Remembering Bud Schulte
May 12, 2022
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Alice Walker and the Price of Conscience
May 1, 2022
by CHRIS HEDGES
Alice Walker was disinvited to the Bay Area Book Festival after Zionist groups threatened to carry out protests. The public and presenters are complicit in her blacklisting if they attend.
Musk, Twitter, Google: Censorship and the National Security State
May 8, 2022
By BARRY SHEPPARD
The world’s richest man, Elon Musk, is buying the social media company Twitter for $44 billion. If he was in Russia, Western propaganda would call him an “oligarch” but since he in in the United States he is referred to as a very successful businessman, a euphemism for a capitalist who owns about $265 billion total wealth.
Women’s Rage: My Body, My Choice
May 5, 2022
By ANN MONTAGUE and LISA LEONARD
The leaked draft opinion by a majority of Supreme Court Justices supporting overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision has fueled the anger of women across the country. Furious women immediately surged the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court to denounce the court’s intention to overturn half a century of legal abortion rights.
Abortion Is A Right! Organize For Reproductive Justice!
May 5, 2022
By CINCINNATI SOCIALIST WORKERS ORGANIZATION
The legalistic-liberal strategy excludes the masses from participation and abandons the mass action tactics that led to Roe in the first place. Even though it came through the courts, abortion was not legalized because someone came up with a clever argument but because masses of people mobilized and took to the streets to demand it.
Musk, Twitter, Google: Censorship and the National Security State
May 8, 2022
By BARRY SHEPPARD
The world’s richest man, Elon Musk, is buying the social media company Twitter for $44 billion. If he was in Russia, Western propaganda would call him an “oligarch” but since he in in the United States he is referred to as a very successful businessman, a euphemism for a capitalist who owns about $265 billion total wealth.
Remembering Bud Schulte
May 12, 2022
Join us to honor Bud’s life! Saturday May 21, 3-6pm at Mayday Books in Minneapolis and on Zoom.
Women’s Rage: My Body, My Choice
May 5, 2022
By ANN MONTAGUE and LISA LEONARD
The leaked draft opinion by a majority of Supreme Court Justices supporting overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision has fueled the anger of women across the country. Furious women immediately surged the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court to denounce the court’s intention to overturn half a century of legal abortion rights.
Abortion Is A Right! Organize For Reproductive Justice!
May 5, 2022
By CINCINNATI SOCIALIST WORKERS ORGANIZATION
The legalistic-liberal strategy excludes the masses from participation and abandons the mass action tactics that led to Roe in the first place. Even though it came through the courts, abortion was not legalized because someone came up with a clever argument but because masses of people mobilized and took to the streets to demand it.
Alice Walker and the Price of Conscience
May 1, 2022
by CHRIS HEDGES
Alice Walker was disinvited to the Bay Area Book Festival after Zionist groups threatened to carry out protests. The public and presenters are complicit in her blacklisting if they attend.
The Next Wave: Capitalism’s Covid Crisis
April 28, 2022
By MARC ROME
In a world in which the true global Covid-19 death toll is 18.2 million, capitalism today bears a striking resemblance to how it appeared upon its arrival over 300 years ago: “Dripping from every pore,” to borrow from the Communist Manifesto, “with blood and dirt.”
Where We Stand
April 11, 2022
By JEFF MACKLER
Serious political analysis on the left always begins with the facts. Substituting abstract theory not based on facts is always a dead end for the socialist movement.
Haiti Sweatshop Workers Lead Rebellion Against Hunger and Misery!
April 7, 2022
By MARTY GOODMAN
Protesters fighting for $15 per day were met with police repression from the U.S. backed dictatorship of Prime Minister Ariel Henry, including the police murder of a journalist.
Socialist Action Canada: New Democratic Party leader Jagmeet Singh Sells Out for Liberal Sunny Ways
April 6, 2022
By GARY PORTER and BARRY WEISLEDER
The Liberal-NDP deal paves the way for Justin Trudeau to stay in power until 2025, at least. That goes to serve capitalist political ‘stability’ in the relentless march to climate catastrophe, growing social inequality and the horrors of inter-imperialist war.
The Crisis in Ukraine: Major Challenge to the U.S. Antiwar Movement
March 1, 2022
By JEFF MACKLER
With Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine a crisis of historic proportions has emerged front and center in world politics.
Alice Walker and the Price of Conscience
May 1, 2022
by CHRIS HEDGES
Alice Walker was disinvited to the Bay Area Book Festival after Zionist groups threatened to carry out protests. The public and presenters are complicit in her blacklisting if they attend.
The Next Wave: Capitalism’s Covid Crisis
April 28, 2022
By MARC ROME
In a world in which the true global Covid-19 death toll is 18.2 million, capitalism today bears a striking resemblance to how it appeared upon its arrival over 300 years ago: “Dripping from every pore,” to borrow from the Communist Manifesto, “with blood and dirt.”
Where We Stand
April 11, 2022
By JEFF MACKLER
Serious political analysis on the left always begins with the facts. Substituting abstract theory not based on facts is always a dead end for the socialist movement.
Haiti Sweatshop Workers Lead Rebellion Against Hunger and Misery!
April 7, 2022
By MARTY GOODMAN
Protesters fighting for $15 per day were met with police repression from the U.S. backed dictatorship of Prime Minister Ariel Henry, including the police murder of a journalist.
Socialist Action Canada: New Democratic Party leader Jagmeet Singh Sells Out for Liberal Sunny Ways
April 6, 2022
By GARY PORTER and BARRY WEISLEDER
The Liberal-NDP deal paves the way for Justin Trudeau to stay in power until 2025, at least. That goes to serve capitalist political ‘stability’ in the relentless march to climate catastrophe, growing social inequality and the horrors of inter-imperialist war.
The Crisis in Ukraine: Major Challenge to the U.S. Antiwar Movement
March 1, 2022
By JEFF MACKLER
With Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine a crisis of historic proportions has emerged front and center in world politics.
Thoughts on the present crisis in Ukraine
February 28, 2022
By Joe Lombardo The propaganda of the US government and its media always looks at what is happening now and does not give us the
Toronto Anti-Convoy Protest Shows the Way Forward
February 12, 2022
By DANIEL TIRADE
While the anti-mandate siege in Ottawa continued, Torontonians learned of a similar convoy set for the weekend of February 5, 2021. We anticipated thousands of people would converge in Toronto to spread a eugenicist message — that saving the lives of the most vulnerable from Covid-19 is not worth any concession of individual liberties. But frustrated and over-stressed healthcare workers decided to take a stand.
Racist U.S. & Dominican Rulers Massively Deport Haitians!
February 3, 2022
By MARTY GOODMAN
Biden has deported 16,200 Haitians since September and 18,100 since he took office. Biden’s campaign promises to “end Trump’s detrimental asylum policies,” restore “the dignity of migrants,” and “uphold their legal right to seek asylum” were lies.
The State of the Abortion Struggle in 2022
February 1, 2022
By ANN MONTAGUE
While the anti-abortion Democrats work to co-opt abortion rights supporters into their election goals, independent mass action remains the way forward.
Julian Assange Can Now Seek Appeal Against US Extradition to Top UK Court
January 27, 2022
By MARJORIE COHN
On January 24, 2022, the British High Court of Justice allowed WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange to ask the U.K. Supreme Court to hear his appeal of the extradition order. In December 2021, the High Court had overturned U.K. District Judge Vanessa Baraitser’s January 2021 ruling denying the U.S. request for extradition.
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
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