By Sam Gindin Members of the Teamsters just voted to ratify a new contract at UPS. The union made big gains — but in opting not to strike over demands beyond wages, the Teamsters may have passed up a transformative opportunity for the labor movement. The five-year period of ‘peace’ in reality strengthens the ability … Continue reading In Failing To Strike at UPS, the Teamsters Missed a Big Opportunity →

[Part II of Socialist Action’s 2018 National Convention resolution on China] [Editors note: Below readers will find Part II of the 2018 Socialist Action National Convention resolution entitled, “China: A New Capitalist Imperialist Power.” Having established the theoretical and factual basis of our view in Part I, (See socialistaction.org, September 3, 2023)  Part II focuses … Continue reading China’s Imperialism Abroad: “The Belt and Road Initiative” →

[Resolution adopted by Socialist Action’s 2018 National Convention] [Editor’s note: We reprint here Part I of a lengthy resolution on the restoration of capitalism in China approved by Socialist Action’s 2018 National Convention. Our forthcoming Part II, entitled Chinese Imperialism Abroad, details China’s massive Belt and Road Initiative investments in every continent. For matters of … Continue reading China: A New Capitalist Imperialist Power →

By Jeff Mackler   Part IV in a series [Editor’s note: In our previous two articles in this series, the recent BRICS Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa and,  “The Unconditional Right of Self-determination For All Poor and Oppressed Nations,” we focused on a critical issue, today widely disputed on the socialist left. That is, can humanity’s … Continue reading Nicaragua: Dynamics of an Interrupted Revolution →

By Jeff Mackler   [Editor's note: This article is the third in a series of articles on Socialist Action's views on critical world issues.] (Photo above: UK Syrian antiwar protestors celebrate Syrian victory) The unconditional right to self-determination of oppressed nations, historically trampled on by imperialist conquerors and colonizers over the past several centuries, applies with … Continue reading The unconditional right of poor and oppressed nations to self-determination: Looking back at the US war against Syria →

Part II of a series By Jeff Mackler   [Editor’s note : Our next article in this series will focus on the socialist movement’s historic stance toward defending the right of self-determination of poor and oppressed nations against imperialist intervention.] As the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) meet in Johannesburg, South Africa, … Continue reading BRICS Bloc: No Alternative to US Imperialist World Order  →

Part 1 of a series [Photo above: US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken with Chinese President Xi Jinping] By Jeff Mackler Editor’s note: This article begins a series by Socialist Action aimed at socialists, revolutionary activists and social justice fighters, intended to explain our views on today’s major issues and win supporters of these views … Continue reading Biden’s Top Team of Yellen, Blinken and Kerry Visit Xi Jinping’s Capitalist China →

By Barry Sheppard People around the world viewed with horror the wildfire on Maui, one of the Hawaiian Islands, with the historic city of Lahaina, formerly the capital of the Hawaiian Kingdom, being burned to the ground, people trying to escape by jumping into the ocean or by car, cars burned, and more.   As … Continue reading Maui’s Deadly Inferno: Disaster Capitalism in Action →

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 →