AMERICAN LEFT HISTORY

This space is dedicated to the proposition that we need to know the history of the struggles on the left and of earlier progressive movements here and world-wide. If we can learn from the mistakes made in the past (as well as what went right) we can move forward in the future to create a more just and equitable society. We will be reviewing books, CDs, and movies we believe everyone needs to read, hear and look at as well as making commentary from time to time. Greg Green, site manager

Monday, June 25, 2018

Seattle City Council Repeals Amazon Tax - Video of Kshama Sawant Speeches Socialist Alternative

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Below you’ll find a collection of articles which were recently originally published on SocialistAlternative.org. Please check SocialistAlternative.org regularly for the socialist analysis, strategy, and tactics needed to build movements to defeat the billionaire class.

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VIDEO: SEATTLE CITY COUNCIL REPEALS AMAZON TAX – WATCH KSHAMA SAWANT’S SPEECHES
On short notice, the corporate politicians on the Seattle City Council voted to repeal the Amazon Tax on big business that would fund affordable housing. Watch the speeches by Councilmember Kshama Sawant, a member of Socialist Alternative, as well as a brief video of the vote itself being protested.

DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS OF AMERICA CHALLENGES QUEENS DEMOCRATIC PARTY BOSS
In New York’s Congressional District 14, which covers parts of Queens and the Bronx, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, is challenging Queens Democratic Party boss, and 19 year incumbent, Joe Crowley, in next month’s primaries.

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Our editorial team brings the experience of leading the fight for $15 to its first major victory in the nation in Seattle in 2014 and then in Minneapolis last year. This year we played a leading role in building the movement to Tax Amazon and big business to fund permanently affordable, public housing in Seattle.

IRELAND: ABORTION RIGHTS REFERENDUM – HOW “YES” WAS WON

Establishment politicians and the media are desperately trying to re-write the real history of the radical struggle that brought about this change because they fear that people will take confidence from it and realise they can organise powerful mass struggles on all the key issues and and against the whole capitalist system itself, which is founded on the principle of inequality.

REVIEW OF THE COLOR OF LAW
Richard Rothstein’s The Color of Lawexplains how housing became so highly racially segregated in America, and details the partnership between federal and local governments and the big developers in this process.