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.”
Hundreds in Philly Demand: Free Mumia!
Author: Socialist Action
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.
Socialist Action Launches New Member Educational Series
The bi-weekly educational series is a response by the Party to educate and integrate a growing wave of new recruits drawn to the ideas of revolutionary socialism.
Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic, the U.S. War Machine Presses On
U.S. imperialism continues its wars of plunder and profit against countries around the world.
Mumia: The Perils of Reform
By MUMIA ABU-JAMAL For years -- indeed, for decades -- we have seen the mirage of reform being presented by neoliberal leaders and their media tools, only to awake too late to ghoulish nightmares of shattered promises and hopes betrayed.
NYC Mayor De Blasio Threatens Mass Layoffs and Cuts
By MARTY GOODMAN De Blasio wants to balance the budget on the backs of workers. The money should be raised instead by taxing the rich!
NY Cop Reforms? The Whole System Has to Go!
By MARTY GOODMAN A mass movement against police brutality and continuous cop attacks on people and protesters, has won some reforms, but New York Democrats continue to refuse more significant changes.
July Issue of Socialist Action Newspaper Out Now!
We're continuing to bring you our great newspaper as a PDF during this pandemic. If you like it, get in touch!
Discussion with SA Presidential Candidate Jeff Mackler – Monday, July 6, 8pm ET on YouTube
Lifelong anti-racist fighter Jeff Mackler talks about today's uprising against police brutality and the racism that is ingrained in capitalist institutions.
“What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?”
By FREDERICK DOUGLASS "A day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham."
UNAC: On This Fourth of July
Do any of us have anything to celebrate this 4th of July? UNAC believes we do not.
Combating Police Brutality and the COVID-19 Crisis: What Socialists Demand
By JAMES FORTIN Not since the Great Depression of the 1930’s has the American working class experienced with such gravity an assault to its standing as we are witnessing today. Do we continue under the irrational capitalist rule of the 1%, or do we demand meaningful solutions to the problems that have been thrust upon us, the 99%?
Trump’s Big Rally Fizzles, While the Movement Rises
By BARRY SHEPPARD Trump's first rally in months only drew a small crowd as Covid cases skyrocket and the mass movement against racism and police brutality continues.
Web Event: Socialist Action’s News Round Table – Monday, June 29, 8pm ET
Featuring writers and contributors to Socialist Action newspaper talking about the key issues of today.
Larry Kramer fought indifference — and won!
By JOHN WILSON The death of Larry Kramer was a huge loss, not only for gay men and others in queer communities, but for all of us involved in the fight against every kind of oppression brought down on us by our decaying, crisis-ridden capitalist society.
Supreme Court Decision Expands LGBTQ Job Protections To All 50 States
By ANN MONTAGUE In an opinion issued in the context of a mass movement demanding justice, equality and an end to discrimination, the Supreme Court immediately expanded job protections to LGBTQ workers in 23 states where none had existed.
Fourth International Statement of Solidarity with Anti-Racism Protests
"Our Solidarity with the Worldwide Anti-Racist Revolt" By EXECUTIVE BUREAU OF THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL
Socialist Action’s Presidential Candidate Jeff Mackler speaks on Systemic Racism – Monday, June 22, 8pm ET on YouTube
Lifelong anti-racist fighter Jeff Mackler talks about today's uprising against police brutality and the racism that is ingrained in capitalist institutions.
Demonstrators demand removal of racist monuments and Confederate flags
By MALIK MIAH The rebellion against police violence and murder continues to expand. New demands arise against institutional racism and its symbols of oppression and genocide by Black and Brown people and Native American nations.