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Below is a list of articles and statements by members of Youth for Socialist Action that reflect the views of our organization. Most of the material on this page consists of what YSA has to say about current events and contemporary issues. Check out our Theory page for more general information about what we stand for and what socialism is.
Bolivia
Rage Still Boils in Bolivia After New Regime is Installed
Bolivian Bourgeois Government Suspended in Mid-Air
Revolution in Bolivia!
Iraq
Iraqi Resistance Grows
Lessons for Today from the Vietnam War Peace Movement
"Iraqization" of the Occupation
Rising # of G.I. Deaths Deals Blow 2 Military Morale
Shootings by U.S. Soldiers Fuels Resistance
Iraq is a Minefield 4 Imperialists
U.S. Sets Up Iraq Governing Council as Occupation Falters
Which Way Forward 4 the Student Anti-War Mov't?
Organized Labor's Antiwar Forces, What Next?
Tariq Ali on the United Nations
On 'Supporting' the Troops
The Anti-War Mov't. Won the Ideological War Over Iraq
Q & A About the Iraq War
A Look @ the News Media Coverage
Lessons From the 1991 Gulf War
How the Iraq War is About More Than Oil
Red-baiting & the New Anti-war Movement
Campus Anti-War Network Formed!
Report on the Jan. 18 2001 Anti-War Protests
Bush Pushes 4 War Despite Public Outcry
Strategy & Tactics in the New Anti-War Movement
Why Does the U.S. Want War With Iraq?
No U.S. War On Iraq!
Democrats Follow Bush on the Road 2 War
Turkey to Join U.S. Attack on Iraq
Iraq: a Decade of Suffering
1998 Northland College Student Gov't. Resolution on Iraq
Youth for Socialist Action
Report on the 2003 Youth Camp of the Fourth International
Report on YSA's Camp Class Struggle
Report on YSA's Trip to Cuba
Palestine
Israeli Aggression Shocks World Opinion
Middle East Road Map 2 Nowhere
Christain, Islamic and Jewish Fundamentalism & Palestine
Eyewitness Account From Palestine
Appeal From Palestinian Students
Charges Dropped Against Palestine Solidarity Activists
Arafat Calls on U.S. 2 Hold Fair Elections
Israeli Atrocities Shock the World
The Marxist Case 4 a Democratic, Secular Palestine
10 Things You Should Know about Israel & Zionism
Self-Determination 4 Palestinians!
On the New Cease Fire in Palestine
YSA on Palestine
History of the Struggle for Palestine
Palestine Solidarity Mov't Grows on College Campuses
What Would Jesus Do About Jewsih Rhodesia (Isreal)?
Sept. 11/Afghanistan
Washington D.C. Links to Islamist Oil
U.S. Bombs Afghan Village
Socialist Action on the Sept.11 Bombings
U.S. Victory . . . What Does It Mean?
What are the U.S. War Goals?
Who is Bin Laden? What Is the Taliban?
U.S. Gov't. Prepares 4 War & Threatens Our Civil Liberties
What Sept. 11 Will Mean for the Economy
Anthrax & the War Fever
Students Organize Against U.S. War Moves
Stop Attacks on Arab-Americans!
Anti-Muslim Violence in America
Anti-war Letter From Activists in Taiwan
French Revolutionary Communist League on 911
A Feminist View on the WarThe Current Political Situation in Pakistan
Regional Student Anti-War Confernces (Nov. 10 & 11, 2001)
War and the Anti-globalization Movement
Afghan Workers Solidarity Campaign launched
Report on Midwest Student Anti-War Conference
Report on West Coast Student Anti-War Conferences (2001)
History of Afghanistan
Report From Feb. 2002 National Student Anti-War Conference
Civil Liberties
How 2 Save Our Civil Liberties
Judge Dismisses Major Terrorism Counts Against Lynne Stewart
Ashcroft Demands More Powers
Defend Sami Al-Arian!
Summary of the Attacks on Our Civil Liberties
FBI Attacks Student Rights
Immigrant Rights Under Attack
Right-Wing Launches Witch Hunt on Campuses
Green Party Leader Detained @ Maine Airport
Texas Anti-Sodomy Law Struck Down
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Michael Moore Strikes Low Blow Against Mumia
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Rejects Mumia's Appeal
Mumia on the Cuban 5 & Homeland Security
Federal Judge Throws Out Mumia's Death Sentence
Confession Tape Establishes Mumia's Innocence
Autumn 2000 Mumia Update
Mid-Summer 2000 Mumia Update
Northland College Student Gov't. Passes Resolution 4 Mumia!
Mumia's Account of the Shooting of Officer Faulkner
Mumia Dismisses Legal Team
The Tragic Evolution of Dan Williams & Gerald Nicosia
Who Is Mumia?
What It's Going To Take To Free Mumia
Federal Judge Rejects Mumia's Amicus Briefs
Fourth International Resolution on Mumia
A Poem for Mumia
"The Revolution Betrayed" by Mumia
YSA's Approach to Defending Victims of Frame-ups
Mumia on the Roots of Rap Music
Anti-Globalization
Stop the FTAA!
A Look @ Starbucks
U.S. Customs Ignores Child Labor Practices
Italian Politics Since Genoa
Mumia Abu-Jamal on the Genoa Protests
Anti-Globalization Protests in Genoa, Italy
Report on the 2001 USAS Conference
The 2001 USAS Conference Is Coming Up!
Thousands Protest FTAA in Quebec CityEyewitness Account of FTAA ProtestsFTAA Protest at Mexico Border
A Look at the United Students Against Sweatshops
Report From the Demonstration in Nice, France
The Anti-sweatshop Movement
Lessons From the WTO Protest
Prague Bankers Claim They Want to 'Help the Poor'
Hunger, Poverty & Capitalism
Cuba
Report From YSA's Trip to Cuba
Marxist Analysis of Cuba
YSA Cuba Links
Gays in Cuba
Cuba Honors the Legacy of John Lennon
Social Gains Won by Revolutions
Elections
2004 Elections: Democrats & the Myth of Lesser Evilism
Who Should You Vote For?
George W. Bush = (Big) Business as Usual
YSA on the Recent Elections
"Whose Party? Whose Interests" by Mumia
Early History of the Democrats & Republicans
Is Nader a Real Alternative?
Al Gore's Real Environmental Record
Labor Movement
Are Grocery Workers Boxed In?
Elections Looming 4 NYC Transit Workers
UFW Reverses Itself on "Guest Workers"
Worst Job Crisis Since the Great Depression
Organized Labor's Antiwar Forces, What Next?
10 Commandments of the Class Struggle
Lessons From the 1934 Minneapolis Teamsters Strike
Lessons From the 1934 Toledo Auto-Lite Strike
New Orleans Students Help Unionize Workers
Harvard Students & Workers Fight 4 Living Wage
UFCW Officials Disrupt Socialist Action Forum in Toronto
Police Brutality/Prisons/Legal System
Defend Lynn Stewart!
Cincinnati Police Murder of Timothy Thomas Sparks Protests
Kevin Cooper: An Innocent Man on Death Row
Kevin Cooper Speaks
Police Misconduct in the Kevin Cooper Case
Prisons: Slave Labor Factories
The Murder of Amadou Diallo
War On Drugs Is a War On Us!
The Role of Police
Feminist Movement
Congress Attacks Abortion Rights
Sexism in Advertising
History of the Family
Why We're Feminists . . .
Protest Walmart's Anti-Choice Policies
The Fight for the Equal Rights Amendment
Why Are Women 'Dying' To Be Thin?
Black Liberation
How to Fight Racist Groups
A Transitional Program 4 Black Liberation
Celebrate Juneteenth By Fighting Against War & Racism!
Why Was Martin Luther King Murdered?
United Nations Conference on Racism
40 Years Since the Freedom Rides
Why Was Martin Luther King Murdered?
Black Self-Determination & Socialist Revolution
In Defense of Afrocentrism
Malcolm X: Fighter for Black Liberation
The Mixed Legacy of Huey Newton
Penn State Agrees to Student Demands 4 Black Rights
Native American
Ongoing American Indian Lawsuit Against U.S. Government
YSA on Clinton's Refusal to Pardon Leonard Peltier
Mumia on a Forgotten Chapter of Native American History
Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual
Texas Anti-Sodomy Law Struck Down
The Murder of Sakia Gunn
The Early Gay Liberation Movement
Homophobia in the Schools
Anatomy of a Hate Crime
Two Examples of Anti-Gary Bigotry in the High Schools
Environment
The Ecological Effects of War
Genetic Engineering
Fast Food Nation
Does Humanity Have a Future?
FBI Indicted by Earth First! for Murder of Judi Bari
Capitalism, War & Environmental Destruction
Science
Bio of Stephen Jay Gould
The Role of Labor in the Transition From Ape to Man
'Morality' & the Patenting of Genes
Marxism & Natural Science on the Marxist Internet Archives
Movies/Music/Poetry/Art
Music Industry Attacks Consumers
A Review of Michael Moore's "Bowling for Columbine"
Hollywood Declares War on North Korea!
Tom Petty Rails Against the Music Industry
Politics & Rock 'n Roll
Zach De La Rocha Leaves 'Rage Against the Machine'
Cuba Honors Legacy of John Lennon
Review of The Coup's album "Party Music"
Trotskyism on Art a Manifesto by Leon Trotsky & Andre Breton
Andre Breton & the Politics of Surrealism
Education
Supreme Court Fails Test on Vouchers
Anti-War Students Stand Up 4 Free Speech @ Nyack High School
The National Epidemic of Tuition Hikes
UW Superior Kicks YSA Off Campus!
Education is a Right!
San Jose Students Walkout in Support of Teachers
UCLA Students Demand Affirmative Action
The Working Class & the Fight for Public Education
Black Americans & the Fight for Public Education
No to School Vouchers!
Mis-education of African-American Youth
Amarillo YSA Fights Censorship
Free Expression in the Schools
Latin America
Revolution in Bolivia!
Lula's Brazil
Discontent in Bolivia
Venezuela in Crisis!
An Interview W/ a School of the Americas Protester
U.S. Coup in Venezuela Fails!
Uprising in Argentina
A Look Back @ Allende's Chile by Tariq Ali
Lessons From Allende's Chile 0f 1970-73
Poem 4 Argentina
Argentina Erupts!
The Struggle Against the Death Penalty in Puerto Rico
New War Moves Toward Vieques
Hands Off Columbia!
Zapatistas on the Move!
Hands Off Vieques!
The Navy Is Still Bombing Vieques!
Bush Forced to Respond to Vieques Protesters
Canada
YSA Canada Launched
Canada's Student Movement
Report on YSA/Canada's Summer 2001 Conference
Balkans
The Truth About Kosovo - Response 2 the IAC
U.S. Opposes Kosovar Nationalism
The Significance of the Overthrow of Milosevic
Serbians Take the Streets: Last Hurrah for Neo-Stalinism
Eyewitness Report From Kosovo
Ireland
What Our Irish Comrades Stand For
Sunday, Bloody Sunday
East Timor
All UN/Imperialist Troops Out Of East Timor!
Asia
U.S. Out of the Philippines!
Hands Off North Korea!
History of Afghanistan
WW II Japanese-American Internment Camps
An Interview with a Vietnamese Trotskyist
Solidarity With the Daewoo Autoworkers
Africa
War in the Congo
The Boer War of 1899
No 2 U.S. Troops in LIberia!
Interview With a Liberian
A Look Back @ the U.S. Intervention in Somalia
Europe
YSA Visits France
Economics
Marx's Predictions Haunt Today's Economy
Worst Job Crisis Since the Great Depression
Even During An Economic Crisis, the Rich Get Richer
Lessons From the East Coast Blackout
Budget Deficit: Boondoggle 4 the Rich
The MCI WorldCom Scandal & Capitalism
What You Should Know About Gas Prices
The Economy Reels
American History
Our Take on Robert E. Lee
Mumia on a Forgotten Chapter of Native American History
