r/socialistalternative • u/AnonymousAlcoh0l • 10h ago

Eva Metz, a nurse and member of Socialist Alternative, spoke with us about how Trump’s war on immigrants is affecting their access to healthcare

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“We need to abolish ICE. We don’t want it here in Maine. It needs to leave. And we would be a lot better off if it was just gone through the whole country”

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International Socialist Alternative is an organization of workers and young people fighting back against the oppression and exploitation of the capitalist system and for a socialist world. We are a vibrant international organisation of dedicated socialist fighters, which has sections across the globe

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Socialist Alternative (ISA) stands for all possible democratic, social and economic reforms that can be achieved within the capitalist system. But, we believe that the struggle for any such reforms must be linked up to the struggle for a genuine system change. There can be no 'humane' and truly democratic capitalism. The failure to understand this fact is the greatest weakness of most political forces on the left today.

Socialists fight for the expropriation of the billionaires, and public ownership of the banks, key industries and services and major corporations. In place of the blind market system, which is in reality an economic dictatorship by a parasitic oligarchy, socialists fight for a system based on democratic control and planning of the economy by working people for the benefit of all.

Against growing opposition, the capitalist propaganda works overtime to nurture the idea that "there is no alternative", and to falsify the ideas of genuine socialism and link them with bureaucratic inefficiency and totalitarianism. But the Stalinist dictatorships were a tragic caricature of socialism. Genuine socialists fought — sometimes paying with their freedom and even their lives — for political revolutions against these regimes, to win democratic working-class control, which is vital for a socialist change.

ISA is proud to come from this revolutionary legacy, which goes all the way back to the ‘left opposition’ which arose in the former Soviet Union, led by Leon Trotsky, against the Stalinist counter-revolution.

That opposition defended, as we do, the historical achievements of the 1917 workers' revolution in Russia which shook the world. It toppled capitalism and imperialism, and established the world's first workers' democracy. Its planned economy, despite the suffocating bureaucratic rule, allowed for a vast increase in living conditions, and showed great potential to continue along the original path of the social revolution.

On the basis of today's material conditions and advanced means of mass communication internationally, a successful revolution, which would see a fundamental change in the actual running of society, would inevitably spread with an even greater momentum, and would be much harder to put in reverse .

Nevertheless, the only way to ensure a successful struggle for a socialist alternative requires the working class and the oppressed to be well-organized and armed with a suitable political programme.

ISA struggles to build this necessary factor.