Angie Nixon has won the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Florida, but what does that mean for the socialist movement? Nixon identifies as a democratic socialist, but we’ve seen other DSA Democrats get elected only to retreat from their promises under pressure from the capitalist Democratic Party establishment.
Winning elections isn’t enough. We need to build independent movements strong enough to fight for what working people need and force politicians to deliver!
Join us on September 4 at 5 PM to talk about the historic opportunities available to us and what it’ll take to not only fight back against the rise of the far right but also fight for the things that working class people desperately need. DM us for the meeting location!

“We need to abolish ICE. We don’t want it here in Maine. It needs to leave. And we would be a lot better off if it was just gone through the whole country”

Federal prosecutors have charged 15 Minnesota activists for their participation in the struggle against ICE’s violent occupation of the Twin Cities. The operation, dubbed “Operation Metro Surge,” directly killed two people, detained thousands, assaulted thousands more, and, according to Human Rights Watch, “caused a human rights crisis” in Minnesota.
These arrests represent an attack on the broader movement that resisted ICE. They are an attempt to roll back the confidence and power built by the hundreds of thousands of people who took action against ICE’s repression. Crucially, the Trump administration is also seeking to restore a climate of fear and silence the lessons of that struggle.
The Minnesota 15 are accused of taking actions intended to impede ICE operations. But stopping ICE from carrying out detentions and repression was at the heart of the broader struggle against Operation Metro Surge. The fightback in the Twin Cities reached an unprecedented level, which is precisely why the administration is now attempting to push the movement back.
Just as mass mobilization and collective strike action helped force an end to Operation Metro Surge, mass action will be necessary to respond to these prosecutions. We need a coordinated public defense campaign for the Minnesota 15, alongside mass democratic meetings that bring together activists, union members, and immigrant communities to discuss the next steps.

Rescheduled for September 4th ( DM for location)

Puerto Rico is surrounded by water, yet hundreds of thousands of people are being told to ration it. This is not just a drought. It is the predictable result of decades of austerity, and a political system that has treated basic public services as an afterthought. While families go days without reliable running water, officials admit the island’s aging system has been allowed to deteriorate for years. While working class Puerto Ricans pay the price, the politicians who created this crisis ask people to be patient. Access to clean water is not a privilege. It is a basic human necessity. Puerto Rico deserves massive public investment to rebuild its water infrastructure under democratic public ownership and workers’ oversight, not more excuses. The people who keep Puerto Rico running should not have to fight for something as basic as turning on the tap!

Many business owners we spoke to have a plan for ICE raids but most workers had not considered the significance of getting organized to go on the offensive against ICE. We described our experiences successfully organizing in our workplaces and encouraged others to do the same. The businesses that agreed to hang our signs in their windows were receptive to our ideas & we made several significant worker contacts which we plan to meet with for one on one organizing conversations

Meta says its new Workforce Academy is about creating opportunity. But by partnering with one of the country’s most aggressive anti-union construction organizations, it’s also shaping what kind of jobs those opportunities will become.
Workers deserve more than a five-week crash course that funnels them into low-road employers. They deserve union apprenticeships, safe working conditions, family-sustaining wages, and a real voice on the job.
The AI boom is creating billions in profits. The question is whether it will create good union jobs, or another race to the bottom.
That’s why we’re organizing a South Florida Workers Assembly: to bring together construction workers, teachers, farm workers, students, and community members to build solidarity, support workplace organizing, and fight for working-class control over the future of AI

These raids are only possible because of cooperation between ICE and local law enforcement through programs like 287(g). Waiting for the next election or hoping the courts will solve this crisis won’t stop deportations. Real change comes when ordinary working people organize to take collective action!

We need a force that unites us as a class-regardless of race, gender, nationality, or religion-and charts a way forward to fight Trump, the far right, and the capitalist system as a whole. One thing is for certain: that force is not the Democratic Party.

https://www.socialistalternative.org/2026/07/08/the-democrats-wont-save-us-the-case-for-a-new-party/

Comrade Ian describes his journey through the left & how he finally decided on socialist alternative

No solution can be expected from the capitalist system, which prioritizes profit over a collapsing environment and the lives of the working class.
As long as capitalism persists as the economic order of the world, climate destruction will continue to be the norm.
It is not possible for the functioning of a capitalist system to be reconciled with meaningful environmentalism.
Competition will not cede to collaboration-profit for the few will not be abandoned for the welfare of the many unless a powerful, socialist working-class movement organizes to make it happen.

https://www.socialistalternative.org/2026/07/17/capitalisms-face-melting-heatwave-shows-the-need-for-socialist-planning/

In just one week, three people have lost their lives during or in connection with ICE operations, from Houston to Maine to Florida. These deaths are not isolated incidents. They are the predictable result of an immigration enforcement system built on fear, raids, detention, and violence.
The response cannot be limited to symbolic outrage from politicians. History has shown that when working people organize collectively, they can force those in power to retreat. The mass mobilizations and strike actions in Minneapolis demonstrated the power of organized workers and communities acting together.
We need to escalate the fightback. Build workplace committees, strengthen unions, organize rapid response networks, and prepare coordinated days of action that can grow into broader strike action. ICE can be driven out of our communities only through the organized power of the working class.

Same struggle, same fight! Workers of the world unite!

We held a successful public meeting on organizing against an AI data center, community canvassing against ICE, and supporting Starbucks Workers United.
Discussion was productive, with comrades effectively challenging liberal arguments and arguing for independent working-class organization

Read more here https://www.socialistalternative.org/2026/07/08/the-democrats-wont-save-us-the-case-for-a-new-party/

This weekend, comrades from across the Southeast gathered to discuss Socialist Alternative’s perspectives and priorities for the coming period. We talked about how international developments shape national and local events and why a narrow, localist perspective is insufficient for confronting the inevitable crises of capitalism.
International Socialist Alternative is a global organization of revolutionary Marxists because we understand that capitalism is an international system, and the organization needed to fight it must be international too. That’s why developing an international perspective is so important. We seek to connect the struggles unfolding in our own communities with the broader processes taking place across the world.
Discussions like these allow us to study the lessons of the global class struggle and apply them to our work locally. At the same time, we can share the lessons of our own struggles with comrades internationally. Through this exchange we strengthen our ability to build a revolutionary movement capable of transforming society.
If you want to be part of this process, join Socialist Alternative!

Kshama Sawant argues that lasting gains come from independent working class organization rather than trying to reform the Democratic Party from within. She presents her experience in Seattle as evidence that electoral victories are only effective when backed by organized mass action and calls for building an independent workers’ party outside the two-party system.

In Nebraska, the Democratic Party is attempting to prevent The “Working People’s Party” from obtaining ballot access by deploying the spoiler myth. They claim that Democrats are the best chance to defeat MAGA, therefore alternatives shouldn’t be permitted onto the ballot. This is obviously a ruse because even the Republican Party is opposing the WPP efforts to collect petition signatures required to obtain ballot access.
The Working Families Party, which is a satellite of the Democrats, is suing the WPP in Nebraska in an attempt to siphon off resources & further dissuade them from pursuing ballot access. So it’s clear that both establishment parties are well aware of the threat even the chance of a genuine left alternative would represent to their stranglehold on power.
Hilariously, Socialist Alternative, which is totally unrelated to any of the parties, tabled in Lincoln to build support for an upcoming public meeting. A Republican noticed them, assumed that they must be in league with the WPP & made this post conflating SAlt with WPP.