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. →

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  By Jeff Mackler →

New York City’s mayor-elect Democrat Zohran Mamdani is today crisis-ridden capitalism’s most recent maneuver to channel rising working class militancy back into the imperialist, racist, sexist, homophobic genocidal, warmongering and climate catastrophe engineering Democratic Party. Tragically, both before and after Tuesday’s, Nov. 4 election, less than a handful of the “left” took a principled position … Continue reading The U.S. Left and Mamdani’s Victory By Jeff Mackler →

[Photo above: Cristóbal Cavazos] Reprinted from Democracy Now!  SEPTEMBER 30, 2025 Watch Full Show Tension between immigration agents and community activists is growing in Chicago, where ICE agents have deployed tear gas and pepper balls against ongoing protests outside Chicago’s Broadview ICE detention facility. Democracy Now! speaks with community activist Cristóbal Cavazos, who says that the people of Chicago have … Continue reading Chicago Activist Cristóbal Cavazos on Organizing Community ICE Patrols as Trump Escalates Immigration Crackdown →

By Marc Wutschke             On September 29, President Trump unveiled a 20-point ceasefire plan to stop hostilities in Gaza. It is not so much a peace plan as a blueprint for the eventual takeover of Palestinian land, a fig leaf for annexation             Chris Hedges, a Pulitzer Prize journalist and the former New York Times … Continue reading The Futility of Peace with Zionism →

By Roger D. Harris [Photo above: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro] Washington has persistently interfered in the internal affairs of Venezuela, pouring millions of dollars to rig elections. Yet, the perpetually divided and unpopular US-fostered opposition is more isolated and discredited than ever. Spoiler alert – it already has. This is not a glib answer but … Continue reading Trump Threatens U.S. Invasion of  Venezuela →

[Photo above: Netanyahu's wailing wall] There will be no peace in Gaza. Only the temporary absence of war. By Chris Hedges [Reprinted here by permission from Chris Hedges Report.] There is no shortage of failed peace plans in occupied Palestine, all of them incorporating detailed phases and timelines, going back to the presidency of Jimmy … Continue reading Trump’s Sham Peace Plan →

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