Socialist Action National Committee Statement, August 12, 2023 At least a half dozen petitions plus a myriad of articles have appeared on the July 25, 2023 Russian Federal Security Services (FSB) arrest and imprisonment of Boris Kagarlitsky, 64, a longtime Russian intellectual, scholar, author and editor of the YouTube channel Rabkor.   Kagarlitsky, facing seven … Continue reading Free Boris Kagarlitsky and Julian Assange! →

[Editor’s note: A scurrilous red-baiting August 5, 2023 front page article in the New York Times entitled, “A Global Web of Chinese Propaganda Leads to a U.S. Tech Mogul,” aimed at discrediting well-known US social justice and antiwar groups and political activists as essentially agents of the Chinese government. While the focus of the article … Continue reading McCarthyism Is Back: Together We Can Stop It →

By Ajamu Baraka, Black Agenda Report editor and columnist, August 2, 2023 Photo above: Niger rally in support of coup leaders [Editor’s note: In addition to the article below by Black Agenda Report’s Ajamu Baraka, we reprint here the brief statement by UNAC (United National Antiwar Coalition on the current French and US imperialist threats … Continue reading Niger and Haiti: War in Africa and War in the Americas: Accelerating the End of White World Supremacy →

Joe Allen is a former longtime Teamster leader/activist, author of The Package King: A Rank and File History of UPS [Editor’s introduction by Jeff Mackler: We reprint below two critical assessment of the Teamster-UPS Tentative Agreement (TA) negotiated by the team led by President Sean O’Brien. Some 340,000 Teamsters are to be covered by this … Continue reading What happened to the big UPS Strike? By Joe Allen →

[Editor’s note: We reprint here an invaluable and detailed article demonstrating the role of various US government agencies in the assassination of revolutionary Black Liberation leader Malcolm X. Roland and Barry Sheppard, the former present during Malcolm’s assassination, also review Malcolm’s political evolution, his associations with the Socialist Workers Party, with whom Malcolm collaborated, and … Continue reading New Evidence US Government Killed Malcolm X By Barry Sheppard →

[Photo above: Demonstrators shout during a protest in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. Protesters marched through Haiti’s capital and other major cities, blocking roads and shutting down businesses to demand that Prime Minister Ariel Henry step down and call for a better quality of life. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)] US imperialism now has a willing … Continue reading NO TO US/UN OCCUPATION OF HAITI! By Marty Goodman  →

By Jeff Mackler [Editor’s note: We reprint below Socialist Action’s January 2021 assessment of former President Donald Trump’s twisted efforts to fraudulently reverse the formally announced electoral victory of Joseph Biden as the US president. The 2021 article was originally titled "Trump Fanatics Invade Capitol As His Presidency Disintegrates." As we go to press, the … Continue reading Trump Indicted for ‘Destabilizing Lies’ In Three Conspiracies to Retain His Presidency →

Socialist Action National Secretary Jeff Mackler chaired this recent UNAC webinar on U.S. government attacks on civil liberties in the U.S. and around the world.

A brief history of the US-instigated Ukraine War By Jeff Mackler In yet another escalation of the US-instigated Ukraine War, the Biden administration’s decision to send internationally banned cluster bombs to Ukraine reminds us once again that U.S. imperialism accepts zero limits on its heinous and genocidal policies. Ukraine is running out of artillery ammunition … Continue reading No to US Cluster Bombs to Ukraine? US Out Now! →

Book review by Michael Steven Smith WEAPONIZING ANTISEMITISMHow the Israel Lobby Brought Down Jeremy Corbynby Asa Winstanley310 pp. OR Books, NY/London $18 Asa Winstanley is a British investigative journalist and author who lives in London. He writes primarily about Palestine and the Israel lobby for The Electronic Intifada.  Winstanley has written a political thriller and real … Continue reading “Weaponizing Antisemitism: How the Israeli Lobby Brought Down Jeremy Corbyn” →

This is the first time a publisher has been charged under the Espionage Act for disclosing government secrets. By Marjorie Cohn, July 15, 2023  [Reprinted from Truthout] For nearly five years, publisher and journalist Julian Assange has fought extradition to the United States where he faces 175 years in prison for revealing evidence of U.S. … Continue reading Julian Assange Is “Dangerously Close” to Extradition for Revealing US War Crimes →

By Malik Miah Narendra Modi was previously denied a visa to enter the United States due to his anti-Muslim pogroms in the state of Gujarat when he was chief minister. This didn’t seem to bother Joe Biden (right). Photos: Wikipedia In a surprise state visit, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Washington DC on … Continue reading India’s Modi receives royal White House welcome →

Hidden History of US-backed Fascist-led Coup By Jeff Mackler [Photo above: Members of the Neo-Nazis Azov Batallion published in the Daily Beast, November 15, 2019 under the title: “Ukraine’s Anti-Russian Azov Batallion: ‘Minutemen” or Neo Nazis Terrorists?” Two glaring New York Times headlines, dated June 5 and updated June 7, 2023 roiled the liberal establishment … Continue reading Corporate Media Warn of Ukraine Nazis Ties →

By Jeff Mackler, June 14, 2023 “U.S. had intelligence of detailed Ukrainian plan to attack Nord Stream pipeline” was the Washington Post’s June 6, 2023 headline. A blatant lie if there ever was one – a corporate media-manufactured lie, in concert with the US government, aimed at covering up US imperialism’s multi billion and trillion … Continue reading Biden’s Nord Stream Pipeline Obliteration →

By Calla Mairead Walsh on May 29, 2023 [Photo above: US President Barack Obama, who removed Cuba from US “terrorism” list and former Cuban President Raul Castro] Thousands of Cubans gather to celebrate the country’s National Rebellion Day, a yearly commemoration of the Cuban revolution. While Biden doubles down on Cuba’s designation as a so-called … Continue reading Biden Calls Cuba “Terrorist” While The People Demand An End to U.S. Terrorism Against Cuba →

By Jack Rasmus, May 30, 2023 [Editor’s note: Originally titled, “Biden-McCarthy Deal: Neoliberal Fiscal Policy Continues,” this article appeared in the May 30, 2023 issue of LA Progressive. Photo above: Joseph Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy ] Over the weekend, US House of Representatives speaker McCarthy and president Biden announced a tentative agreement on … Continue reading Biden-McCarthy Deal: The Neoliberal “Debt Ceiling Con” →

The new asylum ban that the Biden administration announced on May 11 in the wake of ending of Title 42, is cruel, inhumane and shows the reactionary character of the Biden administration’s immigration policy even as Biden continues traditional US policies aimed at subjecting Latin America to US neo-colonial control. Human Rights Watch noted: “Biden’s … Continue reading The Struggle Against the Asylum Ban and US Imperialism in Latin America By Cristóbal Cavazos, May 29, 2023 →

NO TRUST IN COPS, COURTS OR POLITICIANS! STAY IN THE STREETS! THIS RACIST SYSTEM HAS GOT TO GO! By Marty Goodman, May 23, 2023 The May 1st murder of Jordan Neely, a homeless Black man, revealed the brutal gulf that exists between rich and poor, Black and white in New York City. Neely died at … Continue reading OUTRAGE OVER THE RACIST MURDER OF JORDAN NEELY! →

From Chris Smalls, Amazon Labor Union president. [From ALU website.]     On May Day, I joined a delegation of organizers on a trip to Cuba to show solidarity with the Cuban people and call out the injustice that is an economic blockade designed to harm workers and the people on the island. Let’s make one thing very … Continue reading Amazon Labor Union Statement on Cuba: End the Blockade! →

Our response: Open the borders! No human being is illegal! By Malik Miah At 11:59 PM EDT on May 11, Title 42 of the Immigration law expired. The code was enforced for three years during the coronavirus pandemic. Title 42 allowed the government to stop and expel migrants from entering the country without any due … Continue reading Biden Continues Trump’s Anti-immigrant Policies →

May 12, 2023 [Reprinted from Cuba en Resumen] Yesterday a minute before midnight, Eastern Time in the United States, Title 42 was suspended and replaced by decree 8, which is even more drastic, since its sanctions indicate that any person who tries to enter without a visa will be banned from doing so for five years, … Continue reading Dramatic Last Hours of Title 42 on U.S.-Mexico Border →

By Malik Miah [As edited by Red Ant Australia] Hollywood film and TV writers went on strike on May 1 demanding a living wage and job security. Picket signs were set up outside major studios and shut down late night TV shows forcing the industry to run previous taped shows. The Writers Guild of America … Continue reading Hollywood, New York Writers Guild of America Strikes Major Companies and Tech Giants →

By Barry Sheppard, May 13, 2023 [Photo above: Banned Montana House of Representatives member, Zooey Zepher] The Republican Party, which became a far-right white nationalist, anti-abortion, anti-LGBTQ party under the Trump administration, has now decided to launch a coordinated campaign against transgender people. In Montana the Republican controlled House of Representatives recently passed several laws … Continue reading Republicans Intensify Anti-Transgender Campaign →

And the Washington foreign policy establishment still eats them up By Rick Sterling  [Photo above: CIA's Eugene Hasenfus captured by Sandinistas after his plane crashed in Nicaragua]  May 12, 2023  In 1975, Philip Agee published his book Inside the Company: CIA Diary. In the introduction, he wrote: “When I joined the CIA, I believed in the need for its … Continue reading CIA May Be Regarded Around World as a Rogue Elephant, But Operatives Can Still Churn Out Books that Make Themselves Look Like Heroes →

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