Socialism

A Manifesto for our times… The Challenge to abolish SYSTEMIC RACISM

October 2, 2020 UNAC Editor Racism

Statement from Socialist Action Massive opposition to SYSTEMIC RACISM… a racism and the inseparable generalized social inequality that permeate every institution in U.S. society, are the only serious explanations for the magnificent, unprecedented, defiant daily multi-racial mass mobilizations in 2000+ U.S. cities and towns. In the face of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic and police repression courageous millions have taken to[…]

Examining the Wreckage White Supremacy and Imperialism Have Wrought

August 14, 2020 UNAC Editor Capitalism, Native American Genocide

by Nick Estes and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, published on Black Agenda Report, August 5, 2019 Indigenous and African resistance and intellectual traditions provide key insights to the very nature of capitalism and how it has unfolded throughout space and time. “The young people in the streets are true revolutionary theoreticians, moving history along, sometimes at speeds that feel daunting.” The United[…]

Weapons of Mass Incompetence

June 5, 2020 UNAC Editor Political Prisoners, Public Health

These slightly edited remarks were given April 24 at the “U.S. Empire vs. Political Prisoners” webinar teach-in sponsored by Mobilization4Mumia and held in honor of the 66th birthday of political prisoner and revolutionary Mumia Abu-Jamal. by Vijay Prashad, published on Workers World, May 19, 2020 We are in Corona shock. The bourgeois order has become a prison. We are in[…]

The Social and Cultural Accomplishments of the Sandinista Model in Nicaragua

June 4, 2020 UNAC Editor Democracy, Nicaragua

by the Nicaraguan Government, published on TeleSUR English, May 29, 2020 In the entire history of Nicaragua, it is only with the two governments of the Sandinista Front, that the popular interests of the great majority, that are poor, have been prioritized. The strength of the Sandinista Model is based on characteristics and results. The characteristics are that the FSLN[…]

A Tale of Two Cruise Ships – It Matters Where You Land

April 27, 2020 UNAC Editor Cuba, Public Health, Socialism

by Tim Anderson, published on The American Herald Tribune, April 26. 2020 On 19 March two cruise ships with COVID19 infected passengers and crew were evacuated, one in Havana and the other in Sydney. The first evacuation, of the Braemar, was so successful and uneventful that it barely raised a ripple in the world media. The second, of the Ruby[…]

Diseased System in a Shut-Lockdown, Never a Better Time to Fight for Socialism

April 26, 2020 UNAC Editor Austerity, Capitalism, Economics, Medicare for All, Political Analysis, Public Health

by Glen Ford, Published on Black Agenda Report, April 23, 2020 The current health and economic crisis will dramatically accelerate the processes of corporate monopolization, finance capital dictatorship, and working class precarity and immiseration. The only cure is socialism. “The duopoly parties’ refusal to establish a national health care system, beginning with Medicare for All, can only be understood in[…]

Climate Change and COVID-19 on Earth Day 2020

April 21, 2020 UNAC Editor Climate Change, Connecting the Dots, Environment, Toxic Chemicals

By Betsey Piette posted on Workers World, April 16, 2020 If there is a silver lining to be found in the horrific coronavirus pandemic, it may be that major industrial countries are reporting unprecedented drops in air pollution levels. This is due to measures taken to stem the spread of COVID-19, including widespread factory shutdowns and radically reduced vehicular and[…]

Cuban Solidarity Combats the Pandemic From Italy to Angola

April 18, 2020 UNAC Editor Cuba, Healthcare, Public Health, Socialism

by Kathy Durkin, published on Workers World, April 15, 2020 What country can always be counted on to show international solidarity and provide concrete aid in a crisis? The people of the world know that it is socialist Cuba. It has shown the world what solidarity means, sending multiple medical teams around the globe to help in humanitarian crises. This[…]

Capitalism Is the Virus! Bail Out Working People, Not the Corporate Elite!

April 3, 2020 UNAC Editor Economic Collapse, Economics, Healthcare, Public Health, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Socialism

by Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action. The U.S. Senate’s March 25, $2 trillion 97-0, COVID-19 corporate bailout vote gifted the ruling rich an amount never exceeded in world history. The overwhelming portion went directly to the coffers of the billionaire elite for whom the lives of literally millions of Americans are subordinate to their horror at seeing their casino[…]

This Is the Time for Solidarity, Not Stigma

February 11, 2020 UNAC Editor China, Healthcare

Vijay presents some perspectives on China’s handling of the Coronavirus crisis that you are likely unaware of. He goes on to make some comparisons with other socialist and communist countries’ medical investment. (jb) by Vijay Prashad, published in Tricontinental Institute for Research Newsletter, February 2020 n December 2019, several people began to develop infections in Wuhan (People’s Republic of China);[…]