Category: Marxist Theory & History

Call for solidarity: FBI raids African People’s Socialist Party and Uhuru Movement

By JEFF MACKLER The specter of a Biden administration-authorized Department of Justice (DOJ) initiated McCarthy-era witch hunt was posed in bold relief last week as FBI agents took aim at a Black liberation organization that has been a sharp critic of the U.S./NATO-backed war in Ukraine and a defender of poor nations threatened with U.S. sanctions, coups, embargoes and blockades. These include Cuba, Syria, Venezuela, Nicaragua and Iran.

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.

Debate in the Fourth International: The Leninist Strategy of Party Building and the Impending Ecological Catastrophe

Our historic conception of the Transitional Program and its underlying method is aimed at the construction of a deeply rooted, mass revolutionary socialist working class party with the central objective of leading the proletarian struggle for state power and the construction of a socialist society. The Bureau text is silent on this fundamental question.

Marxism versus Anarchism

Robbie Mahood [Presented as on line educational sponsored by Ligue pour l’action socialiste (LAS)/Socialist Action/Canada. Montréal, April 23, 2021. SA/LAS is Socialist Action/USA sister party in the Canadian state] The last few decades have seen a resurgence in anarchist thought and modes of organizing inspired by anarchism.  Decisions by consensus, diversity of tactics, affinity groups, … Continue reading Marxism versus Anarchism →

Grace Carlson: Unsung Hero of the Early Trotskyist Movement

By Ann Montague  Grace Carlson was the only female member of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) (predecessor organization of Socialist Action) to be convicted and sentenced under the notorious anti-communist Smith Act of 1940. She was sentenced to sixteen months in the Federal Correctional Facility For Women in Alderson, West Virginia. The trial and convictions … Continue reading Grace Carlson: Unsung Hero of the Early Trotskyist Movement →

How socialists fought government repression in 1940s

by Jim GrilliIn light of the FBI’s recent attack on the civil liberties of antiwar activists in the Midwest, it would be useful to look back to a moment in history in which state-sponsored oppression served as a tool for silencing dissent.During the 1930s and ’40s, working people in the United States made tremendous gains … Continue reading How socialists fought government repression in 1940s →

Statement to the Trotsky Museum Conference

Message from Jeff Mackler, National Secretary, Socialist Action, U.S. fraternal section of the Fourth International (founded by Leon Trotsky), and from Barry Weisleder, Federal Secretary, Socialist Action / Ligue pour l'Action socialiste, in solidarity with the Fourth International in Canadian state.Comrades and friends,Please accept our deepest apologies for not being with you on this special … Continue reading Statement to the Trotsky Museum Conference →

SA Answers Justin Raimondo’s Attacks

by Michael Schreiber, editor of Socialist Action newspaperJustin Raimondo, a contributor to numerous ultra-right media outlets and editorial director of the mis-named “Antiwar.com,” has now chosen a new target for his diatribes. At the end of July and early August, for two weeks running, he has concentrated his fire on the organized antiwar movement in … Continue reading SA Answers Justin Raimondo’s Attacks →

Anishinaabeg prepare for long, hot summer in 1855 Treaty rights battle

by Jeff ArmstrongNearly 200 members and supporters of the indigenous Anishinaabe nation gathered on the shores of Lake Bemidji in northern Minnesota on May 14 to assert their treaty rights under U.S. and international law to hunt, fish, and gather wild rice free of state regulation. While generations of Anishinaabeg (referred to in treaties as … Continue reading Anishinaabeg prepare for long, hot summer in 1855 Treaty rights battle →

Alexander Cockburn’s light is out at the end of the tunnel!

BY JEFF MACKLER [Jeff Mackler is the National Secretary of Socialist Action and a national antiwar leader for the past 45 years. For more information, visit http://www.socialistaction.org, jmackler@lmi.net.] Alexander Cockburn’s Sept. 4-6 “CounterPunch Diary“ hit piece against the U.S. antiwar movement, “Deeper into the Tunnel,” merits the serious attention of all antiwar fighters and organizations. … Continue reading Alexander Cockburn’s light is out at the end of the tunnel! →

Robert Novak and the Art of Red-Baiting

By JOE AUCIELLORight-wing journalist and television commentator Robert Novak has died after a long and vile career of political mendacity. Even in mainstream journalism, an often duplicitous business where information is ultimately presented in a way to support the class that controls it, Novak further debased the job of reporting through viciousness, deceit, and treachery.In … Continue reading Robert Novak and the Art of Red-Baiting →