Featuring writers and contributors to Socialist Action newspaper talking about the key issues of today.
“Our Solidarity with the Worldwide Anti-Racist Revolt”
By EXECUTIVE BUREAU OF THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL
By BARRY SHEPPARD
Trump’s first rally in months only drew a small crowd as Covid cases skyrocket and the mass movement against racism and police brutality continues.
By JOHN WILSON
The death of Larry Kramer was a huge loss, not only for gay men and others in queer communities, but for all of us involved in the fight against every kind of oppression brought down on us by our decaying, crisis-ridden capitalist society.
By ANN MONTAGUE
In an opinion issued in the context of a mass movement demanding justice, equality and an end to discrimination, the Supreme Court immediately expanded job protections to LGBTQ workers in 23 states where none had existed.
By BARRY SHEPPARD
Trump’s first rally in months only drew a small crowd as Covid cases skyrocket and the mass movement against racism and police brutality continues.
Featuring writers and contributors to Socialist Action newspaper talking about the key issues of today.
By JOHN WILSON
The death of Larry Kramer was a huge loss, not only for gay men and others in queer communities, but for all of us involved in the fight against every kind of oppression brought down on us by our decaying, crisis-ridden capitalist society.
By ANN MONTAGUE
In an opinion issued in the context of a mass movement demanding justice, equality and an end to discrimination, the Supreme Court immediately expanded job protections to LGBTQ workers in 23 states where none had existed.
“Our Solidarity with the Worldwide Anti-Racist Revolt”
By EXECUTIVE BUREAU OF THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL
By MALIK MIAH
The rebellion against police violence and murder continues to expand. New demands arise against institutional racism and its symbols of oppression and genocide by Black and Brown people and Native American nations.
By JUDITH BELLO
The new U.S. sanctions against Syria are an attempt to land a death blow on the Syrian government while the world is focused on other problems.
By JEFF MACKLER
Today’s unprecedented mobilizations began with the police murder of George Floyd. But their depth and staying power is equally a reflection of the mass anger and frustration stemming from all the insults to one’s being that capitalism has inflicted on working class America, and especially the nation’s Black, Brown and Native American communities.
Obituary by JENNIFER SHRIVER
George Van Bibber Shriver Jr. passed away in his sleep on April 24, 2020. His loss is felt by many.
By MARILYN VOGT-DOWNEY
A longtime comrade reflects on meeting George and working together in the Socialist Workers Party.
By MUMIA ABU-JAMAL
Protests against police brutality and racism in America have spread around the world.
By MALIK MIAH
The rebellion against police violence and murder continues to expand. New demands arise against institutional racism and its symbols of oppression and genocide by Black and Brown people and Native American nations.
By JUDITH BELLO
The new U.S. sanctions against Syria are an attempt to land a death blow on the Syrian government while the world is focused on other problems.
By JEFF MACKLER
Today’s unprecedented mobilizations began with the police murder of George Floyd. But their depth and staying power is equally a reflection of the mass anger and frustration stemming from all the insults to one’s being that capitalism has inflicted on working class America, and especially the nation’s Black, Brown and Native American communities.
Obituary by JENNIFER SHRIVER
George Van Bibber Shriver Jr. passed away in his sleep on April 24, 2020. His loss is felt by many.
By MARILYN VOGT-DOWNEY
A longtime comrade reflects on meeting George and working together in the Socialist Workers Party.
By MUMIA ABU-JAMAL
Protests against police brutality and racism in America have spread around the world.
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By GARY PORTER
Well known names from around the world recently joined together to form a “Progressive International.” What does this group represent?
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By DON HARMON
Workers at meatpacking plants are suffering extremely high levels of coronavirus infection, due to lack of protection, while the plants become hotspots for widespread outbreaks in their towns and cities.
By MARTY GOODMAN
Over 130 New York City transit workers have died of COVID-19 with MTA doing little to protect the largely Black, Latino, and immigrant workforce. As one train conductor says, “We are not essential. We are sacrificial.”
Statement by the four Embassy Protectors, Washington, D.C., June 3, 2020 The federal charge of “interfering with certain protective functions” levied against four members of
The United National Antiwar Coalition stands in solidarity with communities across the country who are rising up in protest against racist police violence.
Defend Black Lives! No Police State! No Military Dictatorship! Release all arrestees! No more attacks on anti-racist protesters!
Today Dr. Fauci is well known as a trusted scientist who is trying to guide the country through a pandemic. Gay men and lesbians who were involved in fighting the AIDS epidemic knew Dr. Fauci as a more complex figure in their struggle with the head of the NIAID.
By MUMIA ABU-JAMAL
“The name Eric Garner has become a catch word for the state of black America for decades, if not centuries, who can barely breathe free air.”
By LISA LEONARD
On-the-ground report from a comrade in Minneapolis on the protests of George Floyd’s murder.
#JusticeForGeorge
By GLEN FORD
George Floyd’s death by Blue Plague in Minneapolis was widely condemned by the same parties that have encouraged and funded the spread of the fatal contagion.
By JEFF MACKLER
George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and many more Black people have been murdered by racist cops every day. Meanwhile, Black people are dying of COVID-19 at a rate 3 times higher than whites.
Press release issued 5/20/20 Last week, an Iran-flagged tanker passed the Suez Canal, reportedly bound for Venezuela with a shipment of refined fuel. Despite having
Climate Crisis Commentary for June 2020
By JAMES FORTIN
By MARK T. HARRIS
The United States has the highest number of Covid-19 cases and deaths in the world. Capitalism’s inexorable drive for profits over human needs got us here.
By MARTY GOODMAN
A review of “Red International and Black Caribbean: Communists in New York City, Mexico and the West Indies, 1919-1939,” by Margaret Stevens
Statement on the shooting at the Cuban Embassy. Socialist Action is an affiliate of NNOC.
By JEFF MACKLER and JAMES FORTIN
The daily number new cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. is still 22,000–25,000 and deaths are expected to rise to 3,000 a day by June 1. Yet every state is sending workers back to work. Why is this, and what really should be done?
By STEVE R. JOHNSON
Plans to reopen schools are being questioned by the international working class as the novel coronavirus continues to spread across the world.
By BARRY SHEPPARD The Labor Department recently released figures for the unemployment rate for April, saying that the rate was 14.7 percent, the highest since
by BARRY WEISLEDER
Canadian workers are being forced to work in deadly conditions and unemployment is skyrocketing. How will they respond?
By MARTY GOODMAN
Today only 51.3% of American adults have jobs – the lowest number on record, lower than the Great Depression. We have passed 80,000 coronavirus deaths.
We reprint two speeches from the April 19, 2020 webinar “The Prosecution of Julian Assange and the Fight for Free Speech”
By JEFF MACKLER
“A quick succession of unhealthy and short-lived generations will keep the labour market as well supplied as a series of vigorous and long-lived generations.” – Karl Marx
By BARRY SHEPPARD
May Day saw significant actions by workers in essential companies serving the general public during the shutdown.
By JAMES FORTIN
Climate Crisis Commentary for May 2020.
Why are so many in jail? Here is the fightback narrative: America is a racist nation, founded on the principle that billionaire and multimillionaire white men are created equal, and therefore should have equal opportunities to make super-profits from an exploited workforce of lesser humans, namely working people.
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