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Kshama Sawant (/ k ʃ ʌ m ɑː s ɑː ˈ w ʌ n t /; born October 17, 1973) [1] [2] is an Indian-American politician and economist who served on the Seattle City Council from 2014 to 2024. Until May 2024 she was a member of Socialist Alternative , the first and only member of the party to date to be elected to public office.
The 2021 Seattle City Council 3rd district recall election was held on December 7, 2021. Kshama Sawant, a member of the Seattle City Council from the 3rd district, defeated an attempt to recall her. This was the first recall election held in Seattle since the one held against Mayor Wesley C. Uhlman in 1975, and the first for a city councilor in ...
e. Socialist Alternative's Kshama Sawant, Seattle City Councilmember. Socialist Alternative ( SAlt or SA) is a Trotskyist political party in the United States. SAlt formed as Labor Militant in 1986, when members of the Committee for a Workers' International created a US branch. SAlt describes itself as a revolutionary socialist party fighting ...
Voters in Seattle have retained socialist Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant, the controversial lawmaker and long-time foe of hometown tech giant Amazon. Sawant had faced a recall effort.
Council Member Kshama Sawant, a socialist and the only Indian American on the City Council, said the ordinance, which she proposed, does not single out one community, but it accounts for how caste ...
Kshama Sawant, who was first elected in the 2013 election and was the only Socialist Alternative member on the city council, filed to run for reelection on January 11, 2019, and launched her campaign on January 24, becoming the first incumbent city councilor to do so.
International Socialist Alternative (ISA) is an international association of Trotskyist political parties. It claims group in 31 countries. ISA was founded in 1974 as the Committee for a Workers' International (CWI), by supporters of Militant from 12 countries. Following a split in 2019, in which one side continued under the name CWI, the group ...
List of Socialist Alternative election results. Socialist Alternative (United States) (SAlt) has fielded electoral candidates for local and state offices. Only one SAlt member has ever won election: Kshama Sawant .