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Webinar Sun., Mar. 6, 7:30pm ET – The Ukraine War: Challenge to the U.S. Antiwar Movement
Author: Socialist Action
The Crisis in Ukraine: Major Challenge to the U.S. Antiwar Movement
By JEFF MACKLER With Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine a crisis of historic proportions has emerged front and center in world politics.
March 1-7 Events in the Bay Area: NO TO US/NATO WAR IN UKRAINE!
NO TO US/NATO WAR IN UKRAINE! PEACE NOW! No to NATO and NATO expansion!(a central cause of the current crisis) No war with Russia! No sanctions! Fund human needs, education, healthcare, housing and the environment, not war! Stop the wars against working people, the poor and oppressed in the US. and abroad! All Out for … Continue reading March 1-7 Events in the Bay Area: NO TO US/NATO WAR IN UKRAINE!
Thoughts on the present crisis in Ukraine
By Joe Lombardo The propaganda of the US government and its media always looks at what is happening now and does not give us the whole picture. So, if the US and its allies bully a country until it can take it no more and strikes back, you only hear about them striking back not what … Continue reading Thoughts on the present crisis in Ukraine
Toronto Anti-Convoy Protest Shows the Way Forward
By DANIEL TIRADE While the anti-mandate siege in Ottawa continued, Torontonians learned of a similar convoy set for the weekend of February 5, 2021. We anticipated thousands of people would converge in Toronto to spread a eugenicist message — that saving the lives of the most vulnerable from Covid-19 is not worth any concession of individual liberties. But frustrated and over-stressed healthcare workers decided to take a stand.
Racist U.S. & Dominican Rulers Massively Deport Haitians!
By MARTY GOODMAN Biden has deported 16,200 Haitians since September and 18,100 since he took office. Biden’s campaign promises to “end Trump’s detrimental asylum policies,” restore “the dignity of migrants,” and “uphold their legal right to seek asylum” were lies.
The State of the Abortion Struggle in 2022
By ANN MONTAGUE While the anti-abortion Democrats work to co-opt abortion rights supporters into their election goals, independent mass action remains the way forward.
Julian Assange Can Now Seek Appeal Against US Extradition to Top UK Court
By MARJORIE COHN On January 24, 2022, the British High Court of Justice allowed WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange to ask the U.K. Supreme Court to hear his appeal of the extradition order. In December 2021, the High Court had overturned U.K. District Judge Vanessa Baraitser’s January 2021 ruling denying the U.S. request for extradition.
Robbie Mahood 1946-2021: A Revolutionary in Theory and Practice
Robbie Mahood, 75, a founding member and a leading light in Socialist Action/Ligue pour l’Action socialiste, our sister party in Canada, passed away in Montreal on December 26, 2021.
Solidarity with the uprising in Kazakhstan: a statement of the Fourth International
The Bureau of the Fourth International, to which Socialist Action is a fraternal organization, has issued this statement on the uprising in Kazakhstan.
Socialist Action’s view on on January 6: Trump fanatics invade Capitol as his presidency disintegrates [Re-posted from one year ago]
By Jeff Mackler [Editor's Note: One year ago we published this article on the events and meaning of January 6. In the time since, its insistence that, "the ruling class as a whole understands quite well that a Biden presidency, minus Trump’s moronic bluster, will not differ in its fundamentals from the decisive bipartisan polices … Continue reading Socialist Action’s view on on January 6: Trump fanatics invade Capitol as his presidency disintegrates [Re-posted from one year ago]
To Redact The Truth Or Not To Redact The Truth: Is That The Question?
By JEFF MACKLER Assange’s WikiLeaks revelations showed yet again that the U.S. government engages in war crimes of historic proportions on a daily basis around the world.
Free Julian Assange!
By JEFF MACKLER Imprisoned Wikileaks founder, journalist, free speech champion and world-renowned social critic Julian Assange today faces life imprisonment for telling the truth about U.S. war crimes in Iraq, Afghanistan and at the U.S. torture base in Guantanamo, Cuba.
NY Cabbie Hunger Strike Wins Big!
By MARTY GOODMAN On Nov. 3, hunger striker and taxi worker leader, Bahravi Desai, shouted out to an exuberant crowd of taxi workers and supporters, “We won! We won!” as a deal was struck with the city to reduce loans on the artificially inflated cost of city-issued taxi medallions.
The Acquittal of Killer Kyle Rittenhouse and the Way Forward
By JEFF MACKLER At the heart of the Rittenhouse case is the divide between the anti-racist masses and the smaller reactionary racist layers who seek to join in with the ruling class in opposing anti-racist and workers' struggles.
High Court decision “Grave miscarriage of justice,” says Julian Assange’s fiancée
Statement from the Assange Defense Committee on the Dec. 10 decision by the UK court.
India’s Massive Farmer Struggle Wins Historic Victory
By MARTY GOODMAN Protesting Indian farmers were called “terrorists,” Sikh faith separatists, Maoists, and agents of Pakistan but their massive year-long mobilizations forced Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his far-right party to cancel its three pro-agribusiness laws first enacted in September 2020.
Omicron, Climate Change and Socialism
By JOE LOMBARDO Capitalism's inherent drive for profits is at the root of the vaccine hoarding by rich countries and rampant deforestation that have paved the way for the current crisis.
Exonerations reveal FBI’s leading role in Malcolm X assassination
By MALIK MIAH The FBI covered up its role in Malcolm's assassination by framing two innocent men.
Critique of “Leftwing” Antivax Disinformation: Antivaxxers of All Stripes Pose a Serious Threat to Public Health
By CLIFF CONNOR Anti-vax agitation is dangerous and reprehensible because it threatens legitimate public health efforts to bring a pandemic under control that has already killed at least 750,000 people in the U.S. and five million worldwide.
The U.S. Is Destroying the People of Afghanistan
By BARRY SHEPPARD Washington, with full bipartisan support, is making the people of Afghanistan pay for its humiliating defeat in the 20-year-old war.
Teamsters United Takes the Wheel
By ALEXANDRA BRADBURY, Editor of Labor Notes A new administration will soon take the helm of the 1.3 million-member Teamsters union. The Teamsters United slate swept to victory in this week's vote count, beating out their rivals 2 to 1.
Fighting for Queer Liberation: Statement by Cincinnati Socialist Workers Organization
Socialist Action editor’s note: The statement below entitled "Fighting For Queer Liberation" was adopted by the Cincinnati Socialist Workers Organization, an independent organization of Cincinnati revolutionary socialists. The statement reflects the views of Socialist Action, whose National Committee concurred with the statement in October 2021. To contact CSWO, email cincysocialistworkers@gmail.com or go to https://cincysocialistworkers.wordpress.com By Cincinnati Socialist Workers Organization Over the past few … Continue reading Fighting for Queer Liberation: Statement by Cincinnati Socialist Workers Organization
Greta Thunberg Speaks at Cop26 Glasgow
Editor: 18-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg spoke on Nov. 8 at the rally of 100,000 in Glasgow organized by Fridays for Future, an international movement of students which grew out of her climate strike outside the Swedish parliament that began in 2018. By Greta Thunberg It is not a secret that COP26 is a … Continue reading Greta Thunberg Speaks at Cop26 Glasgow
The Greenwash Con at Glasgow’s COP26
By JEFF MACKLER Hours before President Joseph Biden arrived in Glasgow for the COP26 conference, he demanded that oil-exporting nations dramatically increase their fossil fuel production in order to reduce the price of gasoline in the U.S.