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 →

UNAC (United National Antiwar Coalition) National Antiwar Conference Register Here Decolonization and the Fight Against Imperialism  A conference for the entire movement Saint Paul, MN, USA,  April 5-7, 2024 Click here to register for the conference.     ​Click here to reserve a room at the conference hotel at our special rate. (This is an Indigenous … Continue reading Decolonization and the Fight Against Imperialism: UNAC (United National Antiwar Coalition) National Antiwar Conference: Registration Information Below →

By Jeff Mackler, National Secretary, Socialist Action  [Photo above: http://www.greanvillepost.com Kiev deploys fascist militias against Donetsk] The Ukraine tragedy began in February 2014 when rooftop fascist snipers opened fire on Maidan Square Kiev protestors. The fascists murdered almost 100 in cold blood, including some of their own for good measure. Viktor Yanukovych, the elected president, was … Continue reading The Truth About Ukraine War: Buried October 2023 Ukraine trial verdict confirms February 2014 fascist coup →

By Jeff Mackler, National Secretary, Socialist Action. Remarks at the St. Paul, Minnesota Dave Riehle memorial meeting, Eastside Freedom Library, Feb. 17, 2024. [Editor’s note: Some 125 family, friends, comrades, trade union and socialist collaborators joined in celebrating Dave Riehle’s life on February 17, 2024. We reprint below a slightly expanded version of Jeff Mackler’s … Continue reading In Memoriam: Dave Riehle Revolutionary Socialist, Class Struggle Fighter →

By STEPHEN ROHDE PUBLISHED: February 18, 2024 at 7:01 a.m. Originally published in the Los Angeles Daily News. Few Americans are aware that for over a decade the United States government has been engaged in one of the greatest threats to freedom of the press in American history. On Feb. 20 and 21, the United Kingdom High … Continue reading Trump and Biden both want to punish Julian Assange for exposing U.S. war crimes →

STOP ENABLING GENOCIDE IN GAZA & ATTACKING YEMEN, IRAQ & SYRIA! PETITION: To sign see below SanctionsKill Campaign accuses the Biden administration with being an accomplice in crimes against humanity by aiding genocide in Gaza. This is in violation of the International Court of Justice (ICJ). The ICJ, also known as the World Court, called … Continue reading To: President Biden, Secretary of State Blinken →

By Olivia Rosana [Editors note: No doubt the Minneapolis City Council’s resolution supporting an immediate CEASEFIRE in Gaza and an end to US military aid to Israel was a product of the growing mass movement in solidarity with the beleaguered Palestinian masses. The resolution was also in accord with the original and often repeated Hamas … Continue reading Minneapolis City Council Overrides Veto of ‘Strongest’ Ceasefire in Gaza Resolution →

By Barry Sheppard [Photo above: Gaza starves as Israel presses war on Hamas, Reuters http://www.reuters.com 474×316] No sooner had the preliminary report from the International Court of Justice appeared, finding that South Africa had made a plausible case of genocide against Israel, than Israel charged that 13 members of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency … Continue reading Biden Chooses Death as US Cuts Off Funding for UNRWA in Gaza — Resistance Grows →

By Jeff Mackler [Photo above: South Africa’s International Court of Justice delegation at The Hague, Netherlands presenting charges of genocide against Israel] The UN’s International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague, Netherlands delivered its non-binding verdict on January 26 on South Africa’s multiple charges that Zionist Israel was guilty of genocide. The court’s 17 judges, … Continue reading UN Defaults: Israel’s Palestine Genocide and COP28 →