Madison Socialist Alternative

Madison Socialist Alternative Madison, Wisconsin branch of socialistalternative.org ✊
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Socialist Alternative is a national organization fighting in our workplaces, communities, and campuses against the exploitation and injustices people face every day. We are community activists fighting against budget cuts in public services; we are union activists fighting for living wage jobs and militant, democratic unions; we are people of all colors speaking out against racism and attacks on i

mmigrants, students organizing against tuition hikes and war, women and men fighting sexism and homophobia. We believe the Republicans and Democrats are both parties of big business, and we are campaigning to build an independent, alternative party of workers and young people to fight for the interests of the millions, not the millionaires. We see the global capitalist system as the root cause of the economic crisis, poverty, discrimination, war, and environmental destruction. As capitalism moves deeper into crisis, a new generation of workers and youth must join together to take the top 500 corporations into public ownership under democratic control to end the ruling elites' global competition for profits and power. We believe the dictatorships that existed in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe were perversions of what socialism is really about. We are for democratic socialism where ordinary people will have control over our daily lives. Socialist Alternative is also in political solidarity with International Socialist Alternative, a worldwide socialist organization in 30 countries, on every continent.

02/04/2026

Part 2/2! Rosemary, a member of Socialist Alternative, speaks at the 1/30 rally.

The strike of 1/23 and 1/30 can serve as a launchpad for further organization, for collaboration between rapid response groups, immigrant rights organizations, socialist parties, and unions. Not only should this collaboration and organization be politically independent from the Democrats, Republicans, and the whole capitalist class, but such a growing mass movement can lay the basis for a new party that fights for working-class interests using working-class methods.

The working class needs a party of its own that can organize the movement further with fighting tactics like walkouts, occupations and strikes. A party that has complete political independence from big business and the billionaires. A party that can be used as an organized force to build and support social movements and unions. The working class must pave our own way forward in the fight against Trump, ICE, and the whole rotten system!

02/04/2026

Part 1/2! Rosemary, a member of Socialist Alternative, speaks at the 1/30 rally.

The dems are a dead end! As the anti-ICE movement grows in Minnesota and across the country, they continue to prove that they do not have the interest of working class people. The Democrats, along with the Republicans, are the managers of US capitalism—they have different managerial styles, but at the end of the day, they are looking out for the billionaires’ bottom line. Working people must collectively take matters into own hands.

02/02/2026

Solidarity with Minneapolis for the 1/30 call for a nationwide strike!

Rosemary speaks out at the protest. Thousands walked out of school and work, and many small businesses closed in solidarity. 1/30 was a giant stepping stone for the movement. Unions must join the fight going forward, and we must build the strength of the movement in Madison to join a national general strike on May Day to defeat ICE! Join us at our open branch meeting to learn more about our organization and how we need to get organized to fight Trump and ICE - it’s at 3PM this Sunday, February 8th at 1104 Mound St!

01/26/2026

Want to get organizing against ICE here in Madison? Join us on Monday 1/26 at 1104 Mound St to discuss and plan for the next action!

01/12/2024

What is the US-China Cold War, and why does it matter for working people? This new Cold War between US imperialism and Chinese imperialism impacts every aspe...

01/09/2024

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01/06/2024

The connection between sports and politics may not be immediately apparent—why should the left pay attention to the world of sports? What potential is there ...

01/04/2024

Review of The Black Jacobins by C.L.R. James (published 1938) Max Toynbee, South London Socialist Alternative and NEU member Most schools teach pupils that the Atlantic slave trade went against European “enlightenment” principles of rationality, equality and democracy; a horror perpetrated aga

01/04/2024

Long before Bernie Sanders and AOC were household names, Kshama Sawant was elected as the first open socialist in Seattle in nearly a century. Kshama has remained the lone socialist on the City Council for the past ten years – a single Council seat with which she and Seattle’s working people hav...

01/01/2024

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