Making promises of affordable, quick credit, payday lenders often prey on the most vulnerable of the working class, the poor, while thriving on their borrowers’ inability to repay the loan on time, thus creating a cycle of recurrent fees and debt. Socialist Alternative has started a campaign against these lenders in Tacoma.

Over 800 students walked out of schools throughout the Seattle area on April 18 to demand an immediate end to the Iraq war. The walkout, organized by Youth Against War and Racism (YAWR), culminated in a protest at a meeting of the School Board, calling for military recruiters be kicked out of our schools. The students also protested the School District's plan to close 7 Seattle schools, calling instead for money for education, not war.

In one of the biggest demonstrations in Boston since the Iraq war began, five thousand protesters arrived at the Boston Common on Saturday determined to build a movement to stop the war and bring the troops home now.

All it takes to be anti-capitalist in this “American century” is a sense of awareness. I’ve worked for years in retail and fast food, trying to help my parents put me through college. Here, I’ve seen beneath the gilded veneer of capitalism. I’ve seen the myth of mobility – “work hard enough and you can be anything” – crushed on a daily basis by the sub-poverty minimum wage, the lack of decent healthcare, and impossible housing markets. I’ve witnessed racism, ageism, and the daily exploitation of labor by distant corporate managers.

Socialist Alternative in Seattle is working with Youth Against War and Racism (YAWR) to organize a citywide student walkout on April 18 to protest the Iraq war and the parasitic presence of military recruiters in our schools.

The new right-wing government of Sri Lanka is pushing the country toward civil war by increasing the repression of the Tamil minority. Communal tensions between Tamils and the Sinhalese (Buddhist) majority have long seemed intractable.

The Ninth World Congress of the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) took place in Belgium in mid-January. Over 130 delegates and visitors, from 25 of the 36 countries in which the CWI organizes, gathered for a week of political discussion on the tasks facing the working class internationally and how to best build the forces of Marxism. Socialist Alternative, which is in political solidarity with the CWI, sent an eight-person delegation.

Since winning re-election to a third term with a commanding 63% of the vote, Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez has taken important steps towards fulfilling his campaign promise to take the country’s “Bolivarian Revolution” in a more radical direction.

Hundreds of thousands of people protested in cities across the country on Saturday, January 27 against Bush’s escalation of the war in Iraq and to demand that the troops be brought home now.

On December 19, over 60 students, parents, and community members poured into St. Paul’s District Administration Building, grabbing signs and lining up for comment to give the Board of Education a clear message: End military recruitment in our schools!

On December 2, 17 part-time workers at the Boston’s Children’s Museum (BCM) were told they would be laid-off because of construction scheduled to start on December 31. Previously, the workers had been promised that they all would be able to keep their jobs during the three months the museum would be closed for renovations. In addition, the workers were told that they would have to reapply for their old positions when the museum re-opened.

Since 1492 the people of Latin America have suffered massive oppression and poverty at the hands of imperialism and capitalism. The last few years, however, have opened up a new period of explosive resistance against the rule of big business.

The Boston Children's Museum (BCM) is widely known for its commitment to the children of Boston. But this Christmas, the president of the museum, Lou Casagrande, is acting like a big Grinch to workers at the museum.

On Monday, November 27, several hundred protesters surrounded the entrance to Cochabamba’s municipal building in what turned out to be a sharp clash with right-wing thugs and provocateurs and the Cochabamba police.

Right-wing opposition to left-leaning Bolivian president, Evo Morales, and his governing party, Movement towards Socialism (MAS), has increased dramatically in the last week as potential conflicts that have been brewing for months have recently come to a boil.