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Socialist Alternative Party

Socialist Alternative
Chairperson National Committee
(no single chairperson)
Founded 1986
Preceded by Labor Militant
Headquarters New York City, New York
Newspaper Socialist Alternative
Student wing Socialist Students
Ideology Marxism
Revolutionary socialism
Trotskyism
Political position Far-left
International affiliation Committee for a Workers' International
Colors      Red
Slogan "Struggle, Solidarity, Socialism"
Seats in the Senate
0 / 100
City Council members 1 (2017)
Website
www.socialistalternative.org

Socialist Alternative (SA) is a Trotskyist political party in the United States. It describes itself as "a national organization fighting in our workplaces, communities, and campuses against the exploitation and injustices people face every day" and "a community of activists fighting against budget cuts in public services; fighting for living wage jobs and militant, democratic unions; and people of all colors speaking out against racism and attacks on immigrants, students organizing against tuition hikes and war, women and men fighting sexism and homophobia".

Socialist Alternative's highest profile public representative is Seattle City Councillor Kshama Sawant, who was elected in November 2013. It is active in over 50 cities in the United States including New York City, Cincinnati, Oakland, Minneapolis, Boston, Seattle, New Orleans, Madison, Portland, Philadelphia, Chicago, Houston and more. In September 2013, it began publishing a monthly newspaper called Socialist Alternative along with various local newsletters and media outlets, including a radio show in the Boston area. It is a member of Committee for a Workers' International, an international organization of Trotskyist parties.

Socialist Alternative was officially formed as Labor Militant in 1986 by members of the Committee for a Workers' International who had moved to the United States and formed the Labor and Trade Union Group in the early 1980s. Labor Militant was a small group with its membership numbering mostly of trade union members. By the mid-1990s, Labor Militant became part of a campaign to form the Labor Party where it was in the leadership of the New York Metro Chapter. The New York Metro Chapter, the largest in the country, saw Labor Militant and its allies run again for the leadership of the chapter under the United Action slate only to be defeated in an Executive Committee election. Labor Militant members and the United Action slate had argued that the Labor Party should vigorously run candidates against the Democrats, whereas the national leadership of the Labor Party refused to take such an approach. After the election, the New York Labor Party State Executive upheld the election results while suspending the New York Metro Chapter and several of its officers, eventually shutting down the chapter.


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