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Smash Zionist Israel’s Genocide! End All US Aid! Free Free Palestine!
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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...
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Behind Trump’s decisive victory
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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...
on Tue, 5PM
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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...
on Nov 7
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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...
on Nov 5
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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...
on Oct 29
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NYT’s Bret Stephens Says the U.S. Must Attack Iran
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[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....
on Oct 10
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[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...
on Oct 2
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[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...
on Sep 26
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Harris-Trump “Debate” Ruling Class Politics: The “Lesser Evil” Takes Some Blows
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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...
on Sep 17
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Who’s Funding Harris’s “Lesser Evil” Campaign? [Background to the Sept. 10 Harris-Trump debate]
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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...
on Sep 13
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Israel terrorizes West Bank while continuing war in Gaza • By Malik Miah and Barry Sheppard
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[Photo above: Israeli soldier beating West Bank Palestinian: UK: The Independent] The Israeli genocide in Gaza continues and intensifies with the outbreak of polio — once thought to be eradicated worldwide — among Palestinian children. The Israeli aim of ethnic cleansing of...
on Sep 4
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Imperialism: Everywhere You Look By Karlos Bermann
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By Karlos Bermann On August 27, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador [photo above] announced that his country had “paused” relations with the embassies of the United States and Canada. He stressed that the “pause” applied to the embassies and not to the countries themselves,...
on Sep 3
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[Initiated by the Courage Foundation’s Nathan Fuller and Defending Rights and Dissent’s Chip Gibbons, the following letter was sent to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on behalf of a coalition of over 140 journalists and press freedom advocates in solidarity with their colleagues facing...
on Aug 23
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With US imperialism behind the curtain, Bangladesh swears in new leader and interim government
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By Karlos Bermann [Photo above: Protesters in Dhaka, Bangladesh celebrate the downfall of Sheikh Hasina, August 5, 2024 (AP/Rajib Dhar)] An interim government for Bangladesh was sworn in on the night of August 8, following the return to the country by Muhammad Yunus, the former managing...
on Aug 12
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Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro Re-elected
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By Jeff Mackler With 80 percent of voting stations counted, the country’s election authority reported that President Maduro had received 51.2 percent of the vote. Edmundo González, the US imperialist backed and financed “opposition” candidate received 44.2 percent. González had declared...
on Aug 7
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[July 24 Chicago Federal Plaza rally statement by representative of Chicago Coalition for Justice in Palestine protesting bi-partisan Netanyahu invitation to address US Congress, 600 attended.] This Sunday, after nearly 10 months of mass outrage and action against the genocide...
on Aug 3
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By Derek Seidman, [Reprinted with permission from TRUTHOUT, July 31, 2024.] Over the past few years, the battle against the proposed 85-acre Atlanta Public Safety Training Center — commonly known as “Cop City” — has emerged as a national flashpoint of resistance to militarized,...
on Aug 2
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Thousands Stand Up to Netanyahu and the War Makers in Washington - Socialist Action
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By Bill Hackwell on July 24, 2024 from Washington, D.C. [Photo: Detroit US Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib holds “WAR CRIMINAL” sign during Netanyahu’s speech.] Despite facing multipl…
on Jul 31
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Statement from the ANSWER Coalition in response to White House and media lies [Editor's Note: Jeff Mackler, Tens of thousands of antiwar and social justice activists, supporters of Palestinian freedom, people of all faiths and organizations representing a broad spectrum of the US antiwar...
on Jul 28
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Demagogue Trump’s “Restraint” at Republican Party Convention: Biden Drops Out
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By Jeff Mackler As with France’s newly moderated and re-imaged proto-fascist Marine Le Pen a few weeks earlier, Donald J. Trump took the floor of the Republican National Convention for a 93-minute “unifying” nomination acceptance speech. Friendly, relaxed, complementary,...
on Jul 23
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“The menu featured fruitwood-smoked beef short ribs, poached lobster, chilled heirloom tomato soup and a white chocolate basket.” Yummy. A few hours before the sumptuous dinner, Reuters reported, Some of the food supplies waiting to enter the Gaza Strip from Egypt have begun to rot as the Rafah...
on Jul 12
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By Jeff Mackler Despite a week of intense Camp David pre-debate preparation, where President Biden was pumped full with “facts” provided by his $billionaire-backed campaign advisers aimed at demonstrating his administration’s “achievements,” Biden proved incapable of a single coherent...
on Jul 7
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Julian Assange Freed by the Prospect of Justice
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By Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report Executive Editor and Senior Columnist July 3, 2024 [Photo above: Julian Assange arrives in Australia on June 26, 2024 (Photo: AFP)] After seven years of asylum in Ecuador’s embassy in London and another five years imprisoned by the United...
on Jul 5
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Biden Calls on Trump to “Join” Him In A War Against Immigrants and Asylum
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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...
on Jun 25
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Mumia on “The Remarkable Life of Marty Goodman”
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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...
on Jun 25
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No To US-backed Imperialist intervention In Haiti!
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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...
on Jun 25
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Celebrate the Life of Marty Goodman
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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,...
on Jun 5
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“GUILTY:” Trump and Biden’s Twin Parties of War, Racism, Repression and Corruption
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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...
on Jun 4
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The Slow-Motion Execution of Julian Assange Continues
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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...
on May 22
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Julian Assange Granted Right to Challenge U.S. Extradition Request
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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...
on May 21
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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,...
on May 20
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For Whom Is [the UCLA] Campus to Be Safe? By Saree Makdisi
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May 10, 2024 [Editor’s note, Jeff Mackler. We reprint below this detailed Los Angeles Review of Books account of the critical and unprecedented events at the University of California at Los Angeles that began at 11 pm April 30 and lasted for some three hours, when unimpeded masked and armed...
on May 17
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U.S. Responsibility for Cuba’s Economic Crisis
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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...
on Mar 29
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Government’s “New Math” Rips Off Social Security Beneficiaries $6,200 Annually Since 2,000
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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...
on Mar 28
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Julian Assange Sent to ‘Purgatory’ by British High Court
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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...
on Mar 27
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United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) Statement 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...
on Mar 8
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The Struggle for Immigrant Rights in the Biden-Trump Era
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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...
on Mar 7
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Arms Embargo on Israel Now!: Canadians Ramp Up Pressure on Trudeau and Joly
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Arms Embargo on Israel Now!: Canadians Ramp Up Pressure on Trudeau and Joly War/Peace • March 1, 2024 As the UN is calling for an immediate arms embargo and reminding Canadian officials involved in arms exports that they may be “individually criminally liable for aiding and abetting any...
on Mar 3
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By Jeff Mackler, National Secretary, Socialist Action [Photo above: 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...
on Mar 2
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The Not So Fabulous Life of Tina Modotti - Socialist Action
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By MICHAEL SCHREIBER I was intrigued by Gaetana Caldwell-Smith’s review of Ellen Gavin’s new play, Apertura Modotti, in last month’s Socialist Action. The play follows the life of…
on Mar 2
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In Memoriam: Dave Riehle Revolutionary Socialist, Class Struggle Fighter
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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...
on Feb 29
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Trump and Biden both want to punish Julian Assange for exposing U.S. war crimes
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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...
on Feb 21
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Minneapolis City Council Overrides Veto of ‘Strongest’ Cease-Fire in Gaza Resolution
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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...
on Feb 9
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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...
on Feb 1
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Hamas Statement on the October 7 “Operation Al-Aqsa Flood” Attack
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[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 explaining...
on Jan 26
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Palestine and the Harlot Left Wing
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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...
on Jan 23
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Israel in the Dock: The Scouraging of Gaza: Diary of a Genocidal War
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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...
on Jan 23
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Friends and Comrades, We reprint below the excellent statement of UNAC (United National Antiwar Coalition) once again condemning the Zionist, racist, apartheid, illegitimate state of Israel and its historic persecution, subjugation and occupation of Palestine. Today, tens and hundreds of...
on Jan 21
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Naomi Klein’s “Doppelganger” – Dystopia Without an Exit Strategy
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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...
on Jan 7
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Dissecting Israel’s Big Lie(s)
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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...
on Jan 6