A Socialist Action Webinar Led by Soretti Kadir who is an organizer with Walaboomuu, or in English, Complete Liberation, a political organization that supports the current struggle and is organizing for a just political future. We will discuss: History of the relationship between the Oromo people and Ethiopia History of the struggle of Oromo people … Continue reading The National Oppression of the Oromo: A Discussion
By OLIVIA KATBI The Electronic Intifada
Major unions and labor federations in Oregon recently passed unprecedented resolutions calling for divestment from an Israeli company over its human rights abuses.
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
By MOLLY ROSENZWEIG
Environmental racism at work: Jackson, Mississippi, a city whose population is more than 80 percent Black, has been without clean reliable water for days, adding to the ongoing water issues due to decades of neglect and divestment.
NO TRUST IN COPS, COURTS OR POLITICIANS! STAY IN THE STREETS! THIS RACIST SYSTEM HAS GOT TO GO! By Marty Goodman, May 23, 2023 The May 1st murder of Jordan Neely, a homeless Black man, revealed the brutal gulf that exists between rich and poor, Black and white in New York City. Neely died at … Continue reading OUTRAGE OVER THE RACIST MURDER OF JORDAN NEELY!
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 reflects the views of Socialist Action, whose National Committee concurred with the statement in October 2021. To contact CSWO, email cincysocialistworkers@gmail.com or go to https://cincysocialistworkers.wordpress.com By Cincinnati Socialist Workers Organization Over the past few … Continue reading Fighting for Queer Liberation: Statement by Cincinnati Socialist Workers Organization
Free Palestine! End U.S.-backed Israeli Zionist Genocide! At UNAC’s founding conference, [14 years ago, Editor] we adopted the demand “End All U.S. Aid to Apartheid Israel: Military, Economic and Diplomatic.” UNAC thus became the first U.S. national antiwar coalition to take such a position. Today, this opposition to Israeli Apartheid is front and center in … Continue reading Final Resolution Adopted at United National Antiwar Coalition Conference, April 5-7, 2024, St. Paul, MN
By Jeff Mackler – May 15, 2021 In great detail the unfolding Palestinian freedom struggle against the racist, Zionist, colonial, apartheid settler capitalist state of Israel has captured headlines worldwide and won the solidarity of humanity’s finest democratic and human rights fighters. That apartheid Israel receives $3.8 billion annually in U.S. military aid – exceeding … Continue reading Israel-Palestine: The Missing Link… The Solution to the Nakba (Catastrophe)
By Frederick Douglass (1852) Fellow Citizens, I am not wanting in respect for the fathers of this republic. The signers of the Declaration of Independence were brave men. They were great men, too Ñ great enough to give frame to a great age. It does not often happen to a nation to raise, at one … Continue reading The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro
By MARGARET KIMBERLEY, Black Agenda Report
The FBI targeted the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP) because it is a Black organization that has dared to confront and oppose U.S. imperialism. APSP is the first but they will not be the last.
[Photo above: A Gaza parade in the past for the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s militant arm. Ashraf Amra/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images] [Editor’s note: The statement below was issued by the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas a few days ago, the first such statement formally presenting Hamas’s politics and explanation for its October 7 attack (Operation Al-Aqsa Flood) … Continue reading Hamas Statement on the October 7 “Operation Al-Aqsa Flood” Attack
Dear Friends,
Please sign this important solidarity petition initiated by the United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) condemning the recent terrorist FBI raids on the African Peoples Socialist Party and the Uhuru Movement.
In solidarity, Jeff Mackler, National Administrative Committee, UNAC; National Secretary, Socialist Action
Friends and Comrades, We reprint below the excellent statement of UNAC (United National Antiwar Coalition) once again condemning the Zionist, racist, apartheid, illegitimate state of Israel and its historic persecution, subjugation and occupation of Palestine. Today, tens and hundreds of thousands of peace and social justice activists and organizations around the world are taking to the … Continue reading No US Aid to Apartheid Israel! Free Free Palestine! From the River to the Sea! UNAC Coalition Statement
Our 2022 political resolution, giving Socialist Action’s views on the major events and movements of our times, was approved at our most recent convention.
BY MALIK MIAH and BARRY SHEPPARD
What the report did not say was why all the 376 officers failed to carry out their duty May 24. There is only one plausible explanation — racism — because the victims were primarily Latino. Texas is run by an ultra-right racist, sexist Republican administration. Uvalde, a town of 16,000 people, is closer to the Mexican border than the nearest large city, San Antonio. Texas, as well as federal law enforcement, is mobilized against any immigrant asylum seekers who manage to cross the border. They use force when necessary.
By MICHELE GOODWIN
Justice Samuel Alito’s claim, that there is no enumeration and original meaning in the Constitution related to involuntary sexual subordination and reproduction, misreads and misunderstands American slavery, the social conditions of that enterprise and legal history.
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.
By Cristobal Cavazos, National Committee/Political Committee, Socialist Action The extreme right-wing character of President Joe Biden’s immigration policy as well as the imperialist nature of his overall program was on stark display as he called on former “semi-fascist” President Donald Trump “to join me” on his attack on immigrant rights at the US-Mexican border on February … Continue reading Biden/Trump Maneuver to Smash Immigrant Rights and Fund Gaza Genocide
By Jeff Mackler If we are to believe the almost daily front-page major media headlines, President Joseph Biden has embarked on an historic congressional battle to massively fund a broad range of needed social programs by taxing the rich as never before. Biden’s daily and ever-changing “social infrastructure” bill pronouncements aim at assuring a wary … Continue reading Biden’s $trillion Taxing the Rich Social Infrastructure Charade Crumbles
By Ann Montague Grace Carlson was the only female member of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) (predecessor organization of Socialist Action) to be convicted and sentenced under the notorious anti-communist Smith Act of 1940. She was sentenced to sixteen months in the Federal Correctional Facility For Women in Alderson, West Virginia. The trial and convictions … Continue reading Grace Carlson: Unsung Hero of the Early Trotskyist Movement
By Barry Sheppard, May 13, 2023 [Photo above: Banned Montana House of Representatives member, Zooey Zepher] The Republican Party, which became a far-right white nationalist, anti-abortion, anti-LGBTQ party under the Trump administration, has now decided to launch a coordinated campaign against transgender people. In Montana the Republican controlled House of Representatives recently passed several laws … Continue reading Republicans Intensify Anti-Transgender Campaign
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 Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was asked what can be done about the large number of states restricting abortion rights. She responded, “We need a movement like the one that … Continue reading
Free Legal Abortion On Demand!
The origins of the police force and their role in upholding oppression, racism, and protecting private property and the interests of the ruling class. Presented by Dave Riehle, retired railroad worker and local labor historian. Join us for a Socialist Action webinar series. Learn about the origins of the police force, their role in upholding … Continue reading History of the Racist Police Webinar July 30
By JEFF MACKLER
Dear Friends of Mumia Abu Jamal,
Here are some important background and round up materials on Mumia Abu-Jamal’s freedom struggle.
In solidarity Jeff Mackler, Director, The Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal, Northern California
jmackler@lmi.net
By JEFF MACKLER
The specter of a Biden administration-authorized Department of Justice (DOJ) initiated McCarthy-era witch hunt was posed in bold relief last week as FBI agents took aim at a Black liberation organization that has been a sharp critic of the U.S./NATO-backed war in Ukraine and a defender of poor nations threatened with U.S. sanctions, coups, embargoes and blockades. These include Cuba, Syria, Venezuela, Nicaragua and Iran.
