By Ann Montague Over 50 million people watched Oprah Winfrey’stell all interview with the Duke and Duchess of Suffolk (“Prince” Harry and Meghan Markle). They discussed their personal experiences with race but not systemic racism. They also discussed their relationship with the institution of the Monarchy, but of course without questioning its justification for existence. … Continue reading Abolish the Monarchy!
BY BARRY WEISLEDER Call it the growing gap. Actually, chasm might be a more apt term to describe the breach between workers’ aspirations and what most union leaders are willing to do to fight the concession demands of the boss class. Helping to close that chasm is the Canadian Union of Brewery and General Workers’ Local 325. The workers at … Continue reading Brewery Workers Resist Concessions
Hardly a week passes without another scandal that tears the lid off rampant sexism and racism in the Canadian military and police forces. The latest episode involves allegations of sexual misconduct by two former chiefs of staff. General Jonathan Vance is accused of inappropriate behaviour involving a woman he outranked. Admiral Art McDonald stepped aside … Continue reading Canadian Military and Cops — Rife with Racism and Sexism
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
[Statement by Socialist Action National Committee, January 5, 2021] President Trump’s waning months at the White House saw him cloistered with his top National Security team of warmakers considering whether to launch yet another round of deadly missile strikes against Iran. In the same timeframe, the ongoing U.S. imperial war against Syria saw multiple U.S.-Israeli-orchestrated … Continue reading U.S. Hands off Iran, Syria and Afghanistan!
By GARY PORTER Well known names from around the world recently joined together to form a "Progressive International." What does this group represent?
May 1 marked the 125th anniversary of the Haymarket riot (which occurred on May 4, 1886, in Chicago) and International Workers’ Day. Marches and rallies in solidarity with working-class movements were organized across the United States and around the world to commemorate the day and to voice the current demands of the working class. In the … Continue reading May Day Around the World
[by Andrew Pollack]February not only saw a new stage to the crisis, but also a new level of fightback among workers worldwide.On February 26th, 60,000 General Motors workers struck at 14 factories across Europe, including at its rapidly failing Opel subsidiary in Germany (but not, tellingly, in the US).Just as Iceland’s government fell after mass … Continue reading More Signs of Worker Resistance Around the Globe
[by Andrew Pollack]For months mainstream economists and politicians have been reassuring us that a recovery would begin later this year or at worst in 2010. But in February the most commonly-used phrase in economics reporting was “free fall,” as mutually-reinforcing downward trends left observers unable to say either when or how a recovery might take … Continue reading Global Economy in Free Fall
by the Editors / July 2006 issue of Socialist Action newspaper The June 24 day school in Britain on the radicalization in Latin America was an important political event. It was organized by Socialist Resistance, a united-front newspaper that includes Socialist Action’s cothinkers of the International Socialist Group, the British section of the Fourth International. … Continue reading British Socialists Discuss the Latin American Radicalization
by Gerry Foley / June 2005 issue of Socialist Action Although the French rulers pulled out all the stops to get a victory for the draft European constitution in the May 29 referendum, they suffered a stunning rebuff at the polls. With a turnout of over 70 percent, 55 percent of voters voted … Continue reading French Voters Reject EU Constitution
by Marty Goodman / June 2005 issue of Socialist Action NEW YORK—On May 23 some 100 rallied outside the Dominican Republic consulate here in an emergency protest against ongoing racist terror against Haitians living in the Dominican Republic. Since May 9, five or more Haitians have been murdered, at least three of … Continue reading Rally Protests Terror Against Haitians in Dominican Republic
by Marty Goodman / June 2005 issue of Socialist Action NEW YORK—On May 21, the Grassroots Haiti Solidarity Committee (GHSC) sponsored a forum on the crisis in Haiti, co-sponsored by the Batay Ouvriye Solidarity Network, the Haitian Information Center, the Nicaragua Solidarity Network, N.Y. CISPES, Socialist Action, and the Brooklyn Greens. The … Continue reading NYC Forum Reports on ‘Haiti After Aristide’
by Gerry Foley / June 2005 issue of Socialist Action Throughout the history of the Stalinized Soviet Union, the so-called Central Asian Republics were darkest corners of the bureaucratic dictatorship. It was here that the national oppression imposed on the small nations of the former Russian empire by the Great Russian chauvinist … Continue reading Rebellion Shakes Post-Stalinist Order in Central Asia
by Ben Yedi/ May 2005 issue of Socialist Action Japan and China held talks in Beijing last week, but failed to halt the free fall in ties after a third weekend of demonstrations in China against what many see as Japan's inability to face up to its wartime past. — BEIJING (Reuters), April … Continue reading China-Japan Dispute Heats Up
by Michael G. Livingston/ May 2005 issue of Socialist Action If you understand the importance of oil to modern capitalism, you will understand a great deal indeed. Oil prices briefly hit $57 a barrel in early April, continuing an 18-month rise. Remember that in December 2003 oil prices were around $29 a barrel … Continue reading Oil Uber Alles!
by Marty Goodman / April 2005 issue of Socialist Action An unprecedented agreement has sweatshop organizers and workers in Haiti cautiously optimistic that a milestone has been reached. The deal was struck with the owners of two factories operated by the Grupo M (GM) company in Haiti’s notorious “Free Trade Zone” (FTZ), which employs … Continue reading Sweatshop Workers Force Agreement in Haiti
by Gerry Foley – February, 2005 Large and militant demonstrations by pensioners and their supporters over the weekend of Jan. 15-16 forced Russia’s authoritarian ruler, Vladimir Putin, to retreat from his attempt to eliminate free services, primarily free transportation, for the country’s elderly and public workers. The protests were the largest since the … Continue reading Protests Force Putin to Halt Some Cutbacks to Benefits
by Gerry Foley – February, 2005 The majority of those killed by the Dec. 26 tsunami, at least 160,000 people, were in the small nation of Aceh on the tip of Sumatra. It is a staggering loss out a total population of only about 4 million. Furthermore, this blow to the Acehnese people … Continue reading Aceh: Hit by Tsunami & Indonesian Military
Bush’s State of the Union address was largely a pep-rally speech for his chauvinistic lower-middle-class electoral base. (Some commentators were impressed by Bush’s lack of "bashfulness.") But its triumphalism alarmed international public opinion and apparently even the Bush regime’s closest international ally, the British government, which has good reason to fear being dragged by its … Continue reading Bush’s ‘State of the Union’ Rings Alarm Bells Around the World
by Gerry Foley Natural disasters like the Southeast Asian tidal wave do serve to highlight the interdependence of the entire human community. The world today cannot remain indifferent to the tragedy of the people living along the coasts of this region. Despite the capitalist offensive under the flag of “neoliberalism” and its extreme … Continue reading Tsunami disaster magnified by poverty, imperialism
by Gerry Foley Political polarization among the Palestinian forces is being accelerated by the pressures of the local government elections that started on Dec. 23 and the elections for the president of the Palestinian Authority (PA) scheduled for Jan. 9. The basic issue is hardly the ordinary rivalry among politicians. It is the Intifada … Continue reading Elections reveal polarization among Palestinians
by Gerry Foley The outcome of the rerun Ukrainian presidential election held on Dec. 26 was never in doubt. The mass mobilizations in support of Victor Yushchenko and in protest against the large-scale electoral fraud perpetrated by the campaign of his rival, Victor Yanukovich, in what was supposed to be the final round of … Continue reading Results of Ukrainian election rerun – Some things won’t change
by Gerry Foley In the wake of the second round of the Ukrainian presidential elections on Nov. 21, the contradictions that have marked the independent Ukrainian state since its origins in 1991 reached the brink of civil war. The conflict threatened not only open war in Ukraine but the first major clash between the Western … Continue reading Ukrainian election conflict sets masses into the streets
