[Photo above: A Gaza parade in the past for the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s militant arm. Ashraf Amra/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images] [Editor's note: The statement below was issued by the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas a few days ago, the first such statement formally presenting Hamas's politics and explanation for its October 7 attack (Operation Al-Aqsa Flood) … Continue reading Hamas Statement on the October 7 “Operation Al-Aqsa Flood” Attack →

By Susana Khalil – Jan 3, 2024 Hamas is part of the political diversity of the native Palestinian people. Hamas is a Palestinian political party with an armed struggle stance against colonialism. To say at this point (in the face of the extermination of the native Palestinian Semitic people) that Hamas is a “terrorist group” … Continue reading Palestine and the Harlot Left Wing →

BY JEFFREY ST. CLAIR, January 13, 2024 [Editor's note: We proudly reprint below, unedited, with permission from CounterPunch, the lengthy article by CounterPunch editor Jeffrey St. Clair that brilliantly and tragically recounts the full range of U.S.-abetted genocidal horrors perpetrated by the Zionist regime of Israel on the Palestinian people. St. Clair's exhaustive article includes coverage of … Continue reading Israel in the Dock: The Scouraging of Gaza: Diary of a Genocidal War →

Click on arrow on photo below to watch January 7, 2024 Socialist Action Zoom video with: Panelists: Joe Lombardo, National Coordinator, United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC); John Parker, U.S. delegation member to the Oct. 2023 World Conscience Convoy in Egypt attempting to send humanitarian aid and journalists to Gaza while exposing US complicity in Israeli genocide. … Continue reading Watch Video Here: “Free Palestine: End US-Abetted Zionist Genocide!” →

A book review by Barry Weisleder Naomi Klein, a social democrat in Canada who claims to be anti-capitalist, complains obsessively that she is often being confused with Naomi Wolf, a former liberal feminist who has joined the populist, pro-Trump right wing. So what, you say? Well, Klein maintains in "Doppelganger, A Trip into the Mirror … Continue reading Naomi Klein’s “Doppelganger” – Dystopia Without an Exit Strategy →

By Marty Goodman  Book Review: “The Hundred Years War on Palestine,” A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance 1917-1921 by Rashid Khalidi, Picador 2020 “There were no such thing as Palestinians…they did not exist. ” Former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, 1969. I was raised in a working-class Jewish home in South Florida during the … Continue reading Book Review: Dissecting Israel’s Big Lie(s) “The Hundred Years War on Palestine” By Rashid Khalidi →

By Jeff Mackler We are horrified to daily witness the monstrous deeds of a crisis-ridden world capitalism that knows no way out other than by inflicting new waves of catastrophe on the world’s people. Today’s US-backed and orchestrated Zionist genocide of the Palestinian people is but one more glaring example. But a broader assessment is … Continue reading Capitalism’s Deepening Crises and the Coming Fightback →

Register here:  https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_E9EGtf1HTKuvDUMsAiddbQ Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Free Palestine - Stop US-Abetted Zionist Genocide!. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. With… Lamis J. Deek, Attorney; Convenor, Palestinian Assembly for Liberation [PAL]; founder, PAL Commission on War Crimes, Justice, Reparations and Return; Member, Al-Awda; Right to Return … Continue reading Register Here: Free Palestine! No to US-promoted Zionist Genocide! Socialist Action Zoom Webinar, Sun., Jan. 7, 12 Noon EST →

By Patrick Bond and Desmond D’Sa [Photo above: Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, head of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) and President of the Nov. 30 – Dec. 12, 2023 COP28 climate talks.]  The most publicized sentence from the final COP28 [Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change] document – the first ‘Global … Continue reading Oil Jabber in Dubai: Top Ten Reasons to Dismiss the COP28  Conference of Polluters 28 →

Washington isolated in its support of Israel By Malik Miah and Barry Sheppard Israel’s war against the Palestinians in Gaza is the focal point at present of the long-term Zionist project of taking over all the land of the people who lived in what was the pre-1948 land of Palestine. Early on, this aim was … Continue reading World Revulsion Against Zionist Genocide and Expulsion! →

By John Pottinger Photo above: Thousands protest to oust Niger President Mohamed Bazoum, Aljazeera News Service Even before the popular July 26, 2022 coup d’état that removed the US-backed and pro-French government, Niger was the seventh poorest country in the world. With a 37 percent literacy rate, only 20 percent of the population has access to electricity … Continue reading US Imperialism Inflicts Untold Horrors On Niger, Among the World’s Poorest Nations →

Sponsored by Near Eastern and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley; NorCal Sabeel; UC Berkeley Department of History; Law Students for Justice in Palestine; Institute of International Studies; Center for Middle Eastern Studies; Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project of the Center for Race and Gender [Notes from UC Berkeley’s Hatem Bazian, Department of … Continue reading “Crisis in Palestine: Opportuity for Palestine?” Ilan Pappé speaks at UC Berkeley →

By Malik Miah A federal court on November 20 issued a decision that would severely curtail enforcement ofthe Voting Rights Act,(VRA) that could affect voters of color nationwide and will probably be appealed to the Supreme Court. The decision opens the door wider to a return to Jim Crow laws that once ruled the South. … Continue reading Court Rules Against Voting Rights—Opens Door to Return of Jim Crow Racist Laws →

By Malik Miah [Photo above: Hisham Awartani, Kinnan Abdalhamid and Tahseen Ahmed] THREE YOUNG PALESTINIAN men have been shot near a university campus in Vermont, after a six-year-old Palestinian-American boy was stabbed to death in Illinois in October, raising alarms against rising Islamophobia in the country. Critics say the mainstream media coverage and the political … Continue reading Three Palestinian students shot in Vermont →

BY Scott Ritter, Nov 13, 2023 Former Marine intelligence officer and nuclear arms inspector There is a truism that I often cite when discussing the various analytical approaches to assessing the wide variety of geopolitical problems facing the world today—you can’t solve a problem unless you first properly define it. The gist of the argument … Continue reading SCOTT RITTER DEBUNKS ISRAELI LIES ABOUT THE HAMAS MILITARY RAID ON OCTOBER 7 →

By Jeff Mackler, Updated as of December 6. [Photo above: Socialist Action/Canada, (Socialist Action/USA’s sister party) banner in mass Toronto Palestine solidarity mobilization] The full force of the daily horror inflicted on the Palestinian people and on the world’s poor and oppressed more generally, by the US military behemoth, and by its Zionist, colonialist Middle … Continue reading US-backed Zionist Genocide Intensifies: A Socialist Perspective On Palestinian Liberation →

White Christian Zionist Anti-Semites Join the Rally By Barry Sheppard and Jeff Mackler The November 14, Washington, D.C. “March for Israel” in support of Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza had all the earmarks of a US government-backed affair.  In comparison to the largely ignored or barely mentioned unprecedented in size and breath pro-Palestinian antiwar mass … Continue reading Washington, D.C. Bi-Partisan “March for Israel” Rally Supports Zionist Genocide in Gaza!  →

A federal lawsuit accuses Biden, Blinken and Austin of failure to prevent genocide and complicity in genocide. By Marjorie Cohn ,  Originally published in TRUTHOUT On November 16, two Palestinian human rights organizations, three Palestinians and five Palestinian Americans brought an emergency motion in United States federal court to immediately force President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony … Continue reading Palestinians File Emergency Motion to Block US Aid for Israel’s Genocide in Gaza →

[Photo above Globetrotter 19 – CC BY – 3.0] Spartacus was a 1960 Hollywood film based on a book written secretly by the blacklisted novelist Howard Fast, and adapted by the screenplay writer Dalton Trumbo, one of the ‘Hollywood 10’ who were banned for their ‘un-American’ politics. It is a parable of resistance and heroism … Continue reading We Are Spartacus! By John Pilger →

Tragically, too many antiwar activists and people of good will have felt compelled to include in their solidarity statements with the beleaguered Palestinian masses a condemnation of Hamas’s October 7 breaching the walls of its Gaza concentration camp and attacking its Zionist oppressors’ military facilities, settler communities and civilian populations. The world’s most oppressed, beleaguered, … Continue reading Palestine’s Right to Resist and Be Free: Debunking the October 7 “Massacre” By Jeff Mackler →

An Interview With Kaleem Hawa BY SUSIE DAY Kaleem Hawa [photo above] is a young Palestinian writer who has contributed eloquent pieces on art and film to such publications as The New York Review of Books and Artforum. But he has no time for this now. He and his comrades in the Palestinian Youth Movement [PYM] are, to put it … Continue reading The Palestinian Youth Movement in a Time of War →

Also: Register below for Socialist Action’s Saturday, November 11 Zoom Webinar on Palestine with Alice Walker, Lamis Deek, Nora Barrows Friedman, Jeff Mackler and Joe Lombardo. Details below https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_TQtLVfoWRIavy6PDFMBJ-Q [Important: Also in Washington, DC on Saturday, November 4 at the White House, led by the Black Is Back Coalition, will be this year’s Black People’s … Continue reading FREE PALESTINE! All Out Saturday, November 4, Washington, D.C.! 2pm Freedom, Plaza. In San Francisco, Civic Center at 1:00 pm →

Stop the Zionist Genocide!  Exposing the History of Israeli Zionist Colonialism [Photo above: Moroccans mobilize for Palestine; Millions more worldwide from London to Czech Republic to Tehran, Yemen, Algeria, Jordan, New York, Chicago,  San Francisco, Toronto, Brazil,  Chile,  Egypt… everywhere] [Photos below: Top: Alice Walker, Lamis Deek & NoraBarrows Friedman; Bottom: Joe Lombardo & Jeff … Continue reading Register Here: Socialist Action Zoom Webinar: Palestine Will Be Free From The River To The Sea! With Alice Walker, Lamis Deek, Nora Barrows Friedman, Joe Lombardo and Jeff Mackler →