Statement against banning the veil: Socialist Resistance UK (A statement for Socialist Resistance, British section of the Fourth International, against the rise of Islamophobia in Europe. This is especially of interest to us here in the US given the stoking of Islamophobic hysteria by the ultraright. Socialists defend the rights of all the oppressed, including the right of Muslims to… [Read more…]
August 22, 2010
Pakistan must refuse foreign debt repayments, divert amount for relief & rehabilitation of flood-hit communities Labour Party Pakistan.”> Farooq Tariq Labour Relief Campaign is a network of 8 social and political organization of Pakistan that include National Trade Union Federation, Women Workers Help Line, Progressive Youth Front, Labour Party Pakistan, Pakistan For Palestine, CADTM Pakistan,… [Read more…]
August 21, 2010
Message from Jeff Mackler, National Secretary, Socialist Action, U.S. fraternal section of the Fourth International (founded by Leon Trotsky), and from Barry Weisleder, Federal Secretary, Socialist Action / Ligue pour l’Action socialiste, in solidarity with the Fourth International in Canadian state. Comrades and friends, Please accept our deepest apologies for not being with you on… [Read more…]
August 19, 2010
SOCIALISTS ANSWER JUSTIN RAIMONDO’S ATTACKS By MICHAEL SCHREIBER The author is the editor of Socialist Action newspaper (www.socialistaction.org). Justin Raimondo, a contributor to numerous ultra-right media outlets and editorial director of the mis-named “Antiwar.com,” has now chosen a new target for his diatribes. At the end of July and early August, for… [Read more…]
August 15, 2010
Immigrant rights activist Cristobal Cavazos speaking at a Socialist Action forum in Philadelphia, PA on 8/14/10 The struggle for immigrant rights Part 2 The struggle for immigrant rights Part 3 The struggle for immigrant rights Part 4 Also, Daryle Lamont Jenkins (One People’s Project) on the role of white nationalists/white supremacists in the anti-immigration movement. Speaking at a Socialist… [Read more…]
August 12, 2010
Support the Leon Trotsky Museum August 2010 issue of Socialist Action newspaper The Trotsky Museum, in Coyoacán (part of Mexico City), has announced an ambitious expansion program. Plans are to restore and enlarge the museum, including the house and garden where Leon Trotsky spent the last period of his life, and add other facilities for… [Read more…]
August 10, 2010
The antiwar movement is not stalled, but reawakening Antiwar activist Christine Gauvreau answers Justin Raimondo’s red-baiting attack on the movement. BY CHRISTINE GAUVREAU Right-wing ideologue Justin Raimondo’s article “Why is the Antiwar Movement Stalled? In Two Words: the Left” (antiwar.com, July 27, 2010) demonstrates very clearly that for the far right, or what is euphemistically… [Read more…]
August 9, 2010
The struggle for immigrant rights and social justice Speakers: Cristobal Cavazos, Immigrant Solidarity Dupage (Chicago area) and Grassroots Immigrant Justice Network Other speaker TBA The struggle for a comprehensive and fair immigration reform has been waged for years. The Democratic Party and Obama have promised a reform that is fair to all immigrant workers.… [Read more…]
August 2, 2010
from cepr.net Extending Unemployment Compensation has to be just the first step By JOHN LESLIE Some of the first victims of the austerity drive in Washington are our weaker friends and neighbors, the unemployed. The mainstream media has picked up the narrative of some rightist politicians that there really are jobs out there,… [Read more…]
August 26, 2010
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