Today’s Mumia Abu-Jamal event is postponed, will be rescheduled
September 17, 2020
Mumia Abu-Jamal — author, journalist, innocent political prisoner — on prison abolition.
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Capitalists Gamble Children’s Lives for Profits
September 20, 2020
By JAMES FORTIN
The openings of grade and middle schools, high schools, and colleges all have one thing in common – they are the betting chips in a massive gamble by the ruling class.
September Issue of Socialist Action Newspaper Out Now!
September 17, 2020
Our great newspaper is back in print! Here’s the PDF! If you like it, get in touch!
Socialist Action 2020 Presidential Candidate Jeff Mackler: No to Trump’s Coup Threat!
September 17, 2020
STATEMENT BY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE JEFF MACKLER
Should Trump continue to threaten the election or its results, we must stand in the political forefront against such a move without in any manner indicating political support to Biden and the Democrats.
Capitalists Gamble Children’s Lives for Profits
September 20, 2020
By JAMES FORTIN
The openings of grade and middle schools, high schools, and colleges all have one thing in common – they are the betting chips in a massive gamble by the ruling class.
Today’s Mumia Abu-Jamal event is postponed, will be rescheduled
September 17, 2020
Mumia Abu-Jamal — author, journalist, innocent political prisoner — on prison abolition.
September Issue of Socialist Action Newspaper Out Now!
September 17, 2020
Our great newspaper is back in print! Here’s the PDF! If you like it, get in touch!
Socialist Action 2020 Presidential Candidate Jeff Mackler: No to Trump’s Coup Threat!
September 17, 2020
STATEMENT BY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE JEFF MACKLER
Should Trump continue to threaten the election or its results, we must stand in the political forefront against such a move without in any manner indicating political support to Biden and the Democrats.
Socialist Action Launches New Member Educational Series
July 27, 2020
The bi-weekly educational series is a response by the Party to educate and integrate a growing wave of new recruits drawn to the ideas of revolutionary socialism.
COVID-19 Spreads though ICE Detention Centers
September 14, 2020
By LISA LUINENBERG & LAZARO MONTEVERDE
As the COVID-19 pandemic rages across the U.S., immigrants continue to be hard hit. COVID-19 is spreading almost unchecked through detention centers that house immigrants.
COVID-19 se extiende a través de centros de detención ICE
September 14, 2020
By LISA LUINENBERG & LAZARO MONTEVERDE
A medida que la pandemia de COVID-19 se desata en los Estados Unidos, los inmigrantes continúan siendo los más afectados.
Teachers Resist “Back to School” Orders
September 6, 2020
By STEVE R. JOHNSON
Under increasing pressure from state and federal authorities, schoolteachers across the United States are embroiled in a life and death struggle over the terms and conditions of re-opening the nation’s schools for the 2020-2021 year.
In the Worst of Times, the Billionaire Elite Plunder Working Class America
September 5, 2020
By NICK BAKER
In the midst of a global pandemic, unprecedented economic collapse, mass unemployment, hunger and desperation, the stock market is booming and the richest of the rich are richer than ever before.
The Democratic & Republican Conventions: A Socialist Fact Check
September 3, 2020
By JEFF MACKLER
When capitalism’s twin billionaire parties convene every four years to select their would–be head-of-state, it’s important to get the facts straight.
Jack Lieberman, Haiti solidarity activist, 1950-2020
September 2, 2020
Prominent Haiti solidarity activist Jack Lieberman died of COVID-19 on Sunday.
COVID-19 Spreads though ICE Detention Centers
September 14, 2020
By LISA LUINENBERG & LAZARO MONTEVERDE
As the COVID-19 pandemic rages across the U.S., immigrants continue to be hard hit. COVID-19 is spreading almost unchecked through detention centers that house immigrants.
COVID-19 se extiende a través de centros de detención ICE
September 14, 2020
By LISA LUINENBERG & LAZARO MONTEVERDE
A medida que la pandemia de COVID-19 se desata en los Estados Unidos, los inmigrantes continúan siendo los más afectados.
Teachers Resist “Back to School” Orders
September 6, 2020
By STEVE R. JOHNSON
Under increasing pressure from state and federal authorities, schoolteachers across the United States are embroiled in a life and death struggle over the terms and conditions of re-opening the nation’s schools for the 2020-2021 year.
In the Worst of Times, the Billionaire Elite Plunder Working Class America
September 5, 2020
By NICK BAKER
In the midst of a global pandemic, unprecedented economic collapse, mass unemployment, hunger and desperation, the stock market is booming and the richest of the rich are richer than ever before.
The Democratic & Republican Conventions: A Socialist Fact Check
September 3, 2020
By JEFF MACKLER
When capitalism’s twin billionaire parties convene every four years to select their would–be head-of-state, it’s important to get the facts straight.
Jack Lieberman, Haiti solidarity activist, 1950-2020
September 2, 2020
Prominent Haiti solidarity activist Jack Lieberman died of COVID-19 on Sunday.
Mumia Abu-Jamal signs on to Manifesto for Our Times!!!
August 23, 2020
Mumia adds his name to Alice Walker, Glen Ford, Pam Africa, Jeff Mackler, and the many others who have signed on!
To sign, email socialjusticemanifesto2020@gmail.com
Democrat NYC Mayor Busts “Occupy City Hall”
August 23, 2020
By MARTY GOODMAN
In the middle of the night, hundreds of New York City cops in riot gear descended on Occupy City Hall who had been demanded cuts of $1 billion to the NYPD budget.
Hundreds in Philly Demand: Free Mumia!
August 22, 2020
By JEFF MACKLER
Three hundred activists mobilized on July 4 at Philadelphia’s City Hall to demand “Free Mumia Abu-Jamal and All Political Prisoners.”
Socialist Action-Canada: Cops snatch 3 Black Lives Matter – Toronto activists
August 17, 2020
By SAM ERIC
As in the U.S., Canadian Black Lives Matter protesters have demanded the removal of statues representing racism and colonialism, embodied in the brutal racist police. “Disarm! Defund! Dismantle! Abolish!” is their demand.
The Roots of Trump’s Immigration Policy
August 15, 2020
Trump’s cruel border policies required no new laws. The laws passed under Clinton and Bush – continued and expanded by “Deporter-In-Chief” Obama – sufficed.
Portland State University Will Disarm Its Cops Two Years After They Killed Jason Washington
August 13, 2020
By ANN MONTAGUE
In a victory after years of struggle by student and local activists, the university has announced that its police will no longer carry guns.
August Issue of Socialist Action Newspaper Out Now!
August 12, 2020
Here’s our great newspaper as a PDF! The Print edition returns next month! If you like it, get in touch!
Which Way for Today’s Mass Radicalization? Capitalism’s Impending Catastrophe…or the Socialist Future
August 5, 2020
By JEFF MACKLER
Predatory capitalism is facing its greatest crises ever: deadly pandemic, constant brutal racist repression, mass unemployment, mass evictions, accelerating environmental destruction, endless war…and it has no solutions.
How Revolutionaries Use Elections
July 31, 2020
By LAZARO MONTEVERDE
Calls by social democrats to elect “progressive” Democrats exemplify what Engels called “parliamentary cretinism.” Marx, Engels and Lenin devised a different tactic for revolutionaries.
The Militarization of American Science
July 28, 2020
To celebrate our comrade Cliff Conner’s new book “The Tragedy of American Science,” out now from Haymarket Books, we re-publish an early excerpt published in Socialist Action in April 2018.
Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic, the U.S. War Machine Presses On
July 24, 2020
U.S. imperialism continues its wars of plunder and profit against countries around the world.
Mumia: The Perils of Reform
July 11, 2020
By MUMIA ABU-JAMAL
For years — indeed, for decades — we have seen the mirage of reform being presented by neoliberal leaders and their media tools, only to awake too late to ghoulish nightmares of shattered promises and hopes betrayed.
NYC Mayor De Blasio Threatens Mass Layoffs and Cuts
July 10, 2020
By MARTY GOODMAN
De Blasio wants to balance the budget on the backs of workers. The money should be raised instead by taxing the rich!
NY Cop Reforms? The Whole System Has to Go!
July 9, 2020
By MARTY GOODMAN
A mass movement against police brutality and continuous cop attacks on people and protesters, has won some reforms, but New York Democrats continue to refuse more significant changes.
July Issue of Socialist Action Newspaper Out Now!
July 8, 2020
We’re continuing to bring you our great newspaper as a PDF during this pandemic. If you like it, get in touch!
“What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?”
July 5, 2020
By FREDERICK DOUGLASS
“A day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham.”
UNAC: On This Fourth of July
July 4, 2020
Do any of us have anything to celebrate this 4th of July? UNAC believes we do not.
Rank and File Movement Builds Demanding Cops Out of Unions
July 3, 2020
By MARC ROME
A new mass movement is questioning the very foundations of the US police system, including its role in perpetuating the inequality and divisions among workers based on race.
Combating Police Brutality and the COVID-19 Crisis: What Socialists Demand
July 2, 2020
By JAMES FORTIN
Not since the Great Depression of the 1930’s has the American working class experienced with such gravity an assault to its standing as we are witnessing today. Do we continue under the irrational capitalist rule of the 1%, or do we demand meaningful solutions to the problems that have been thrust upon us, the 99%?
Trump’s Big Rally Fizzles, While the Movement Rises
June 30, 2020
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.
Larry Kramer fought indifference — and won!
June 26, 2020
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.
Supreme Court Decision Expands LGBTQ Job Protections To All 50 States
June 24, 2020
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.
Fourth International Statement of Solidarity with Anti-Racism Protests
June 20, 2020
“Our Solidarity with the Worldwide Anti-Racist Revolt”
By EXECUTIVE BUREAU OF THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL
Demonstrators demand removal of racist monuments and Confederate flags
June 19, 2020
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.
Deadly New Sanctions on Syria
June 16, 2020
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.
U.S. Fight Against Racism and Repression Reaches New Heights
June 14, 2020
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.
George Shriver 1936 – 2020
June 12, 2020
Obituary by JENNIFER SHRIVER
George Van Bibber Shriver Jr. passed away in his sleep on April 24, 2020. His loss is felt by many.
My Personal Recollections about George Shriver
June 12, 2020
By MARILYN VOGT-DOWNEY
A longtime comrade reflects on meeting George and working together in the Socialist Workers Party.