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.
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.
By JOHN LESLIE On June 9, 2017, a Philadelphia police officer, Ryan Pownall, shot David Jones multiple times in the back as he ran away.
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
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.
By JOHN LESLIE On June 9, 2017, a Philadelphia police officer, Ryan Pownall, shot David Jones multiple times in the back as he ran away.
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.
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
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 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.
Since we can’t go out in the streets to sell our great newspaper during this pandemic, we are bringing it to you as a PDF!!
By JAMES FORTIN
With assistance from their Democratic and Republican co-conspirators the corporate bandits have stuck up the nation.
Live Streamed on Socialist Action YouTube
Socialist Action Canada/Ligue pour l’Action Socialiste host Jeff Mackler, Socialist Action National Secretary and 2020 candidate for President of the United States for a discussion of “Why I Am Running to be President of the USA” LIVE on YouTube at 7pm ET
Join us for a panel discussion of leading attorneys, human rights defenders and social justice activists fighting against the prosecution and extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
Here we reprint part of a 1959 debate between a revolutionary socialist and a social democrat. George Breitman, a member of the Socialist Workers Party and longtime editor of The Militant newspaper, argued the No side.
By JAMES FORTIN At a news conference on April 9, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said the economy was deteriorating “with alarming speed” – not particularly newsworthy to the already-informed ranks of the recently unemployed, now numbering over 17 million. The same words also tragically apply to the ongoing spread of COVID-19 through the U.S. and the rest of the world.
By ANN MONTAGUE As the news outlets are covering developments in the spread of the coronavirus 24/7 and there are daily press conferences with President Trump and the coronavirus Task Force, the State Department and the U.S. military are taking Henry Kissinger’s advice: “Never let a serious crisis go to waste.”
By JEFF MACKLER Author’s note: This article was written three weeks before Bernie Sanders’ April 7 withdrawal from the Democratic Party primary race. I see no reason to change a word.
By BARRY SHEPPARD
One week ago, the official death toll from COVID-19 in the United States was 3,700. Today, April 7, the number has risen to well over 12,000. But this underestimates the real figure.
By MARTY GOODMAN Feb. 15 was the first large event in New York City calling for freedom for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who faces 175 years imprisonment under the Espionage Act of 1917 for exposing U.S. war crimes, torture, and human rights abuse.
By JAMES FORTIN Shipyard workers at Bath Iron Works (BIW) called-out from their shifts March 24 in response to company demands they work during the
Since we can’t go out in the streets to sell our great newspaper during this pandemic, we are bringing it to you as a PDF!!
By JAMES FORTIN Australia still has dinosaurs. We didn’t know what to make of this when we heard it. Thinking fossilized, we were mostly right.
By JAMES FORTIN Now that the COVID-19 contagion has spread to the 4 corners of the globe, the unpreparedness of the capitalist state, and the
By NICK BAKER While the U.S. damns its population with reluctant and haphazard “free market” responses to a global pandemic that demands comprehensive, organized, centrally
By JOHN POTTINGER Faster than a speeding bullet. More powerful than a locomotive. Able to leap off tall buildings in a single bound! Superman? No,
By JEFF MACKLER Bernie Sanders, face to face on March 16 with his often-proclaimed “friend” Joe Biden, could only assert that “Joe,” voted for the
Here we reprint a Socialist Action analysis of the 2008 Wall Street bailout. Today, once again, the U.S. ruling class is desperately trying to prop
By LISA LUINENBERG President Trump has taken yet more drastic steps in his ever-expanding war against immigrants and refugees over the past month. Citing “national
