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To Redact The Truth Or Not To Redact The Truth: Is That The Question?
January 5, 2022
By JEFF MACKLER
Assange’s WikiLeaks revelations showed yet again that the U.S. government engages in war crimes of historic proportions on a daily basis around the world.
Robbie Mahood 1946-2021: A Revolutionary in Theory and Practice
January 18, 2022
Robbie Mahood, 75, a founding member and a leading light in Socialist Action/Ligue pour l’Action socialiste, our sister party in Canada, passed away in Montreal on December 26, 2021.
Solidarity with the uprising in Kazakhstan: a statement of the Fourth International
January 14, 2022
The Bureau of the Fourth International, to which Socialist Action is a fraternal organization, has issued this statement on the uprising in Kazakhstan.
Socialist Action’s view on on January 6: Trump fanatics invade Capitol as his presidency disintegrates [Re-posted from one year ago]
January 13, 2022
By Jeff Mackler [Editor’s Note: One year ago we published this article on the events and meaning of January 6. In the time since, its
Robbie Mahood 1946-2021: A Revolutionary in Theory and Practice
January 18, 2022
Robbie Mahood, 75, a founding member and a leading light in Socialist Action/Ligue pour l’Action socialiste, our sister party in Canada, passed away in Montreal on December 26, 2021.
Nov. 13-14 online event! Trostkyism: Strategy for Revolutionary Socialism
November 8, 2021
Join us this weekend, November 13 and 14, at: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/89999897054
Solidarity with the uprising in Kazakhstan: a statement of the Fourth International
January 14, 2022
The Bureau of the Fourth International, to which Socialist Action is a fraternal organization, has issued this statement on the uprising in Kazakhstan.
Socialist Action’s view on on January 6: Trump fanatics invade Capitol as his presidency disintegrates [Re-posted from one year ago]
January 13, 2022
By Jeff Mackler [Editor’s Note: One year ago we published this article on the events and meaning of January 6. In the time since, its
To Redact The Truth Or Not To Redact The Truth: Is That The Question?
January 5, 2022
By JEFF MACKLER
Assange’s WikiLeaks revelations showed yet again that the U.S. government engages in war crimes of historic proportions on a daily basis around the world.
Free Julian Assange!
December 22, 2021
By JEFF MACKLER
Imprisoned Wikileaks founder, journalist, free speech champion and world-renowned social critic Julian Assange today faces life imprisonment for telling the truth about U.S. war crimes in Iraq, Afghanistan and at the U.S. torture base in Guantanamo, Cuba.
NY Cabbie Hunger Strike Wins Big!
December 20, 2021
By MARTY GOODMAN
On Nov. 3, hunger striker and taxi worker leader, Bahravi Desai, shouted out to an exuberant crowd of taxi workers and supporters, “We won! We won!” as a deal was struck with the city to reduce loans on the artificially inflated cost of city-issued taxi medallions.
The Acquittal of Killer Kyle Rittenhouse and the Way Forward
December 14, 2021
By JEFF MACKLER
At the heart of the Rittenhouse case is the divide between the anti-racist masses and the smaller reactionary racist layers who seek to join in with the ruling class in opposing anti-racist and workers’ struggles.
High Court decision “Grave miscarriage of justice,” says Julian Assange’s fiancée
December 10, 2021
Statement from the Assange Defense Committee on the Dec. 10 decision by the UK court.
India’s Massive Farmer Struggle Wins Historic Victory
December 8, 2021
By MARTY GOODMAN
Protesting Indian farmers were called “terrorists,” Sikh faith separatists, Maoists, and agents of Pakistan but their massive year-long mobilizations forced Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his far-right party to cancel its three pro-agribusiness laws first enacted in September 2020.
To Redact The Truth Or Not To Redact The Truth: Is That The Question?
January 5, 2022
By JEFF MACKLER
Assange’s WikiLeaks revelations showed yet again that the U.S. government engages in war crimes of historic proportions on a daily basis around the world.
Free Julian Assange!
December 22, 2021
By JEFF MACKLER
Imprisoned Wikileaks founder, journalist, free speech champion and world-renowned social critic Julian Assange today faces life imprisonment for telling the truth about U.S. war crimes in Iraq, Afghanistan and at the U.S. torture base in Guantanamo, Cuba.
NY Cabbie Hunger Strike Wins Big!
December 20, 2021
By MARTY GOODMAN
On Nov. 3, hunger striker and taxi worker leader, Bahravi Desai, shouted out to an exuberant crowd of taxi workers and supporters, “We won! We won!” as a deal was struck with the city to reduce loans on the artificially inflated cost of city-issued taxi medallions.
The Acquittal of Killer Kyle Rittenhouse and the Way Forward
December 14, 2021
By JEFF MACKLER
At the heart of the Rittenhouse case is the divide between the anti-racist masses and the smaller reactionary racist layers who seek to join in with the ruling class in opposing anti-racist and workers’ struggles.
High Court decision “Grave miscarriage of justice,” says Julian Assange’s fiancée
December 10, 2021
Statement from the Assange Defense Committee on the Dec. 10 decision by the UK court.
India’s Massive Farmer Struggle Wins Historic Victory
December 8, 2021
By MARTY GOODMAN
Protesting Indian farmers were called “terrorists,” Sikh faith separatists, Maoists, and agents of Pakistan but their massive year-long mobilizations forced Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his far-right party to cancel its three pro-agribusiness laws first enacted in September 2020.
Omicron, Climate Change and Socialism
December 5, 2021
By JOE LOMBARDO
Capitalism’s inherent drive for profits is at the root of the vaccine hoarding by rich countries and rampant deforestation that have paved the way for the current crisis.
Exonerations reveal FBI’s leading role in Malcolm X assassination
November 29, 2021
By MALIK MIAH
The FBI covered up its role in Malcolm’s assassination by framing two innocent men.
Critique of “Leftwing” Antivax Disinformation: Antivaxxers of All Stripes Pose a Serious Threat to Public Health
November 26, 2021
By CLIFF CONNOR
Anti-vax agitation is dangerous and reprehensible because it threatens legitimate public health efforts to bring a pandemic under control that has already killed at least 750,000 people in the U.S. and five million worldwide.
The U.S. Is Destroying the People of Afghanistan
November 22, 2021
By BARRY SHEPPARD
Washington, with full bipartisan support, is making the people of Afghanistan pay for its humiliating defeat in the 20-year-old war.
Teamsters United Takes the Wheel
November 21, 2021
By ALEXANDRA BRADBURY, Editor of Labor Notes
A new administration will soon take the helm of the 1.3 million-member Teamsters union. The Teamsters United slate swept to victory in this week’s vote count, beating out their rivals 2 to 1.
Fighting for Queer Liberation: Statement by Cincinnati Socialist Workers Organization
November 15, 2021
Socialist Action editor’s note: The statement below entitled “Fighting For Queer Liberation” was adopted by the Cincinnati Socialist Workers Organization, an independent organization of Cincinnati revolutionary socialists. The statement
Greta Thunberg Speaks at Cop26 Glasgow
November 14, 2021
Editor: 18-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg spoke on Nov. 8 at the rally of 100,000 in Glasgow organized by Fridays for Future, an international
The Greenwash Con at Glasgow’s COP26
November 12, 2021
By JEFF MACKLER
Hours before President Joseph Biden arrived in Glasgow for the COP26 conference, he demanded that oil-exporting nations dramatically increase their fossil fuel production in order to reduce the price of gasoline in the U.S.
Biden’s Build Back Better Legislation Crashes: Climate Measures Disappeared: Democrats Trashed at the Polls
November 8, 2021
By JEFF MACKLER
The idea was to blame the Republicans for society’s ills and pose the Democrats as the party of the people, especially as the mid-term elections loomed. The November elections have passed. Biden’s legislative efforts produced nothing. Democrats were punished by voters from coast to coast.
Workers rise up in strike wave
November 3, 2021
By MALIK MIAH
Thousands of workers are on strike right now in the United States, in what is being dubbed “Striketober”. In some cases, bosses are using “replacements” (scabs) to cross pic
Steel Strike and Riots in Neoliberal South Africa!
October 28, 2021
By MARTY GOODMAN
An October 5 strike of 155,000 steelworkers by the rebel NUMSA union and working-class riots in July have shaken South African capitalism.
UK High Court Should Deny Extradition Because CIA Planned to Assassinate Assange
October 25, 2021
By MARJORIE COHN
The Biden administration is continuing Donald Trump’s persecution of WikiLeaks founder, publisher and journalist Julian Assange.
Canada: Election 2021: Results and Prospects
October 13, 2021
[We print below material on the recent Canadian elections from our sister party, Socialist Action/Canada. Editor] by Barry Weisleder To quote Yogi Berra, “It’s deja-vu
Julian Assange and the CIA-USA Daily Wars Against Humanity
October 11, 2021
By Jeff Mackler [Introductory note: The weekend of October 23-25, in anticipation of a UK court convening to re-consider a previous lower court decision to
With Military Actions in 159 Countries, America Is Now the World’s Police Force
October 6, 2021
By JIM LAFFERTY
A couple of weeks ago, President Joe Biden stood before the General Assembly of the United Nations and said that “for the first time in 20 years, the United States is not at war. A damnable lie.
Contemptible Court Sentences Courageous Attorney for Contempt of Court
October 5, 2021
By CLIFF CONNOR
Steven Donziger’s sentencing was a consequence of the systematic corruption of what is deceptively called the American justice system.
Telling Tales of Death: Review of recently published books by Mumia Abu-Jamal and Richard Wright
October 2, 2021
By BRONSON TWEETY
The story of Richard Wright’s 1944 character could well be incorporated in Mumia Abu-Jamal’s collection of short narratives Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? an exposé of America’s continuing legacy of murderous brutality towards Black people.
The Myth of a New “Cold War” Between the U.S. and China/Russia
September 29, 2021
By JEFF MACKLER
AUKUS, or the new and secretly negotiated $66 billion nuclear-powered submarine agreement between Australia, the United Kingdom and the U.S., has momentarily ruffled some political feathers around the world, particularly in France and China.
Free Legal Abortion On Demand!
September 18, 2021
All Out October 2! By Ann Montague In an interesting interview with the British Broadcast Corporation (BBC) near the end of her life, U.S. Supreme
The Hell That is Haiti!
September 12, 2021
By Marty Goodman Haiti is being hit by an unending series of natural and human-made disasters – seemingly all at once. The assassination on July
My Friend Michael Ratner
September 11, 2021
[The following is the July 27, 2021 presentation by Michael Steven Smith at a book party in New York City’s Lower East Side sponsored by
Afghanistan: The Defeat of U.S. Imperialism and the Road Ahead
August 26, 2021
By Jeff Mackler 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
Afghan Women Speak: U.S. Occupation and the Taliban
August 26, 2021
{Editors note by Ann Montague: Organizations like the Feminist Majority Foundation collaborated with the Bush administration in calling for the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan as
Covid and Capitalism: An Interview With Rob Wallace
August 13, 2021
A Socialist Action Webinar As the ruling class continues the push to open the economy and remove COVID protections, the Delta variant is spreading across
Covid and Capitalism: Mass Vaccination or Mandate for Mass Death
August 5, 2021
On July 4th President Biden announced that “independence from a deadly virus” was on the horizon. Pointing to the possibilities of mass vaccinations, he proclaimed,
Is an Innocent Man Still Languishing on Death Row? We’ve Seen the DNA Evidence in the Kevin Cooper Case. It Points Elsewhere.
July 26, 2021
By Nicholas Kristof, Opinion Editor New York Times, January 23, 2021 [Editorial note by Jeff Mackler, National Secretary, Socialist Action. Kevin Cooper, an innocent San
Let the Cuban People Live! End the Blockade and Sanctions!
July 24, 2021
By Barry Sheppard President Biden has not only kept all of Trump’s sanctions designed to severely harm the Cuban people, he has added two more.
European Floods: This is Not a Natural Disaster
July 20, 2021
By Daniel Tanuro (Daniel Tanuro is a certified agriculturalist and eco-socialist environmentalist. He writes for “La Gauche,” (the monthly of Gauche-Anticapitaliste-SAP, Belgian section of the