The past several months of highlight the inherent power of coordinated mass action. Those who previously considered themselves non-actors in society came to realize their power.
The Power of United Front Mass Action vs. Anarchist Pretensions
Author: Socialist Action
SEIU Drop the Cops Town Hall: For a Union Without Police
By MARC ROME and ANN MONTAGUE SEIU Drop the Cops, a rank-and-file-led group of SEIU members and staff demanding that their elected leadership disassociate from police union affiliates, held an online Town Hall, hosted by Labor Notes.
Capitalists Gamble Children’s Lives for Profits
By JAMES FORTIN The openings of grade and middle schools, high schools, and colleges all have one thing in common – they are the betting chips in a massive gamble by the ruling class.
September Issue of Socialist Action Newspaper Out Now!
Our great newspaper is back in print! Here's the PDF! If you like it, get in touch!
Socialist Action 2020 Presidential Candidate Jeff Mackler: No to Trump’s Coup Threat!
STATEMENT BY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE JEFF MACKLER Should Trump continue to threaten the election or its results, we must stand in the political forefront against such a move without in any manner indicating political support to Biden and the Democrats.
Today’s Mumia Abu-Jamal event is postponed, will be rescheduled
Mumia Abu-Jamal -- author, journalist, innocent political prisoner -- on prison abolition.
Live Interview with Mumia Abu-Jamal, Thursday Sept. 17, 4:30pm ET
Mumia Abu-Jamal -- author, journalist, innocent political prisoner -- on prison abolition.
COVID-19 Spreads though ICE Detention Centers
By LISA LUINENBERG & LAZARO MONTEVERDE
As the COVID-19 pandemic rages across the U.S., immigrants continue to be hard hit. COVID-19 is spreading almost unchecked through detention centers that house immigrants.
COVID-19 se extiende a través de centros de detención ICE
By LISA LUINENBERG & LAZARO MONTEVERDE A medida que la pandemia de COVID-19 se desata en los Estados Unidos, los inmigrantes continúan siendo los más afectados.
Teachers Resist “Back to School” Orders
By STEVE R. JOHNSON Under increasing pressure from state and federal authorities, schoolteachers across the United States are embroiled in a life and death struggle over the terms and conditions of re-opening the nation’s schools for the 2020-2021 year.
In the Worst of Times, the Billionaire Elite Plunder Working Class America
By NICK BAKER In the midst of a global pandemic, unprecedented economic collapse, mass unemployment, hunger and desperation, the stock market is booming and the richest of the rich are richer than ever before.
The Democratic & Republican Conventions: A Socialist Fact Check
By JEFF MACKLER When capitalism’s twin billionaire parties convene every four years to select their would–be head-of-state, it’s important to get the facts straight.
Socialist Action webinars continue Thursday Sept. 3, 8pm ET
Cliff Conner, author of A People’s History of Science and The Tragedy of American Science on COVID-19
Jack Lieberman, Haiti solidarity activist, 1950-2020
Prominent Haiti solidarity activist Jack Lieberman died of COVID-19 on Sunday.
Socialist Action webinars return this week!
With Mumia Abu-Jamal, journalists Glen Ford and Nora Barrows-Friedman, and author Clifford Conner
Mumia Abu-Jamal signs on to Manifesto for Our Times!!!
Mumia adds his name to Alice Walker, Glen Ford, Pam Africa, Jeff Mackler, and the many others who have signed on!
To sign, email socialjusticemanifesto2020@gmail.com
Democrat NYC Mayor Busts “Occupy City Hall”
By MARTY GOODMAN In the middle of the night, hundreds of New York City cops in riot gear descended on Occupy City Hall who had been demanded cuts of $1 billion to the NYPD budget.
Hundreds in Philly Demand: Free Mumia!
By JEFF MACKLER Three hundred activists mobilized on July 4 at Philadelphia’s City Hall to demand “Free Mumia Abu-Jamal and All Political Prisoners.”
Socialist Action-Canada: Cops snatch 3 Black Lives Matter – Toronto activists
By SAM ERIC As in the U.S., Canadian Black Lives Matter protesters have demanded the removal of statues representing racism and colonialism, embodied in the brutal racist police. “Disarm! Defund! Dismantle! Abolish!” is their demand.
The Roots of Trump’s Immigration Policy
Trump’s cruel border policies required no new laws. The laws passed under Clinton and Bush – continued and expanded by “Deporter-In-Chief” Obama – sufficed.
Portland State University Will Disarm Its Cops Two Years After They Killed Jason Washington
By ANN MONTAGUE In a victory after years of struggle by student and local activists, the university has announced that its police will no longer carry guns.
August Issue of Socialist Action Newspaper Out Now!
Here’s our great newspaper as a PDF! The Print edition returns next month! If you like it, get in touch!
Which Way for Today’s Mass Radicalization? Capitalism’s Impending Catastrophe…or the Socialist Future
By JEFF MACKLER Predatory capitalism is facing its greatest crises ever: deadly pandemic, constant brutal racist repression, mass unemployment, mass evictions, accelerating environmental destruction, endless war…and it has no solutions.
How Revolutionaries Use Elections
By LAZARO MONTEVERDE Calls by social democrats to elect “progressive” Democrats exemplify what Engels called “parliamentary cretinism.” Marx, Engels and Lenin devised a different tactic for revolutionaries.
The Militarization of American Science
To celebrate our comrade Cliff Conner’s new book “The Tragedy of American Science,” out now from Haymarket Books, we re-publish an early excerpt published in Socialist Action in April 2018.