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US: Mass pressure forces Biden to reverse position on big pharma’s vaccine patents

By Kshama Sawant For months, a global struggle has been developing to demand that the governments of wealthy, Western nations put people before billionaire profit, and end the stunning inequity in access to the life-saving COVID-19 vaccine. The rapid and widespread global

May 6, 2021

World News

Atlanta tragedy: Right-wing hate targets Asian women

Statement by Socialist Alternative (our sister organisation in the United States) Socialist Alternative extends our condolences to the family and friends of the eight victims of a deadly shooting in Atlanta Tuesday evening. Six of the victims were Asian women, placing the

Mar 22, 2021

World News

Texas: Workers freeze due to billionaire greed

By Ryan Booker, Socialist Alternative (our sister organisation in the US) Last week, as a historic winter storm hit much of the United States and temperatures plummeted far below freezing, blackouts began to roll across the Texas power grid. At their peak,

Feb 28, 2021

World News

Socialist City Council member Kshama Sawant denounces far-right violence at the Capitol

‘The horrific demonstration of far right violence we’re seeing in DC today is a scary reminder that Trump may have lost the election, but Trumpism and the far right is growing…Trump and his reactionary base are refusing to accept a democratic election

Jan 7, 2021

World News

As 2021 begins: American capitalism faces multifaceted crisis

By Tom Crean, Socialist Alternative (our sister organisation in the US) It is clear we are living through a historic transition in the U.S. A devastating pandemic has triggered a deep economic downturn which comes only a decade after the Great Recession

Jan 5, 2021

World News

United States- Biden’s foreign policy: Back to normal imperialism?

By George Martin Fell Brown During the election, Biden promised that, as president, he would “repair the damage wrought by President Trump and chart a fundamentally different course for American foreign policy for the world as we find it today”. Now that

Dec 20, 2020

US: Minneapolis Council Makes Big Promises in Response to Rebellion

By Socialist Alternative (our sister organisation in the US) Two weeks after the dawn of a working-class rebellion, led by young people of color, shook the political establishment to its core, there is a growing discussion about where the movement should go

Jun 14, 2020

Anti-racism

Mass movement against racism sweeps the U.S.

By Keely Mullen, Socialist Alternative (our sister organisation in the US) At 8:25 pm on May 25 George Floyd stopped breathing. Moments later his pulse stopped. It was two minutes before Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin removed his knee from Floyd’s neck.

Jun 9, 2020

US: Mass, Coordinated Action Needed to Win #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd

By members of Socialist Alternative, our sister organisation in the US, in Minneapolis George Floyd gasped “I can’t breathe,” again and again, for nine long minutes. This is murder. It is murder at the hands of the Minneapolis Police. Yet the recent

Jun 1, 2020

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#RentStrike2020 in the US — Organising against profiteering in a pandemic

By Siria Garcia The mid March COVID-19 lockdowns came too late to quell the spread of the disease across the US, with over 90,000 lives lost and tens of millions without the means to meet even their most basic needs. The last

May 16, 2020

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US: Mass pressure forces Biden to reverse position on big pharma’s vaccine patents

Atlanta tragedy: Right-wing hate targets Asian women

Texas: Workers freeze due to billionaire greed

Socialist City Council member Kshama Sawant denounces far-right violence at the Capitol

As 2021 begins: American capitalism faces multifaceted crisis

United States- Biden’s foreign policy: Back to normal imperialism?

US: Minneapolis Council Makes Big Promises in Response to Rebellion

Mass movement against racism sweeps the U.S.

US: Mass, Coordinated Action Needed to Win #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd

#RentStrike2020 in the US — Organising against profiteering in a pandemic

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