The Strike in West Virginia – An Example for us All
On Thursday, February 22, teachers in two of West Virginia’s fifty-five counties walked out. By Monday, March 1, schools shut down state-wide. Thousands of teachers and staff rallied in Charleston demanding raises and protesting increases in healthcare premiums. Eight days later, the Republican-dominated state government capitulated, granting a 5% raise to all state employees. The […]
Trump’s Budget Declares War at Home and Abroad
The Trump administration’s budget for 2019 is a declaration of war on poor and working people all over the world and in the U.S. The $4.4 trillion budget proposes a combination of further increases in military spending, more tax cuts to the super rich, and cuts to working families and the poor – all in […]
Martin Luther King Jr., April 1968 and Our Struggle Today
In early April 1968, fifty years ago this month, Martin Luther King, Jr. was in Memphis to support the sanitation workers’ strike. The workers – almost all of them African American – had been on strike since February 12, demanding higher wages, safer working conditions, and union recognition. Two workers died on February 1 when […]
Baltimore Police: The System is Corrupt
The Gun Trace Task Force of the Baltimore City Police Department (BPD) was a special unit organized officially to get guns off the streets and prevent violence. But eight of the nine members of the Task Force were charged with a variety of crimes. Six pleaded guilty and two others were convicted of crimes, including […]
Film Review: Black Panther
Black Panther is a big budget superhero film written and directed by Ryan Coogler and actor Michael B. Jordan. Black Panther is the story of the superhero king of Wakanda, an isolated but wealthy African nation that hides its existence. Through the story, the Black Panther is confronted with a question: should Wakanda stay hidden […]
The Future Is In Our Hands!
Today millions of people across this country have joined together to say “No more violence in our schools.” and “No more violence in our communities.” We are all here because students at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida refused to remain silent after the murder of 17 people at their school. If […]
Saturday, May 12, 7pm, Berkeley
Join us at our next Speak Out Now Forum: The Bay Area: For The 1% or for Us? For decades the San Francisco Bay Area was a home for working class families, radicals, musicians, poets and artists of all sorts. Now, it’s the tech capital of the world, boasting of millionaires and billionaires and the […]
Friday, May 4, 7pm Berkeley, CA
Archive That, Comrade! The Legacy of 1968 and the Politics of Remembrance A Talk by Phil Cohen How is the past remembered? How do archives and commemorations of historical events rewrite history? How is historical revisionism and false memory used today? And what could be a model for archiving history that can build on people’s […]
Sunday, April 15, Oakland, Lake Merritt Amphitheater
Join us for a March and Rally to Say: NO! To U.S. Wars at Home and Abroad! Sunday, April 15th 11AM-12:30PM RALLY Lake Merritt Amphitheater – 12th st. & 4th Ave (at 12:30pm there is a march to Oscar Grant Plaza – near 14th & Broadway for a 1:30pm main rally) Look for the Speak […]
A Society Based On Violence!
We are right to question the violence of our society, where mass shooting and brutality have become accepted as normal. The system of capitalism values human life and the planet only as resources to be exploited and profited from, creating wealth only for those in positions of power. Their entire system is organized violence against […]
This is just a start!
With the arrogance of an ex-business banker, Macron has led attack after attack against workers since his election. He now attacks railway workers head-on, hoping to break their fighting spirit and demoralise the whole working class, like Thatcher did with the miners in the UK. There is just one problem, railway workers have decided not […]
All on strike on March 22nd, to begin a general fight
There were a lot of retirees out on March 15th. Tens of thousands of them in the country took to the streets, to protest against decreased pensions, together with retirement home employees. They have been called “privileged” persons by Macron, who explains that since they aren’t all poor, they can pay. An MP who supports […]
There Is Hope When We Stand Up For Ourselves
In response to the brutal murders of 17 people at a high school in Parkland, Florida, the whole community responded in shock and outrage. The students took the lead, saying that they were going to make sure that such a tragedy never happened in another school. They organized memorials and rallies and spoke out on […]
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
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.”
What Socialist America Will Look Like by James Cannon
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.
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
Time’s Up: Saying No to Sexual Violence and Capitalism (Baltimore: March 22, 6pm)
Join us for a Speak Out Now Forum in Baltimore, MD The #MeToo movement has made it clear: sexual violence in our society is widespread. As more and more women have shared their stories, they have exposed a sick society that is rooted in exploitation, hierarchy, and violence. The movement also reminds us that […]
Join us at: March For Our Lives (Saturday March 24 in Oakland and San Francisco)
.pdf flyer download Please join us at both March For Our Lives rallies in the Bay Area. We will be attending rallies in Oakland and San Francisco. Look for our Speak Out Now booth and table, and march with us in San Francisco (there is no march in Oakland – only a rally) March for […]
The Watsonville Canning Strike – Peter Shapiro (March 17th, 7pm, Berkeley)
Presentation by Peter Shapiro Labor activist and author of the book “Song of the Stubborn One Thousand” Followed by discussion Thirty years ago, Watsonville, California was the “frozen food capital of the world.” In September 1985, 1000 mostly Mexican women workers at the town’s largest plant were forced out on strike when the owner tried […]
Parkland Students – We Won’t Go Back to Normal!
Students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida returned to school two weeks after a 19-year old former-student gunned down 17 people there. Most of the students said they were ready to return, but promised they would not let things “go back to normal.” Over the past weeks, many of the students have […]
March 2018 (SON Monthly)
Voting for the Democrats is a Dead End! Supreme Court: Ready to Undermine Unions Baltimore Schools: Unfit for Our Children! NY/NJ Transit: A Real Trainwreck! Nabi Saleh, Palestine – An Example of Defiance Download March 2018 SON [11×17.pdf 4mb]