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The Entrapment of Julian Assange: The Star Chamber Nears
December 18, 2022
By ELLEN E. TAYLOR
Though several major newspapers who published stories based on Wikileaks documents recently called for the U.S. government to end, a kangaroo court trial looms for Assange for publishing the crimes of U.S. imperialism.
Kevin McCarthy’s 15-Round Victory: Capitalism’s Puppet Politicians Perform in Public
January 19, 2023
By JEFF MACKLER
After 15 raucous votes spanning almost two weeks, Republican Congressman Kevin McCarthy, R-California, was elected House Speaker on January 7. The vote was 216-212, a party-line vote with six Republicans voting present. From the beginning, former President Donald Trump pressured his 20 super-supporters, mostly in the Republicans’ “rightwing” Freedom Caucus, to back McCarthy. They refused until several behind-the-scenes deals, and a new “rules package” governing House operations, were negotiated.
Biden Launches New Campaign Against Immigrants
January 19, 2023
By BARRY SHEPPARD
Biden has expanded the Trump-era Title 42 policy of expelling any immigrants who cross the border to apply to immigration authorities for asylum.
Hoisted on His Own Petard: Biden’s Hidden Classified Documents Set to Expose U.S. Instigation of 2014 Ukraine Coup
January 14, 2023
By JEFF MACKLER
The political score sheet between Republicans and Democrats now appears even, with both investigating and exposing each other’s illegal confiscation of classified documents, implicitly in both cases, to cover up heinous deeds, the least of which involves exposing the truth about the U.S. role in orchestrating the bi-partisan war in Ukraine. No doubt, the lead up to the 2024 elections will see capitalism’s twin parties once again exposing each other’s duplicities to garner votes in the nation’s periodic contests between the billionaire elite. But on critical questions like the “right” and obligation of U.S. imperialism to impose its will on the world’s people, there is no dispute.
Kevin McCarthy’s 15-Round Victory: Capitalism’s Puppet Politicians Perform in Public
January 19, 2023
By JEFF MACKLER
After 15 raucous votes spanning almost two weeks, Republican Congressman Kevin McCarthy, R-California, was elected House Speaker on January 7. The vote was 216-212, a party-line vote with six Republicans voting present. From the beginning, former President Donald Trump pressured his 20 super-supporters, mostly in the Republicans’ “rightwing” Freedom Caucus, to back McCarthy. They refused until several behind-the-scenes deals, and a new “rules package” governing House operations, were negotiated.
EVENT: March in Oakland Remembering Dr. King: Stop U.S. Wars! Sunday 1/22 @ 1pm
January 19, 2023
Join us this Sunday to march against U.S. imperialist wars!
Biden Launches New Campaign Against Immigrants
January 19, 2023
By BARRY SHEPPARD
Biden has expanded the Trump-era Title 42 policy of expelling any immigrants who cross the border to apply to immigration authorities for asylum.
Hoisted on His Own Petard: Biden’s Hidden Classified Documents Set to Expose U.S. Instigation of 2014 Ukraine Coup
January 14, 2023
By JEFF MACKLER
The political score sheet between Republicans and Democrats now appears even, with both investigating and exposing each other’s illegal confiscation of classified documents, implicitly in both cases, to cover up heinous deeds, the least of which involves exposing the truth about the U.S. role in orchestrating the bi-partisan war in Ukraine. No doubt, the lead up to the 2024 elections will see capitalism’s twin parties once again exposing each other’s duplicities to garner votes in the nation’s periodic contests between the billionaire elite. But on critical questions like the “right” and obligation of U.S. imperialism to impose its will on the world’s people, there is no dispute.
Stephen Jay Gould, a Man for All Seasons
December 16, 2022
By JEFF MACKLER
This memorial article was originally published following Stephen Jay Gould’s death at age 60 in May 2002.
ILWU Leaders and Members on Ukraine: Stop the Ukraine War—Refuse to Handle Military Cargo
December 15, 2022
Local Leaders and Rank-And-File: ILWU Must Stand in Opposition to the U.S./NATO-Provoked War!
“Publishing Is Not a Crime”: The New York Times Joins the Fight to Free Assange
December 8, 2022
By MARJORIE COHN
In a stunning development earlier this week, The New York Times, the Guardian, Le Monde, DER SPIEGEL and El País signed a joint open letter calling on the U.S. government to dismiss the Espionage Act charges against Julian Assange for publishing classified military and diplomatic secrets.
Behind Sam Bankman-Fried’s Cryptocurrency Crash
December 4, 2022
By JEFF MACKLER
FTX’s plunge from $32 billion to bankruptcy and the collaping value of cryptocurrencies shows the speculative casino nature of the capitalist economy, where unimaginable wealth is driven by fictitious capital.
Fighting for the Socialist Future Today: Socialist Action Political Resolution
December 1, 2022
Our 2022 political resolution, giving Socialist Action’s views on the major events and movements of our times, was approved at our most recent convention.
Journalists Push Biden to Free Julian Assange
December 1, 2022
By Stephen Rohde
Five leading news organizations call on Biden’s Justice Department to end persecution of Julian Assange
The Entrapment of Julian Assange: The Star Chamber Nears
December 18, 2022
By ELLEN E. TAYLOR
Though several major newspapers who published stories based on Wikileaks documents recently called for the U.S. government to end, a kangaroo court trial looms for Assange for publishing the crimes of U.S. imperialism.
Stephen Jay Gould, a Man for All Seasons
December 16, 2022
By JEFF MACKLER
This memorial article was originally published following Stephen Jay Gould’s death at age 60 in May 2002.
ILWU Leaders and Members on Ukraine: Stop the Ukraine War—Refuse to Handle Military Cargo
December 15, 2022
Local Leaders and Rank-And-File: ILWU Must Stand in Opposition to the U.S./NATO-Provoked War!
“Publishing Is Not a Crime”: The New York Times Joins the Fight to Free Assange
December 8, 2022
By MARJORIE COHN
In a stunning development earlier this week, The New York Times, the Guardian, Le Monde, DER SPIEGEL and El País signed a joint open letter calling on the U.S. government to dismiss the Espionage Act charges against Julian Assange for publishing classified military and diplomatic secrets.
Behind Sam Bankman-Fried’s Cryptocurrency Crash
December 4, 2022
By JEFF MACKLER
FTX’s plunge from $32 billion to bankruptcy and the collaping value of cryptocurrencies shows the speculative casino nature of the capitalist economy, where unimaginable wealth is driven by fictitious capital.
Fighting for the Socialist Future Today: Socialist Action Political Resolution
December 1, 2022
Our 2022 political resolution, giving Socialist Action’s views on the major events and movements of our times, was approved at our most recent convention.
Journalists Push Biden to Free Julian Assange
December 1, 2022
By Stephen Rohde
Five leading news organizations call on Biden’s Justice Department to end persecution of Julian Assange
U.S. twin billionaire parties win 2022 elections: How the system really works
November 16, 2022
By JEFF MACKLER
The rich just spent $18 billion in the midterm elections. A look at who benefits from the policies of the two parties shows why—and that working people lose no matter which party prevails in U.S. elections.
Lula’s Shameful Record of Sending Troops to Haiti
November 2, 2022
By MARTY GOODMAN
Under the previous administration of supposed “leftist” Brazillian President Lula da Silva, Brazil sent thousands of troops to Haiti as part of the UN occupation following a CIA-backed coup.
Mumia’s Appeal Dismissed; The “Mumia Rule” Still in Force in the Bosses’ Courts
October 27, 2022
BY NOELLE HANRAHAN, PRISONRADIO.ORG
Abu-Jamal’s defense petition included newly discovered evidence that had been buried in the prosecutor’s own files showing key witnesses receiving promises of money for their testimony and evidence of favorable treatment in pending criminal cases, as well as prosecutors striking Black jurors during Mumia’s original trial.
Socialist Action says No to U.S./UN Sanctions on Haiti! No to U.S./UN Occupation! Haiti is for Haitians!
October 22, 2022
By MARTY GOODMAN, SOCIALIST ACTION NATIONAL COMMITTEE
Socialist Action strongly opposes all sanctions on Haiti and any armed or unarmed U.S. or U.N. intervention. US imperialism and its surrogate, the UN, has no right to interfere in Haiti’s internal affairs.
Obliterating Russia’s Nord Stream Pipelines and Crimea Bridge: U.S. Imperialism’s Trillion-Dollar Fossil Fuel Gambit
October 21, 2022
By JEFF MACKLER
The US sabotaged the Nord Stream pipelines as part of a plan to substitute US Liquified Natural Gas for cheaper Russian fossil fuels, eliminate Russia as the chief fossil fuel supplier to Germany and much of Europe, and prolong the highly profitable U.S.-instigated and financed war in Ukraine.
Say No to U.S. Wars! Sat., Oct. 15 @12pm in Oakland
October 12, 2022
Join us this coming Saturday, 12 Noon at Oakland’s Federal Building, 1310 Clay Street, as part of the October 15-23 International Days of Action against
World-Wide Backing as Parliament Encircled for Assange
October 11, 2022
By Mohamed Elmaazi We reprint below an October 9, 2022 Consortium News article by Mohamed Elmaazi, who has covered all of Julian Assange’s London extradition hearings. —JM, editor
U.S./U.N. out of Haiti! No U.S. aid to Haiti dictatorship! No to deportations! Haitian asylum now!
October 7, 2022
By MARTY GOODMAN
Haiti’s mighty slave revolution, which declared its independence from France in 1804, horrified racist U.S.rulers, who have sought to crush Haitian independence for over 200 years.
VIDEO of Sept Rally Free Assange! Free Mumia! Free Palestine!
October 3, 2022
SPONSORED By THE MOBILIZATION TO FREE MUMIA ABU-JAMAL & THE INTERNATIONAL CONCERNED FAMILY AND FRIENDS OF MUMIA ABU-JAMAL. CO-SPONSORS: Courage Foundation/Assange Defense.org & Middle East Children’s Alliance, Arab Resource Organizing Center. HEAR Alice Walker, prize-winning novelist; Daniel Ellsberg of the Pentagon Papers; Jamal Jr, Mumia’s grandson; Chris Hedges, prize-winning journalist
FREE ASSANGE! FREE MUMIA! FREE PALESTINE!
September 15, 2022
FREE ASSANGE! FREE MUMIA! FREE PALESTINE! An evening of unity and solidarity on Saturday, Sept. 17 at 7pm In Berkeley, California.
The International Food Crisis and Proposals To Overcome It
September 6, 2022
By ERIC TOUSSAINT and OMAR AZIKI
[Editor’s note: We reprint this article by the Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt (CADTM). In 1989, the Bastille Appeal was launched, inviting popular movements throughout the world to unite in demanding the immediate and unconditional cancellation of the debt of the so-called developing countries. This crushing debt, along with neo-liberal macro-economic reforms imposed on the global South, has led to an explosion of worldwide inequality, mass poverty, flagrant injustice and the destruction of the environment.
Environmental Racism Leads to Water Crisis in Jackson, Mississippi
September 5, 2022
By MOLLY ROSENZWEIG
Environmental racism at work: Jackson, Mississippi, a city whose population is more than 80 percent Black, has been without clean reliable water for days, adding to the ongoing water issues due to decades of neglect and divestment.
DONATIONS TO PAKISTAN
September 1, 2022
CLIMATE CRISIS STRIKES PAKISTAN — To aid the millions of Pakistanis suffering from the catastrophic floods: send donations through ESSF (Europe solidaire sans frontières)
Global Warming’s Horrific Devastation of Pakistan
August 31, 2022
By FAROOQ TARIQ
A financial appeal and summary of Pakistan’s flood situation: Incessant monsoon rains and flash floods have devastated Pakistan, affecting millions of people and incurring huge economic losses.
Summer Strike Wave Hits Britain
August 29, 2022
By ANN MONTAGUE
In Britain, the working class is experiencing a wave of strikes and “Industrial Action” from some of the largest established unions in the country, activity that disrupts the economy. These striking unions have made political demands in recent years to renationalize mail, rail and the electric grid.
Whistleblower Julian Assange and the CIA’s Daily Wars Against Humanity
August 24, 2022
By JEFF MACKLER
Of the estimated 1.4 million top security clearance U.S. personnel employed by one or another of the government’s 18 branches of its $81 billion annually budgeted “U.S. Intelligence Community,” perhaps one or two individuals each year are designated as “whistleblowers” and persecuted to the high heavens.
POMPEO SUED OVER SURVEILLANCE OF ASSANGE VISITORS
August 18, 2022
By JOE LAURIA
Guests Who Visited WikiLeaks Publisher Julian Assange In The Ecuador Embassy Have Sued The C.I.A., Former C.I.A. Director Mike Pompeo And Spanish Security Firm UC Global For Allegedly Violating Their 4th Amendment Rights.
One year ago, Afghanistan: The Defeat of U.S. Imperialism and the Road Ahead
August 16, 2022
By JEFF MACKLER, National Secretary of Socialist Action
A re-print from August 2021, when US military fled Afghanistan in defeat.
After 20 years of untold U.S. government-inflicted barbaric horrors on the people of Afghanistan the world’s greatest military power, along with its NATO allies, stands humiliated, demoralized and defeated, forced to abandon their claimed nation-building project in the face of irreversible Taliban victories over the past year and longer.
Democrats’ ‘Climate Bill’ Puts Polluters before People and the Planet
August 16, 2022
By ROBERT BELANO
Congressional Democrats, supported by President Biden, just passed a major spending bill focused on climate change, health care, and taxes. But it’s no win for the climate or the working class.
Call Me – Washington’s Generosity
August 11, 2022
By ISAAC SANEY and CHERYL LaBASH
While various countries such as Mexico and Venezuela were concretely assisting Cuba in overcoming the unprecedented disastrous fire consuming the Mantanzas oil storage facility, the United States cynically sat on its hands, instead asking Havana to call them.
Matanzas Explosion Unleashes Wave of Solidarity for Cuba
August 9, 2022
By ALEJANDRA GARCIA from Havana
The eyes of the world are upon Cuba after an enormous fire caused by a lightning strike on a crude oil storage tank in the Cuban city of Matanzas killed one firefighter and injuring more than 120 people.
STOP ISRAELI TERROR IN GAZA! FREE PALESTINE!
August 9, 2022
The United National Antiwar Coalition stands in solidarity with the people of Palestine and strongly condemns the most recent violent attacks by Israel on the people of Gaza.
Tell Biden to take Cuba off the State Sponsor of Terrorism list!
August 7, 2022
By ROGER WATERS
I am constantly amazed at the cruel pretexts the United States uses to destabilize Cuba. Since the triumph of the Cuban revolution, the US government has relentlessly attacked the country’s socialist project.
FBI Attack on the Uhuru Movement is a Warning
August 6, 2022
By MARGARET KIMBERLEY, Black Agenda Report
The FBI targeted the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP) because it is a Black organization that has dared to confront and oppose U.S. imperialism. APSP is the first but they will not be the last.
Call for solidarity: FBI raids African People’s Socialist Party and Uhuru Movement
August 4, 2022
By JEFF MACKLER
The specter of a Biden administration-authorized Department of Justice (DOJ) initiated McCarthy-era witch hunt was posed in bold relief last week as FBI agents took aim at a Black liberation organization that has been a sharp critic of the U.S./NATO-backed war in Ukraine and a defender of poor nations threatened with U.S. sanctions, coups, embargoes and blockades. These include Cuba, Syria, Venezuela, Nicaragua and Iran.
Condemn FBI Raids on African People’s Socialist Party and Uhuru Movement! Sign the petition.
August 3, 2022
Dear Friends,
Please sign this important solidarity petition initiated by the United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) condemning the recent terrorist FBI raids on the African Peoples Socialist Party and the Uhuru Movement.
In solidarity, Jeff Mackler, National Administrative Committee, UNAC; National Secretary, Socialist Action
The Struggle for Haiti’s Freedom Past and Present: Video of Socialist Action webinar
August 1, 2022
WEBINAR ON HAITI —
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx0yJLBzhjY
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