he following was published at Liberation News, the official newspaper website of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, on April 4th, 2016:
Originally published in the April 2016 issue of Liberation Newspaper.
The Clinton campaign always points to her years of “foreign policy experience” as proof of her presidential qualifications.… Read more ...
Supreme Court: When are supervisors not supervisors?
When they are racist/sexist and company wants to avoid liability
By Jeff Bigelow
Defining when someone is a supervisor and when they are not may seem like a ridiculous word game when by “common sense” everyone knows what a supervisor is.
Pushing the mentally ill into prisons
Conditions of an earlier era return
By Mallory Fites
The following is based on a talk given at a forum organized by the ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) on June 5 at the Sol Collective in Sacramento, Calif.
Two victories for marriage equality in Supreme Court decisions
DOMA declared unconstitutional and California’s Prop 8 struck down
The author is an attorney, author, and professor at the George Washington University.
Manteca, Calif., action marks second anniversary of police killing
Duenez family continues struggle for justice for their son
By William West
Photo: Toya Mileno
June 9 was the second anniversary of the killing of Ernest Duenez Jr. by Manteca police officer John Moody.
Victim of Sacramento police brutality dies in custody
Video of John Torretti’s beating spreads
JUNE 6, 2013
The following article was previously published on the website of the ANSWER Coalition.
On May 24 the Sacramento police were called to a Metro PCS cell phone store because John Torretti, age 42, was allegedly speaking “unintelligibly” and scaring a store employee.
‘Bradley Manning is a hero!’
Thousands march for whistleblower on eve of trial
JUNE 4, 2013
On June 1, demonstrations occurred across the country to mark the fourth year of Pfc. Bradley Manning’s imprisonment and the start of his trial for exposing war crimes perpetrated abroad by the U.S.
Protest in LA demands: ‘Hands of Syria’
Rally against U.S./Israeli intervention
JUNE 14, 2013
This article was previously published on the website of the ANSWER Coalition.
On June 8, activists rallied outside the United States Federal Building in Los Angeles against U.S. and Israeli intervention in Syria.
Russian Duma criminalizes LGBT movement
Legislature endorses anti-gay violence
Russian riot police detain gay activists at a rally in central Moscow.
Photo: Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP
On June 11, the Russian parliament, or Duma, passed a bill by a vote of 436-0 that criminalizes organizing for LGBT equality.
The following are videos that have been released in the last month or so from the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL).
A Socialist Analysis of Women’s Oppression (by 2012 presidential candidate Peta Lindsay)
Socialists and War: Two Opposing Trends
The Struggle for Full Immigrant Rights
Organizing Soldiers and Marines Refuse to fight in Afghanistan
U.S. government: Greatest obstacle to international action on global warming
Capitalism stands in the way of climate change remedies
By the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL)
MAY 31, 2013
Global day of action against Monsanto a big success
Creative actions protest agribusiness monopoly and its GMOs in more than 400 cities
MAY 27, 2013
This article was previously published on the website of the ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism).
Activists from the ANSWER Coalition and the Party for Socialism and Liberation, a member organization of ANSWER, participated in many of the Monsanto protests across the country May 25, part of the global day of action in more than 400 cities.