Anyone can see that in the American political system, whether it’s Democrats or Republicans, you always get the same crap. I came to the realization long ago that the same situation will persist regardless of who is elected – it’s business as usual for these people.

From September 1-4, St. Paul, Minnesota was home to the Republican National Convention - and four days of protests and police repression.

Despite police attempts to intimidate students from participating, hundreds of Twin Cities youth walked out of high schools on Thursday, September 4, to protest the war on the final Republican National Convention.

On September 4, thousands of students from across the Twin Cities will walk out of class and strike on the last day of the Republican National Convention (RNC) to demand an end to Bush’s wars for oil and empire. Socialist Alternative is working alongside Youth Against War and Racism (YAWR), a high school-based antiwar and counter-military recruitment organization, to organize this day of action.

Recently, a lot of attention in the media and political establishment has shifted towards Afghanistan. After the Taliban was overthrown in 2001, Afghanistan was held up as a model for “nation building”. Now, over the last few years the Taliban has been making a comeback, gaining more and more popular support.

Speculation is once again rife on whether Israel or the U.S. will launch air strikes on Iran.

In Minneapolis public schools next fall, military recruiters won’t be able to operate without facing challenges to their lies by antiwar activists.

In late March, heavy fighting broke out between rival Shi’a factions in Iraq’s cities of Basra and Baghdad. Both Republican and Democratic candidates have exploited the relative ebb in violence to tout that Bush’s troop “surge” was a success and that U.S. forces were making “progress” in Iraq. But the street battles destroyed this myth of stability and exposed the extreme ethnic and political tensions that remain unresolved.

Chanting "No Peace - No Work" and "Money for Jobs and Education, Not War," over a thousand union members, anti-war and immigrant rights activists participated in the historic ILWU's (International Longshore and Warehouse Union) 8-hour stop work action to protest against the U.S lead occupation in Iraq and Afghanistan.

As the fifth anniversary of the fateful decision to launch the invasion of Iraq passes, the claims by the US administration that the 2007 troop surge has succeeded in quelling the insurgency and checking the slide to sectarian break up - claims that were being made loudly at the start of this year - are becoming fainter by the day.

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) has announced a one-day strike against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, calling for a “No Peace No Work Holiday” to take place May 1. They are calling on the AFL-CIO, the Change to Win Coalition, and other unions to do the same. This is a major development for both the labor movement and antiwar movement in the U.S.

Five long, bloody years of war and occupation, led by US imperialism, has left Iraq as a dangerous, violent and divided society, despite promises of stability and democracy. Niall Mulholland looks at the gruesome results of Western 'intervention'.

Because nearly 4,000 U.S. soldiers have been killed and, according to some estimates, over 1 million Iraqis, in a war for control of oil supplies opposed by the vast majority of Iraqis and Americans...Because if we don’t hit the streets, the media and politicians can just ignore us...

Following a walkout by over 125 students in Tukwila, WA, school administrators threatened to fire 6 teachers and suspend students. Outraged, students, community activists, and Socialist Alternative began organizing to resist these attacks on their rights, and after a major pressure campaign, won an important victory for free speech rights.

In his recently published memoirs, Alan Greenspan, a major figure in the U.S. establishment who headed the Federal Reserve for 19 years under Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, and Bush II, stated what we knew all along: "the Iraq War is largely about oil."