis deepening
This is not the “hope” or “change” millions of Americans voted for
In the hearts and minds of workers particularly black workers, the poor, and youth across the world, Malcolm X remains an icon of revolutionary spirit and commitment to justice, freedom, and liberty for the most […]
Toward a new, winning strategy
Socialist Alternative (CWI in the US) debates WA State Senator Ed Murray (Democrats) about budget cuts, taxing the rich, and the role of the Democratic Party.
Since the mass protests, much of the energy against Walker has been channeled into a series of recall campaigns.
How Will Republicans Perform in 2012?
Resist Illinois Senate Bill 7!
Is There an Alternative to Cuts?
Rant reflects establishment concerns at rise of class struggles
Regional protests on April 9 in New York and San Francisco are part of the process of rebuilding a anti-war voice.
When protests for workers’ rights erupted in Madison, Wisconsin, high school students from across the city took to the streets as well to show their solidarity with their teachers. They organized walkouts and marches that […]
We need to build a mass movement that can defeat Walker
One Day General Strike needed to build fightback against Walker’s Bill!
Urgent need to step up mass opposition struggle
Immediately Organize a One-Day General Strike! — Republicans use illegal maneuver to bust unions
CALL A ONE DAY PUBLIC SECTOR GENERAL STRIKE NEXT WEEK!
Women will be propelled to the forefront of struggles
Public sector general strike in Wisconsin
Build for a state-wide, one-day public sector general strike!
For an All-Out Mobilization. To stop Walker in his tracks!
Urgent Solidarity needed – Support Shawn Whatley! Stop all retaliations against Georgia prison strike activists!
The Struggle Continues
Deficit Commission’s Bitter Medicine
The Struggle for LGBT Rights Continues
The attack of Gabrielle Giffords and the killing of six other people is a warning to working people about the serious political danger involved in the rise of the extreme right wing.
Both Parties Plan Attacks on Working People
Tax Deal Provokes Fury on the Left
After December’s mass action, build a mass movement to end the "new Jim Crow" policy of mass incarceration!
WikiLeaks Pulls Back the Curtain on U.S. Empire
Millions were hoping for radical change
Prepare to Defend Our Pensions
Democrats Failure Shows Need for New Party
Jesse Lessinger, Socialist Alternative (CWI USA)
Community Defense Campaign Immediately Launched
Socialist Report and Analysis
The October 2nd “One Nation” event has been pegged as a march for jobs for all, “and an economy that works for working people; funding for education and health care, not warfare; clean, renewable energy; […]
Tea Party Candidate Upsets Republican Party Pick for Governor of New York
The U.S. ruling class is trying to make workers and youth in the 50 states and in Puerto Rico pay for a crisis we didn’t create. Puerto Rican youth have stood up, fought back and […]
Every day, we’re all bombarded with images soliciting us to buy products. Companies spend millions of dollars during the Super Bowl for a 30-second ad alone.
Capitalism isn’t working. This is the conclusion being drawn by increasing numbers of workers and young people as seemingly every week a new crisis dominates the headlines.
As the 2010 elections approach, millions of working people and young people who are looking to fight against the right-wing corporate agenda will be confronted with the question: Should I give my vote to the […]
Ten months after President Obama announced he would add 31,000 more United States troops to the war in Afghanistan, his surge is showing signs of failing.
On August 28, the right-wing populist Tea Party Movement, an assortment of conservative organizations, and Fox News commentator Glenn Beck will descend on Washington, D.C. for the so-called “Restoring the Honor” rally.
According to President Obama, America has come “90 percent of the way” towards ending racism. This statement, however, is violently contradicted by the brutal police killing of Oscar Grant, a young black man, by a […]
Socialist Alternative representative Ramy Khalil debated Tea Party leader Keli Carender on radio
Words fail to fully describe the devastation in the gulf. Eleven lives lost, ecosystems destroyed, thousands of livelihoods are ruined, and the calamity continues. This will become the greatest environmental disaster in U.S. history.
On March 30 of this year, the New York Times reported “the Obama administration is proposing to open vast expanses of water along the Atlantic coastline, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the north coast […]
A review of the book:” Tearing Down the Gates : Confronting the Class Divide in American Education”, by Peter Sacks
The right-wing populist, anti-government, anti-Obama Tea Party movement has kept making headlines over the past year.
Spring 2010 was a season of resurgence for the immigrant rights movement, with the largest demonstrations since the immigrant rights movement erupted in 2006.
Sheehan’s statements identify capitalism as the root cause of the world’s problems and democratic socialism as the alternative
In the largest nurses’ strike in U.S. history, 12,000 walked out of 14 Twin Cities (Minnesota) hospitals on June 10th, and are set to strike again.
Transition to Clean Energy NOW!
Union election a major blow to Obama’s “reform” agenda
The disaster caused by the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig was a human disaster but not of the workforce’s making. It is due to decisions of the oil companies and the US government.
Over 140 people discuss socialist politics
Break with the two Corporate Parties!
For updates see templewatch.org 1,000 nurses and 500 professional/technical workers at Temple University Hospital are now in the third week of a strike after working without a contract for the last six months. The workers […]
But is this a reason to celebrate?
California students and unions show way forward
How the Republicans Won in the Country’s Biggest Democratic Stronghold
End the Occupation! Troops Home Now!
What has changed?
End the Occupation – Bring the Troops Home Now!
Build a movement to change the UAW!
What is the Alternative?
Greens reject “business as usual”
End the Occupation!
While Wall Street profits soar
Big-Business agenda fuels discontent
The limits of reform from above – the need for struggle from below
Retool GM to Produce Mass Transit Vehicles!
Disaster worsened by profit system
Taxpayers foot the bill for CEO bonuses
Nationalize and re-tool to save jobs!
Behind Obama’s troop withdrawal plan
Can they stop the economic collapse?
Over 50,000 gather to protest attacks on public sector.
Marx on the cover of time magazine in Europe – Capitalism losing legitimacy
A report from the streets of Washington
Is Martin Luther King’s dream fulfilled?
What change will the Democrats bring?
Another victim of the system
Inspirational example for workers’ fighting cutbacks
A Militant Example of the Way Forward for the Labour Movement
Interview with striking machinist
Nader’s Campaign for President
S-Word is Suddenly Hot Subject
Millions of you and workers step forward into political activity
Anti-war Mom Calls For New Party, Polls 17% Against Nancy Pelosi
But Will He Deliver?
We all have a stake in this fight
Where is the presidential election going?
Week of police repression against peaceful protests
Union adopts socialist demands on housing crisis
Nader, McKinney, and the Greens
The Radical Life of Martin Luther King Jr.
Racism in America
Build Nader’s anti-war, anti-corporate campaign
Ten things you should know
Fundamental problems of yesterday remain today.
Barack Obama frontrunner in Democrats’ presidential candidature race
Barack Obama becomes frontrunner in Democrats’ presidential race
Tukwila School authorities forced to back down
Electorate looking to shed the legacy of the Bush administration
Behind the rhetoric of "hope" and "change"
Union Leaders’ Historic Sellout of Workers
Enthusiastic response to socialist policies
Bringing socialist ideas to working class communities and youth
In July, anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan announced that she would challenge Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for her California congressional seat in 2008. Explaining her reasons for running, Sheehan, whose son was killed in Iraq, […]
Student action wins concessions
The 1 August collapse of the I-35W bridge across the Mississippi river is a tragedy on a grand scale for the state of Minnesota.
Seattle students shut down school board
Hundreds of thousands march against immigration raids
School board under pressure to restrict military recruiters
Area campaign reaches out to working class
Fourth anniversary of Iraq invasion
But will the Democrats allow change from within?
But what can we expect from Democrats?
But who is getting richer?
Serving soldiers join mass demonstrations
Urgent solidarity appeal.
Green elected mayor of Richmond, California
Interview with leading organizer Jesse Diaz, leading organizer of the immigrant rights movement in LA and the May 1 immigrant workers strike in the US
Working class leadership needed against racism and poverty
Millions of immigrant workers take to the streets
Four students arrested
System change needed
The importance of the immigrant rights’ movement
Analysis and tasks
A socialist strategy
Explosion of mass demonstrations as immigrants protest in their millions
’Immigrants General Strike’ called for 1 May
No to anti-immigrant legislation! Full rights for immigrants – papers for all!
3rd anniversary of Bush’s war
Corruption at the Heart of Corporate Politics
Polls in the US, the day before yesterday, proved how pessimism about the Iraq war and dissaproval with Bush’s domestic policies have pushed approval ratings to an all-time low. Only 34% of the American public […]
Delphi delays attacks to prevent autoworkers strike
Workers show their militancy
Sixty hours of workers’ power
Transit workers strike is a fight for every working family in New York
The following email and phone number can be used by CWI members and supporters to send messages of support to the striking transit workers in New York.
Support Transit Workers’ Fight for a Decent Contract!
Thousands leave class rooms across country
Lift the suspension threats – Urgent solidarity needed!
Is this the beginning of a new movement?
“Build an independent party to represent working people”
Anger at Iraqi occupation and New Orleans disaster
Hurricane Katrina carnage shows brutal logic of neo-liberalism
What hurricane Katrina shows about US capitalism
US socialists call for action programme after hurricane disaster
Hundreds of thousands are left homeless. Tens of thousands have been shipped to Texas as refugees. Buildings have collapsed. Entire communities have been reduced to rubble. The city of New Orleans, one of the centres […]
Leaving workers to crash
How Can We Unionize Wal-Mart?
AFL-CIO convention
The resignation of Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor has opened up the most contentious political battle so far of Bush’s second term.
Banks and credit card companies celebrate
Students succeed in right to campaign against military recruitment
Unions outraged by governor’s “kicking their butts” threat
Time to mobilise and fight back!
Today, 5 May, we ae planning to hold a teach-in against military recruitment in schools. However, under pressure from the JROTC at my school, my principal, Sharon Schauss, informed me yesterday that our meeting would […]
Socialist Alternative joined with other community organizations to lead the largest anti-war events held in Boston since Bush’s re-election.
Walk into any big chain restaurant around the country and the scene will predictably be the same: fresh-faced workers hustling and bustling around the dining room and kitchen bussing tables, waiting on customers, and cooking […]
Jessica Pruitt’s father served in the Vietnam War, and her brother-in-law is currently stationed in Fallujah. Justice (journal of Socialist Alternative) spoke with Jessica about how she and her friends and family are dealing with […]
Debate within the movement
Even though less than one third of voters actually turned out for Bush last November, the Democratic Party has taken his victory as a sign that America in general is moving to the right. To […]
We won’t go back, we will fight back!
"More than 50 million [U.S.] workers don’t have a union but want one. Few workers are able to join unions and their strength is divided … into separate unions instead of building their strength in […]
Solidarity appeal forces authorities to drop ban against anti-Iraq war activists
Lynne Stewart was shocked when she was arrested. At first she thought her husband, a well known activist, was having some trouble with the police. "No," they said, "we want you."
Why workers should oppose Bush’s privatization plan
Mass action needed to stop the Bush offensive
Many people know that we still have a long way to go to achieve workplace equality in the U.S. But what many do not realize is that the problem is getting worse, not better.
With millions of people paying much closer attention to politics during the election season, Socialist Alternative played a very active role in the Nader campaign.
Cracks in the two-party system keep appearing every year.
The Nader campaign provoked an important debate on the corporate character of the Democratic Party and the need to break from it, but it also inspired a discussion about how best to organize this break. […]
Was it worth voting for Kerry after all?
New allegations of voting irregularities
Democrats’ failure shows need for new workers’ party
Was it worth voting for Kerry after all?
On Sunday, 17 October, thousands of workers converged on Washington DC to voice opposition to the policies of US big business. Bryan Koulouris, Socialist Alternative (US CWI) Working people in the US have been under […]
Interview with a Pizza Hut worker fighting for a union
Symptoms of a sick culture
Underfunding 101
Counting the extra $87 billion Congress approved for the war in Iraq, last year’s U.S. military budget totaled over $488 billion. The government spends workers’ tax money to invade and occupy Iraq, while U.S. public […]
Can we reign in corporate power within capitalism? Or is socialism necessary?
A battle between warmongers
How big business runs Washington D.C.
An independent anti-war, anti-corporate party is needed
Choosing between two evils
Ralph Nader’s hard-hitting critique of corporate power and the two-party system is striking a chord with millions of workers and young people.
Campaigns against the occupation of Iraq and anti war demonstrations have been spearheaded by the families of military personnel. Socialist Voice spoke to one such family member currently working in Ireland, Wayne Scott Feller, whose […]
Politicians, the media, and our education system continually tell us the U.S. is the epitome of a free and democratic nation, that we have the "greatest democracy in the world."
Coming soon to Washington DC
The Democrats’ dirty tricks
Bush’s brutal war in Iraq is shaping up to be the central issue in the 2004 presidential election.
The case for Nader in 2004
The Republican National Convention has invaded New York City.
While the last preparations were being put in place for the corporate-sponsored, stage-managed "Democratic" Party Convention, independent left-wing presidential candidate Ralph Nader spoke in Boston about why he’s determined to challenge the two party status […]
Protest the RNC in NYC
Stop military recruitment
Although President Bush’s approval ratings have reached an all-time low, John Kerry has gained little, according to a CBS/New York Times poll released in late June.
Nader’s anti-war challenge
“Working-class brothers and sisters in uniform died in Iraq for profits”
Ronald Reagan, the B-movie actor who became the 40th president of the USA (1981-88) has died aged 93. Wall Street will stay closed for Reagan‘s state funeral, a salute to the godfather of today‘s stock […]
The women’s liberation movement of the 1960s and ’70s reached its peak when women won the right to choose an abortion and the Supreme Court legalized the procedure in the 1973 Roe v. Wade case. […]
Can we rely on the Democrats?
The fight for same-sex marriage rights
Socialist Alternative plays key role in organising event
Lessons of the California grocery workers strike
Military Families Speak Out against Bush’s war and lies
Women in occupied Iraq
Bush & Kerry are hazardous to your healthcare
Fighting for a fair slice of the pie
Can the Democratic Party be pulled to the left?
Why you should support Nader in 2004
Jeff: The campaign has leafleted the community and done outreach to co-workers. We leafleted at a HUCTW rally and intervened with a No Layoffs banner and leaflets at a speech by Larry Summers, the president […]
Bush attacks women’s right to choose
Solidarity appeal for striking transit workers in the Twin Cities, Minnesota, March 8, 2004
It’s time to break from the two-party system!
Politicians and economists have been trumpeting the "recovery" in the US economy, heralding it as the sign of a new period of growth for the world economy.
How could Hollywood muscle-man Arnold Schwarzenegger win the California Governor recall election?
Are the Democrats a viable alternative to Bush?
Earlier this fall, with healthcare costs spiraling upward and new Census data showing increasing numbers of Americans without health insurance, the Bush administration quietly changed federal regulations to allow hospitals to turn away more low-income […]
There has been a real shift in public opinion against President Bush and his war in Iraq since he declared victory in Iraq on May 1.
On October 21, the University of Minnesota (U of M) was shocked by its first strike in 60 years.
PRESIDENT GEORGE W Bush summed it up best during a recent speech when he said: "These are historic times". The last few years have ushered in a new era of poverty, war and frustration for […]
On October 22 clerical workers at the University of Minnesota walked away from their desks and onto picket lines demanding a fair contract.
An estimated 50,000 people took part in the first national demonstration in the US against the occupation of Iraq, in Washington DC, last Saturday, 25 October.
Rising tuition pricing students out of education
There was a 300-strong rally and march against the US military occupation of Iraq in Seattle on 6 October. The protest was primarily organised by the Seattle branch of ‘Not In Our Name (NION)’.
Sunday, September 28, the Seattle Chapter of ANSWER, the US anti-war umbrella organisation, held a protest against the US occupation of Iraq.
Free the bin tax two
In July, the Green Party held its national convention. While putting off endorsing a 2004 presidential candidate until next summer, the Greens made public the "mood" of convention delegates in favor of running someone. Ralph […]
Wal-Mart has become the world’s largest corporation, having surpassed ExxonMobil for the slot, and is now the country’s largest private employer.
Federal proposal provokes mass opposition
Under the current healthcare system, 42 million people have no healthcare coverage. The US spends more money on healthcare than any other country, yet tens of millions aren’t covered.
The US superpower’s quick victory over a fourth-rate military power allowed Bush and the neo-conservative hawks who run the US government, such as Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Wolfowitz, to emerge temporarily strengthened. The US victory in […]
As we head into the second half of the third year of the reign of George Bush the Younger, the hatred of millions of workers, youth, and people of color against him and his neo-conservative […]
"Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised."
Bush administration hawks will consider their victory in Iraq a vindication of their aggressive, militaristic approach to world problems, and that nothing will stop them from bulldozing ahead with their right-wing agenda. In reality, they […]
The University of Massachusetts (UMass) was on spring break for Day X, but we decided to go ahead with the walkout on Monday 24 March. Four activists met over the weekend to organise the walkout, […]
At least 3,000 – 4,000 students and at least 41 schools walkout out of classes on Day X to protest against the war. 1,500 mostly high school students rallied at the University of Minnesota (U […]
The student walkout in Seattle on Thursday 20 March was a tremendous success. Students from over 30 Seattle colleges, high schools and middle schools (8 colleges and 22 high schools and middle schools) took part […]
THE LOOMING US-led war on Iraq is causing uncertainties for capitalist investors. However, one section of big business hopes that a post-Saddam Iraq will become a lucrative venture.
“If our great country becomes involved in an all-out war, the sacrifice must be shared. In that regard, I am preparing legislation to authorise instatement of the universal draft and other forms of mandatory national […]
Today’s anti-war protests in the US and around the world were massive, in many places the largest protests in decades and the largest anti-war protests since the Vietnam War. In total, there were demonstrations in […]
Mayor Bloomberg’s administration in New York (and the Bush administration standing behind the Republican city boss) has shown their true ‘democratic’ colours by banning the right to march and protest against the war on Iraq. […]
How the Reagan/Bush Sr. administrations backed Saddam
On 18 January, the growing anti-war movement in the US took another important step forward when a crowd estimated at over 200,000 braved the cold and marched on the Naval Yard in Washington DC. The […]
With the city plunging into fiscal crisis and facing the threat of bankruptcy, budget and services cuts are announced on an almost daily basis.
On Saturday, 26 October there was a 4,000-strong Seattle protest organised by the Seattle anti-war coalition. This rally drew mainly white-collar workers, and many middle class white Democrats.
WHAT DOES President Bush mean to fight a war in Iraq for? Democracy? An end to tyranny? Far from it.
In a major attack on all workers, President Bush has invoked the anti-union Taft Hartley Act to force locked-out Longshore workers back to work.
THOUSANDS OF demonstrators staged a spirited march and rally as part of a week of events against the IMF and World Bank in Washington DC last weekend – despite the arrest of 659 people by […]
Thirty years ago in Vietnam, the US government was defeated for the first time in a major war.
Our society has an obscene gulf between rich and poor. The private assets of the 200 richest people are more than the combined incomes of the poorest 2.4 billion people – almost half the world’s […]
As the Bush administration seems increasingly set on launching a war against Iraq, the opposition of US "allies" and even a section of the American establishment are becoming more vocal.
On September 28 and 29, politicians and corporate representatives in our nation’s capital will again be besieged by tens of thousands of protesters opposing their agenda of war and corporate globalization. What’s happening in DC […]
This year marks the 90th anniversary of the "Bread and Roses" strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts that occurred in the winter of 1912.
From July 25-28th the Labor Party is holding its third national convention in Washington DC. However, there is a sharp contrast between the lack of interest in this convention compared with the excitement of the […]
"We are in the midst so far of a jobless recovery and a profitless recovery. That is a double whammy on financial markets.", Sung Won Sohn, chief economist at Wells Fargo.
The Teflon is finally wearing off President George W. Bush. After getting elected through a legal coup, and diminished popularity, the atrocity of 9/11 sent the Bush administration’s ratings into the stratosphere as the mass […]
The revelations about the sexual abuse of children in the U.S. Catholic Church have become an enormous issue for the nation’s 64 million Roman Catholics, and for society as a whole. When the scandal first […]
40,000-75,000 protested in Washington DC on April 20th against Bush’s "War on Terrorism" and its possible extension to Iraq, US aid to Colombia, the School of the Americas, and the annual meeting of the IMF […]
From January 31st through February 4th, workers, youth, environmentalists, and an assortment of activists welcomed the corporate elites of the World Economic Forum to New York City, with rousing protests of over 10,000 people.
Reports from US and Israel
Boston’s 2002 May Day rally was called by the local AFL/CIO together with immigrant organisations in support of immigrant rights and legalisation of immigrants. AFL-CIO leader Linda Chavez-Thompson and local immigrant and union leaders spoke. […]
Opinion polls in the US show overwhelming support for military action in Afghanistan. But as Diane Stokes in Chicago reports, the mood is more complex than the polls would suggest.
The terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington, DC Tuesday September 11 were a horrific tragedy. Socialist Alternative sends all those who lost loved ones and friends and all of those injured its deepest […]
I was out in the street in Greenwich Village and I saw part of the first World Trade Centre Towers collapse.
An indication of coming struggles recently manifested itself in a strike at two nursing homes in Massachusetts. Significantly, as a result of it, wages were increased more than ever before. (There was a stipulation that […]
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