Last Wednesday’s far right terror on the Capitol Building in DC is a reminder of the urgency to build an organized left in the US. As Socialist Alternative has ...

The reemergence of a socialist movement in the United States, and rapid growth of organizations like Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and Socialist Alternative (SA), is of enormous historical ...

A new women’s movement is emerging in response to the election of the misogynist Donald Trump, starting with the 2017 women’s marches and now with the #MeToo campaign. The potential power of the ...

The political polarization which has taken place in the U.S. over the past decade is continuing to deepen. On balance, the majority of society has been moving to the left – just one example is Black ...

For the past three months, the business press has been sounding the alarm about the “debt ceiling,” which sets the legal limit on how much the US government can borrow. A recent article in the ...

By Ramy Khalil, Vote Sawant Campaign Manager Everybody knows you have to accept corporate money and work within the two-party system to get elected, right? Not so with Kshama Sawant. In November 2013, ...

By mobilizing renters and union members, Kshama’s office has also spearheaded a whole series of landmark renters’ rights, such as requiring a six-month notice for rent increases, mandating landlords ...

The New Deal itself is the subject of much debate and many misconceptions. For example, did the New Deal help end the Great Depression? To what extent did the New Deal help working Americans survive ...

Ninety years ago the Chinese working class and its young Communist Party (CCP) suffered a terrible defeat in its stronghold of Shanghai, a decisive turning point in the Chinese Revolution. This ...

As a new generation of socialist activists are being forged out of the turmoil in American society, they will look to previous movements for successful methods of struggle. Marxists believe it is ...

In the fall of 2023 when Olivia Rodrigo announced her Guts World Tour, my roommates and I knew we had to get tickets. After countless moments screaming Drivers License and Good 4 U in the car and ...

When Trump was elected in 2016, a chorus of establishment Democrats from Hillary Clinton to Barack Obama to Nancy Pelosi urged ordinary Americans to “give him a chance.” Pelosi went as far as to say ...