By Elizabeth Byce 10,517 Canadian Union of Public Employees flight attendants working for Air Canada won a pitched battle in their struggle for a collective agreement. A tentative agreement was reached after an historic and courageous fight that inspired labour unionists and their allies across the country.  CUPE urged their members, early on August 19, to … Continue reading Canadian Flight Attendants Uphold Right to Strike →

By Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist August 20, 2025 [Reprinted from Black Agenda Report News, commentary and analysis from the black left.] [Photo above: Washington Commanders majority owner Josh Harris, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announce using public money to build a football stadium. Image: Washington Business Journal] … Continue reading Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser Epitomizes Black Misleadership →

Below we reprint the recent article from the August 24, 2025  Chris Hedges Report that recounts in some detail the real history of Palestine, focussed on its colonization by the Zionist settlers with the support of British colonialism/imperialism justified by the infamous 1917 Balfour Declaration.  Socialist Action’s 1988 pamphlet, The Hidden History of Zionism by Ralph Schoenman covers … Continue reading Israel’s Assassination of Memory: From The Chris Hedges Report →

By Malik Miah In a long rant of over 70 minutes in a news conference on August 10, President Trump claimed that the nation’s capitol, Washington, D.C. “has been overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged-out maniacs, and homeless people. And we are not going to take it anymore.” … Continue reading Trump deploys military to Washington, D.C. based on racist demagogy and lies about rising crime →

[Above: Jeff Mackler, National Secretary, Socialist Action, twice Socialist Action’s candidate for the U.S, presidency] [Photo above: Zohran Mamdana, Democrat and Democratic Socialist of America (DSA) 2025 candidate for Mayor of New York City] Join us! Friday, August 15 at 11am PST Zoom connection here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9137010764?omn=81593854033  

August 9, 2025 Reprinted with permission by Chris Hedges Author and attorney Jennifer Harbury describes the “Silent Holocaust” in Guatemala and its links to the genocide in Gaza, using “any methods of barbarity necessary.” NA/Harbury 3/18/02 – Lawyer-activist Jennifer K. Harbury leaves the Supreme Court after arguing her case before the court today. ORG XMIT: … Continue reading Chris Hedges Report: Israel Also Sponsored a Genocide in Guatemala →

Isaac Saney Haitian women having their blood pressure taken at a mobile clinic staffed by a Cuban medical brigade in Salomon market in Port-au-Prince. The Cuban revolution endures despite more than 60 years of U.S. attacks. One system exploits the people, while the other prioritizes their needs. Which nation deserves the label of “failed’? In an … Continue reading Who Is the Failed State? Cuba, Revolutionary Ethics, and the Moral Bankruptcy of Western Capitalism →

By Barry Sheppard The recent highly lethal flash flood in Texas, where a river rose 26 feet in 45 minutes, was another example occurring throughout the world of increasing major disasters, including floods, droughts, fires, heat waves and more, due to climate change resulting from global heating. It was also an example of the lack … Continue reading Climate Change: Capitalism’s Floods, Droughts, Fires — Mitigation and System Change   →

The New Democratic Party Socialist Caucus proudly announced on July 7 the nomination of Yves Engler, a distinguished Montreal-based author and activist, as its candidate for federal NDP leader. Engler brings to the contest a fearless commitment to global peace, democratic accountability, workers’ rights and socialism.Born in Vancouver in 1979 to union-organizer parents who were deeply … Continue reading Montreal Author and Political Activist Yves Engler Campaigns to Lead Canada’s New Democratic Party →

By Jeff Mackler As a teenage Superman fan of yesteryear, in the 1950s, I recall that Superman was described on radio as a “strange visitor from another planet.” I couldn’t resist going to my local Oakland movie theater to see the latest iteration starring David Corenswet as Superman. I was surprised. While the July 20 … Continue reading Democrat Zohran Mamdani and Superman the Movie: Billionaire’s Debate Damage Control as U.S. Opinion Increasingly Rejects Zionist’s Palestine Genocide →

On March 8, Mahmoud Khalil—a prominent pro-Palestine activist and legal U.S. resident—was effectively disappeared. After his arrest, he was flown to Louisiana, far from his lawyer, his wife, and his community of supporters. Khalil, a green card holder, is protected by the U.S. Constitution and cannot be deported for exercising his First Amendment rights. Yet the … Continue reading Bipartisan Crackdown on Pro-Palestine Activism From Encampments to Deportations: Mahmoud Khalil Disappeared for Dissent: By John Pottinger →

Inter-imperialist Energy Rivalry: China vs. U.S. By Jeff Mackler “The massive development of fossil fuel versus renewable energy resources is today driving the U.S. and China in opposite directions.” This is the central thesis of a recent New York Times series titled “Power Moves.” One article, published July 5 and titled “As U.S. Banks on Fossil Fuels, China Pulls Away … Continue reading Inter-imperialist Energy Rivalry: China vs. U.S. →

By Jeff Mackler In a stunning political upset, Zohran Mamdani—a 33-year-old Queens Assemblyman, Democrat, and member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)—won the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City last week. Polling at just 1% when the race began, Mamdani secured 56% of the ranked-choice vote, defeating a crowded field of over … Continue reading Longshot Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani Wins NYC Mayoral Democratic Party Primary in Upset Victory →

Zionism’s Last Gasp, with Nora Barrows Friedman of the Electronic Intifada , Jeff Mackler, SA National Secretary, and Joe Lombardo. UNAC’s National Coordinator. Sunday, July 6 at 10 am Pacific time [12 noon Chicago; 1 pm East Coast. CORRECTED Registration: REGISTER HERE:  https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_woRIaBkxRFWJFlncx51Wsw

The Los Angeles and national immigration rights protests began in early June when ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents with no legal authority stormed sections of Los Angeles's largely Latino and Central American communities, banging on and smashing doors of local homes demanding that residents open with the intention of arresting those they deemed illegal. … Continue reading Defend Immigrant Rights! No Human Being Is Illegal! US Hands Off Iran! Ban All Nuclear Weapons Starting With US and Israel! All Out in Washington, D.C. June 28 and Everywhere! →

International Days of Resistance:   FREE Palestine – STOP War on Iran This action is called by Global Resistance For Peace and Justice.   Plan and list your action. We will list ALL actions of ALL groups demanding “Stop War on Iran” To List your action,  Click Here To View listed actions:  Click Here To Endorse, Click Here We call on … Continue reading All Out in Washington, Saturday, June 28, 1 PM NO WAR ON IRAN! →

Topic: Socialist Action Meeting for Members and FriendsTime: Sunday, June 22, 2025 5:00 PM Pacific time, 7 pm Central, 8 pm East Coast (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting Herehttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/88689495517?pwd=zyQFpHkQJc7E7jKuuu4fRGp2lEXiUh.1

The Los Angeles and national immigration rights protests began in early June when ICE ((Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents with no legal authority stormed sections of Los Angeles’s largely Latino and Central American communities, banging on local homes demanding that residents open with the intention of arresting those they deemed illegal. The stated goal was to circumvent … Continue reading Defend Immigrant Rights! No Human Being Is Illegal! US Hand’s Off Iran! Join the Nationwide Protests! →

 Join Socialist Action! INTRODUCTION By Jeff Mackler Defend Immigrant Rights!  No Human Being Is Illegal The Los Angeles and national immigration rights protests began in early June when ICE ((Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents with no legal authority stormed sections of Los Angeles's largely Latino and Central American communities, banging on local homes demanding that residents … Continue reading As Trump Sets Military Against Civilians, Service Members Have Duty to Disobey By Marjorie Cohn →

Zionism’s Last Gasp with Nora Barrows Friedman of the Electronic Intifada , Jeff Mackler, SA National Secretary, and Joe Lombardo. UNAC’s National Coordinator. Sunday, July 6 at 10 am Pacific time [12 noon Chicago; 1 pm East Coast. https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81914937552?pwd=pclIZJ6jWVHnduUkLpCPNq6EBXK5vG.1    

Workers, women, youth, and allies – Take Direct Action to Stop the Trade War! American President Donald Trump fosters chaos.  His aim is to enrich himself and his corporate cronies, even turning against America’s erstwhile capitalist allies.  The working class and low-income folks are sure to suffer the most in Trump’s infernal tariff war.  What … Continue reading Socialists in Canada, the United States and Mexico say NO to Trump’s Imperialist Bluster: [Translations below in English, French and Spanish] →

The Struggle for Immigrant Rights in the Face of Trump: ‘Respect our Existence or Expect our Resistance’  By Cristóbal Cavazos  The unbelievable struggle that the Trump administration’s attack on  undocumented immigrants workers has stoked, particularly among Mexican and Central American workers, some with close to the 30 years in the United States, has been as revolutionary … Continue reading The Struggle for Immigrant Rights in the Face of Trump: ‘Respect our Existence or Expect our Resistance’  →

By John Pottinger and Jeff Mackler The Truth Abut Trump’s Dismantling the Government Bureaucracy and the “Constitutional Crisis” A Marxist Assessment That President Trump has dismantled or significantly gutted some dozen or more government agencies, frozen the allocation of trillions of dollars in the federal budget allocated to run the country, fired multiple thousands of … Continue reading The Truth About Trump’s Dismantling the Government Bureaucracy and the “Constitutional Crisis:” A Marxist Assessment →

Dear Comrades, Just passing on the good news from Amnesty International and others that FBI frame-up victim Leonard Peltier is free, not to discount the horrors that the racist criminal injustice system has subjected him to for nearly a half century. Socialist Action is proud to have always been among his supporters. Comradely, Jeff Mackler, … Continue reading LEONARD PELTIER IS FREE →

With a smiling Benjamin Netanyahu at his side, Trump announced the Palestinians in Gaza would be displaced (ethnic cleansing), and then the U.S. would take over Gaza and turn the Strip into a beachfront Riviera on the Mediterranean Sea. Israeli government officials took turns praising Trump. Opponents of Netanyahu have also expressed openness to Trump’s … Continue reading Trump Aims to Erase Palestine By Barry Sheppard and Malik Miah →