The global warming climate catastrophe Here, despite the uncontested facts, the world’s major powers press on to increase fossil fuel production in the face of ever-intensifying killer heat waves, deadly floods and hurricanes, inundation of low lying land masses, drying up and poisoning of major water supplies – all accompanied by unprecedented environmental destruction across … Continue reading Capitalism’s Multiple Crises: U.S. and World Capitalism in Crisis [Part III of Socialist Action’s Draft Political Resolution approved by the membership on October 25, 2026] →

Today, while the U.S. focuses on its major competitor for world markets, capitalist-imperialist China, the world is awash with ever new and often temporary economic alliances aimed at advantaging one or another group of capitalist competitors. In sharp contrast to the post-WWII Cold War period, today there are no wars between nations with fundamentally different … Continue reading The “New Cold War”? U.S. and World Capitalism in Crisis [Part II of Socialist Action’s Draft Political Resolution approved by the membership on October 25, 2026] →

“The total value of the U.S. stock market has more than doubled over the past decade to over $75 trillion, roughly two and a half times the annual output [Gross Domestic Product] of the entire U.S. economy.” (July 23, 2026 New York Times.) The GDP, at $31.87 trillion, is defined as the monetary value of all finished … Continue reading U.S. and World Capitalism in Crisis [Part I of Socialist Action’s Draft Political Resolution approved by the membership on October 25, 2026] →

By Jeff Mackler, National Secretary Socialist Action With less than two weeks from the U.S. midterm elections, the base corruption of capitalist politics is in full view.  The race, according to multiple pollsters almost daily cited by the New York Times, boils down to some dozen or even fewer contested states. The rest are deemed … Continue reading Breaking with Capitalism’s Twin Parties of War, Racism and Poverty →

Fighting the Corporate Duopoly at the Ballot Box (w/ Kshama Sawant) | The Chris Hedges ReportKshama Sawant’s revolutionary socialist campaign for Congress shows us how we can turn the weight of the class war back against the billionaires and their political representatives. This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. In this episode of The Chris Hedges … Continue reading Chris Hedges Interviews Kshama Sawant →

June 5, 2026Translation: Walter Lippmann.  Miguel Díaz-Canel [Photo above] is the president of Cuba. He leads a country of just under ten million inhabitants, located 90 miles from Florida. Since the 1959 Revolution, Cuba has been a target of every US administration. But now the situation is particularly extreme and tense, to the point that … Continue reading Díaz-Canel: “Trump seeks to suffocate Cuba so that there will be a social explosion and he will have a pretext to intervene” →

Daily News Blog  05/28 By Roland Sheppard U.S. workplaces have become “killing fields.” The World is Heading Toward a Financial Crisis – The State of US Politics has Left Us Ill Prepared In fact, the current “body count” is that over 40 percent of the people in the United States will get cancer. Such is … Continue reading Capitalism and Environmental Catastrophe By Roland Sheppard →

An urgent protest is called for Sunday, May 31 in San Francisco against a possible U.S. military attack on Cuba. Already, 5 months of a total oil blockade has devastated the economy, causing unprecedented suffering for the people. The recent indictment of Raul Castro by the United States Department of Justice is a shameful injustice and … Continue reading All Out Sunday, May 31, San Francisco →

Photos above: Top Kidnapped Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores Photo below: Delcy Rodriguez, Venezuela's Interim president [Editor’s note, Jeff Mackler: We reprint below a recent article highly critical of the across-the-board rightwing measures implemented by the Delcy Rodriquez-led Venezuelan government under the monstrous pressure of U.S. imperialism. The U.S. invasion, that … Continue reading HANDS OFF VENEZUELA!!! Venceremos!!! ***  By Ricardo Vas →

May 19, 2026 Photo above: Marjorie Cohn Since the 1959 Cuban Revolution, the U.S. government has sought to foment regime change in Cuba. In 1961, the C.I.A. orchestrated the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, when C.I.A.-trained Cuban exiles landed at Playa Girón, on Cuba’s southern coast. They were defeated within two days by Cuban military forces.  … Continue reading Resisting Regime Change in Cuba  By Marjorie Cohn →

By Barry Sheppard [Photo above, Kathy Spillar, Executive Editor, Ms Magazine] The far right group wrote Project 2025, which has served as a blueprint for Trump’s second term. At the end of last year it issued Project 2026 centered on attacking women’s rights. It hasn’t received the publicity it deserves. However, an article by Kathy … Continue reading The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2026 Declares Open Warfare Against Women →

Onward to a Socialist Future!Dear Comrades and Friends, We list below two important events initiated by our Canadian co-thinkers. In the attachment (see below) you will find the agenda of the Sunday, May 24 Socialist Movement conference.  Please invite all comrades and friends to register now at:  Capitalism Can’t be Fixed — Onward to a Socialist Future! – Capitalism Can’t … Continue reading ‘Capitalism Can’t be Fixed’ Conference →

By Jeff Mackler A front-page May 13, 2026 New York Times 1972 photo featured warmongering U.S. President Richard Nixon in China shaking hands with Chinese President Mao Tse-Tung during the Vietnam War. The photo brought on the deepest feelings of revulsion on the part of U.S. activists, who spent their youth organizing and mobilizing nationally-coordinated … Continue reading Trump and U.S. Multi-Billionaires Visit Their Chinese Counterparts To Resolve Capitalism’s Irresolvable Contradictions: A Marxist Analysis →

U.S. Hands Off Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, Palestine! The world’s people in the main declared US President Donald Trump a war criminal when he announced on April 7, 2026 that, “The whole [Iranian] civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will.” Trump’s threat of … Continue reading Socialist Action’s May Day Statement on Defeating U.S. Imperialism’s Wars →

By Jeff Mackler The world’s people and nations in the main declared US President Donald Trump a war criminal when he announced on April 7, 2026 that, “The whole [Iranian] civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will.” Trump’s threat of yet another … Continue reading War criminal Trump’s two-week Iran “ceasefire” unravels a day later. US Hands Off Iran and Palestine! →

Barry Sheppard More than a month after the United States and Israel launched an illegal war on Iran, killing and injuring hundreds and displacing thousands of innocent civilians, US President Donald Trump is focused on the Straits of Hormuz and the impact of the war on the price of oil. Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin … Continue reading Israel’s expansionist strategy in the war on Iran →

Speeding Up the “Kill Chain”: Pentagon Bombs Thousands of Targets in Iran Using Palantir AI [We reprint below excerpts from six articles from Democracy Now: The War and Peace Report, March 18, 2026.] [Photo above: Israel says it killed Iran’s intelligence minister, ​Esmail Khatib, in a strike overnight in Tehran. It’s the latest assassination of … Continue reading Speeding Up the “Kill Chain”: Pentagon Bombs Thousands of Targets in Iran Using Palantir AI →

Please forward widely…. March 20-25 San Francisco Bay Area socialist tour Hear in person…  Kshama Sawant, [above] three-term/ten year elected Socialist Alternative Seattle City Councilor and currently Seattle’s Revolutionary Workers Party and Workers Strike Back candidate for U.S. Congress; leader of Seattle establishing the highest minimal hourly wage in the country at $21 and… Jeff Mackler … Continue reading San Francisco Bay Area Tour: The Relevance of Socialism Today  $Trillions for Human Needs Not Endless U.S. Wars and Environmental Destruction; Free Palestine; Abolish ICE,  U.S. Hands Off Iran, Venezuela and Cuba,  No Human Being Is Illegal; Winning a World Of Peace and Justice →

With the announcement after major defeats in Illinois, Minneapolis and a historic fightback in Los Angeles, that the Trump Administration will no longer be speaking publicly about mass raids going into the midterm elections, the immigrant rights struggle is at an important junction. It’s time to ask some critical questions: How much does this relative … Continue reading Notes from the Front Lines of the Immigrant Rights Struggle   By Cristobal Cavazos →

March 03, 2026 by Manolo De Los Santos Venezuela's Acting President Delcy Rodríguez Photo above: PSUV Lee en español aquí [Editor's note: We reprint below a critical, if not brilliant article written from the vantagepoint of revolutionary Marxism from peoplesdispatch.org analyzing the consequences of the January 3 monstrous U.S. invasion of Venezuela and U.S. imperialism's capture/abduction of its … Continue reading Tactical retreats: Why Venezuela’s revolution still stands: [Once again on the right of poor and oppressed nations to self-determination and sovereignty] →

The U.S. imperialist beast is at war again, again, and again. Last month it was against the people of Venezuela, whose president Nicolás Maduro and First Combatant Cilia Flores were abducted and 100 Cuban and Venezuelan defenders in Caracas murdered in a high tech attack demonstrating once again imperialism’s ever more sophisticated military capacities and … Continue reading Socialist Action Statement on Defeating the U.S. Imperialist Beast: U.S. Hands Off Iran, Venezuela, Cuba and Palestine! →