Kshama Sawant

Won highest-ever vote for a revolutionary socialist for Congress • Won nation's highest minimum wage • Won four elections • Arms embargo on Israel

[Matthew Meloy @matthew_meloy]

Check out what @cmkshama said almost a year ago. The signs for Mamdani’s sellout were there. We need to learn our lessons from the last decade of the failures of elected progressive DSA candidates like AOC and others and get off this merry go round of trying to reform the Democratic Party. We need independent and fighting working class leaders that will use elected office to build movements and launch struggles against the billionaires and their representatives not make peace and back room deals with them.

Kshama is the only example in my lifetime who committed to that idea and stuck to it. As she said during her inauguration to the Seattle city council as an independent revolutionary socialist in 2014

“Let me make one thing absolutely clear: There will be no backroom deals with corporations or their political servants. There will be no rotten sell-out of the people I represent.” https://t.co/K62dhnTpAG

[Nerdeen Kiswani @NerdeenKiswani]

If you call it a genocide and then campaign alongside the politicians who armed, funded and enabled it, there are only three possibilities:

A) You don’t actually believe it’s a genocide.

B) You do believe it’s a genocide, but complicity in genocide isn’t a dealbreaker for you.

C) You know exactly what it is, but your public condemnation is cynical: you invoke “genocide” because it’s what your constituency wants to hear and because doing so advances your political career, while abandoning the consequences of that position when they become politically inconvenient.

You cannot treat genocide as the ultimate crime when speaking to Palestinians, then treat its enablers as respectable political partners when you need their endorsements, votes or access.

At that point, you’re making genocide an issue we can simply move past.

[AJ+ @ajplus]

“We know that Jane Doe is not alone.”

From Cornell in the U.S. to South Africa to India, protesters are demanding protection from and accountability for sexual violence.

[Kshama Sawant @cmkshama]

Solidarity with Jane Doe and other survivors of rape and sexual violence. Solidarity with the protests on Cornell campus and other protests happening nationwide this week.

What has taken place at Cornell is unspeakable, but it is part of an overall pattern of sexual violence that needs to be directly confronted. Rape, sexual assault, misogyny, and oppression are intrinsic to capitalism, and are used by the wealthy and privileged to exploit the marginalized with impunity. We need mass student and labor action in order to fight against sexism and exploitation.

We demand:

👉 The Cornell Seven rapists must be arrested and convicted for the gang rape and other crimes, including in relation to their horrifying group text messages.
👉 An independent investigation must be conducted into all the sexual assaults at Cornell by a team that is elected by the protest movement and includes students, social workers, and rank-and-file union members.
👉 Similar elected independent investigation teams must be set up at all campuses with fraternities to bring to light rapes and other sexual assaults and cases of extreme bullying and hazing.
👉 Fraternities must be banned from all campuses nationwide. Studies have found that fraternity members are three times more likely to rape than other male students.
👉 Cornell President Michael Kotlikoff must resign. Kotlikoff and the entire Cornell administration must be investigated for their utter inability and refusal to take campus sexual violence seriously. A 2025 survey found that about one in three women at Cornell have reported experiencing sexual assault.
👉 Unions on Cornell campus, such as the United Auto Workers, the Communication Workers of America, the Teamsters, and the Cornell Graduate Students must call for a one-day strike and campus shutdown, and escalate further if needed, in order to help win these demands.

The Democratic and Republican parties represent the interests of the rich and powerful, and uphold the oppressive and sexist system of capitalism at all costs. We need a new independent party of the working class that fights against all forms of oppression. Such a party would be a historic step toward what is urgently needed: a revolutionary struggle to overthrow the capitalist system, which breeds violence, rape, and oppression, and replace it with a socialist world.

[Kshama Sawant @cmkshama]

.@voguemagazine has just published an article calling for frat houses to be shut down. It contains some shocking statistics:

"Do frats, and the men who join them, have a monopoly on predatory behavior on campus? Absolutely not. But a 2007 study found that frat brothers are three times more likely to rape than other male students; and in a 2025 survey at Cornell University—where seven fraternity brothers have been accused of drugging and gang-raping a 20-year-old student (and sorority member herself) in 2024—roughly one in three women reported experiencing sexual assault during their time at the school."

https://t.co/57uodjlvLW

[Kshama Sawant @cmkshama]

The Democratic Party in Seattle, led by so-called “socialist” Mayor Katie Wilson, is proposing massive budget cuts for crucial city programs, while at the same time putting forward an additional $68 million for the already massively bloated police budget!

Join me and @wrkrsstrikeback at a speakout at Seattle City Hall tomorrow, Tuesday October 6th, at 4pm. We demand:
👉 Slash the police budget!
👉 No cuts to the public services working people rely on, which are being dramatically underfunded while the ultra rich make historic profits!
👉 Raise the Amazon Tax to massively expand affordable housing and fully fund education and other services!

RSVP to attend the speakout: https://t.co/FcrSwN7hMF

Wilson's budget would be a huge 14% increase in the police funding, dramatically higher than increases by former Mayor Bruce Harrell. The massive funding increase to the police is a blatant betrayal of the Black Lives Matter movement.

The proposed budget also includes a $65 million cut from funding for affordable housing. Media reports indicate that some departments facing cuts include Seattle Public Utilities, Seattle Department of Transportation, the Office of Sustainability and Environment, and the Office of Civil Rights, all of which are vital for the needs of working people in this city.

This is more evidence of the fact that the Democratic Party is a thoroughly pro-billionaire, anti-worker party, just like the Republican Party. We need leaders who are independent of both these rotten parties, leaders who will go to war against big business and the political establishment. That is the approach I took in my 2014-2023 decade on the Seattle City Council. I used my elected position to lead movements of working people to defeat the Democratic Party over and over again to win victories like the highest minimum wage in the nation, the Amazon Tax, landmark renters' rights laws. My City Council office was, unfortunately, a unique example in our times, which is why I co-founded the national organization of Workers Strike Back, to continue the fighting strategy I used in my office by launching mass movements and mobilizing working people.

Join me and Workers Strike Back, at a speakout at Seattle City Hall tomorrow, Tuesday October 6th at 4pm. We demand:
👉 Slash the police budget!
👉 No cuts to the public services working people rely on, which are being dramatically underfunded while the ultra rich make historic profits!
👉 Raise the Amazon Tax to massively expand affordable housing and fully fund education and other services!

RSVP to attend the speakout: https://t.co/FcrSwN7hMF

[Kshama Sawant @cmkshama]

Solidarity with WA State Ferries workers in the Marine Engineers Beneficial Association (MEBA) union in their fight for 20 percent raises! MEBA members operate, maintain and repair the engine rooms of Washington State Ferries. Democratic Governor Ferguson and the Democrat-dominated State Legislature have put forward a stunning ZERO-PERCENT-raise contract! MEBA members are fed up and angry. @wrkrsstrikeback and I stand in full solidarity with their sickouts!

Public sector workers everywhere are facing the brutal impact of budget shortfalls that have been engineered by the Democratic and Republican parties who refuse to tax the rich. In Washington State, this means public-sector workers have been offered ZERO PERCENT raises across the board after two years that saw a 6 percent inflation rate and the billionaires and multimillionaires massively increasing their wealth.

MEBA members have also been fighting to close a shocking 20-percent wage gap with comparable industry jobs for nearly a decade, so the recent ZERO-PERCENT-raise contract adds insult to injury.

MEBA members are going on the offensive with sickouts. This is setting an example of the kind of fightback that the labor movement needs.

Unfortunately, the leadership of most labor unions have refused to lead any kind of fight against the attacks on workers. The leadership of the Washington Federation of State Employees accepted ZERO-PERCENT-raise contracts this year without organizing any significant action against this rotten deal. Rank-and-file union members will need to organize around fighting demands and strategies and overcome the obstacle of union leaders who refuse to fight.

[Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 @ScooterCasterNY]

NOW: Thousands march through Cornell University campus, demanding Justice for Jane Doe and "Tear Down the Fkn Frats!"

[Kelley Lane @Kelleyswords]

Then why not help promote candidates like @cmkshama instead of spending nearly an entire interview asking her why she refused to integrate into the burning house that is @TheDemocrats? @ryangrim

[LA Progressive @LAProgressive]

The Democratic Party Is Not Your Friend

https://t.co/p8ZNh8bEoX

Kshama Sawant and Jeffery Mackler will be in conversation regarding the illusion that there is any substantial difference between the Democrats and Republicans. The will delve into both parties deep connections to the merchants of war and the large corporations that fund them. They will discuss how each party uses the illusion of change that keep voters choosing between red and blue rather than developing a true party of The People. Only abandoning by this illusion can we forge the change necessary to put human need first

[Dick and Sharon🌹 @DickandSharon]

The Democratic Party Is Not Your Friend

https://t.co/54k48fioru

Kshama Sawant and Jeffery Mackler will be in conversation regarding the illusion that there is any substantial difference between the Democrats and Republicans. The will delve into both parties deep connections t…

[Jason Call 🇵🇸 🇨🇩🇸🇩 @CallForCongress]

I am organizing a Milwaukee chapter of @wrkrsstrikeback DM me lfg

[Green Party U.S. @GreenPartyUS]

Jill Stein is accused of assaulting police and trespassing, based on her standing with students peacefully protesting the Gaza genocide on April 27, 2024. The attack on Jill Stein is an attack on the entire Green Party, on all progressives and on Palestinians. Join the October 7 webinar https://t.co/vxBcy4R4l9

[Kshama Sawant @cmkshama]

I will be speaking tonight alongside @ClarissaRedwine and @js_tan_ about their new book, Against Tech Oligarchy!

Tuesday, September 29th, 2026
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Elliott Bay Book Company
1521 10th Ave.
Seattle, WA 98122

RSVP: https://t.co/6N0d0gdFB3

We will talk about the strategy needed for tech worker organizing and for the labor movement, the antiwar movement, and the fight against the AI billionaires.

[Kshama Sawant @cmkshama]

The University of Michigan administration is spending a shocking $850 million to build a data center for nuclear weapons research.

Join @wrkrsstrikeback, antiwar activists, and working people organizing against these data centers!

Protest on Thursday, October 1, 2026
4:30 PM-6:30 PM
Ann Arbor Marriott at Eagle Crest in Ypsilanti
1275 South Huron Street
Ypsilanti, Michigan, 48197

Workers Strike Back is mobilizing to demand that U-M end all funding to the nuclear weapons data center project in Ypsilanti. We need to disrupt the business-as-usual of both the U-M admin and the Democratic and Republican parties in Michigan. We need mass action against these data centers, including mass civil disobedience and strike action.

We demand:

👉 Stop the U-M Data Center! No Funding for Weapons of Imperialist War!

👉 Tax the Billionaire Tech and Energy Giants - Fund Affordable Housing, Free Healthcare, and All Our Needs!

👉 Take Big Tech and the Major Energy Companies into Democratic Worker Ownership!

[Nick Cruse 🥋 @SocialistMMA]

Kshama Sawant Joins LIVE. Democrats Meltdown Over Trump/Xi Meeting. AES and Progressive Dems Funded by George Soros. Entire Progressive Dem movement is a billionaire op. 8pm ET https://t.co/UijsymijTN

[Kshama Sawant @cmkshama]

Join us for the Workers Strike Back National Zoom Meeting! Starting now!

[Workers Strike Back @wrkrsstrikeback]

Stand With Gaza and the Occupied West Bank!

Israel has continued murdering Palestinians in Gaza and has ramped up violence in the occupied West Bank. Join us to hear directly from Palestinian activists on the front lines of the struggle against apartheid.

National September Meeting
Sunday, September 27th
12 noon PT / 2pm CT / 3pm ET
Join over Zoom OR RSVP to come to our in-person meeting in Peoria, Illinois or Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
https://t.co/3wF8k2940b…

Featured speakers:

Manal Tamimi: Executive director of the Popular Struggle Coordinating Committee - West Bank

Gamaal El Attar: CEO of the International Federation for Rights and Development @BeIfrd - Brussels

[Dana Fairbanks MD #AaronBushnell #FreePalestine 🍉 @dcfairbank]

Stand with Gaza and the Occupied West Bank TODAY 12pm PT / 3pm ET! "RSVP to join Kshama and Workers Strike Back members on Zoom to discuss the dire situation facing Palestinians" National Meeting" https://t.co/QFaacacNvb @cmkshama @wrkrsstrikeback #FreePalestine #CeasefireNOW

[Kshama Sawant @cmkshama]

Join grocery workers like Oscar at their antiwar and pro-union protest rally at 12 noon today in Seattle!

Rally and picket with grocery workers and union members!
Columbia City PCC in Seattle

Fight to defend our rights & fight in solidarity with the Palestinian people!

[Kshama Sawant @cmkshama]

TODAY, Sunday September 27th at 12pm PT: Rally and picket with grocery workers and union members at Columbia City PCC in Seattle to defend our rights & fight in solidarity with the Palestinian people!

RSVP here: https://t.co/vrXDH4cgOS

Grocery workers in Washington state have been taking a stand against Israel's genocide in Gaza and state-sanctioned settler violence in the occupied West Bank by wearing union watermelon pins to work. The watermelon is a symbol of solidarity with the Palestinian struggle, since it was first used in 1967 after the Israeli state took control of Gaza and the West Bank and prohibited the Palestinian flag from being displayed in public for more than two decades.

Recently, workers at the Seattle-area grocery stores of the PCC Community Markets have been sent home early from their shifts for wearing pins with the watermelon symbol, and also pins with the Palestinian flag. The PCC bosses have claimed the pins were “too political” to have at work. The UFCW 3000, which is Washington state’s largest union and represents grocery workers, including those at PCC, created union pins with the watermelon symbol in response to this retaliation by PCC management. Since then, numerous workers across multiple stores have worn these union pins to stand not only with the Palestinian people, but also with their fellow union members facing attacks from the bosses.

Under national labor law, workers have a right to wear their union’s pins on the job. Despite this, the bosses went even further by egregiously firing a worker at Seattle’s Greenlake Village PCC for continuing to wear the pin, continuing to say the pins were "too political". The bosses don't hesitate to violate labor law when it is in their interests to do so, and they are shielded by the Democratic & Republican parties, both of which serve the bosses. The only way for us as workers to defend our rights and to win major improvements in our lives is to get organized and take collective action to fight the bosses and their political servants.

#seattle #palestine #solidarity

[Kshama Sawant @cmkshama]

TODAY, Sunday September 27th at 12pm PT: Rally and picket with grocery workers and union members at Columbia City PCC in Seattle to defend our rights & fight in solidarity with the Palestinian people!

RSVP here: https://t.co/vrXDH4cgOS

Grocery workers in Washington state have been taking a stand against Israel's genocide in Gaza and state-sanctioned settler violence in the occupied West Bank by wearing union watermelon pins to work. The watermelon is a symbol of solidarity with the Palestinian struggle, since it was first used in 1967 after the Israeli state took control of Gaza and the West Bank and prohibited the Palestinian flag from being displayed in public for more than two decades.

Recently, workers at the Seattle-area grocery stores of the PCC Community Markets have been sent home early from their shifts for wearing pins with the watermelon symbol, and also pins with the Palestinian flag. The PCC bosses have claimed the pins were “too political” to have at work. The UFCW 3000, which is Washington state’s largest union and represents grocery workers, including those at PCC, created union pins with the watermelon symbol in response to this retaliation by PCC management. Since then, numerous workers across multiple stores have worn these union pins to stand not only with the Palestinian people, but also with their fellow union members facing attacks from the bosses.

Under national labor law, workers have a right to wear their union’s pins on the job. Despite this, the bosses went even further by egregiously firing a worker at Seattle’s Greenlake Village PCC for continuing to wear the pin, continuing to say the pins were "too political". The bosses don't hesitate to violate labor law when it is in their interests to do so, and they are shielded by the Democratic & Republican parties, both of which serve the bosses. The only way for us as workers to defend our rights and to win major improvements in our lives is to get organized and take collective action to fight the bosses and their political servants.

#seattle #palestine #solidarity