Donald J. Trump was sworn in for his second term as president at 12 Noon, January 20, in the Capital building in Washington, D.C. that was violently assaulted by his far-right supporters four years earlier, in an attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election when he lost to Joe Biden.  Now a convicted felon, Trump … Continue reading The Fightback Road to Counter Trump 2.0’s Shock and Awe, America First and White Supremacy    By Malik Miah and Barry Sheppard →

By Jeff Mackler [Editor’s note: We reprint here “The U.S. War on Syria,”a rejoinder to a spurious article that appeared in April 2021 in The Nation and Intercontinental Press, the  later the online publication of the Fourth Intercontinental. Entitled, “Syria: How to Avoid the ‘Anti-Imperialism’ of Fools: The logic of ‘the enemy of my enemy … Continue reading The Most Unkindest Cut of All: Part III on US imperialist War On Syria →

[Photo above: Syrian ship bombed by Zionist war planes in early December, 2024] Craig N. Murphy is the Betty Freyhof Johnson ’44 Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College. He is past chair of the Academic Council on the United Nations System, past president of the International Studies Association, and recipient of the Association’s Distinguished … Continue reading The End of Pluralism in the Middle East By Craig Murray, 12/6/24   →

 [Editor’s note: Jeff Mackler, We reprint below Chris Hedges’ January 16 article “The Ceasefire Charade” originally published in ScheerPost. Hedges’ article details the three major points in the agreement, currently being brokered with beleaguered Hamas representatives by the racist Zionist Israeli entity and the Biden administration. The “ceasefire charade” as he aptly describes it, is … Continue reading Socialist Action Demands: No To the Zionist/US Imperialist-imposed CEASEFIRE CHARADE →

By Jeff Mackler  [Editor’s note: As we go to press the corporate media is hailing the recent military victories of so-called rebels in northwestern Syria, who have captured significant parts of Syria’s second largest city, Aleppo as well as some parts of Idlib on Syria’s northern border with Turkey. Monday’s December 2 New York Times … Continue reading The US War Against Syria Yesterday and Today:  The unconditional right of poor and oppressed nations to self-determination →

By Jeff Mackler and Glen Ford, April 2020 [Editor’s note by Jeff Mackler, National Secretary Socialist Action: Four years ago, in 2020, not long after Minneapolis racist police choke-hold murdered George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, five million people in 2,000 US cities, led by enraged Black activist youth, joined by their white supporters across … Continue reading A Manifesto For Our Times: Abolition of Systemic Racism Is On the Agenda Today →

By Roland Sheppard, Daily News Digest November 18, 2024 Wonder Why Food Prices Keep Rising? A Cartel of Ten Companies Control the Food the Production and Distribution of Most Food!:   This Infographic Above Shows How Only 10 Companies Own All The World’s Food Brands … In order to visually elucidate that point, Oxfam International created a … Continue reading Revolutionary Socialist Critique of US Capitalism: The truth about the elections, environment, inflation, racism, etc. →

By Barry Sheppard Donald Trump and his Republicans now hold majorities in the House and Senate. The ruling authority of the third branch of government, the judiciary, is the Supreme Court, which already has a six to three majority of right wing justices. The top court can overrule lower court decisions, and laws passed by … Continue reading “Strongman” Trump Takes the Reins of Crisis-Ridden U.S. Capitalism →

Statement by Socialist Action US, November 14, 2024 The eyes of the world are riveted on Palestine. After 13 months of a genocidal bombardment and invasion of Gaza, and now Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, Iran and Iraq, the Zionist state has killed at least 50,000 people, two-thirds of whom are women and children, leaving over 100,000 … Continue reading Smash Zionist Israel’s Genocide! End All US Aid! Free Free Palestine! →

By Malik Miah and Barry Sheppard Donald Trump swept the election for president, winning the popular vote by about 73,000,000 to Kamala Harris’s 68,000,000, the first time a Republican won the popular vote since George W. Bush in 2005. Trump also won the undemocratic but decisive Electoral College, 301 to 226, as of November 8 … Continue reading Behind Trump’s decisive victory →

By Jeff Mackler, National Secretary, Socialist Action  [Photo above: Leon Trotsky and Vladimir Lenin, co-leaders of the 1917 Russian Revolution]    It’s sometimes tough being a revolutionary socialist at a time when supporting Democratic Party capitalist/imperialist genocidal “lesser evil” warmongers, is seen by many folks of good will as necessary to stop neo-fascist wannabes like … Continue reading Fund Appeal to Socialist Action’s Friends and Comrades →

By Jeff Mackler The US ruling class won the 2024 US elections, that is, both wings. At a bit more than a record-breaking $10 billion raked in by the Democrats’ and Republicans’ election campaign committees, mostly from super rich contributions, it cost them a mere pittance. Indeed, whatever multi-$millions or $billions they contributed is guaranteed … Continue reading US Capitalism Emerges Unscathed From the 2024 Election Charade: Painful Lessons To Be Learned and the Way Forward for the US Left →

By Jeff Mackler Serious political analysis on the left always begins with the facts. Substituting abstract theories not based on facts is always a deadend for the socialist movement, today terribly divided over how to evaluate and act on the unfolding and complex events attendant to the Ukraine War and the Russian invasion. Let us … Continue reading UKRAINE: No to the US-orchestrated war and US-backed fascist coup: Some critical history for the antiwar movement →

By Jeff Mackler With the polls deadlocked at 48-48 less than two weeks before the US presidential elections, the billionaire ruling rich frantically maneuver to capture a few more votes to swing the result in favor of their chosen warmongering, capitalist, anti-working class, environmentally catastrophic corporate-kept candidates. The electoral choice presented to an increasingly wary … Continue reading “Lesser Evilism“ Rises to Crescendo Pitch as “Liberal-Left” Back Genocide Kamala Harris: The Revolutionary Socialist Alternative →

The racist, xenophobic charge that Haitian immigrants are “eating the pets, dogs, cats and even geese,” in Springfield, Ohio by Donald Trump at the September 10 debate with Kamala Harris, reflects a willful imperialist ignorance that cannot be left unchecked lest we forget the backstory on “why they are here.” This story leads us to the … Continue reading Harris-Trump Immigrant Bashing in US Election and US Imperialism’s Horrors in Haiti  By Cristobal Cavazos  →

With Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize novelist-poet; Dr. Omar Zahzah, US Palestinian Community Network and Professor Ethnic Studies, SF State University; Cristobal Cavazos, Exec. Dir., Dupage Workers Center; Jeff Mackler, National Secretary, Socialist Action; and, via video, Nora Barrows-Friedman, Associate Editor, Electronic Intifada A World In Turmoil web copy.pagesDownload

[Editor’s note, Jeff Mackler: We reprint below Joseph Polermo’s Los Angeles Progressive factual account obliterating NYT’s rightwing editorialist Bret Stephen’s call for a punishing US war against Iran for its recent retaliatory firing of missiles on the genocidal Zionist Israeli entity. Polermo more than adequately sketches the US-Zionist horrors perpetrated on the Palestinian people and … Continue reading NYT’s Warmonger Bret Stephens Says the U.S. Must Attack Iran: Some necessary Iran-US history →

[Editor’s note, Jeff Mackler: We proudly reprint here WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s address in France Tuesday morning, October 1, 2024 to the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). The remarks include Assange’s responses during the Q&A period. We are deeply impressed by Assange’s bitter … Continue reading Julian Assange: “I want to be totally clear. I am not free today because the system worked. I am free today after years of incarceration because I pled guilty to journalism. I pled guilty to seeking information from a source. I pled guilty to obtaining information from a source. And I pled guilty to informing the public what that information was. I did not plead guilty to anything else.” →

By Karlos Bermann With Fall Semester beginning, it’s time to turn the tables on campus repression and censorship! Classes are just resuming and in Virginia we’ve already seen VCU students campaigning against repression, based on what occurred at Palestine ` last April. We’re likely to see more of the same when protest actions begin again. … Continue reading Palestine Solidarity: Suggestions for Young People… Repressing the Repression and Censorship →

[Photo above, Pulitzer Prize novelist-poet Alice Walker] By Jeff Mackler One hundred Julian Assange solidarity, antiwar and social justice activists celebrated Assange’s freedom at Berkeley’s Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists Hall on Sunday, Sept. 22. Sponsored by Assange's defense organizations, the Courage Foundation and Assangedefense.org, 20 other peace and solidarity groups were co-sponsors. (See below). Featured … Continue reading Berkeley, CA  Julian Assange Celebration Raises $5,000: The Struggle Continues: Free ‘Em All! Free Palestine! No To US Wars! →

Free Mumia! Free Leonard! Free the African Peoples Socialist Party/Uhuru Three! Free 'Em All! Free Speech! Free Press!  Free Palestine! No to US Wars! Sunday, Sept. 22, 7-9 PM 1924 Cedar at Bonita, Berkeley, CA $20 Pay at the door; No one turned away for lack of funds or via Eventbrite here: https://codepink.org/assange922 Sponsor: Courage Foundation and … Continue reading Celebrate Julian Assange’s Freedom! Berkeley, Sun. Sept. 22 The Struggle Continues! →

By Jeff Mackler The two multi-billionaire-backed, 2024 presidential candidates faced off before some 67 million ABC-TV viewers on September 10. The pollsters recorded that Democrat Kamala Harris handily “won” the debate by a 66-34 margin. The New York Times’ fact checkers found that Republican Donald Trump lied or distorted facts 33 times; Harris made but one slightly … Continue reading Harris-Trump “Debate” Ruling Class Politics: The “Lesser Evil” Takes Some Blows →

By Jason Koslowski  [Editor’s note/Jeff Mackler: Written five days before the September 10 internationally televised Harris-Trump presidential election debate, we reprint below Jason Koslowski’s insightful Left Voice article detailing the US ruling class’s multi-billionaire backers of the Harris campaign… and Trump’s too. At $10 billion, the 2024 election expenditures far exceed the record 2020 total … Continue reading Who’s Funding Harris’s “Lesser Evil” Campaign? [Background to the Sept. 10 Harris-Trump debate] →

[Reprinted from Democracy Now! September 5, 2024] EXCLUSIVE: Northwestern Suspends Journalism Professor Steven Thrasher After Gaza Solidarity Protest (youtube.com)