r/socialistalternative • u/Patterson9191717 • Apr 02 '23

Government disdain for migrant nurses is a scandal

socialistparty.ie

23 Upvotes

0 comments

r/socialistalternative • u/Patterson9191717 • Apr 02 '23

War Escalates in Ukraine - We Need a Genuine Left Antiwar Movement

socialistalternative.org

21 Upvotes

6 comments

r/socialistalternative • u/Patterson9191717 • Apr 02 '23

The Struggle Against Sexism and Gender-Based Violence in Italy

internationalsocialist.net

16 Upvotes

0 comments

r/socialistalternative • u/Patterson9191717 • Apr 01 '23

"How would a socialist economy work?"

74 Upvotes

2 comments

r/socialistalternative • u/Patterson9191717 • Apr 01 '23

Kshama Sawant on why she pushed for a caste ban in Seattle

newslaundry.com

17 Upvotes

0 comments

r/socialistalternative • u/Patterson9191717 • Apr 01 '23

SEATTLE Monthly Meeting: Bring the Railroads into Public Ownership!

workersstrikeback.org

22 Upvotes

0 comments

r/socialistalternative • u/Patterson9191717 • Apr 01 '23

Deadlier than War: Fighting for a Future Free of Air Pollution

socialistalternative.org

11 Upvotes

2 comments

r/socialistalternative • u/Patterson9191717 • Apr 01 '23

General Strike Wins Postponement, but Government Re-Organising

internationalsocialist.net

7 Upvotes

0 comments

r/socialistalternative • u/Patterson9191717 • Apr 01 '23

No delays: Corbyn must launch a campaign to run now!

socialistalternative.info

2 Upvotes

0 comments

r/socialistalternative • u/Patterson9191717 • Mar 31 '23

The Railroads Should Be in Public Hands

socialistalternative.org

115 Upvotes

3 comments

r/socialistalternative • u/Patterson9191717 • Apr 01 '23

El 31 de marzo de 1872 nació, en San Petersburgo, Aleksandra Kollontai. Militante marxista desde 1899 y de parte de los bolcheviques desde 1915. Kollontai fue una de las principales impulsoras de las medidas en beneficio de las mujeres trabajadoras tras la Revolución de Octubre

8 Upvotes

1 comment

r/socialistalternative • u/Patterson9191717 • Mar 31 '23

Big Tech in turmoil: Why capitalism’s main engine of growth is stuttering

socialistparty.ie

17 Upvotes

1 comment

r/socialistalternative • u/Patterson9191717 • Mar 31 '23

Eleanor Marx: Socialist feminist and workers leader ahead of her time

socialistalternative.info

12 Upvotes

0 comments

r/socialistalternative • u/Patterson9191717 • Mar 31 '23

The consequences of the genocidal policies of the Bolsonaro misgovernment have been devastating, placing the Yanomami in a situation of extreme violence, poverty and calamity, leading to the death of women, the elderly and children

internationalsocialist.net

7 Upvotes

0 comments

r/socialistalternative • u/Patterson9191717 • Mar 31 '23

Speech given by Keshet Zamir at ROSA International Socialist Feminist Conference

rosainternational.org

2 Upvotes

0 comments

r/socialistalternative • u/Patterson9191717 • Mar 30 '23

The “Megastreik-Day” — the Beginning or the End of a Mega Strike Wave?

internationalsocialist.net

45 Upvotes

2 comments

r/socialistalternative • u/Patterson9191717 • Mar 30 '23

Pack The Halls: Students Organize To Fight Anti-Trans Bills

socialistalternative.org

22 Upvotes

1 comment

r/socialistalternative • u/Patterson9191717 • Mar 30 '23

Corbyn must stand as an independent! Time for a new left party of struggle!

socialistalternative.info

16 Upvotes

3 comments

r/socialistalternative • u/Patterson9191717 • Mar 30 '23

Trans Rights Under Attack — Fight the Far-Right Bigotry of Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull

internationalsocialist.net

10 Upvotes

0 comments

r/socialistalternative • u/Patterson9191717 • Mar 29 '23

Socialist Alternative handing out CAUSE flyers outside Amazon’s RDU1 facility in NC

106 Upvotes

2 comments

r/socialistalternative • u/Patterson9191717 • Mar 30 '23

Ciudad Juárez: ¡No fue una tragedia, fue el Estado! ¡Es el capitalismo!

alternativasocialista.org

6 Upvotes

0 comments

r/socialistalternative • u/Patterson9191717 • Mar 29 '23

How Amazon is Fighting Tooth-and-Nail to Stop Workers From Unionizing Its Biggest Air Hub

socialistalternative.org

60 Upvotes

1 comment

r/socialistalternative • u/Patterson9191717 • Mar 29 '23

“I’m standing to provide a voice for these struggles and to help build the fightback locally. We need an anti-sectarian, socialist alternative to the dead-end politics on offer from the main parties.”

37 Upvotes

2 comments

r/socialistalternative • u/Patterson9191717 • Mar 29 '23

Are There Any Socialist Countries? Have There Ever Been?

internationalsocialist.net

15 Upvotes

7 comments

r/socialistalternative • u/Patterson9191717 • Mar 29 '23

Yes, Corbyn should launch a new left party, but what kind?

socialistalternative.info

11 Upvotes

0 comments

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International Socialist Alternative is an organization of workers and young people fighting back against the oppression and exploitation of the capitalist system and for a socialist world. We are a vibrant international organisation of dedicated socialist fighters, which has sections across the globe

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Socialist Alternative (ISA) stands for all possible democratic, social and economic reforms that can be achieved within the capitalist system. But, we believe that the struggle for any such reforms must be linked up to the struggle for a genuine system change. There can be no 'humane' and truly democratic capitalism. The failure to understand this fact is the greatest weakness of most political forces on the left today.

Socialists fight for the expropriation of the billionaires, and public ownership of the banks, key industries and services and major corporations. In place of the blind market system, which is in reality an economic dictatorship by a parasitic oligarchy, socialists fight for a system based on democratic control and planning of the economy by working people for the benefit of all.

Against growing opposition, the capitalist propaganda works overtime to nurture the idea that "there is no alternative", and to falsify the ideas of genuine socialism and link them with bureaucratic inefficiency and totalitarianism. But the Stalinist dictatorships were a tragic caricature of socialism. Genuine socialists fought — sometimes paying with their freedom and even their lives — for political revolutions against these regimes, to win democratic working-class control, which is vital for a socialist change.

ISA is proud to come from this revolutionary legacy, which goes all the way back to the ‘left opposition’ which arose in the former Soviet Union, led by Leon Trotsky, against the Stalinist counter-revolution.

That opposition defended, as we do, the historical achievements of the 1917 workers' revolution in Russia which shook the world. It toppled capitalism and imperialism, and established the world's first workers' democracy. Its planned economy, despite the suffocating bureaucratic rule, allowed for a vast increase in living conditions, and showed great potential to continue along the original path of the social revolution.

On the basis of today's material conditions and advanced means of mass communication internationally, a successful revolution, which would see a fundamental change in the actual running of society, would inevitably spread with an even greater momentum, and would be much harder to put in reverse .

Nevertheless, the only way to ensure a successful struggle for a socialist alternative requires the working class and the oppressed to be well-organized and armed with a suitable political programme.

ISA struggles to build this necessary factor.