Socialist Alternative (England and Wales) explained

Socialist Alternative
Colorcode:Red
Chairperson:Collective (National Committee)
Foundation:2019
Split:Socialist Party (England and Wales)
Ideology:Marxism
Trotskyism
Revolutionary socialism
Socialist feminism
Internationalism
International:International Socialist Alternative
Colors: Red
Country:United Kingdom
Newspaper:Socialist Alternative
Student Wing:Student Socialist Alternative
Slogan:"Struggle, Solidarity, Socialism"

Socialist Alternative is a Trotskyist group in the United Kingdom, part of International Socialist Alternative.

History

Socialist Alternative was founded in 2019.[1]

The group attended a "People's Assembly" protest in Salford in 2020, demanding the government continue to support working people as the furlough scheme was being wound down.[2]

Socialist Alternative, along with other left groups, took part in a KazakhSolidarity protest in London supporting protests in Kazakhstan at the beginning of 2022.[3]

The Salford branch of Socialist Alternative supported the strike of workers at the CHEP factory in Trafford Park. They argued that these striking workers needed to work together with Kill the Bill protesters against the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill and fellow strikers in the University and College Union.

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Mel . Cionco . "We will fight for every reform that makes workers lives better" – Socialist organisation to support protests and strikes in Salford community . salfordnow.co.uk . 8 February 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220706160028/http://www.salfordnow.co.uk/2022/02/08/we-will-fight-for-every-reform-that-makes-workers-lives-better-socialist-organisation-to-support-protests-and-strikes-in-salford-community/ . 6 July 2022.
  2. Web site: Randall . Georgina . 25 October 2020 . Socialist Alternative at the People's Assembly protest against 'deliberate harm to workers in north' . https://web.archive.org/web/20221004003734/https://thenorthernquota.org/news/socialist-alternative-people%E2%80%99s-assembly-protest-against-%E2%80%98deliberate-harm-workers-north%E2%80%99 . 4 October 2022 . thenorthernquota.org.
  3. Web site: Rob M. . Picket of the Kazakstan Embassy, London 8th January . 10 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240120202559/https://kazakhsolidarity.wordpress.com/2022/01/10/picket-of-the-kazakstan-embassy-london-8th-january/ . 20 January 2024.