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
socialistaction.org socialistaction@lmi.net Join a united rally toStop the Attacks on GazaCommemorate Nakba 75Palestine will win!March and Rally, Saturday, May 13, 2 p.m. 518 Valencia Street, SF
By Alejandra Garcia and Bill Hackwell on May 5, 2023 from Havana It was pitch dark at 4:30 as we started out to find that already thousands were taking over the streets chanting, Viva Fidel!, Viva Raul! and Viva Diaz Canel! Moving with purpose past the Plaza of the Revolution turning onto La Rampa and … Continue reading Cuba Holds Impressive May Day Demonstrations on their Own Terms
By Malik Miah and Barry Sheppard May 5, 2023 The leak of a trove of secret U.S. government documents posted on social media has revealed aspects of how the government and its military is striving to reestablish hegemony in the world by targeting its adversaries (especially Russia and China) and pressuring allies to toe the … Continue reading Leaked Pentagon Documents Reveal Scope of US War Machine
By Jeff Mackler In an April 18 out-of-court settlement minutes before formal court proceedings were set to commence, Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News family and publishing empire agreed to pay $787.5 million to Dominion Voting Systems for its repeated lies that Dominion rigged its machines to steal the 2020 US presidential elections from Donald Trump. The … Continue reading The Myth of Free Speech in America… Fox News to Pay Dominion $787.5 Million for 2020 Election Lies While African People’s Socialist Party Persecuted and Julian Assange Jailed For Telling the Truth
[Statement by Socialist Action National Committee] Photo above: Omali Yeshiteli, Chair, African People's Socialist Party US Hands Off African People’s Socialist Party! McCarthy-era witchhunt style, African People's Socialist Party attacked by the US government on trumped up “conspiracy” charges. On Tuesday, April 18, 2023, a federal grand jury in Tampa, Florida, levied charges of “conspiring to covertly … Continue reading US Hands Off African Peoples Socialist Party
Secrecy, Science, and the National Security State Book Review of Alex Wellerstein, Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States. By Cliff Conner The phrase “national security state” has become increasingly familiar as a way to characterize the political reality of the United States today. It implies that the need to keep dangerous knowledge … Continue reading Secrecy, Science, and the National Security State
Like the Trump administration that preceded it, the Biden administration is seeking the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to stand trial on an indictment under the infamous Espionage Act of 1917. As the unprecedented U.S. prosecution of Assange reaches a critical stage, a growing number of elite media outlets, human rights advocates and press … Continue reading The Case Against the Case Against Julian Assange
CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER JUSTIN TRUDEAU AND U.S. PRESIDENT JOSEPH BIDEN What a state we’re in! The lowest point of the left since the 1950s. The Joe Biden visit proves it. Canadian Left Sinks to a New Low During Biden Visit BY YVES ENGLER[Editor’s note: We reprint the article below by Canadian socialist Yves Engler, while indicating our disagreement on … Continue reading Canadian Left Sinks to a New Low During Biden Visit
By Jeff Mackler Friday, March 31, 2023 What the corporate media ban from their coverage of the unfolding and ever massive French protests against President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to add two years to the French retirement age, from 62 to 64, is the origin of the pension plan itself, perhaps the best in the world. … Continue reading Mass French strikes and mobilizations challenge Macron’s pension reform
Statement by Socialist Action March 18, 2023 Maidan’s rooftop fascist snipers Today’s unfolding Ukraine tragedy began in February 2014 when rooftop fascist snipers opened fire on Maidan protestors originally assembled to resist the Victor Yanukovych government’s austerity measures. The fascists murdered 100 in cold blood, including some of their own for good measure. Yanukovych, the … Continue reading Ukraine: U.S. Out Now! Our Antiwar Credo
By Jeff Mackler [Photo above: West Virginia’s multi-millionaire coal magnate, Senator Joe Manchin III with President Joseph Biden] March 20, 2023 President Joseph Biden presented his third annual budget proposal at $6.8 trillion on Thursday, March 9. A day later Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), in Santa Clara, California, the nation’s 16th largest, declared bankruptcy, followed … Continue reading Capitalism’s Looming Crises: From Budget Debt Hyperbole to Banking Disaster
By JEFF MACKLER The rich just spent $18 billion in the midterm elections. A look at who benefits from the policies of the two parties shows why—and that working people lose no matter which party prevails in U.S. elections.
By MARTY GOODMAN Haiti’s mighty slave revolution, which declared its independence from France in 1804, horrified racist U.S.rulers, who have sought to crush Haitian independence for over 200 years.
By ALEJANDRA GARCIA from Havana The eyes of the world are upon Cuba after an enormous fire caused by a lightning strike on a crude oil storage tank in the Cuban city of Matanzas killed one firefighter and injuring more than 120 people.
By RICK STERLING There are similarities today with the US and NATO pouring tens of BILLIONS of dollars in weapons into Ukraine to counter the Russian military intervention. The US and western allies are providing additional support in intelligence and military advice.
By MICHELE GOODWIN Justice Samuel Alito’s claim, that there is no enumeration and original meaning in the Constitution related to involuntary sexual subordination and reproduction, misreads and misunderstands American slavery, the social conditions of that enterprise and legal history.
By JEFF MACKLER Dear Friends of Mumia Abu Jamal, Here are some important background and round up materials on Mumia Abu-Jamal’s freedom struggle. In solidarity Jeff Mackler, Director, The Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal, Northern California jmackler@lmi.net
By ROBERT CORSINI Assange activist and filmmaker Robert Corsini created a video in defense of journalist and whistleblower Julian Assange at the Los Angles People’s Summit. Julian’s father and brother, John and Gabriel Shipton, are featured speakers as well as a terrific Assange table staffed by Assange activist Vincent De Stefano.
