[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 →

ROGER HARRIS  Reprinted from CounterPunch,  December 22, 2025 In our Donald-in-Wonderland world, the US is at war with Venezuela while still grasping for a public rationale. The horrific human toll is real – over a 100,000 fatalities from illegal sanctions and over a hundred from more recent “kinetic strikes.” Yet the officially stated justification for the US empire’s escalating offensive remains elusive. The … Continue reading US Blockades Venezuela in a War Still Searching for an Official Rationale →

The Genocide in Gaza has not stopped. It has been rebranded. And that is enough of a linguistic subterfuge to get the world to ignore it. [Photo above: Hamas fighters and Zionist mass murderer, Israeli  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Hamas — along with other Palestinian factions — reject the Security Council resolution. They say they will disarm only when … Continue reading The Sham Trump/UN Peace Plan: Rebranding Genocide By Chris Hedges →

By Jeff Mackler  Reprinted from Jan. 1, 2024, Socialist Action newspaper [We reprint this January 1, 2024 Socialist Action newspaper article below. At the time it appeared in several other publications including “CounterPunch” and the leftwing Afghan publication, “Afghan Azad (Afghanistan Free).” Sections of the article recount the truth behind the current U.S. threats to … Continue reading Capitalism’s Deepening Crisis and the Coming Fightback →

10 Dec 2025  [Photo above: President Paul Kagame of Rwanda, U.S. President Donald Trump and President Felix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)] [Editors note: We reprint here Maurice Carney’s recent insightful article describing President Trump’s December 4 meeting with the warring presidents of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and … Continue reading United States Secures its [$Multi-trillion] National Security Interests In Congo “Peace Deal”  By Maurice Carney →

Demonstration Follows Release of November Report Documenting 1000 Tons of Military Cargo Shipped Weekly from Jersey City Site For Immediate Release 12/10/25 Contacts: Fatima Patel (609) 285-3768               Naji Al-Ali Signal: alqorithm.01   Email: promethean@tuta.comPhotos, Video, and Additional Information JERSEY CITY, NJ – On Friday, December 5 at  5:30 AM over 50 anti-genocide activists picketed … Continue reading Anti-Genocide Activists Picket Largest Civilian Weapons Warehouse for the Israeli Military in the US, Demand Arms Embargo →

[Photos above: Mumia supporters on a December 2025 103-mile march to Mahoney prison in Frackville, PA for his freedom and for the freedom for all political prisoners. Accompanying photo: Mumia Abu-Jamal] [Editor’s introduction: We reprint here two articles on the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal, perhaps the world’s most well known and innocent political prisoner.  Mumia … Continue reading Who is Mumia Abu-Jamal? By Jeff Mackler →

Editor’s note: We reprint here a slightly edited version of a letter from SA National Secretary Jeff Mackler to a friend who supported the New York City mayoral campaign of Zohran Mamdani. [Editor’s correction: My original article incorrectly asserted that according to Glen Ford an unnamed person associated with Black Agenda Report influenced that publication … Continue reading “Letter to a Friend” corrected: Bits of history from the Black Panther Party to Zohran Mamdani By Jeff Mackler →

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Spanish See Below)  *Chicago, Il. area Community to Protest ICE Use of Carol Stream Police Property, Demand Trust Act Resolution Carol Stream, IL — Saturday, December 6, 10:00–11:00 AMLocation: Carol Stream Police Department, 500 N. Gary Ave., Carol Stream, IL Casa DuPage People’s Patrol members, Community members, immigrant rights advocates, and local residents … Continue reading Protest ICE Use of Carol Stream* Police Property, Demand Trust Act Resolution →

By John Pottinger, Socialist Action  Many liberals and leftists believe AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, shapes US policy towards Israel or in fact controls it. The truth is quite different.    Israel was not created by the United Kingdom, the US and other Western imperialists to give Jews a place of refuge after … Continue reading AIPAC: A Tail, a Dog, a Carrot and a Stick →

The November 18 United Nations Security Council (UNSC) approval of the Trump Administration and Zionist Israel drafted “peace plan,” Resolution 2803, effectively transfers the administration and occupation of colonized and occupied Palestine to the imperialist U.S. and Israel. The vote, 13-0, with two abstentions from China and Russia, legitimizes the U.S.-backed Zionist genocide of the … Continue reading The Horror of the Unanimous UN Vote to Enslave Palestine  By Jeff Mackler →

[Reprinted from North Carolina Newsline] ]Photo above: Student protesters march past D.H. Hill Library at NC State in Raleigh, carrying signs like “ICE melts fast in the South,” on the afternoon of Friday, Nov. 21, 2025] [Photo below: Brandon Kingdollar/NC Newsline journalist] As final exams approach at NC State, stress over studies has been overtaken … Continue reading On North Carolina State’s campus, hundreds of students protest as fears of ICE persist  By Brandon Kingdollar →

By Jeff Mackler, National Secretary, Socialist Action [Photo above: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro] The U.S. imperialist warmongering president, racist-sexist bigot, Donald Trump, issued the following statement on November 29, 2025  “To all Airlines, Pilots, Drug Dealers, and Human Traffickers, please consider THE AIRSPACE ABOVE AND SURROUNDING VENEZUELA TO BE CLOSED IN ITS ENTIRETY,” Trump’s latest … Continue reading No to Trump’s War Threat to Blockade Venezuelan Airspace: Socialist Action Statement Sunday, November 30, 2025 By Jeff Mackler →

By Marc Wutschke On Tuesday night, November 4, the mayor-elect of New York City, Zohan Mamdani, greeted cheering supporters at a Brooklyn victory rally and said, “The sun may have set over our city this evening. But, as Eugene Debs once said, ‘I can see the dawn of a better day for humanity.’”                 It … Continue reading Mamdani Is No Eugene Debs →

Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist 26 Nov 2025    Members of the UN Security Council raise their hands to vote in favour of a draft resolution to authorise an international stabilisation force in Gaza, on November 17, 2025 at UN headquarters in New York City [AFP] By approving a U.S. “peace plan” that legitimizes genocide … Continue reading United Nations Security Council Resolution on Gaza is a Surrender to U.S. Led Global Fascism →

Just out of high school in the early 1970s, my friends and I dressed up in animal costumes and picketed a local shopping center, carrying blank signs and shouting nonsensical slogans. The mock protest bewildered shoppers and amused us greatly.          Months later, I joined a very different demonstration — a protest against the war … Continue reading No Kings Day: The Diversion Circus By Marc Wutschke →

        COP 30: It’s no joke By michael roberts on November 23, 2025 The usual joke about the United Nations Climate Change Conferences (COPs) is that each one is a ‘cop-out’.  Each time there is a failure to agree on ending fossil fuel production as the source of energy, even though it is … Continue reading COP30: It’s No Joke By Michael Roberts →

[Editors Note: We reprint here the December 21, 2025 CounterPunch article by Jeffrey St. Clair on the recent Washington, D.C. visit of Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman.] “One might almost say that to live in society today is something like living inside an enormous comic strip. ― Jean-Luc Godard” + President Bone Spurs on … Continue reading President Bone Spurs Fetes Crown Prince Bone Saws  By Jeffrey St. Clair →

[Reprinted from Black Agenda Report.  Originally published in Vox Ummah] Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the New York City mayor’s race was significant, but liberalism succeeds by presenting a veneer of change where it may not exist. In the shadow of genocide, while Gaza burns and its skies bear witness to one of the most one-sided assaults … Continue reading Mamdani and The Liberal Repackaging of Power  By Marwa Yousuf K. →