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United States: Undefeated – Lessons from 10 years of a socialist in office
Long before Bernie Sanders and AOC were household names, Kshama Sawant was elected as the first open socialist in Seattle in nearly a century. Kshama has remained the lone socialist on the City Council for the past ten years — with which she and Seat...
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United States: The enormous potential of Cornel West’s independent campaign for president
Fight the right & the billionaire class In 2024
Socialist Alternative (ISA in the United States) Executive Committee
(This article was first published on 16 June 2023)
On June 5, activist and professor Cornel West declared an independent left ...
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“Nothing short of an earthquake”: Starbucks workers united fight for fair union elections
With more than 30 stores fighting to unionize nationwide, the Starbucks stores in Buffalo are no longer an outlier — they’re the spark to a growing flame.
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Right-wing recall defeated: How Kshama Sawant and Socialist Alternative won (again!)
If a small revolutionary socialist organization can beat the wealthiest corporations in the world here in Seattle again and again, you can be sure that the organized power of the wider working class can change society.
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US: Kshama solidarity campaign – fighting back against right-wing recall
Despite the enormous resources of the right-wing and big business, we must remember what we can win when we get organized.
Bia Lacombe, Socialist Alternative (ISA US)
Big business and the right wing are furious about the impact of socialist politic...
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US: Eye-Witness in Minneapolis: Mass, Coordinated Action Needed to Win
No Trust in the Same Political Establishment That Killed George Floyd
Minneapolis SA Socialist Alternative (ISA USA)
#JusticeForGeorgeFloyd
George Floyd gasped “I can’t breathe,” again and again, for nine long minutes. This is murder. It is murder...
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US: We Won’t Die for Wall Street
This pandemic has laid bare how rotten and brutal capitalism is. It doesn’t have to be like this.
By Calvin Priest, Socialist Alternative
In recent weeks, the bankruptcy of global capitalism has been exposed to millions as its representatives have ...
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Xi Jinping’s first state visit to the US
Sino-US tensions increasing as China’s economy stumbles
Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info
China’s president Xi Jinping began his week-long visit to the United States, touching down in Seattle on Tuesday 22 September, where he met with top CEOs inc...
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Ten years since Hong Kong’s Umbrella Revolution
“The capitalist CCP dictatorship can be fought in Hong Kong, but it can only be defeated in China”
chinaworker.info reporters
On 28 September, 2014, w...
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