working class

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...

Stephen Edwards, Socialist Alternative (ISA in the United States) (This article was first published on 7 July 2022) Working people in the U.S. are facing the worst inflation in 40 years. Gas is at $6 a gallon in many places; groceries are up by mor...

The revolution continues, the whole system has to go! Serge Jordan, ISA (This article was first published on 10 July 2022) Fast-paced events in crisis-ridden Sri Lanka have taken yet a new turn today, Saturday 9 July, as hundreds of thousands of p...

Women experience the most brutal aspects of capitalism, making them the most hardened and determined fighters against this system Emma Quinn, Socialist Party (ISA Ireland) Health and childcare workers, cleaners, teachers, retail and hospital...

Arming a New Generation with Revolutionary Method. Lynn Walsh On 20 August, 1940, Trotsky was struck a fatal blow with an ice-pick by Ramon Mercader, an agent sent to Mexico by Stalin’s secret police, the GPU, to murder the exiled revolutionary, ...

Our project must be to create a multi-racial movement of the working class to put an end to the system of capitalism Keely Mullen (Socialist Alternative, USA) On the day of George Floyd’s death, we had been on lockdown for more than two and a hal...

Socialists fight for all, even limited democratic advances, but explain the need to overthrow capitalism Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info The following is a reprint from September 2010 of our reply to criticisms on social media from a sectar...

In 1989, Chinese students and workers shook the world Joshua Koritz, Socialist Alternative (US) Here we are publishing an article from our US comrades of Socialist Alternative looking back on the mass democracy struggle in China in 1989.&n...

Need for united struggle by local and foreign-born workers against an unjust system Jen Left   Socialist Action Carrie Lam’s government has unveiled new attacks on asylum seekers. This is a deliberate attempt to stir up racism. The government w...