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Socialist Action Newspaper

 

Socialist Action is a dynamic newspaper that has been arriving in workers’ mailboxes and finding its ways into the hands of countless activists at protests, street corners and plant gates every single month since 1983.  For information on how to get a subscription, click here.  Below is a sampling of articles that have recently appeared in our newspaper.

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January 2010 Issue:

 

U.S. Brokers Sham Accord at Copenhagen Climate Talks

http://www.socialistaction.org/frank12.htm

 

Health ‘Reform’ Bill – A Bonanza for Insurance Corporations

http://www.socialistaction.org/pollack72.htm

 

Civilian Casualties Soar as U.S. Wages Terror War in Afghanistan

http://www.socialistaction.org/schreiber7.htm

 

Activists Try to Break the Israeli-Egyptian Siege of Gaza

http://www.socialistaction.org/pollack73.htm

 

Death Squads Unleashed in Honduras

http://www.socialistaction.org/wadena4.htm

 

Copenhagen is a Turning Point for the Movement

http://www.socialistaction.org/conway1.htm

 

Reformers Win Leadership of Two Teamster Locals

http://www.socialistaction.org/bernt7.htm

 

Chavez Calls for a Fifth International

http://www.socialistaction.org/foley147.htm

 

Two New Trotsky Biographies: Biased, Inaccurate, Superficial

http://www.socialistaction.org/auciello45.htm

 

U.S. Marines vs. Avatars

http://www.socialistaction.org/caldwell-smith49.htm

 

Hal Verb 1931-2009

http://www.socialistaction.org/schreiber8.htm

 

Northern Lights

http://www.socialistaction.org/nl8.htm

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December 2009 Issue:

 

Obama Escalates the Afghan War

http://www.socialistaction.org/foley145.htm

 

U.S. Occupation of Iraq has Achieved Chaos & Ruin

http://www.socialistaction.org/foley146.htm

 

Antiwar Movement Protests Obama’s War Escalation

http://www.socialistaction.org/mackler41.htm

 

Lynne Stewart Jailed; Appeals Court Extends Sentence

http://www.socialistaction.org/mackler42.htm

 

Obama & Congress Softpedal Jobs Crisis While Bankrolling Big Corporations

http://www.socialistaction.org/pollack71.htm

 

Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Kevin Cooper’s Appeal

http://www.socialistaction.org/doran15.htm

 

UC Students & Workers Protest Fee Hikes and Layoffs

http://www.socialistaction.org/simons2.htm

 

International Solidarity With SME Needed Urgently

http://www.socialistaction.org/editors20.htm

 

Honduran Congress Rejects Zelaya Return

http://www.socialistaction.org/wadena3.htm

 

Glen Ford Speech at the Black is Back Rally

http://www.socialistaction.org/ford1.htm

 

Mobilizations Needed to Save Mumia!

http://www.socialistaction.org/towne3.htm

 

Climate Change is on Course for a ‘Worst-Case’ Disaster

http://www.socialistaction.org/editors21.htm

 

Bissell Workers Fight for Their Jobs

http://www.socialistaction.org/bernt6.htm

 

Northern Lights

http://www.socialistaction.org/nl7.htm

 

Socialist Action Candidate Gets Positive Response in Minneapolis

http://www.socialistaction.org/perry1.htm

 

‘The Lacuna’ – Novel Gives Vivid Account of Trotsky in Exile

http://www.socialistaction.org/sack8.htm

 

The Bad News Bearers

http://www.socialistaction.org/caldwell-smith48.htm

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November 2009 Issue:

 

Taliban Expands War to Wider Region Despite U.S. Surge

http://www.socialistaction.org/foley144.htm

 

October Anti-War Rallies

http://www.socialistaction.org/editors19.htm

 

Oct. 17 Anti-War Protests Take Place in Over 50 Cities

http://www.socialistaction.org/pollack17.htm

 

Interview with Zoya of RAWA

http://www.socialistaction.org/zoya1.htm

 

Participants in Boston’s Oct. 17 Rally Speak Out

http://www.socialistaction.org/misc2.htm

 

Troy Labor Council Calls for March

http://www.socialistaction.org/troy1.htm

 

Honduran Mass Movement: ‘Nobody Here Surrenders!’

http://www.socialistaction.org/wadena2.htm

 

Black is Back Protest on Nov. 7

http://www.socialistaction.org/wadena1.htm

 

Mumia’s Life in Danger as Supreme Court Decides Spisak Case

http://www.socialistaction.org/mackler40.htm

 

200,000 March on Washington for LGBT Rights

http://www.socialistaction.org/rome3.htm

 

Union-Busters Close Stella D’Oro Factory

http://www.socialistaction.org/goodman33.htm

 

Friedrich Engels Book Review

http://www.socialistaction.org/auciello43.htm

 

Community Out Mobilizes Hate Group in Minneapolis

http://www.socialistaction.org/luinenburg2.htm

 

Bipartisan Statements Embolden Anti-Abortion Forces

http://www.socialistaction.org/marie4.htm

 

No Close Encounters

http://www.socialistaction.org/caldwell-smith47.htm

 

Kinder, Gentler Capitalism?

http://www.socialistaction.org/auciello44.htm

 

UC Students Mobilize

http://www.socialistaction.org/simons1.htm

 

CCSU Students & Staff Rally Against Racism

http://www.socialistaction.org/ccsu1.htm

 

Northern Lights – News & Views from SA/Canada

http://www.socialistaction.org/nl6.htm

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October 2009 Issue:

 

Join the Oct. 17 Anti-War Protests

http://www.socialistaction.org/reid1.htm

 

Supporters of LGBT Rights March on Washington

http://www.socialistaction.org/rome2.htm

 

Red-Baiting Against SA & the Anti-War Movement

http://www.socialistaction.org/mackler39.htm

 

Canada’s Medicare System Provides Lessons for U.S. Debate

http://www.socialistaction.org/weisleder45.htm

 

U.S. Afghanistan Strategy Nears the End of the Road

http://www.socialistaction.org/foley143.htm

 

Rightist D.C. Mobilization Poses Grave Threat to Working People

http://www.socialistaction.org/editors18.htm

 

Stella D’Oro Workers Face October Shutdown

http://www.socialistaction.org/goodman32.htm

 

SK Hand Tool Workers Strike

http://www.socialistaction.org/bernt5.htm

 

Duluth Restaurant Workers Defeat Union-Busting Campaign

http://www.socialistaction.org/ritscher18.htm

 

Northern Lights

http://www.socialistaction.org/nl5.htm

 

Education We Can Believe In

http://www.socialistaction.org/auciello42.htm

 

Strangers vs. Prisoners

http://www.socialistaction.org/caldwell-smith46.htm

 

University of California Students Walk Out

http://www.socialistaction.org/kilpatrick1.htm

 

Stop Death Threats Against Militant Trade Unionists in Columbia

http://www.socialistaction.org/litci1.htm

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September 2009 Issue:

 

Casualties Mount in Iraq & Afghanistan

http://www.socialistaction.org/foley142.htm

 

Workers Employ Sit-Ins as Job Losses Mount Worldwide

http://www.socialistaction.org/pollack69.htm

 

Health-Care ‘Reform’ Schemes in Congress: Bailouts for the Insurance Industry

http://www.socialistaction.org/coates1.htm

 

Climate Change Intensifies as Fossil-Fuel Emissions Rise

http://www.socialistaction.org/frank10.htm

 

World Leaders Stall Endlessly in Tackling Climate Change

http://www.socialistaction.org/frank11.htm

 

Negative Externality

http://www.socialistaction.org/onasch21.htm

 

U.S. Supreme Court Takes Sides

http://www.socialistaction.org/auciello40.htm

 

Sen. Edward Kennedy and the Limits of Liberalism

http://www.socialistaction.org/auciello41.htm

 

A First for Toyota

http://www.socialistaction.org/onasch22.htm

 

The Real Deciders

http://www.socialistaction.org/caldwell-smith45.htm

 

NDP Brass Treads Water in Halifax

http://www.socialistaction.org/nl4.htm

 

‘Skip,’ Nadra and the Philadelphia Grand Jury

http://www.socialistaction.org/mumia13.htm

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August 2009 Issue:

 

Pittsburg Antiwar Conference Demands “Out Now!”

http://www.sociailstaction.org/lombardo1.htm

 

Medical Aid Convoy Breaks Gaza Blockade

http://www.socialistaction.org/pollack68.htm

 

Israel Becoming a Pariah as Atrocities Come to Light

http://www.socialistaction.org/foley140.htm

 

Obama Orders ‘Softer’ Tactics in Anti-Immigrant Crackdown

http://www.socialistaction.org/luinenburg1.htm

 

Supreme Court Ruling on Firefighters Case Setback for Affirmative Action

http://www.socialistaction.org/dempsey1.htm

 

Prof. Gates and the “Teachable Moment”

http://www.socialistaction.org/auciello39.htm

 

Iraq Today: 5 Million Orphans

http://www.socialistaction.org/zaineb1.htm

 

The Rules of ‘Disengagement’

http://www.socialistaction.org/caldwell-smith44.htm

 

Northern Lights

http://www.socialistaction.org/nl3.htm

 

Historic 1934 Minneapolis Strike Commemorated

http://www.socialistaction.org/editors17.htm

 

Mumia Commentar: Nada for Gaza

http://www.socialistaction.org/mumia12.htm

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July 2009 Issue:

 

Solidarity With the People of Iran!  U.S. Hands Off Iran!

http://www.socialistaction.org/statement5.htm

 

Iranian Clericalist Regime Shaken by Mass Protests

http://www.socialistaction.org/foley138.htm

 

Obama Backed Agreement at GM Capped by Layoffs

http://www.socialistaction.org/goodman29.htm

 

Support the General Strike in Honduras!

http://www.socialistaction.org/frickey6.htm

 

Iraq War Intensifies as U.S. & Maliki Government Declare “Victory”

http://www.socialistaction.org/mackler37.htm

 

Supreme Court Rejects Review of Cuban Five Case

http://www.socialistaction.org/mackler38.htm

 

CT Forum Discusses Strategy in Abortion Rights Movement

http://www.socialistaction.org/marie3.htm

 

Labor Briefing

http://www.socialistaction.org/laborbriefing1.htm

 

Right Wing v. Judge Sotomayor

http://www.socialistaction.org/auciello38.htm

 

Sri Lankan Government Wages War of Annihilation Against Tamil Nationalism

http://www.socialistaction.org/foley139.htm

 

Supreme Court Rejects Kevin Cooper Appeal

http://www.socialistaction.org/doran14.htm

 

Father Gerard Jean-Juste: A Haitian Hero Dies

http://www.socialistaction.org/goodman30.htm

 

Northern Lights: News & Views From Canada

http://www.socialistaction.org/nl2.htm

 

Commentaries by Mumia Abu-Jamal

http://www.socialistaction.org/mumia11.htm

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June 2009 Issue:

 

Congress Votes $96 Billion More for Obama’s Wars

http://www.socialistaction.org/editors16.htm

 

White House Health-Care ‘Reforms’ Favor Drug & Insurance Companies

http://www.socialistaction.org/pollack67.htm

 

Auto Troika Says Goodbye to Thousands of Their Worker ‘Partners’

http://www.socialistaction.org/onasch20.htm

 

Hartmarx Workers Approve Plant Sit-In

http://www.socialistaction.org/bernt3.htm

 

Do ‘Buy American’ Schemes Work to Protect U.S. Jobs?

http://www.socialistaction.org/bernt4.htm

 

California Court Upholds Same-Sex Marriage Ban

http://www.socialistaction.org/rome1.htm

 

The Mumia Exception

http://www.socialistaction.org/oconnor1.htm

 

Rally Demands Justice in Fong Lee Killing

http://www.socialistaction.org/jones7.htm

 

CT Students & Faculty Protest Speech by Lyndon LaRouche

http://www.socialistaction.org/marie2.htm

 

Articles on Sri Lanka

http://www.socialistaction.org/misc1.htm

 

Teach-In Demands: “Bail Out Working People – Not Banks!”

http://www.socialistaction.org/mackler36.htm

 

A 3-D Message for Peace

http://www.socialistaction.org/caldwell-smith43.htm

 

Fooling the People

http://www.socialistaction.org/auciello37.htm

 

Northern Lights: News & Views From Canada

http://www.socialistaction.org/nl1.htm

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May 2009 Issue:

 

Obama & Auto Bosses Slam Chrysler, GM Workers

http://www.socialistaction.org/goodman26.htm

 

On the Chrysler Contract

http://www.socialistaction.org/goodman27.htm

 

Employers Use Crisis to Get Union Concessions

http://www.socialistaction.org/bernt2.htm

 

Taliban Advance in Pakistan Creates Dilemma for U.S.

http://www.socialistaction.org/foley137.htm

 

Is the Economic Crisis Winding Down?

http://www.socialistaction.org/pollack66.htm

 

When is a Withdrawal Not a Withdrawal?

http://www.socialistaction.org/foley135.htm

 

Socialist Student Fired From Campus Journal for Political Activism

http://www.socialistaction.org/marie1.htm

 

Who is Weaker Than a Child?

http://www.socialistaction.org/auciello36.htm

 

Can King Coal Clean Up Its Act?

http://www.socialistaction.org/onasch19.htm

 

Obama’s First 100 Days

http://www.socialistaction.org/allen1.htm

 

Boycott Stella D’oro

http://www.socialistaction.org/goodman28.htm

 

Working Class Paris: The Musical

http://www.socialistaction.org/caldwell-smith42.htm

 

Report on the May Day Protests

http://www.socialistaction.org/reporters1.htm

 

Northern Lights May ‘09: News & Views From SA/Canada

http://www.socialistaction.org/ca107.htm

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April 2009 Issue:

 

Thousands Protest Obama’s Wars

http://www.socialistaction.org/mackler34.htm

 

A Strong, Spirited D.C. March

http://www.socialistaction.org/leslie5.htm

 

Democrats Play ‘Soft Cop’ on Immigration Reforms

http://www.socialistaction.org/frickey5.htm

 

Fund Workers’ Needs, Not Banks & Billionaires!

http://www.socialistaction.org/pollack63.htm

 

Outcry Over AIG Bailout: What’s the Solution?

http://www.socialistaction.org/pollack64.htm

 

Washington Subsidizes Toxic Assets Purchases

http://www.socialistaction.org/pollack65.htm

 

Socialist Action Convention Registers Important Gains

http://www.socialistaction.org/freeman1.htm

 

Evidence Mounts of Israeli Atrocities in Gaza Invasion

http://www.socialistaction.org/foley136.htm

 

Employee Free Choice Act – Pluses and Pitfalls

http://www.socialistaction.org/bernt1.htm

 

Angry Public Workers Protest New York City Cuts

http://www.socialistaction.org/goodman25.htm

 

New Ontario NDP Leader ‘Winks’ Left

http://www.socialistaction.org/ca106.htm

 

U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Mumia’s Appeal

http://www.socialistaction.org/mackler35.htm

 

Between Two World

http://www.socialistaction.org/caldwell-smith41.htm

 

Will the FMLN Bring Needed Change to El Salvador?

http://www.socialistaction.org/lamas1.htm

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