By Jeff Mackler [Photo and caption above published in Haiti Liberté newspaper] Marty Goodman, revolutionary socialist, worker Bolshevik, militant trade unionist, anti-imperialist/antiwar leader, civil libertarian, anti-racist fighter and jazz enthusiast, died in late March, 2024 of a heart attack. He was 74. Marty’s friends, comrades and trade union activists will celebrate his extraordinary life on … Continue reading Remembering Marty Goodman: Working Class Fighter and Revolutionary Socialist →

Interview by Salim Lamrani [Editor’s Note: We proudly reprint below, with this personal note, Salim Lamrani recent interview with renowned poet, author, and social justice fighter, Alice Walker. I first met Alice Walker 62 years ago, then an 18-year old green-eyed youngster, when we marched 500 strong with American youth through the streets of Helsinki, … Continue reading Alice Walker: A Voice of Love, Revolution, and Resilience →

UNAC (United National Antiwar Coalition) National Antiwar Conference Register Here Decolonization and the Fight Against Imperialism  A conference for the entire movement Saint Paul, MN, USA,  April 5-7, 2024 Click here to register for the conference.     ​ Click here to reserve a room at the conference hotel at our special rate. (This is an … Continue reading Decolonization and the Fight Against Imperialism: UNAC (United National Antiwar Coalition) National Antiwar Conference: Registration Information Below →

Sponsored by Near Eastern and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley; NorCal Sabeel; UC Berkeley Department of History; Law Students for Justice in Palestine; Institute of International Studies; Center for Middle Eastern Studies; Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project of the Center for Race and Gender [Notes from UC Berkeley’s Hatem Bazian, Department of … Continue reading “Crisis in Palestine: Opportuity for Palestine?” Ilan Pappé speaks at UC Berkeley →

By Olivia Rosana [Editors note: No doubt the Minneapolis City Council’s resolution supporting an immediate CEASEFIRE in Gaza and an end to US military aid to Israel was a product of the growing mass movement in solidarity with the beleaguered Palestinian masses. The resolution was also in accord with the original and often repeated Hamas … Continue reading Minneapolis City Council Overrides Veto of ‘Strongest’ Ceasefire in Gaza Resolution →

By Jeff Mackler, National Secretary, Socialist Action. Remarks at the St. Paul, Minnesota Dave Riehle memorial meeting, Eastside Freedom Library, Feb. 17, 2024. [Editor’s note: Some 125 family, friends, comrades, trade union and socialist collaborators joined in celebrating Dave Riehle’s life on February 17, 2024. We reprint below a slightly expanded version of Jeff Mackler’s … Continue reading In Memoriam: Dave Riehle Revolutionary Socialist, Class Struggle Fighter →

By Jeff Mackler [Editor’s note: We reprint below Socialist Action’s January 2021 assessment of former President Donald Trump’s twisted efforts to fraudulently reverse the formally announced electoral victory of Joseph Biden as the US president. The 2021 article was originally titled “Trump Fanatics Invade Capitol As His Presidency Disintegrates.” As we go to press, the … Continue reading Trump Indicted for ‘Destabilizing Lies’ In Three Conspiracies to Retain His Presidency →

By Jeff Mackler Of the estimated 1.4 million top security clearance U.S. personnel employed by one or another of the government’s 18 branches of its $81 billion annually budgeted “U.S. Intelligence Community,” perhaps one or two individuals each year are designated as “whistleblowers” and persecuted to the high heavens. Today WikiLeaks founder and journalist/publisher Julian Assange … Continue reading The CIA’s Daily Wars Against Humanity and the Persecution of Whistleblower Julian Assange →

By Jeff Mackler [Editor’s note: The article below was written as the“Introduction” to Socialist Action’s 2019 pamphlet entitled “U.S. Hands Off Venezuela!” At that time the US government, backed to the hilt by its kept corporate media, was openly orchestrating, in conjunction with the Columbian government, a military coup to remove Venezuela’s elected government headed … Continue reading Venezuela’s Future: Reform or Revolution? →

Decolonization and the fight against Imperialism A conference for the entire movement [Slightly edited from the UNAC website at unacpeace.org. Photo above: Joe Lombardo, UNAC National Coordinator] UNAC conference draws hundreds for mass actions against genocide in Gaza with a focus on building unity in action Over 400 antiwar/anti-imperialist and Palestine solidarity activists convened in … Continue reading United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) Conference →

White Christian Zionist Anti-Semites Join the Rally By Barry Sheppard and Jeff Mackler The November 14, Washington, D.C. “March for Israel” in support of Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza had all the earmarks of a US government-backed affair.  In comparison to the largely ignored or barely mentioned unprecedented in size and breath pro-Palestinian antiwar mass … Continue reading Washington, D.C. Bi-Partisan “March for Israel” Rally Supports Zionist Genocide in Gaza!  →

By Jeff Mackler In an April 18 out-of-court settlement minutes before formal court proceedings were set to commence, Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News family and publishing empire agreed to pay $787.5 million to Dominion Voting Systems for its repeated lies that Dominion rigged its machines to steal the 2020 US presidential elections from Donald Trump. The … Continue reading The Myth of Free Speech in America… Fox News to Pay Dominion $787.5 Million for 2020 Election Lies While African People’s Socialist Party Persecuted and Julian Assange Jailed For Telling the Truth  →

Part II of a series By Jeff Mackler   [Editor’s note : Our next article in this series will focus on the socialist movement’s historic stance toward defending the right of self-determination of poor and oppressed nations against imperialist intervention.] As the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) meet in Johannesburg, South Africa, … Continue reading BRICS Bloc: No Alternative to US Imperialist World Order  →

By Jeff Mackler We are horrified to daily witness the monstrous deeds of a crisis-ridden world capitalism that knows no way out other than by inflicting new waves of catastrophe on the world’s people. Today’s US-backed and orchestrated Zionist genocide of the Palestinian people is but one more glaring example. But a broader assessment is … Continue reading Capitalism’s Deepening Crises and the Coming Fightback →

A brief history of the US-instigated Ukraine War By Jeff Mackler In yet another escalation of the US-instigated Ukraine War, the Biden administration’s decision to send internationally banned cluster bombs to Ukraine reminds us once again that U.S. imperialism accepts zero limits on its heinous and genocidal policies. Ukraine is running out of artillery ammunition … Continue reading No to US Cluster Bombs to Ukraine? US Out Now! →

By Jeff Mackler, June 14, 2023 “U.S. had intelligence of detailed Ukrainian plan to attack Nord Stream pipeline” was the Washington Post’s June 6, 2023 headline. A blatant lie if there ever was one – a corporate media-manufactured lie, in concert with the US government, aimed at covering up US imperialism’s multi billion and trillion … Continue reading Biden’s Nord Stream Pipeline Obliteration →