Cedar Rapids Socialist Alternative is a local branch of a national organization fighting in our workplaces, schools and communities against the exploitation and injustice people face every day. We are union activists fighting for workers’ rights and militant, democratic unions; we are people of color speaking out against racism, students organizing against sweatshops and war, immigrants demanding papers for all undocumented workers, women and men fighting sexism and homophobia.
We campaign for the building of a mass workers’ party to represent the interests of workers, youth, and the environment against the two parties of big business.
We see the global capitalist system as the root cause of terrorism, war, poverty, discrimination, and environmental destruction. As capitalism moves deeper into crisis and recession, a new generation of workers and youth must join together to take the top 500 corporations into public ownership. 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 people will have control over their daily lives.
The Cedar Rapids branch was founded in 2009 by a group of people who want to work towards this change in our community. Only through building a fighting organization that acts in their own interests will workers be able to win victories in the battles that face them, from fighting for wage increases and better conditions in the workplace to defending marriage equality throughout Iowa and across the country.
Socialist Alternative is in political solidarity with the Committee for a Workers’ International, a worldwide socialist organization in 37 countries, on every continent. Join us!
