By STEVE R. JOHNSON Plans to reopen schools are being questioned by the international working class as the novel coronavirus continues to spread across the world.
Reopening schools: A dangerous threat to children and teachers
Author: Socialist Action
Unemployment Skyrockets, So Does Hunger
By BARRY SHEPPARD The Labor Department recently released figures for the unemployment rate for April, saying that the rate was 14.7 percent, the highest since the Great Depression of the 1930s. The Labor Department said that because of how it classifies workers, the real figure could be 20 percent. These figures reflect the situation as … Continue reading Unemployment Skyrockets, So Does Hunger
Northern Lights from SA Canada: We Won’t Go Back!
by BARRY WEISLEDER Canadian workers are being forced to work in deadly conditions and unemployment is skyrocketing. How will they respond?
The “New Normal” and Naomi Klein’s Shock Doctrine
By MARTY GOODMAN Today only 51.3% of American adults have jobs – the lowest number on record, lower than the Great Depression. We have passed 80,000 coronavirus deaths.
Free Julian Assange! Defend Civil Liberties!
We reprint two speeches from the April 19, 2020 webinar “The Prosecution of Julian Assange and the Fight for Free Speech”
The “moron” Trump’s COVID-19 capitalist cure: Back to work!
By JEFF MACKLER "A quick succession of unhealthy and short-lived generations will keep the labour market as well supplied as a series of vigorous and long-lived generations." - Karl Marx
May Day Protests Call for Workers’ and Immigrant Rights and Housing Protections; U.S. Predicts 3,000 Deaths per Day
By BARRY SHEPPARD May Day saw significant actions by workers in essential companies serving the general public during the shutdown.
System Change Not Climate Change: Monthly Climate Crisis Commentary
By JAMES FORTIN Climate Crisis Commentary for May 2020.
Free them all! Empty the prisons! Let our people go!
Why are so many in jail? Here is the fightback narrative: America is a racist nation, founded on the principle that billionaire and multimillionaire white men are created equal, and therefore should have equal opportunities to make super-profits from an exploited workforce of lesser humans, namely working people.
May 2020 Issue of Socialist Action Newspaper is now available for free download!
Since we can't go out in the streets to sell our great newspaper during this pandemic, we are bringing it to you as a PDF!!
Corporations and the Pandemic: Bandits at the Till
By JAMES FORTIN With assistance from their Democratic and Republican co-conspirators the corporate bandits have stuck up the nation.
Webinar with epidemiologist Rob Wallace who predicted the pandemic! Thursday May 7, 8pm ET
Live Streamed on Socialist Action YouTube
UPDATE: TONIGHT, Friday April 24 @ 7pm ET: SA 2020 Presidential Candidate Jeff Mackler interviewed LIVE
Socialist Action Canada/Ligue pour l'Action Socialiste host Jeff Mackler, Socialist Action National Secretary and 2020 candidate for President of the United States for a discussion of "Why I Am Running to be President of the USA" LIVE on YouTube at 7pm ET
Webinar Sunday April 19: The Prosecution of Julian Assange and the Fight for Free Speech
Join us for a panel discussion of leading attorneys, human rights defenders and social justice activists fighting against the prosecution and extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
Should Progressives Work in the Democratic Party?
Here we reprint part of a 1959 debate between a revolutionary socialist and a social democrat. George Breitman, a member of the Socialist Workers Party and longtime editor of The Militant newspaper, argued the No side.
Socialist Action 2020 presidential candidate Jeff Mackler on Bernie Sanders dropping out of the primary – VIDEO
Layoffs skyrocket, Virus deaths soar, Opposition grows
By JAMES FORTIN At a news conference on April 9, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said the economy was deteriorating “with alarming speed” – not particularly newsworthy to the already-informed ranks of the recently unemployed, now numbering over 17 million. The same words also tragically apply to the ongoing spread of COVID-19 through the U.S. and the rest of the world.
U.S. Weaponizes COVID-19 Against Venezuela
By ANN MONTAGUE As the news outlets are covering developments in the spread of the coronavirus 24/7 and there are daily press conferences with President Trump and the coronavirus Task Force, the State Department and the U.S. military are taking Henry Kissinger’s advice: “Never let a serious crisis go to waste.”
The Demise of Bernie Sanders
By JEFF MACKLER Author’s note: This article was written three weeks before Bernie Sanders’ April 7 withdrawal from the Democratic Party primary race. I see no reason to change a word.
Death Toll Worse Than Reported in the U.S.
By BARRY SHEPPARD One week ago, the official death toll from COVID-19 in the United States was 3,700. Today, April 7, the number has risen to well over 12,000. But this underestimates the real figure.
NY Free Julian Assange Rally Registers Broad Support
By MARTY GOODMAN Feb. 15 was the first large event in New York City calling for freedom for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who faces 175 years imprisonment under the Espionage Act of 1917 for exposing U.S. war crimes, torture, and human rights abuse.
Workers Say “No” to Virus, Defy U.S. Navy
By JAMES FORTIN Shipyard workers at Bath Iron Works (BIW) called-out from their shifts March 24 in response to company demands they work during the COVID-19 pandemic even after a worker there had tested positive for the disease. Nearly 60% of the company’s workforce of 6,800 simply did not come in, according to Tim Suitter, … Continue reading Workers Say “No” to Virus, Defy U.S. Navy
Download the April 2020 Issue of Socialist Action Newspaper for Free!!!
Since we can’t go out in the streets to sell our great newspaper during this pandemic, we are bringing it to you as a PDF!!
System Change Not Climate Change: Climate Crisis Commentary for April 2020
By JAMES FORTIN Australia still has dinosaurs. We didn’t know what to make of this when we heard it. Thinking fossilized, we were mostly right. The “dinosaurs” were actually “dinosaur trees,” the very last remaining stand of prehistoric trees on that continent, heroically saved by firefighters during the recent Australian wildfires. But it isn’t the … Continue reading System Change Not Climate Change: Climate Crisis Commentary for April 2020
Pandemic Explodes, Capitalist Economy Tanks
By JAMES FORTIN Now that the COVID-19 contagion has spread to the 4 corners of the globe, the unpreparedness of the capitalist state, and the outright disregard by the ruling class for the fate of the working people of the United States, has come into full view. Underlying a perfect-storm scenario is the certain emerging … Continue reading Pandemic Explodes, Capitalist Economy Tanks