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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[Statements by Amnesty International’s Secretary General Agnès Callamard and by the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) responding to Zionist Israeli’s interception and capture of at least 39 vessels and Israel’s detention of dozens of crew members of the Global Sumud Flotilla, which was attempting to break Israel’s illegal blockade and deliver essential humanitarian aid … Continue reading “Israel’s unlawful interception of Global Sumud Flotilla illustrates its determination to continue deliberately starving Palestinians in Gaza” →

By Jeff Mackler, National Secretary, Socialist Action President Donald Trump’s first-term Secretary of State, former ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson, notoriously called Trump a “f*****g moron.” Tillerson’s remark was recorded after Trump left a National Security Council meeting where he had proposed increasing the nation’s tactical nuclear weapons arsenal one hundredfold. During that same first term, … Continue reading Donald Trump: “F*****G” Moron or Crisis-Ridden U.S. Capitalism’s Ultimate Solution? →

[Reprinted from Aljazeera, September 21, 2025] The US senator recognizes the genocide of the Palestinian people but ends up blaming them for it. By Ahmad Ibsais U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders speaks during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on September 4, 2025 [Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters] After almost two years of horrendous atrocities … Continue reading The problem with Bernie Sanders’ ‘It’s Genocide’ Admission →

By Marc Wutschke The second annual National People’s Conference for Palestine, held in Detroit, Michigan, from August 29 to 31, attracted more than 4,000 pro-Palestinian activists. The conference was endorsed by over 300 groups, ranging from national organizations such as the National Lawyers Guild, Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), Code Pink, ANSWER, and Jewish Voice … Continue reading DETROIT PALESTINIAN CONFERENCE:  MUCH HEAT, BUT NO FIRE →

By Barry Sheppard In late August President Trump met with his son-in-law Jared Kushner and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair to discuss plans for a postwar Gaza. A month before, staff members of a think tank set up by Blair met with Israeli business leaders in developing a postwar Gaza plan that included the … Continue reading Trump’s Gaza Riviera and Israel’s War →

Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report, Executive Editor and Senior Columnist 17 September 2025 Apple CEO Tim Cook presented Donald Trump with an Apple plaque sitting on a 24-karat gold base. Getty Images The power structure in the U.S. can be boiled down to a system of might, and white, making right. Donald Trump has exposed … Continue reading White Power, By Margaret Kimberely, Black Agenda Report →

[Reprinted from Democracy Now.  Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez interview Jeremy Scahill] Global condemnation is mounting after Israel bombed Qatar’s capital Doha, attempting to take out senior Hamas leaders who had gathered to consider a U.S. proposal for a Gaza ceasefire. Hamas leadership survived the strike, which killed six. We speak with Jeremy Scahill, co-founder … Continue reading “America Is Bankrolling This”: Jeremy Scahill on Israel’s Bombing of Hamas in Qatar →

10 Sep 2025, Reprinted from Black Agenda Report [Photo above: Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and US President Donald Trump] The treachery of the Black misleadership class knows no bounds. While Trump’s latest racist dog whistle about “born criminals” is condemned, double-talking scoundrels may pretend to be horrified while giving legitimacy and assistance to the … Continue reading Super Predators, Born Criminals, and the Black Misleadership Class By Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist →

WASHINGTON, DC – APRIL 07: U.S. President Donald Trump (L) bids farewell to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he leaves the White House after a meeting on April 07, 2025 in Washington, DC. President Trump was meeting with Netanyahu to discuss ongoing efforts to release Israeli hostages from Gaza and newly imposed U.S. tariffs. … Continue reading Trump’s Gaza Riviera and Israel’s War →

All the elements, especially US impunity, are in place to eventually attempt a decapitation strike eliminating the South American nation’s leadership. ROGER D. HARRIS AND JOE EMERSBERGER President Donald Trump euphorically concluded his White House press conference on September 2 with breaking news: the US military had just blown up a small motor vessel in the middle of the … Continue reading All Elements in Place for a US Decapitation Strike on Venezuela →

By John Pottinger [Photo above: Zohran Mamdani with NYC liberal Democrat Zionist Comptroller Brad Lander who cross endorsed with Mamdani during the NYC Democratic Party primary, assuring Mamdani’s victory]   On June 25 Zohran Mamdani, a Democrat and member of the Democratic Socialists of America, came out of nowhere to beat Andrew Cuomo and several … Continue reading Mamdani and the Sisyphean Task of Reforming the Democratic Party →

No to US Wars Against Working People At Home and Abroad! Free Free Palestine! Socialist Action ZOOM webinar with Cristobal Cavazos, Immigrant Solidarity, DuPage • Gabriela Hernandez Chico, Co-director, Immigrant Solidarity, DuPage • Jeff Mackler, Administrative Committee, United National Antiwar Coalition, National Secretary, Socialist Action • Joe Lombardo, National Coordinator, UNAC Thursday, September 4th, 4 … Continue reading The Fight For Immigrant Rights in the Face of Trump and ICE →

By Elizabeth Byce 10,517 Canadian Union of Public Employees flight attendants working for Air Canada won a pitched battle in their struggle for a collective agreement. A tentative agreement was reached after an historic and courageous fight that inspired labour unionists and their allies across the country.  CUPE urged their members, early on August 19, to … Continue reading Canadian Flight Attendants Uphold Right to Strike →

By Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist August 20, 2025 [Reprinted from Black Agenda Report News, commentary and analysis from the black left.] [Photo above: Washington Commanders majority owner Josh Harris, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announce using public money to build a football stadium. Image: Washington Business Journal] … Continue reading Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser Epitomizes Black Misleadership →

Below we reprint the recent article from the August 24, 2025  Chris Hedges Report that recounts in some detail the real history of Palestine, focussed on its colonization by the Zionist settlers with the support of British colonialism/imperialism justified by the infamous 1917 Balfour Declaration.  Socialist Action’s 1988 pamphlet, The Hidden History of Zionism by Ralph Schoenman covers … Continue reading Israel’s Assassination of Memory: From The Chris Hedges Report →

By Malik Miah In a long rant of over 70 minutes in a news conference on August 10, President Trump claimed that the nation’s capitol, Washington, D.C. “has been overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged-out maniacs, and homeless people. And we are not going to take it anymore.” … Continue reading Trump deploys military to Washington, D.C. based on racist demagogy and lies about rising crime →