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! →

The Supreme Court’s ruling that Trump’s unilateral tariffs on imported goods are unconstitutional because they are a tax paid by those businesses that import goods, and taxes can only be adopted by Congress, is a major blow to one of Trump’s signature policies and to Trump himself. Trump's immediate response was to attack the Court's … Continue reading Trump’s Regime: Authoritarian? Dictatorship? Or Outright Fascist? By Barry Sheppard and Malik Miah →

With… Kshama Sawant, former three-term socialist Seattle City Councilor, Current Seattle Revolutionary Workers/Workers Strike Back! candidate for U.S. Congress Jeff Mackler, National Secretary Socialist Action; 2016 and 2020 Socialist Action candidate for the U.S. presidency; National Administrative Committee, co-Founder, United National Antiwar Coalition.  Chair,  Elizabeth Byce, Socialist Action Canada Webinar: Thursday, February 19, 5 p.m. … Continue reading Socialist Action Webinar: Abolish ICE!  Minneapolis Shows the Way! Hands Off Immigrant Workers! $Trillions for Human Needs Not Endless U.S. Wars!  U.S. Imperialist Hands Off Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, Everywhere! Free Palestine! No to U.S.-Zionist Genocide! No to Environmental Destruction! End Fossil Fuel-Induced Global Warming! →

Statement of the United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) [Photo below: Fidel Castro] February 14, 2026 The Cuban revolution has been an inspiration to the entire world.  Despite the strict blockade imposed by the United States, which has caused shortages and hardship for the Cuban people, they have remained strong and defied all attempts to turn … Continue reading Long Live the Cuban Revolution! End the Blockade Now! U.S. Out of Everywhere! →

[Photo above: Cuban President Fidel Castro and Nicaraguan President, Daniel Ortega] Editor’s note I, February 13, 2026: We reprint here for the second time an article that appeared in the pages of Socialist Action eight years ago. The article is aimed at a new generation of youthful activists whose awakening to revolutionary socialist ideas holds … Continue reading Revolutions That Embarked On Different Paths: Nicaragua and Cuba: Lessons for Today’s Revolutionary Youth By Jeff Mackler →

By Marc Wutschke            Shortly after the January 3 Venezuelan attack, the U.S. Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, boasted, “America is back.” If he meant that America is back in terms of global dominance, the former T.V. pundit is far from accurate. America is back, all right, but only to its … Continue reading Venezuelan Invasion Marks Deepening Decline of U.S. Imperialist Power and Influence →

Bad Bunny reminded millions of people of connection, of shared humanity, of a hemisphere bound together by history and responsibility. By MICHELLE ELLNER FEB 10, 2026 For thirteen minutes on the most-watched stage in American culture, Bad Bunny made the United States feel expansive, uncontained, Caribbean rhythm–centered, and alive with a sense of belonging that … Continue reading Super Bowl’s Bad Bunny, Good Neighbor →

Reprinted from internet@granma.cu,  January 31, 2026 [Photo above: Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic] “We are living in a time when U.S. imperialism is emboldened and has once again set its sights on Cuba with increased aggression, which grows with each … Continue reading Cuba’s response to Donald Trump’s Threat of War By René Tamayo León →

SF Immigration Court  • 100 Montgomery Street Stop Trump’s Racist Deportations of Haitians and All TPS Refugees [See editor’s note on recent ICE atrocities below.] Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for 340,000 Haitian TPS holders expires on Tuesday, February 3rd. It has already been terminated for refugees from Venezuela and Somalia, and is in danger of … Continue reading Protest! Monday, Feb. 2, 4pm →

Trump’s interest in Greenland is likely to be not only security-related, as he has publicly claimed, but also economic in nature. In his speech delivered on January 21 at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting 2026 in Davos, U.S. President Donald Trump justified his claims to Greenland with security interests due to its “key strategic location … Continue reading Trump’s Imperialist Grab For Arctic Mineral Resources  By Thomas Tews →

[Hundreds of thousands responded to call for January 23  general strike in Minneapolis, Editor] From Minneapolis to Caracas to Gaza and beyond, the world is now challenged to resist the rise of violent authoritarian power.By Mark Harris, January 21, 2026If there is any hope for humanity’s future, it is in the vision of the day … Continue reading Resistance Grows to Trump’s War Against Humanity  By Mark Harris →

The Last Election  By Chris Hedges, January 19, 2026 [Photo above: The January 6, 2024 United States Capitol attack initiated by Donald Trump has been compared to the Adolph Hitler-led 1923 Beer Hall Putsch in Germany.] [Editor’s note by Jeff Mackler, National Secretary, Socialist Action: We reprint below former New York Times Pulitzer Prize journalist Chris Hedges’ pessimistic but … Continue reading The Last Election  By Chris Hedges, January 19, 2026 →

[Two articles on Venezuela] The Current Situation in Venezuela: A Government in Charge, a People Resilient By VIJAY PRASHAD and CARLOS RON Photograph Source: Vicepresidencia de Venezuela – Public Domain On the early morning of January 3, the United States government launched a massive attack on Caracas, Venezuela, and three of the country’s states. Roughly … Continue reading Two articles on Venezuela… The Current Situation in Venezuela: A Government in Charge, a People Resilient →

January 6, 2026 Image by Victor Gillam/Wikimediacommons, in public domain The USA is descending into a state of general lawlessness, at home and abroad. From using domestic special ops paramilitary units (ICE) to kidnap people off the streets of America and send them abroad, the US government is now deploying secret special ops military units … Continue reading Venezuela Vs. the Empire   By Jack Rasmus →

ICSS 20210926 Why the Cuban Revolution Has Endured – By Jeff Mackler, National Secretary, Socialist Action Click to open.

 DECEMBER 18, 2025  Caracas (OrinocoTribune.com) In an escalation of the US empire’s ongoing illegal sanctions on Venezuela, US President Donald Trump has announced a “full blockade” of the sovereign nation and its oil tanker fleet. He claimed the measure would remain in place until Venezuela “returns all the oil, land, and other assets” he alleged … Continue reading A Unified Venezuela Strongly Condemns US Threat of Blockade, Gains International Backing →