The International Food Crisis and Proposals To Overcome It

By ERIC TOUSSAINT and OMAR AZIKI [Editor’s note: We reprint this article by the Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt (CADTM). In 1989, the Bastille Appeal was launched, inviting popular movements throughout the world to unite in demanding the immediate and unconditional cancellation of the debt of the so-called developing countries. This crushing debt, along with neo-liberal macro-economic reforms imposed on the global South, has led to an explosion of worldwide inequality, mass poverty, flagrant injustice and the destruction of the environment.

Environmental Racism Leads to Water Crisis in Jackson, Mississippi

By MOLLY ROSENZWEIG Environmental racism at work: Jackson, Mississippi, a city whose population is more than 80 percent Black, has been without clean reliable water for days, adding to the ongoing water issues due to decades of neglect and divestment.

DONATIONS TO PAKISTAN

CLIMATE CRISIS STRIKES PAKISTAN -- To aid the millions of Pakistanis suffering from the catastrophic floods: send donations through ESSF (Europe solidaire sans frontières)

Global Warming’s Horrific Devastation of Pakistan

By FAROOQ TARIQ A financial appeal and summary of Pakistan’s flood situation: Incessant monsoon rains and flash floods have devastated Pakistan, affecting millions of people and incurring huge economic losses.

Democrats’ ‘Climate Bill’ Puts Polluters before People and the Planet

By ROBERT BELANO Congressional Democrats, supported by President Biden, just passed a major spending bill focused on climate change, health care, and taxes. But it’s no win for the climate or the working class.

Capitalism’s World Economic, Political and Social Crises and the Road to Fight Back

By JEFF MACKLER Led by the dominant capitalist-imperialist nations, especially the U.S. and China, the system involves the capture and transfer of surplus value from workers in poorer countries to leading corporations in the advanced countries. Today, global value chain corporations that represent only 15 percent of all trading firms worldwide, capture some 80 percent of total trade.

SOCIALIST ACTION NEWSPAPER for SUMMER 2022

Socialist Action newspaper for the summer of 2022: UKRAINE: NO TO THE U.S. PROXY WAR AND FASCIST COUP; and Women’s Rage: My Body, My Choice; May Day in Canada

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.

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.

Biden’s Build Back Better Legislation Crashes: Climate Measures Disappeared: Democrats Trashed at the Polls

By JEFF MACKLER The idea was to blame the Republicans for society’s ills and pose the Democrats as the party of the people, especially as the mid-term elections loomed. The November elections have passed. Biden’s legislative efforts produced nothing. Democrats were punished by voters from coast to coast.

Contemptible Court Sentences Courageous Attorney for Contempt of Court

By CLIFF CONNOR Steven Donziger's sentencing was a consequence of the systematic corruption of what is deceptively called the American justice system.

The Myth of a New “Cold War” Between the U.S. and China/Russia

President Joseph Biden presented his third annual budget proposal at $6.8 trillion on Thursday, March 9. A day later Silicon Valley Bank (SVP), in Santa Clara, California, the nation’s 16th largest, declared bankruptcy, followed days later by New York City’s Signature Bank. A half dozen others faced similar and immediate disasters, brought on, as with the 2008-9 Great Depression collapse, by speculation-driven bank CEOs leveraging their assets far beyond the point when an impending collapse could be remedied with liquid assets on hand or a private quick loan. This time out, with disaster lurking, the failing bank CEOs secretly appealed for help to various top dog institutions like JP Morgan Chase, among the largest banks in the world with asserts at some $2.3 trillion. But in today’s world of high finance during crisis times, secrets are hard to keep. When the word got out, SVP depositors ran for t

By JEFF MACKLER AUKUS, or the new and secretly negotiated $66 billion nuclear-powered submarine agreement between Australia, the United Kingdom and the U.S., has momentarily ruffled some political feathers around the world, particularly in France and China.

The Hell That is Haiti!

By Marty Goodman Haiti is being hit by an unending series of natural and human-made disasters – seemingly all at once. The assassination on July 7 of its president Jouvenel Moise; an Aug. 14 earthquake; tropical storms; rampaging gang violence and a COVID crisis in a society tortured by extreme poverty and inequality. In the … Continue reading The Hell That is Haiti! →

The Hell that is Haiti Webinar

Join us for a special Socialist Action webinar on the latest developments in Haiti. Featuring prominent activists in the Haitian community. Thursday, September 23 at 5:30 pm PT / 7:30 pm CT / 8:30 pm ET. Bring a friend! Click here to join the webinar. Haiti is being torn by a presidential assassination, a deadly earthquake, … Continue reading The Hell that is Haiti Webinar →

Covid and Capitalism: An Interview With Rob Wallace

A Socialist Action Webinar As the ruling class continues the push to open the economy and remove COVID protections, the Delta variant is spreading across the U.S. Hear an exclusive interview with Rob Wallace, epidemiologist and author of Big Farms Make Big Flu, on the current state of the pandemic and the capitalist response. Hosted by Mark Ostapiak, … Continue reading Covid and Capitalism: An Interview With Rob Wallace →

Heatwave: A Socialist Action Webinar (rescheduled)

The need for a unified global mass action movement to fight climate change. HEAT WAVES, WILDFIRES AND OTHER CLIMATE DISASTERS HAVEBEEN STRIKING WITH HIGH FREQUENCY AROUND THE GLOBE. WHATARE THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS? WHAT CAN WE DO TO FIGHT BACKAND PROMOTE SYSTEM CHANGE TO ADDRESS THE CLIMATE CRISIS? Wednesday, August 11, 2021 5:30 PM PT/7:30 PM … Continue reading Heatwave: A Socialist Action Webinar (rescheduled) →

European Floods: This is Not a Natural Disaster

By Daniel Tanuro (Daniel Tanuro is a certified agriculturalist and eco-socialist environmentalist. He writes for “La Gauche,” (the monthly of Gauche-Anticapitaliste-SAP, Belgian section of the Fourth International). He is the author of The Impossibility of Green Capitalism, (Resistance Books, Merlin and IIRE, 2010) and The Trump Moment (Demopolis, 2018.) At the time of writing, the … Continue reading European Floods: This is Not a Natural Disaster →

Biden’s $trillion Taxing the Rich Social Infrastructure Charade Crumbles

By Jeff Mackler If we are to believe the almost daily front-page major media headlines, President Joseph Biden has embarked on an historic congressional battle to massively fund a broad range of needed social programs by taxing the rich as never before. Biden’s daily and ever-changing “social infrastructure” bill pronouncements aim at assuring a wary … Continue reading Biden’s $trillion Taxing the Rich Social Infrastructure Charade Crumbles →

Capitalist Media, Biden’s Climate Deceptions; The Race to Save Earth

By James Fortin It just keeps getting worse. Never in the memory of any living person on Earth, has it been this bad. Climate change is occurring; it is getting worse, and time is running out to save the planet from catastrophe. Scientists urgently note the globe is rapidly approaching the catastrophic threshold of a … Continue reading Capitalist Media, Biden’s Climate Deceptions; The Race to Save Earth →

Surprise! Big Oil Says It Can Save the Climate

By James Fortin Would you buy your fire insurance policy from an arsonist? Probably not, since you would not trust the villain in the first place, and the policy would be void from the start. So why, then, are we being asked to trust an industry that is burning down the Earth when its policies … Continue reading Surprise! Big Oil Says It Can Save the Climate →

Fearing Radicalization, Biden Feigns Left

By Jeff Mackler The corporate media hoopla attendant to President Joseph Biden’s announced $2.5 trillion infrastructure proposal aims at putting Biden in the Franklin Delano Roosevelt New Deal-era crowd of “progressive” capitalist social reformers. The “centrist” Biden has been instantly converted to a “man of the people” whose legislative proposals are claimed to far exceed … Continue reading Fearing Radicalization, Biden Feigns Left →

Stop line 3: Women Water Protectors and their Battle Against the “Black Snake” Pandemic Pipeline in Minnesota

By Bronwen AE The Biden Administration announced in early April that it will NOT force the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) to shutdown despite an order by U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg to complete his court-ordered Environmental Impact Statement. In Standing Rock Sioux Tribe et al. v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers et al., Boasberg … Continue reading Stop line 3: Women Water Protectors and their Battle Against the “Black Snake” Pandemic Pipeline in Minnesota →

Bully Biden Bombs Syria, Slashes COVID-19 Payments and Drops $15 Minimum Wage

Updated March 17, 2021 By Jeff Mackler President Joseph Biden’s fealty to U.S. imperialism and its ruling class domestic agenda was demonstrated soon after his Jan. 20 White House arrival. Five days later he sent additional troops to northeastern Syria to fortify U.S. control of that U.S.-beleaguered nation’s oil rich and most fertile agricultural region. … Continue reading Bully Biden Bombs Syria, Slashes COVID-19 Payments and Drops $15 Minimum Wage →

The Capitalist Criminality of (Un)Natural Fracked Gas

By James Fortin Slick salespeople and evil doers know that if you keep uttering the same lie that eventually enough people will believe it. So it is with the statement that the use of natural gas is a bridge to a clean, renewable energy future. Exxon Mobil, fifty years ago, was the first to obscure … Continue reading The Capitalist Criminality of (Un)Natural Fracked Gas →