U.S. commits war crimes in Gaza
While spokespersons for the U.S. government cynically condemned the July 29 Israeli shelling of a United Nations school in Gaza that was being used to shelter 3,300 civilians, the Pentagon opened up...
View ArticleDetroit rallies for Rasmea Odeh, Palestine
Two public actions in solidarity with Palestinians were held on July 31 in the Detroit metropolitan area. A hearing in federal court for Rasmea Odeh, a 67-year-old Palestinian-American woman who lives...
View ArticleRemember the Tonkin Gulf lie!
Aug. 4 is the 50th anniversary of the infamous Gulf of Tonkin incident. On that day in 1964, officers of a destroyer, the USS Maddox, which had been gathering intelligence data in North Vietnamese...
View ArticleSolidarity with Palestinian people
By Professor Jose Maria Sison Chairperson, International League of the Peoples’ Struggle Aug. 7 — We, the International League of People’s Struggle (ILPS), renew our call to all our member...
View ArticleAn assassination that announced World War I
July 31 — One hundred years ago today a brutal assassination announced the outbreak of World War I. No, it was not the killing in Sarajevo of Archduke Ferdinand, representative of the Austro-Hungarian...
View ArticleGaza slaughter exposes Democrats
If your eyes weren’t open to the true role of the Democratic Party, the Israeli military’s slaughter of Palestinian civilians should have snapped them wide open. As stunning photos and videos of the...
View ArticleFrom Gaza to the Bronx: We charge genocide
This article is dedicated to the honor and memory of the Four Little Footballers: Mohammed Bakr (11), Ahed Bakr (11), Zakariya Bakr (10) and Ismail Bakr (9). As I have seen the barrage of Twitter and...
View ArticleU.S. reopens war on Iraq
Aug. 11 — President Barack Obama has now become the fourth successive U.S. president to order the bombing of Iraq, this time with a “humanitarian” pretext. But it soon became clear that Obama’s...
View ArticleAction set to blockade Israeli ship in Oakland, Calif.
San Francisco Bay Area people and organizations in solidarity with Gaza announced “a massive and powerful ‘Boat Blockade’ for Aug. 16 to block the Israeli Zim ship from unloading in Oakland!”...
View ArticleSolidarity with Ukraine anti-fascists at NY Gaza march
Workers World Party and International Action Center activists spoke out in solidarity with the Donbass resistance and anti-fascist fighters in Ukraine at the Aug. 9 “World Stands with Gaza” march in...
View ArticleBlock the boat for Gaza stops Israeli Zim ship
Oakland, Calif. — Some 5,000 determined protesters marched almost a mile and a half from the West Oakland Bay Area Rapid Transit station to the SSA Marine terminal in the Port of Oakland on Aug. 16....
View ArticleRacism, PTSD and righteous rage
The following is based on a speech given at a disabled rights meeting in Boston on July 26. Imperato, a Vietnam veteran transgender activist, is a member of Paralyzed Veterans of America and the...
View ArticleThousands turn back Israeli ship from Oakland port
Press release from the Block the Boat Coalition, Aug. 19. For four days straight the San Francisco Bay Area community blocked the Israeli ZIM ship from unloading at the Port of Oakland. And today, we...
View ArticlePalestine solidarity with Ferguson struggle
What follows are excerpts from an introductory statement by Rana Baker followed by the full text of a Palestinian solidarity message to the people of Ferguson, Mo. To read Baker’s entire introduction...
View ArticleU.S. expands military role in Iraq
Aug. 18 — This morning the Iraqi government forces claimed they had retaken control of the Mosul Dam in northern Iraq from the Islamic State fighters. The Iraqi army is reportedly fighting in alliance...
View ArticleJury acquits anti-drone protester
Syracuse, N.Y. — A six-person jury acquitted anti-drone protester Russell Brown on July 31 in an East Syracuse, N.Y., court of all charges after he testified about how current U.S. murderous drone...
View ArticleWest Coast activists block Zionist ships
Oakland, Calif., Aug. 24 — The action to stop the Israeli ship Zim from unloading at the Port of Oakland, initially planned as a one-day event, became a movement. Originally organized by Block the Boat...
View ArticleUkraine photo exhibit: Suffering and resistance in the Donbass
Huntington, N.Y. — “Ukraine: Behind the Red Line,” a photographic display of the war in Ukraine, documents the devastation of the lives of the people in the Donbass region as well as the organized...
View ArticleGaza — political victory for Palestine
Israel’s failure to divide, disarm or defeat the heroic resistance in Gaza is seen by all currents of the Palestinian liberation movement as their historic political victory. This is the overwhelming...
View Article‘Behind the Red Line’ highlights human suffering of U.S.-backed war
The following is an International Action Center news release of Sept. 4. A dramatic exhibit of 40 photos by Russian and Ukrainian journalists showcasing the destruction and human suffering caused by...
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