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Below is a list of all the recent additions to the YSA and Socialist Action websites and the dates that they were added. Be sure to check back here each week to see what has been added!
December 20, 2003
2004 Elections: Democrats & the Myth of Lesser Evilism
Iraqi Resistance Grows
Rage Still Boils in Bolivia After New Regime is Installed
Bolivian Bourgeois Government Suspended in Mid-Air
Lessons for Today from the Vietnam War Peace Movement
Michael Moore Strikes Low Blow Against Mumia
What Our Irish Comrades Stand For
What is the Dictatorship of the Proletariat?
The Marxist View on Building Classless Societies
Marxist vs. Anarchist Views on Political Parties
a One Party or a Multi-Party System?
Socialist Revolution and Democracy
Trotskyism vs. Stalinism on Democracy
December 18, 2003
Stop the FTAA!
November 20, 2003
Revolution in Bolivia!
Congress Attacks Abortion Rights
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Rejects Mumia's Appeal
Lula's Brazil
Marx's Predictions Haunt Today's Economy
Israeli Aggression Shocks World Opinion
"Iraqization" of the Occupation
Rising # of G.I. Deaths Deals Blow 2 Military Morale
Are Grocery Workers Boxed In?
Elections Looming 4 NYC Transit Workers
UFW Reverses Itself on "Guest Workers"
October 19, 2003
Music Industry Attacks Consumer
War in the Congo
Worst Job Crisis Since the Great Depression
October 10, 2003
Pennsylvania Court Rules Against Mumia!
Discontent in Bolivia
October 7, 2003
Shootings by U.S. Soldiers Fuels Resistance
September 28, 2003
Red-baiting & the New Ant-war Movement
A Look Back @ the U.S. Intervention in Somalia
The Truth About Kosovo - A Response 2 the IAC
The Significance of the Fall of Milosevic
U.S. Opposes Kosovar Nationalism
September 27, 2003
Lessons From the East Coast Blackout
How 2 Save Our Civil Liberties
Even During Economic Crisis, the Rich Get Richer
September 5, 2003
Report on the 2003 Youth Camp of the Fourth International
August 22, 2003
Judge Dismisses Major Terrorism Counts Against Lynne Stewart
Iraq is a Minefield 4 Imperialists
Budget Deficit: Boondoggle for the Rich
July 25, 2003
U.S. Installs Iraq Council as Occupation Falters
No U.S. Troops in Liberia!
July 18, 2003
Interview With a Liberian
Ashcroft Demands More Powers
Middle East Road Map 2 Nowhere
Texas Anti-Sodomy Law Struck Down
July 11, 2003
Tariq Ali on the United Nations
U.S. Customs Ignores Use of Child Labor
June 13, 2003
Report on YSA's Camp Class Struggle
The Murder of Sakia Gunn
On 'Supporting' the Troops
Organized Labor's Antiwar Forces, What Next?
May 22, 2003
Which Way Forward 4 the Student Anti-War Mov't?
May 9, 2003
How to Fight Racist Groups
Who Should You Vote For?
Anti-War Mov't. Won Ideological War Over Iraq
April 8, 2003
Towards a Transitional Program 4 Chicano Liberation
March 30, 2003
Q & A About the War
A Look @ News Media Coverage of Iraq War
A Look @ Starbucks
Capitalism & War, Part I
Capitalism & War, Part II
March 6, 2003
Defend Sami Al-Arian!
Campus Anti-war Network (CAN) Launched
U.S. Out of the Philippines!
February 25, 2003
Lessons From the 1991 Gulf War
How the Iraq War is About More Than Oil
The Cuban 5 & Homeland Security - by Mumia Abu-Jamal
January 30, 2003
The Legacy of Malcolm X
The Ecological Effects of War
January 22, 2003
Report on the Jan. 18 Anti-War Protests
January 15, 2003
All Out on Jan. 18 to Say No To War!
Hands Off North Korea!
Venezuela in Crisis
January 1, 2003
A Look @ Michael Moore's "Bowling for Columbine" movie
An Interview W/ a School of the Americas Protester
December 23, 2002
Tom Petty Rails Against the Music Industry
Hollywood Declares War on North Korea!
A Definition of Dialectics
The Marxist Theory of the State - by Ernest Mandel
Can the American Workers Make a Revolution? - by George Novack
Building the Revolutionary Movement: 1919-1969 - by George Novack
Trotsky on Optimism & Pessimism
Lessons From the Trade Union Educational League of the 1920s
The Jewish Question: A Marxist Analysis - by A. Leon
December 16, 2002
Christian, Islamic and Jewish Fundamentalism & the Question of Palestine
Bush Pushes 4 War Despite Public Outcry
November 26, 2002
What Socialists Propose
Defend Lynn Stewart!
Washington D.C.'s Link 2 Islamist Oil Interests
Supreme Court Fails Test on Vouchers
Eyewitness Account From Palestine
Genetic Engineering
A Bio of Stephen Jay Gould
November 7, 2002
Strategy & Tactics in the New Anti-War Movement
Fast Food Nation
October 19, 2002
Democrats Follow Bush on the Road 2 War
September 29, 2002
On Lesbian/Gay Liberation - a Fourth Interntional draft resolution
What is the Dictatorship of the Proletariat?
Do Marxists Advocate a One Party State?
September 28, 2002
Marxist Analysis of the Ecological Crisis - a Fourth Interntional resolution
A Look at the 1871 Paris Commune
60 Years of the Fourth International
September 21, 2002
Why Does the U.S. Want War With Iraq?
Turkey to Join U.S. Attack on Iraq
September 18, 2002
No U.S. War On Iraq!
September 8, 2002
Appeal From Palestinian Students
August 30, 2002
Sexism in Advertising
August 25, 2002
Summary of the Post-911 Attacks on Our Civil Liberties
Charges Dropped Against Palestine Solidarity Activists
July 20, 2002
Black Liberation & Socialism: A Transitional Program 4 Black Liberation
July 19, 2002
A Brief Bio of Karl Marx
A Brief Bio of Lenin
A Brief Bio of Leon Trotsky
July 16, 2002
The MCI WorldCom Scandal & Capitalism
July 10, 2002
Arafat Calls on U.S. 2 Hold Fair Elections
U.S. Bombs Afghan Village
June 23, 2002
The Role Played by Labor in the Transition From Ape 2 Man by Frederick Engels
'Morality' & the Patenting of Genes
A Look Back @ Allende's Chile by Tariq Ali
The Boer War of 1899
June 21, 2002
Celebrate Juneteenth By Joining the Fight Against War & Racism!
Anti-War Students Stand Up 4 Free Speech at Nyack High School
June 13, 2002
Israeli Atrocities Shock the World
Andre Breton & the Politics of Surrealism
June 2, 2002
Trotskyism on Art
June 1, 2002
U.S. Coup in Venezuela Fails!
FBI Indicted in Court by Earth First!
Files Opened on 27 Years of U.S. Secret War in Angola
A Look @ the Social Gains Made by Revolutions
Capitalism, War & Environmental Destruction
May 21, 2002
Politics & Rock n' Roll
May 2, 2002
The Marxist Case 4 a Democratic, Secular Palestine
April 22, 2002
Report from A20 in Washington D.C.
Report from A20 in San Francisco
Report from A20 in Duluth, MN
Ongoing American Indian Lawsuit Against U.S. Government
April 2, 2002
Uprising in Argentina
Poem 4 Argentina
Report From National Student Anti-War Conference
February 14, 2002
10 Things You Should Know About Israel & Zionism
Self-Determination 4 Palestinians!
Leon Trotsky on the National Question
Review of The Coup's Album "Party Music"
January 22, 2002
Why Was Martin Luther King Murdered?
Argentina Erupts!
The Marxist Case 4 Revolution Today by Ernest Mandel
January 7, 2002
U.S. Victory in Afghanistan ... What Does It Mean?
What are the U.S. War Goals in Afghanistan?
History of the Family
FBI Attacks Student Rights
Right-Wing Launches Witch Hunt on the Campuses
December 19, 2001
Federal Judge Throws Out Mumia's Death Sentence
December 4, 2001
History of Afghanistan
November 28, 2001
Report on West Coast Student Anti-War Conference
Report on Midwest Student Anti-War Conference
Afghan Workers Solidarity Campaign launched
Charlie Van Gelderen obituary
November 15, 2001
Green Party Leader Detained @ Maine Airport
November 6, 2001
Attend the Regional Student Anti-War Conferences!
War and the Anti-Globalization Movement
October 30, 2001
Anthrax & the War Fever
The Struggle Against the Death Penalty in Puerto Rico
French Trotskyists During WWII
October 19, 2001
A Feminist View on the War
The Current Political Situation in Pakistan
October 5, 2001
Who is Bin Laden? What Is the Taliban?
What Sept. 11 Will Mean for the Economy
U.S. War Preparations & Threats to Our Civil Liberties
Confession Tape Establishes Mumia's Innocence
On the New Cease Fire in Palestine
September 27, 2001
Autumn Mumia Update
Italian Politics Since the Genoa Protests
United Nations Conference on Racism
New War Moves Toward Vieques
Report on 2001 USAS Conference
YSA Visits France
September 26, 2001
Immigrant Rights Under Attack
September 20, 2001
Students Organize Against U.S. War Moves
French Revolutionary Communist League (LCR) on the Sept. 11 Bombings
September 19, 2001
Socialist Action on the Sept. 11 Bombings
Stop Attacks on Arab-Americans!
Anti-war Letter From Activists in Taiwan
September 10, 2001
Report on YSA/Canada's Summer Conference
UFCW Officials Disrupt Socialist Action Forum in Toronto
September 4, 2001
What You Should Know About Gas Prices
Mumia Abu-Jamal on "The Real Meaning of Genoa"
1998 Northland College Student Gov't. Resolution on Iraq
August 22, 2001
The Early Gay Liberation Movement
August 15, 2001
The Economy Reels
Police Misconduct in the Kevin Cooper Case
Our Take on Robert E. Lee
August 9, 2001
Anti-Globalization Protests in Genoa, Italy
Mumia Abu-Jamal on the Roots of Rap Music
July 25, 2001
WW II Japanese-American Internment Camps
July 16, 2001
Mid-Summer Mumia Update
June 29, 2001
The National Epidemic of Tuition Hikes
40 Years Since the Freedom Rides
Bush Forced to Respond to Vieques Protesters
The 2001 USAS Conferene is Coming Up!
June 12, 2001
"How to Win Strikes" by Harry DeBoer
Socialist Action's Approach 2 Defending Victims of Frame-ups
Penn State Agrees to Student Demands 4 Black Rights
Harvard Workers & Students Demand Living Wage
May 29, 2001
Northland College Student Gov't. Passes Resolution 4 Mumia!
May 20, 2001
A Look at the 1956 Hungarian Revolution
Why are Women 'Dying' to be Thin?
May 17, 2001
Lessons From Allende's Chile
Lessons From the 1934 Minneapolis Teamsters Strike
Lessons From the 1934 Toledo Auto-Lite Strike
New Orleans Students Help Unionize Workers
May 15, 2001
Thousands Protest FTAA (Free Trade Agreement of the Americas) in Quebec City
Eyewitness Account of FTAA Protests
Anti-FTAA Protest at Mexico Border
May 13, 2001
Mumia's Account of the Shooting of Officer Faulkner
The Soviet System Under Lenin & Trotsky
April 26, 2001
UW Superior Kicks YSA Off Campus
April 18, 2001
Upcoming Spring/Summer Actions 4 Mumia
Zapatistas on the Move!
Mumia's Case & the Tragic Evolution of Dan Williams and Gerald Nicosia
Death Row Inmate Kevin Cooper Speaks
Students Walkout in San Jose in Support of Teachers
UCLA Students Protest for Affirmative Action
April 12, 2001
Cincinnati Police Murder of Timothy Thomas Sparks Protests
April 10, 2001
Lenin vs. Stalin on Oppressed Nationalities
"Memories of Trotsky" by Jake Cooper
April 8, 2001
Hands Off Columbia!
The French near-revolution of May 1968
Beginners Guide to the Theory of Permanent Revolution
The Legacy of Huey Newton
March 29, 2001
"The Revolution Betrayed" by Mumia Abu-Jamal
10 Commandments of the Class Struggle
Why We're Feminists . . .
March 22, 2001
Was Russia Socialist?
Iraq: a Decade of Suffering
March 15, 2001
Mumia Dismisses His Legal Team
YSA on Palestine
The Role of Police
March 12, 2001
George W. Bush = (Big) Business as Usual
Two Examplse of Anti-Gay Bigotry in the High Schools
March 7, 2001
A Look at the United Students Against Sweatshops
March 1, 2001
History of the Struggle for Palestine
YSA Canada Conference
Zach De La Rocha Leaves 'Rage Against the Machine'
Cuba Honors Legacy of John Lennon
Solidarity With the Daewoo Autoworkers
February 26, 2001
Kevin Cooper: An Innocent Man on Death Row
An Interview with a Vietnamese Trotskyist
February 12, 2001
Anatomy of a Hate Crime
"Whose Party? Whose Interests?" by Mumia
February 5, 2001
Mumia on a Forgotten Chapter in Native American History
How the Fourth International was Conceived
February 1, 2001
Education is a Right!
January 22, 2001
YSA on Clinton's Refusal to Pardon Leonard Peltier
January 18, 2001
Lenin's Program for Revolution
January 16, 2001
Why Was Martin Luther King Murdered?
Protest Walmart's Anti-Choice Policies
Palestine Solidarity Demo to be held April 7
What Would Jesus Do About Jewish Rhodesia (Isreal)?
January 9, 2001
History of the American Trotskyist Movement
Call for Emergency Conference on Mumia
Early History of Democrats & Republicans
January 8, 2001
A Poem for Mumia
Anti-Muslim Violence in America
The Navy Is Still Bombing Vieques!
January 2, 2001
YSA on the Recent Elections
December 29, 2000
Malcolm X: Fighter for Black Liberation
The Russian Revolution
Recommended Pamphlets
Revised "Get Active" page
December 28, 2000
The Origin & Nature of Women's Oppression
December 27, 2000
Study Guide for Lenin's "State & Revolution"
What Is Permanent Revolution?
December 23, 2000
Report From the Demonstration in Nice, France
Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Marx's Economic Theory - General Approach & Influence
What Is Communism?
Marx's Theory of Surplus-Value
December 21, 2000
How the Rich Came to Rule America
December 19, 2000
The Struggle for the Equal Rights Amendment
An Open Letter to the Young Communist League (text from a pre-WWII flier)
December 18, 2000
The Precarious Character of American 'Democracy'
Money & the Mass Media
In Defense of Afrocentrism
The Anti-sweatshop Movement
Prisons: Slave Labor Factories
December 16, 2000
Vanguard Parties by Ernest Mandel
Vanguard Parties Study Guide
Who Was Leon Trotsky?
History of the Revolutionary Socialist Youth Mov't. in the U.S.
December 6, 2000
How to Make a Revolution in the U.S.
December 4, 2000
The Working Class & the Fight for Public Education
Black Americans & the Fight for Public Education
Gays in Cuba
Hands Off Vieques!
December 2, 2000
Black Self-Determination & Socialist Revolution in the U.S.
November 29, 2000
When America Goes Socialist
A Short Introduction to Marxist Economics
Down With the Stalin-Hitler Pact! (text from a 1939 flier)
November 27, 2000
Political Novels & Biographies
Lessons From the Vietnam Anti-War Movement
The Paris Commune
Foundations of a Communist Youth League
November 24, 2000
A Marxist Analysis of Cuba
Eyewitness Report From Kosovo
What Makes Scientific Socialism Scientific?
The Need for a Revolutionary Youth Group
Mis-education of African-American Youth
Amarillo YSA Fights Censorship
Part 1 of Philosophy of Marxism - Dialectical Materialism
Part 2 of Philosophy of Marxism - Contradictions of Capitalist Production
Part 3 of Philosophy of Marxism - Revolutionary Role of the Proletariat
November 22, 2000
Canada's Student Movement
Hunger, Poverty & Capitalism
Free Expression in the Schools
Does Humanity Have a Future? a resolution on ecology
Fourth International Resolution on Mumia
October 12, 2000
Is Nader a Real Alternative?
October 11, 2000
Prague Bankers Claim They Want to 'Help the Poor'
October 10, 2000
Serbians Take the Streets: Last Hurrah for Neo-Stalinism
Federal Judge Rejects Mumia's Amicus Briefs
War On Drugs Is a War On Us!
No to School Vouchers!
September 29, 2000
Young Socialist Alliance Reading List From the 1960s
September 28, 2000
What Do Socialists Stand For?
September 5, 2000
Report Back On YSA's Cuba Trip
Who Is Mumia?
What Is It Going To Take To Free Mumia?
Lessons From the WTO Protests
The Murder of Amadou Diallo
Al Gore's Real Environmental Record
All UN/Imperialist Troops Out Of East Timor!
