By Jeff Mackler Thanks to all the activists across the country and around the world who made this possible. Below are some snippets from Julian’s friends who describe some of the details of his release. More later. A detained report is in preparation. Julian’s plea bargain agreement of guilt on one felony charge sets no … Continue reading Julian Assange is Free!
Black Alliance for Peace Condemns US Black (Mis)Leaders for Their Support of US Military Intervention and Occupation of Haiti Statement by BAP Haiti Americas Team The Haiti/Americas Team of the Black Alliance for Peace rebukes the US Black “misleadership” class for its support of the latest US invasion and occupation of Haiti. We condemn the … Continue reading No To US-backed Imperialist intervention In Haiti!
By Cristobal Cavazos The June 4th announcement by President Joseph Biden that the right to asylum was all but over is a reactionary move by a reactionary administration. Ironically, 85 years ago to the day, the racist 1924 US Johnson-Reed Immigration Act, under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, tragically refused asylum to close to 1000 Jews onboard … Continue reading Biden Calls on Trump to “Join” Him In A War Against Immigrants and Asylum
By Mumia Abu-Jamal Audio Player 00:00 04:44 Use Up/Down Arrow keys to increase or decrease volume. Download “The Remarkable Life of Marty Goodman” There are remarkable men and women in the world who did something extraordinary intheir lives for which they will be long remembered. And then there are quite extraordinarypeople like Marty Goodman who did … Continue reading Mumia on “The Remarkable Life of Marty Goodman”
June 7 Memorial Meeting Video ad Slide Show Co-sponsors: Transport Workers Union Local 100 and Socialist Action [Editors note: Click below for two separate presentations: (a) the slides in the slideshow prepared by Cliff Conner that also appear with commentary in the (b) two-hour memorial via YouTube featuring Marty Goodman's comrades, trade union sisters and … Continue reading Honoring Marty Goodman
Dear Friends, If you are able, please join us this coming Friday, June 7 in Brooklyn, NY to celebrate the life of socialist, trade union activist/leader and human rights fighter, Marty Goodman. Speakers include a broad range of leaders of today’s important social justice, political, trade union and solidarity organizations. I look forward to seeing … Continue reading Celebrate the Life of Marty Goodman
By Jeff Mackler “GUILTY: JURY CONVICTS TRUMP ON ALL 34 COUNTS” was the May 31 banner headline of the nation’s leading corporate and Democratic Party mouthpiece, “newspaper of record,” The New York Times. Trump’s sentencing hearing is set for July 11. The Times legal experts note that trial Judge Juan Merchan could sentence Trump to … Continue reading “GUILTY:” Trump and Biden’s Twin Parties of War, Racism, Repression and Corruption
By Chris Hedges The ruling by the High Court in London permitting Julian Assange to appeal his extradition order leaves him languishing in precarious health in a high-security prison. That is the point. The May 20 decision by the High Court in London to grant Julian Assange the right to appeal the order to extradite … Continue reading The Slow-Motion Execution of Julian Assange Continues
The WikiLeaks founder gets the chance to argue that U.S. prosecution violates his rights to freedom of expression. By Stephen Rhode, Reprinted from Truthdig [Photo above: A protester reads a newspaper outside the High Court in London, Monday, May 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)] On Monday, the U.K. High Court granted Julian Assange permission to … Continue reading Julian Assange Granted Right to Challenge U.S. Extradition Request
By Barry Sheppard and Malik Miah U.S. intelligence agencies have now openly recognized that the war Israel is ostensibly waging, to eliminate Hamas in Gaza, cannot be won. This is a virtual recognition what the pro-Palestinian demonstrators have been saying, and most of the world knows, that the war is a war against the Palestinian … Continue reading US Intelligence Agencies Explicit on Genocidal Nature of Israel’s Gaza War and Palestinian Resistance
UCLA administration conducts an experiment in repression with a whiff of fascism May 10, 2024 [Editor’s note, Jeff Mackler. We reprint below this detailed Los Angeles Review of Books account, originally entitled "For Whom is the campus to be safe?" of the critical and unprecedented events at the University of California at Los Angeles that … Continue reading For Whom Is the UCLA Campus to Be Safe? By Saree Makdisi
By Jeff Mackler [Photo and caption above published in Haiti Liberté newspaper] Marty Goodman, revolutionary socialist, worker Bolshevik, militant trade unionist, anti-imperialist/antiwar leader, civil libertarian, anti-racist fighter and jazz enthusiast, died in late March, 2024 of a heart attack. He was 74. Marty’s friends, comrades and trade union activists will celebrate his extraordinary life on … Continue reading Remembering Marty Goodman: Working Class Fighter and Revolutionary Socialist
Interview by Salim Lamrani [Editor’s Note: We proudly reprint below, with this personal note, Salim Lamrani recent interview with renowned poet, author, and social justice fighter, Alice Walker. I first met Alice Walker 62 years ago, then an 18-year old green-eyed youngster, when we marched 500 strong with American youth through the streets of Helsinki, … Continue reading Alice Walker: A Voice of Love, Revolution, and Resilience
By Barry Sheppard Ever since Israel’s war on Palestinians and increasing destruction of infrastructure and mass killings of the population in Gaza, protests have developed on campuses. The response of supporters of Israel’s war have charged that campus pro-Palestinian demonstrations are anti-Semitic. As the killings and destruction have intensified, so to have many types of … Continue reading Student Mobilizations Against Israel Genocide Spread Nationwide
Decolonization and the fight against Imperialism A conference for the entire movement [Slightly edited from the UNAC website at unacpeace.org. Photo above: Joe Lombardo, UNAC National Coordinator] UNAC conference draws hundreds for mass actions against genocide in Gaza with a focus on building unity in action Over 400 antiwar/anti-imperialist and Palestine solidarity activists convened in … Continue reading United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) Conference
Free Palestine! End U.S.-backed Israeli Zionist Genocide! At UNAC’s founding conference, [14 years ago, Editor] we adopted the demand “End All U.S. Aid to Apartheid Israel: Military, Economic and Diplomatic.” UNAC thus became the first U.S. national antiwar coalition to take such a position. Today, this opposition to Israeli Apartheid is front and center in … Continue reading Final Resolution Adopted at United National Antiwar Coalition Conference, April 5-7, 2024, St. Paul, MN
By John Pottinger, April 8, 2024 Two hundred employees, former employees and their supporters rallied outside the Apple Store in Lincoln Park, Chicago on Saturday, April 6 to protest the termination, disciplining and harassment of employees who are visibly Palestinian or visibly pro-Palestinian. Madly Espinoza, a Palestinian recently terminated from the Apple Store, spoke at … Continue reading Chicago Apple Store Fires Pro-Palestine Workers
By Salim Lamrani, University of La Réunio, France Suffocated for more than six decades by the U.S. state of economic siege, Cuba is facing serious difficulties that are impacting the well-being of the population. On March 17, 2024, in Santiago, dozens of people peacefully expressed their discontent with the material difficulties of daily life. The … Continue reading U.S. Responsibility for Cuba’s Economic Crisis
By John Pottinger, Socialist Action National Committee Every now and then I go to a website called “The Motley Fool.” In addition to stock market advice they have a lot of commentary on Social Security. Last June they published an article titled “Social Security Beneficiaries Have Been Cheated Out of $6,200 in Annual Income Since … Continue reading Government’s “New Math” Rips Off Social Security Beneficiaries $6,200 Annually Since 2,000
He can be extradited if the U.S. gives “assurances” his First Amendment rights will be protected and he doesn’t face the death penalty. [Editor’s note: Author, Civil Liberties Attorney, Stephen Rhode, is a National Steering Committee member of the U.S.-based Assangedefense.org, the broadly-based organization aimed at defending journalist and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s free speech … Continue reading Julian Assange Sent to ‘Purgatory’ by British High Court
[International Women's Day Statement of Socialist Action Canada/Ligue pour L'action Socialiste, Socialist Action/USA's Canadian sister party] * Low paid women increasingly hold more than one job to survive. This is particularly apparent in the health sector, including in Long Term Care, where female front-line workers fell victim to the global pandemic. 56 per cent of multiple … Continue reading For Feminism and Socialism: Solidarity With Women of Palestine
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United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) Statement 2/28/24 Before he committed his extreme act of protest, Aaron Bushnell said, “I’m an active-duty member of the United States Air Force. And I will no longer be complicit in genocide. I’m about to engage in an extreme act of protest but compared to what people have been experiencing in Palestine … Continue reading The Protest of Aaron Bushnell
By Cristobal Cavazos, National Committee/Political Committee, Socialist Action The extreme right-wing character of President Joe Biden’s immigration policy as well as the imperialist nature of his overall program was on stark display as he called on former “semi-fascist” President Donald Trump “to join me” on his attack on immigrant rights at the US-Mexican border on February … Continue reading Biden/Trump Maneuver to Smash Immigrant Rights and Fund Gaza Genocide
