Socialist Alternative is asking for funds, to increase the number of branches around the U.S., and also to pay off its campaign debt. The organization has much greater visibility than it did in the past, as a result of electing Kshama Sawant to the Seattle city council, and also coming close to electing Ty Moore to the Minneapolis city council. See the party’s fund appeal here, at www.socialistalternative.org. The party also had a candidate in 2013 for City Council in Boston, Seamus Whelan. However he did not do as well as the party’s other two candidates. He polled 3,118 votes for city-council-at-large, placing 15th among 19 candidates, with four to be elected.
The Socialist Party, the Freedom Socialist Party, and Socialist Action, have all issued statements congratulating the Socialist Alternative Party for its success. However, The Militant, weekly newspaper of the Socialist Workers Party, has not mentioned Socialist Alternative.
I’ve seen very little outright denunciations from socialist groups in the US. The only public criticism I’ve seen from getting any circulation is from another Trotskyist sect, World Socialist Web Site/ICFI.
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/11/20/sawa-n20.html
How about the SLP? I know they have stopped running candidates of their own but have they commented on this victory?
The Socialist Labor Party continues to publish a paper newsletter every two months, but it hasn’t issued one since the election, and it hasn’t posted any newsletters to its web page since 2011. The Communist Party has an on-line newspaper, People’s World, and it hasn’t mentioned Kshama Sawant.
The Peace and Freedom Party also published this article on the significance of Kshama Sawant’s election.
The Green Party featured, fund raised, endorsed, and promoted the candidates.