By DAVE HUDSON Following is the conclusion of a document that is being submitted to the World Congress of the Fourth International, which will take place next year. Socialist Action is in general agreement with the views expressed in this document. The author, Dave Hudson, is a British member of the International Executive Committee of … Continue reading Prospects of Resistance by Workers to Capitalist Restoration in Russia →

by Sylvia Weinstein What would we do if we were shipwrecked on an island that had no population but ourselves? And if we wanted to survive until rescued? Understand that among those shipwrecked with us are older people and children, as well as healthy adults, male and female. What do we do to survive? First, … Continue reading FIGHTBACK: Shipwrecked →

By HAYDEN PERRY The following is a talk by Hayden Perry at a 1986 celebration of 50 years of service to the socialist movement by Perry and 12 other socialist workers. As I round out 50 years of activity in the socialist movement and find the goal of a socialist America still some way down … Continue reading ’50 Years of Fun on the Road to Socialism’ →

By MICHAEL SCHREIBER Hayden Perry, a founder of the Socialist Workers Party and of Socialist Action-and a long-time contributor to Socialist Action newspaper-died on Aug. 2. He was 86. Hayden died in the hospital shortly after he had collapsed on the lawn of the Oakland, Calif., apartment facility where he lived. Until his last moment, … Continue reading Hayden Perry: Long-Time Socialist Action Journalist →

By BARRY WEISLEDER TORONTO-Over 400 people, some traveling hundreds of kilometers on a hot summer-holiday long weekend, gathered to celebrate the life of our departed comrade Joseph Flexer. The meeting to celebrate his life was held on Saturday, Aug. 5, nearly filling the main auditorium of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, in Toronto. … Continue reading Hundreds Honor Joe Flexer →

By PAUL SIEGEL John Cornwell, "Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII." Viking, 1999. 430 pp. $29.95. John Cornwell's "Hitler's Pope" rises out of a controversy that has been going on for more than 35 years concerning the reasons for Pius XII's failure to condemn Nazi genocide during World War II. The Pope's defenders … Continue reading The World War II Pope and Nazi Genocide →

Delegates and members across the country assembled at Socialist Action's Ninth National Convention to discuss and debate the major national and world political issues confronting revolutionary socialists today. The March 23-26 convention was preceded by a four-month written pre-convention discussion that included 23 bulletins with some 70 separate contributions from party members. The major convention … Continue reading Socialist Action’s Ninth Annual Convention →

One of the most faithful supporters of the Irish republican cause in San Francisco died on March 2 at the age of 82. Joe Walsh was a leading activist in the fight to free Bernadette Devlin McAliskey's daughter Roisin. His political roots went back to the Irish civil war of 1922-23. As a young child, … Continue reading Joe Walsh →

By JAN BIRCH Today many workers feel discouraged looking at the way society is run. The economy and the governmental structure seem so complicated. The seats of power seem omnipotent. It can make us feel that social change is impossible. And our rich history of heroic struggles by the working class is often hidden from … Continue reading Paris Commune →

Below is a letter from a new member of the Twin Cities branch of Socialist Action.   I hope to describe some of the experiences that eventually led me to resign from the Socialist Workers Party/Young Socialists and to join Socialist Action. My intent is that it will be useful for others who may have … Continue reading Why I Left the SWP and Joined Socialist Action →

The politics and economy of world capitalism-its crises, its wars, and its unrelenting destruction of the environment-all have a global character. Never before has this been so plain as today. The revolutionary party that seeks to overturn capitalism must therefore also be organized on a global scale. Just as socialism cannot be realized in one … Continue reading In Defense of Marxism: In Defense of the Fourth International →

It's in the nature of things that capitalist exploitation and oppression on a global scale begets its own opposite-that is, brings into existence the internationalism of the exploited and oppressed. Both nationalism and proletarian internationalism are relatively recent expressions of the social nature of the human animal. There are many social species, from ants and … Continue reading The Genesis of Proletarian Internationalism →

By MARK HARRIS   "The imposing edifice of society above my head holds no delights for me. It is the foundation of the edifice that interests me. There I am content to labor, crowbar in hand, shoulder to shoulder with intellectuals, idealists, and class-conscious workingmen, getting a solid pry now and again and setting the … Continue reading Socialism and the New Millennium →

The red autumn leaves of Minneapolis and St. Paul are bearing witness to more than just lakes and the normal hustle and bustle of the Twin Cities this year. Here, in an area where Trotskyism has had a very significant impact (through the 1934 Minneapolis Teamster strike, for instance), there has been a dramatic revival … Continue reading Youth In Action: Red Skies Over Minnesota →