Articles
Storming of the Capitol – The U.S. Far Right in the Spotlight
This is an overview of the various far-right groups that were involved in the storming of the Capitol. …
Further Reading
Further Reading
The COVID-19 Pandemic: a Summary of Its Impact in the U.S.
Globally, as of this writing in mid-December 2020, there have been more than 72 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 (number constantly rising), with over 1.6 million deaths. The U.S. accounts for about 19 percent of these deaths, while comprising 4 percent of the world population. …
Further Reading
U.S. “Democracy”: A Dictatorship of the Rich
Some claim that the solution to ending the control of the rich over the system is to get money out of politics and demand more transparency. But how would this work, when the entire system serves the interests of the rich? We need a system that operates in the interest of the majority, not the interest of a small exploiting capitalist class. While the wealthy may own everything, working people are the ones who make it all run. That is where our power lies, in the workplaces and in the streets, not in the ballot box. …
In Brief
Get Your Knee Off Our Necks: March on Washington
We must be the generation to decide we will end systemic racism and save our planet. …
Environment
Hurricane Laura: A Climate Change Disaster
Climate change is leading to stronger, deadlier hurricanes. …
In Brief
Assumed Innocence and Guilt – A Matter of Race
Murdering Black boys with toy guns but letting far-right vigilantes kill protesters is not justice. …
Articles
The United States: An Awakening Decades in the Making
The brutal murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis cops turned out to be the last straw for hundreds of thousands of people in the United States. …
Articles
Biden’s Climate Plan Won’t Save Us
Joe Biden recently announced his policy proposals for addressing climate change. So what does this supposedly revolutionary plan entail? …
Articles
Removing Racist Team Names is Long Over Due: What’s Next?
For nearly ninety years, Native Americans have protested that a racist slur was the name and mascot of the Washington, D.C. NFL team …
Environment
South Pole Warming Three Times Faster Than the Rest of the Earth
The South Pole is warming at a rate three times faster than the rest of the globe. …
In Brief
Walk Out at Whole Foods: Standing Up for Black Lives!
Workers at a Whole Foods in MA staged a walkout on July 1 to protest management’s decision to not allow employees to wear Black Lives Matter masks …
Articles
Bringing down the Statues that Glorify Racism
people across the country are focusing their anger on tearing down and demanding the removal of monuments and other symbols of the Confederacy …
Environment
Climate Change Sets a Scary Record in Siberia
On June 20, the city of Verkhoyansk in Siberia hit a record high temperature over 100 degrees. …
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Socialism 101 Series
Presentations by Speak Out Now activists introducing a range of topics relating to socialism, capitalism, …
Articles
We Must Go Beyond Defunding the Police
The question in front of us is whether we look to others for reforms or whether we stay mobilized and look to ourselves? …
Articles
Corporations Try to Exploit the Black Lives Matter Movement
In response to massive protests, riots, and ongoing fights against racist police brutality, companies and banks are posting public relations messages …
Articles
This Whole Racist System is Guilty!
Ever since racist Minneapolis cops murdered George Floyd, protests have erupted in thousands of cities …
Articles
We Are at a Turning Point – But Which Way Will We Turn?
All the pent up anger, all the weeks of being stuck at home, all the worry about getting sick, all the economic hardship, all the anxiety about the future, combined with the history of systemic racism dating back to slavery led to a response that exploded into the streets. …
Articles
2020 is on Track to be the Hottest Year in Human History
This year we will surpass 418 parts per million of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere …
Articles
Capitalism Drives Extinctions, but We Can Stop It
Climate disruption is just one of the ways human life is threatened due to the massive destruction to the environment …
Articles
Democrats Do NOTHING but Wring their Hands
What do the Democrats propose in response to the police murder of George Floyd? NOTHING. …
Editorials
Racism Must Be Opposed by All of Us!
In cities around the U.S. people took to the streets to express outrage over George …
Articles
Cyclone Amphan: Not a “Natural” Disaster
Super Cyclone Amphan devastated parts of Bangladesh and India last week. …
Articles
The 2019 Oakland Teachers’ Strike – A Reflection and Analysis
The Oakland teachers strike of 2019 was part of a nationwide movement to defend public education. …
Articles
Green Capitalism Won’t Save Us
Environmental activists around the world are calling for a “Green Recovery” after the coronavirus pandemic ends, to address the even larger crisis looming over us: climate change. …
Articles
COVID-19 Isn’t Racist, but the System Is!
Why are people of color getting and dying from COVID-19 at higher rates than white people? …
Articles
The Sanders Phenomenon: Its Origins and Prospects
Sanders promises his victory could solve many problems working people face. But this is a fantasy. …
Environment
The Climate Emergency (September, 2019)
Climate scientists have warned us that we are facing a planetary emergency which threatens the survival of most species on the planet. Yet the world’s most powerful governments and corporations insist on staying the same catastrophic course. …
Articles
Capitalism & Socialism
We live in a time of extreme contradictions. On the one hand, our civilization has eliminated smallpox, brought us cell phones, robotics, and space travel, and boasts immense resources and wealth. …
Articles
The U.S. Border Crisis: A Crisis of the Capitalist System
The capitalist system has created an international crisis of displaced people due to a convergence of factors. …
Further Reading
A History of the Democratic Party – From Slavery to Obama: Loyal Defenders of Capitalism
download illustrated PDF of this pamphlet Originally written and published by Speak Out Now in …
Articles
1968 – Be Realistic, Demand the Impossible!
There are certain years that are pivotal in history, when cataclysmic changes in consciousness take place and this paradigm shift spreads contagiously. …
Articles
A Society Based On Violence!
We are right to question the violence of our society, where mass shooting and brutality …
Articles
The Russian Revolution of 1917
Russian workers led the people of Russia in an effort to build a better world, and they reached out to help the rest of the international working class to do the same …
Pamphlets
The Paris Commune, 1871: When the Working Class Seized Power for the First Time
In 1871 the workers of Paris were “ready to storm heaven.” …
Pamphlets
What Socialist America Will Look Like
We Marxists conceive of socialism, not as an arbitrary scheme of society to be constructed from a preconceived plan, but as the next stage of social evolution. …
Articles
The Strike at River Rouge: Detroit 1941
In 1941, tens of thousands of auto workers at the Ford River Rouge complex in Dearborn, Michigan, overcame many obstacles to build a union from the bottom up …
Pamphlets
The 1912 Bread and Roses Strike, Lawrence Massachusetts
In 1912, in the city of Lawrence, Massachusetts, 25,000 workers went on strike. …
Environment
Imagine an Environmentally Conscious Civilization – Socialism
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything …
Environment
The Earth Is Not Theirs To Destroy!
Global Warming and Global Climate Change Is Global Warming Real? Yes it’s real. There is …
Leaflets
An Injury To One Is An Injury To All!
Many immigrants are nervous about immigration policies under the Trump administration. Trump has proposed cutting …
Pamphlets
Why Socialism – by Albert Einstein
An essay written by Albert Einstein in May, 1949 …
Environment
Fracking – Another Sign of an Insane System
download a .pdf of this pamphlet updated Aug. 2018 Hydraulic fracturing, also known as “fracking,” …
Articles
Racism – A Cancer of This Society
We live in a society based on divisions. The main division, which is hardly ever …
Pamphlets
The 1934 Minneapolis General Strike
The Minneapolis strikes of 1934 have always occupied a special place in the historical understanding of the Trotskyist movement …
Articles
The Origins of the Police
For most of human history, daily issues of society were settled by people themselves, in …
Articles
A Nation of Mass Incarceration
The US has the largest prison population in the world. With five percent of the …
Environment
Climate Change? No! We Need a System Change!
There have been five major extinction events on earth where most of the larger plant …
Leaflets
Racism – A Cancer of This Society
We live in a society based on divisions. The main division, which is hardly ever …
Articles
The Environmental Crisis – The Problem is Capitalism
download illustrated PDF of this pamphlet Contents Fighting For Our Planet – Fighting For A …
