This is our second installment of major excerpts from the Political Resolution adopted at the August 2012 Socialist Action National Convention in Minneapolis. Today we are witness to a new world armaments race, with every major power striving to increase its military arsenal. This clearly indicates the desperate need of all capitalist nations to protect, … Continue reading Revolutionary socialist politics (Part 2)
Month: December 2012
The new assault on civil liberties
This is a section of the Political Resolution approved at the August 2012 Socialist Action National Convention in Minneapolis. The past few years have seen a rapid and alarming rise in government attacks on basic civil liberties. Any underestimation of the gravity of this assault would be a serious mistake. It is not our intention … Continue reading The new assault on civil liberties
Pakistan: Between bureaucracy & theocracy
By USMAN KHAN YUSUFZAI The modern history of the two extremisms in Pakistan, Islamic and neoliberal, is rooted in the interactions between Pakistan and the United States. It was in 1979 that the relationship between the United States and Pakistan shifted dramatically; prior to that, American support to Pakistan was mostly based around countering Soviet … Continue reading Pakistan: Between bureaucracy & theocracy
Una Carta Abierta
Discutamos la Reforma Migratoria: Una Carta Abierta En 2010, dos propuestas de una Reforma Migratoria Comprensiva salieron a un nivel nacional. Más allá que una reforma que refuerza la militarización de las fronteras y excluye a muchas personas, Acción Socialista siempre ha luchado para una legalización justa para todos los inmigrantes y trabajadores sin documentos. … Continue reading Una Carta Abierta
How can we combat global warming?
By BILL ONASCH The following oral report was given to the Socialist Action National Convention, held in Minneapolis in August. The once most prominent global-warming denier in the scientific world, Berkeley physics professor Richard Muller, recently wrote in The New York Times, “Call me a converted skeptic. Last year, following an intensive research effort involving … Continue reading How can we combat global warming?
Jean Paul Marat — presente!
By MICHAEL SCHREIBER “Jean Paul Marat: Tribune of the French Revolution,” by Clifford D. Conner. Pluto Press, London 2012. Historians have not been kind to Jean Paul Marat. Published scholars of the French Revolution, at least in the English language, almost invariably disparage Marat and his work, portraying him as a wild man, a demagogue, … Continue reading Jean Paul Marat — presente!
‘Fiscal cliff’ is like ‘austerity chicken!’
By USMAN KHAN YUSUFZAI As we head into the New Year, Washington is buzzing about the impending “fiscal cliff.” The topic was debated at length between both parties of the ruling class, the Democrats and the Republicans; and for all the wailing and doom-saying during and after the November election, one would think that we … Continue reading ‘Fiscal cliff’ is like ‘austerity chicken!’