Humans are an incredibly generous and empathetic species. Even if the world looks like it’s going to hell in a handbasket, people band together, time after time, pooling their skills and resources to help each other cope with the impact of all kinds of crises in our society. People independently organize relief efforts in the […]
One hundred years ago, in October 1922, Benito Mussolini’s paramilitary blackshirts marched on the Italian capital to demand the dissolution of the government of Prime Minister Luigi Facta.
A grassroots movement in Dane County WI, just won immediate protections for abortion rights – in direct defiance of Wisconsin’s 173 year-old abortion ban and the state’s GOP-dominated government. The abortion sanctuary legislation, which the Dane County Board passed 29-5-1 on September 22, came out of a campaign led by Socialist Alternative. This victory came […]
Bia Lacombe is a community organizer in the council office of Kshama Sawant. Last month, thousands of local activists and young people in Seattle won a landmark victory in the abortion rights struggle — led by the office of socialist City Councilmember Kshama Sawant, we succeeded in our fight to make Seattle the first abortion […]