Inter-imperialist Energy Rivalry: China vs. U.S. By Jeff Mackler “The massive development of fossil fuel versus renewable energy resources is today driving the U.S. and China in opposite directions.” This is the central thesis of a recent New York Times series titled "Power Moves." One article, published July 5 and titled "As U.S. Banks on Fossil Fuels, China Pulls Away … Continue reading Inter-imperialist Energy Rivalry: China vs. U.S. →

By Jeff Mackler In a stunning political upset, Zohran Mamdani—a 33-year-old Queens Assemblyman, Democrat, and member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)—won the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City last week. Polling at just 1% when the race began, Mamdani secured 56% of the ranked-choice vote, defeating a crowded field of over … Continue reading Longshot Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani Wins NYC Mayoral Democratic Party Primary in Upset Victory →

Zionism’s Last Gasp, with Nora Barrows Friedman of the Electronic Intifada , Jeff Mackler, SA National Secretary, and Joe Lombardo. UNAC’s National Coordinator. Sunday, July 6 at 10 am Pacific time [12 noon Chicago; 1 pm East Coast. CORRECTED Registration: REGISTER HERE:  https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_woRIaBkxRFWJFlncx51Wsw

The Los Angeles and national immigration rights protests began in early June when ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents with no legal authority stormed sections of Los Angeles's largely Latino and Central American communities, banging on and smashing doors of local homes demanding that residents open with the intention of arresting those they deemed illegal. … Continue reading Defend Immigrant Rights! No Human Being Is Illegal! US Hands Off Iran! Ban All Nuclear Weapons Starting With US and Israel! All Out in Washington, D.C. June 28 and Everywhere! →

International Days of Resistance:   FREE Palestine – STOP War on Iran This action is called by Global Resistance For Peace and Justice.   Plan and list your action. We will list ALL actions of ALL groups demanding “Stop War on Iran” To List your action,  Click Here To View listed actions:  Click Here To Endorse, Click Here We call on … Continue reading All Out in Washington, Saturday, June 28, 1 PM NO WAR ON IRAN! →

Topic: Socialist Action Meeting for Members and FriendsTime: Sunday, June 22, 2025 5:00 PM Pacific time, 7 pm Central, 8 pm East Coast (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting Herehttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/88689495517?pwd=zyQFpHkQJc7E7jKuuu4fRGp2lEXiUh.1

The Los Angeles and national immigration rights protests began in early June when ICE ((Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents with no legal authority stormed sections of Los Angeles’s largely Latino and Central American communities, banging on local homes demanding that residents open with the intention of arresting those they deemed illegal. The stated goal was to circumvent … Continue reading Defend Immigrant Rights! No Human Being Is Illegal! US Hand’s Off Iran! Join the Nationwide Protests! →

 Join Socialist Action! INTRODUCTION By Jeff Mackler Defend Immigrant Rights!  No Human Being Is Illegal The Los Angeles and national immigration rights protests began in early June when ICE ((Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents with no legal authority stormed sections of Los Angeles's largely Latino and Central American communities, banging on local homes demanding that residents … Continue reading As Trump Sets Military Against Civilians, Service Members Have Duty to Disobey By Marjorie Cohn →

Zionism’s Last Gasp with Nora Barrows Friedman of the Electronic Intifada , Jeff Mackler, SA National Secretary, and Joe Lombardo. UNAC’s National Coordinator. Sunday, July 6 at 10 am Pacific time [12 noon Chicago; 1 pm East Coast. https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81914937552?pwd=pclIZJ6jWVHnduUkLpCPNq6EBXK5vG.1    

Workers, women, youth, and allies – Take Direct Action to Stop the Trade War! American President Donald Trump fosters chaos.  His aim is to enrich himself and his corporate cronies, even turning against America’s erstwhile capitalist allies.  The working class and low-income folks are sure to suffer the most in Trump’s infernal tariff war.  What … Continue reading Socialists in Canada, the United States and Mexico say NO to Trump’s Imperialist Bluster: [Translations below in English, French and Spanish] →

The Struggle for Immigrant Rights in the Face of Trump: ‘Respect our Existence or Expect our Resistance’  By Cristóbal Cavazos  The unbelievable struggle that the Trump administration’s attack on  undocumented immigrants workers has stoked, particularly among Mexican and Central American workers, some with close to the 30 years in the United States, has been as revolutionary … Continue reading The Struggle for Immigrant Rights in the Face of Trump: ‘Respect our Existence or Expect our Resistance’  →

By John Pottinger and Jeff Mackler The Truth Abut Trump’s Dismantling the Government Bureaucracy and the “Constitutional Crisis” A Marxist Assessment That President Trump has dismantled or significantly gutted some dozen or more government agencies, frozen the allocation of trillions of dollars in the federal budget allocated to run the country, fired multiple thousands of … Continue reading The Truth About Trump’s Dismantling the Government Bureaucracy and the “Constitutional Crisis:” A Marxist Assessment →

Dear Comrades, Just passing on the good news from Amnesty International and others that FBI frame-up victim Leonard Peltier is free, not to discount the horrors that the racist criminal injustice system has subjected him to for nearly a half century. Socialist Action is proud to have always been among his supporters. Comradely, Jeff Mackler, … Continue reading LEONARD PELTIER IS FREE →

With a smiling Benjamin Netanyahu at his side, Trump announced the Palestinians in Gaza would be displaced (ethnic cleansing), and then the U.S. would take over Gaza and turn the Strip into a beachfront Riviera on the Mediterranean Sea. Israeli government officials took turns praising Trump. Opponents of Netanyahu have also expressed openness to Trump’s … Continue reading Trump Aims to Erase Palestine By Barry Sheppard and Malik Miah →

Part III  Presenter: Jeff Mackler, Socialist Action National Secretary Friends and comrades, Join us via Zoom on Sunday, February 23 at 5:30 pm Pacific time for the third and final session of Socialist Action’s Zoom webinar on the Great 1917 Russian Revolution, “The Revolution That Shook the Earth.” [Part I focused on the historic debates … Continue reading POSTPONED DUE TO SPEAKER’S ILLNESS: The Great Russian Revolution of 1917 Socialist Action Zoom Webinar … Sunday, Feb. 23, 5:30 pm Pacific Time →

Press Advisory— Please Forward Widely (Spanish See Below)  Press Contacts: Cristobal Cavazos 630 518-5390, Gaby Hernandez Chico 630 546-4873, Mateo Suarez 630 440-2460     West Chicago IL: IN the face of violent ICE raids that seek to terrorize and paralyze the Latino community, in nearby Elgin and Bensenville, the West Chicago community is coming together to … Continue reading Day Without Immigrants Rally & March- ICE Hands off West Chicago! Monday, Feb. 3, 10 am – 12 Noon Corner of Roosevelt Rd (38) and 59  →

The Canadian ruling elite is imperialist in its own right, commanding some of the biggest corporations in the world, particularly prominent in the fields of banking, mining, energy resources, forestry, retail and manufacturing.  Unsurprisingly, American Capital covets that wealth as Washington’s share of global production and its military heft declines relative to other powers.  That … Continue reading 51st STATE? No Thanks! By Barry Weisleder, Federal Secretary, Socialist Action/Canada →

Donald J. Trump was sworn in for his second term as president at 12 Noon, January 20, in the Capital building in Washington, D.C. that was violently assaulted by his far-right supporters four years earlier, in an attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election when he lost to Joe Biden.  Now a convicted felon, Trump … Continue reading The Fightback Road to Counter Trump 2.0’s Shock and Awe, America First and White Supremacy    By Malik Miah and Barry Sheppard →

By Jeff Mackler [Editor’s note: We reprint here “The U.S. War on Syria,”a rejoinder to a spurious article that appeared in April 2021 in The Nation and Intercontinental Press, the  later the online publication of the Fourth Intercontinental. Entitled, “Syria: How to Avoid the ‘Anti-Imperialism’ of Fools: The logic of ‘the enemy of my enemy … Continue reading The Most Unkindest Cut of All: Part III on US imperialist War On Syria →

[Photo above: Syrian ship bombed by Zionist war planes in early December, 2024] Craig N. Murphy is the Betty Freyhof Johnson ’44 Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College. He is past chair of the Academic Council on the United Nations System, past president of the International Studies Association, and recipient of the Association’s Distinguished … Continue reading The End of Pluralism in the Middle East By Craig Murray, 12/6/24   →

 [Editor’s note: Jeff Mackler, We reprint below Chris Hedges’ January 16 article “The Ceasefire Charade” originally published in ScheerPost. Hedges’ article details the three major points in the agreement, currently being brokered with beleaguered Hamas representatives by the racist Zionist Israeli entity and the Biden administration. The “ceasefire charade” as he aptly describes it, is … Continue reading Socialist Action Demands: No To the Zionist/US Imperialist-imposed CEASEFIRE CHARADE →

By Jeff Mackler  [Editor’s note: As we go to press the corporate media is hailing the recent military victories of so-called rebels in northwestern Syria, who have captured significant parts of Syria’s second largest city, Aleppo as well as some parts of Idlib on Syria’s northern border with Turkey. Monday’s December 2 New York Times … Continue reading The US War Against Syria Yesterday and Today:  The unconditional right of poor and oppressed nations to self-determination →

By Jeff Mackler and Glen Ford, April 2020 [Editor’s note by Jeff Mackler, National Secretary Socialist Action: Four years ago, in 2020, not long after Minneapolis racist police choke-hold murdered George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, five million people in 2,000 US cities, led by enraged Black activist youth, joined by their white supporters across … Continue reading A Manifesto For Our Times: Abolition of Systemic Racism Is On the Agenda Today →

By Roland Sheppard, Daily News Digest November 18, 2024 Wonder Why Food Prices Keep Rising? A Cartel of Ten Companies Control the Food the Production and Distribution of Most Food!:   This Infographic Above Shows How Only 10 Companies Own All The World’s Food Brands … In order to visually elucidate that point, Oxfam International created a … Continue reading Revolutionary Socialist Critique of US Capitalism: The truth about the elections, environment, inflation, racism, etc. →