Climate change is the most severe crisis of our time. The future of life on this planet is at risk. Despite the serious warnings of climate scientists, corporations around the world continue to be directed by their drive for profits. And the governments that represent their interests continue along the same path of environmental destruction. The future of our species cannot remain in their hands. The choice in front of us is clear – we have to organize our forces to save ourselves and life on our planet.

For organizational resources or to learn more, go to: https://speakoutsocialists.org/no-war-in-ukraine-2/Russia’s horrific invasion of Ukraine is devastating the country — bombing hospitals, schools, apartment buildings, houses and more. Civilian death tolls are estimated to be in the thousands, and over two million Ukrainians have fled to neighboring countries.We must oppose Russia’s brutal and totally unjustified attack on Ukraine. We must also oppose the aggressive goal of the U.S and NATO to dominate the region, which helped to provoke Russia’s attack. The Ukrainian people are being used as pawns in the struggle between these major powers.In cities across Russia people are facing the brutality of the police as they say “NO!” to this war. And people around the world are beginning to show their opposition as well. We, in the U.S., have an obligation to join this opposition and declare our support for the right of the Ukrainian people to determine their own future.For organizational resources or to learn more, go to: https://speakoutsocialists.org/no-war-in-ukraine-2/

In 2016, amid an epidemic of police shootings of Black people, NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick began a series of protests on the field, refusing to stand during the U.S. national anthem. By taking a knee, Kaepernick’s simple act spread like wildfire throughout American society, becoming a powerful symbol of resistance to the systemic racism in this country.Listen in to hear author Dave Zirin speak about his latest book The Kaepernick Effect: Taking a Knee, Changing the World, as well as sports and resistance in the recent period. Dave Zirin is the sports editor of The Nation, a columnist for The Progressive, and the host of the Edge of Sports podcast. His many other books include A People’s History of Sports in the United States, Game Over, Bad Sports, and Welcome to the Terrordome: The Pain, Politics, and Promise of Sports.

This episode is a conversation centered around the union organizing drive of Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama, the PRO Act, and workers' organizing in general.

In this episode, we comment on the aftermath of the organizing effort at the Amazon facility in Bessemer, Alabama, and the significance of Cecil Roberts, president of the United Mine Workers of America, endorsing Biden's latest infrastructure plan.

Kim Moody is a longtime activist, socialist, a founder of Labor Notes, and author of many books on rank and file unionism and politics.

Commentary and analysis by Speak Out Now from October 7-14.00:45 Columbus Day or Indigenous People’s Day? Whose History? 10:41 Alameda Health System Strike: Showing What Workers are Capable of 13:41 Armenia and Azerbaijan at War 18:22 No Relief for Workers as Stimulus Delayed Until After Election 19:50 Trump’s Middle East Deals: Cynical Politics, Not Peace 25:27 The Pope and Politics: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? 27:19 The Economy’s Getting Better? Who Are They Kidding? 

Commentary and analysis by Speak Out Now from October 1-7.00:45 Trump’s Campaign Goes Viral 05:22 Grand Jury Cover-Up in the Breonna Taylor Case 09:10 Forced Sterilization of Immigrant Women 11:01 Virtual Learning Part 2: The Parents 14:41 Plastic-Digesting Enzymes! 17:03 Trump Refuses to Denounce White Supremacists in the Debate 19:25 The Supreme Court: Judicial Servants of the Ruling Class 27:24 Anniversary of the Tlatelolco Massacre in Mexico City 31:19 Trump’s Tax Evasion: A Normal Part of the System! 33:30 The COVID-19 Response: Decreasing Restrictions and Increasing Deaths 36:41 The California Wildfires: Mismanagement and Climate Change 

Commentary and analysis by Speak Out Now from September 13-30.End Times? or Seize the Time! Microplastics: A Huge Problem COVID-19: What’s the Vaccine Timeline? Virtual Learning is NOT the Same as Being in a Classroom Nurses Win Union Recognition for the First Time at a Major North Carolina Hospital! But the Struggle Continues. Indictment in Breonna Taylor Case is Another Racist Attack Bacon’s Rebellion and the Making of “Race” in the United States Shifting CDC Guidelines Expose an Unequal System RBG: Celebrate Her Life, But Be Prepared to Keep Fighting for What We Need Despite Black Lives Matter PR, NFL’s Actions Speak Louder than Words Wildlife Populations Have Decreased Two-Thirds Since 1970! Why are 12,000 Refugees Sleeping on the Side of the Road in Greece? Mines in Congo Eat Human Beings Alive Big Pharma: Cutting Corners, Risking Lives It’s Not Just Trump. The Whole System Insults and Exploits Veterans! 

Commentary and analysis by Speak Out Now from September 3-12.California Fires: The Climate Disruption We Were Warned AboutRochester: Protesters Demand JusticeWill Public Transportation Survive the Pandemic?Worst Year Ever? It’s not 2020 – It’s CapitalismChadwick Boseman’s Untimely Death Highlights Racial Health DisparitiesThe Battle of Blair Mountain: A Worker’s Uprising Worth Remembering on Labor DayAttica Prison Revolt – The Struggle Against Injustice Continues Herd Immunity: A Game of ChanceNew York City has big problems – and Wall Street and the Politicians Make Them Worse!The Real Violence Isn’t the Demonstrations

While viruses do occur naturally, there is very little that is natural about the COVID-19 pandemic. The global animal and agriculture industry has become one large virus producing system, increasing the likelihood of pandemics. Instead of working towards reducing the production of pandemic level viruses, for decades countries have been accelerating the conditions that produce them. This virus may not have been preventable but it did not have to become a pandemic.We were joined by Rob Wallace, an evolutionary epidemiologist at the Agroecology and Rural Economics Research Corps and author of Big Farms Make Big Flu and co-author of Neoliberal Ebola: Modeling Disease Emergence From Finance to Forest, and other books.Read some recent articles on this topic by Rob Wallace here:COVID-19 and Circuits of CapitalCapitalism is a Disease Hotspot

Raj Patel discusses the causes and enormous impact of the global food crisis, which has only been intensified by the Covid-19 pandemic. Please join us. All participants will have an opportunity to ask questions and share their experiences from their workplaces or community. Raj Patel is an activist, journalist, film maker and professor, currently teaching at the University of Texas in Austin. He studies the global food system and is actively engaged in creating alternatives to what exists today. His first book was Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System. His second, The Value of Nothing, was a New York Times and international best-seller. His latest, co-written with Jason W. Moore, is A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things.

Part Eight of our Socialism 101 series.

Commentary and analysis by Speak Out Now from the week of August 27 - September 2.Mr. Rogers vs. Darth VaderBelarus: The Power of WorkersLucky To Have A JobThe NBA Walkouts and ObamaGet Your Knee Off Our Necks: March on WashingtonHurricane Laura: A Climate Change DisasterAssumed Innocence and Guilt – A Matter of RaceBoycott Sends Shockwaves through Professional Sports as NBA Players Demand Justice for Jacob BlakeTip of the Iceberg: Voting Rights Attacked in TennesseeCDC: Ignoring Science, Appeasing the Trump AdministrationBreaking Deadly Records: The U.S. Healthcare SystemCoronavirus Cures Brought to You by…the MyPillow Guy?Convalescent Blood Plasma: FDA approves of another treatment for COVIDPostal Workers Resist Attacks

Commentary and analysis by Speak Out Now from the weeks of August 13-26.An Awakening Decades in the MakingSteve Bannon’s Border Wall – A Scam On Top of a ScamSchools Forced to Choose: Learn Remotely or Risk LivesTech Companies Are in It for ThemselvesPoliticians’ Attacks on the U.S. Postal Service are Not NewWomen’s Suffrage: 100 Year AnniversaryWisconsin Shooting: Another Racist Cop AttackSafety Net with Huge Holes – Alameda Health System Attacks Healthcare WorkersFire! Climate Catastrophe at HomeThe Height of Hypocrisy: Biden Quotes Civil Rights Leader Ella BakerKodak and Trump Playing with Taxpayers’ DollarsBelarus: “Go! Do not come back!”Drilling in the Arctic: Capital Reigns SupremeFear and Mistrust: Vaccine Production in the U.S.Baltimore: Deadly Explosion and Aging InfrastructureArizona School Teachers and Staff Fight Back against COVID

Part Seven of our Socialism 101 series.

Commentary and analysis by Speak Out Now from the week of August 6-12.As Millions Lose Their Jobs, Politicians Disagree on the Crumbs to Give WorkersNew Jersey Public Transit: It Should be Free! U.S. Shows Workers Can Return to Work Safely – If they are NBA Players!Capitalism: A Filthy SystemBeirut Explosion – Another Example of the Ruling Class’s Contempt for Human LifeThe NLRB Shows Which Side It’s OnPro-Big Business CDC Facilitates a More Swift Return to Work

Commentary and analysis by Speak Out Now from the weeks of July 23 - August 5.Whose Laws and Whose Order?Rising Evictions Show the Priorities of This SystemIranian Activists Sentenced to DeathPolar Bears Gone by 2100Public Transit in CrisisRemembering the Legacy of John Lewis, Civil Rights ActivistBiden’s Climate Plan Won’t Save Us

Part Six of our Socialism 101 series.

Part Five of our Socialism 101 series.

Commentary and analysis by Speak Out Now from the week of July 15-22.Reopen the Schools? Our Health vs Profits (main editorial)Only One Abortion Provider in the Whole State!Removing Racist Team Names is Long Over Due: What’s Next?PG&E: When Criminals RuleWe Can Only Depend on Ourselves, Not the CourtsJuly 19, 1979: Nicaragua: The Sandinista RevolutionTrump Sends Federal Agents in Unmarked Vans to Arrest ProtestersWho to Blame for California’s New Lockdown?International Students Still Face RisksCOVID-19 Is Not a Hoax!

Commentary and analysis by Speak Out Now from the weeks of July 7-15.Maquilas and Coronavirus: Mexican Workers Fight U.S. Corporations and Government for the Right to LiveMillions Deprived of Health Coverage When We Need It MostEnergy Secretary Credits Activists for Shutting Down PipelinesTrump Administration on the Pandemic: “People Will Get Over It”Supreme Court Fast-Tracks Oil and Gas Pipelines. Our Power to Stop Them Is Through Mobilizing.Brazil’s President Tests Positive for COVIDStudents Organize in Solidarity as ICE Announces it will Deport Students in Online ClassesSouth Pole Warming Three Times Faster Than the Rest of the EarthWalk Out at Whole Foods: Standing Up for Black Lives!San Francisco General Strike 86 Years Ago: The Power of Worker SolidarityThe 4th of July – Independence for Whom?Bringing down the Statues that Glorify Racism

Part 4 of our Socialism 101 series, originally read on zoom on Saturday, June 27th.

Part 3 of our Socialism 101 series, originally read live at a zoom discussion on Sunday, June 21st.

Commentary and analysis by Speak Out Now from the week of June 25 - July 1.U.S. Politicians are Guilty of Murder! (main editorial)Second Week of Shipbuilders’ StrikeDefend Chicago Bus Driver Who Took a Stand Against Police Operations!June 30, 1918: Eugene V. Debs Jailed for Opposing Imperialist ViolencePutting a Band-Aid on the Cancer that is CapitalismNursing Homes Evict Non-profitable PatientsJune 27, 1954: A Bloody CIA-Sponsored Coup in GuatemalaPolice Treat Racist Militia Murderers with CarePhoenix Trump Rally: Spreading Misinformation is State-Sanctioned, but Protesting Lies is Unlawful

Commentary and analysis by Speak Out Now from the week of June 18-24.We Must Go Beyond Defunding the Police (featured article)Who Would Have Thought?Climate Change Sets a Scary Record in SiberiaCOVID-19 Reality is Scary. So is Trump’s Denial.Second Wave? No, We’re Still in the FirstFirst Covid-19, and Now Hunger TooA Court Victory for Dreamers – But We Have to Keep FightingCorporations Try to Exploit the Black Lives Matter MovementDeep Fake Technology: A Dangerous Tool

Commentary and analysis by Speak Out Now from the week of June 11-17.This Whole Racist System is Guilty! (main editorial)The Price is Wrong: Vaccine for ProfitThe First “Pride” Was a Riot. Stonewall Uprising, June 28, 1969: We Remember.The Supreme Court Upholds LGBTQI RightsTrump Rolls Back LGBTQI Protections – Unacceptable!Campaign Rally in Tulsa, Rally or Racist Pageant?Say His Name! Rayshard Brooks: Another Racist Cop Shoots to KillDefund the Police?Navajo Nation Tragedy: Not All Communities Suffer COVID-19 Equally

Part 2 of our Socialism 101 series, originally read on zoom on Sunday, June 14th. You can participate in our next Socialism 101 discussion live. To find out more, visit the events page on our website.

Part 1 of our "Socialism 101" series, originally read on zoom on Sunday, June 7th.  You can participate in our next Socialism 101 discussion live. To find out more, see the events page at our website.

Activist from Speak Out Now speaks at the George Floyd Solidarity protest at Oscar Grant Plaza on Monday, June 1st.

“This time we need to get rid of capitalism once and for all.”An activist from Speak Out Now speaks at the George Floyd Solidarity March, a rally organized by Oakland youth on Monday, June 1st in front of Oakland Technical High School.Watch the speech on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeRa6epFmUg

Commentary and analysis by Speak Out Now from the week of June 4-10.We Are at a Turning Point – But Which Way Will We Turn? (main editorial)India: Capitalism and the Coronavirus Killing PeopleCalifornia Budget Crisis: We Should Not Pay for the Crisis They Created!Trump Claims U.S. Unemployment Drops. No Surprise, it’s a Lie.Biden Supports the Right Wing in VenezuelaU.S. Ranks 1st in Wealth, Prisons, and Weapons Sales, 24th in Environmental PerformanceOne Disaster After Another22-Year Old Man Murdered by Cops in VallejoK-Pop Fans Spam White Supremacists2020 is on Track to be the Hottest Year in Human HistoryCapitalism Drives Extinctions, but We Can Stop ItGeneral Mattis’s Response – Trump is Pushing the Military Too FarTienanmen Square, China: 31 Years After a Massacre in the Struggle for DemocracySolidarity is Our Strength – D.C. Man Shelters 70 Protesters in His HomeOnline Bots Post HALF of all COVID-19 Conspiracies and Calls for Opening the Economy

Commentary and analysis by Speak Out Now from the week of May 28 - June 3.“We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For” (main editorial)Police Response – Kneeling is not EnoughBoth Democratic and Republican Politicians Protect Health Care Bosses from LawsuitsBus Drivers Refuse to Work with Cops against ProtestersTrump Exploits and Insults ReligionTrump: Law-and-Order President for the One PercentBusiness-Financed Front Groups Drive Push to Reopen EconomyDemocrats Do NOTHING but Wring their HandsFord Workers Stop Assembly Line Over COVID-19Joe Biden Says the Solution is to Shoot their Legs InsteadThe Police Cannot Be ReformedNo PPE Will Protect You From Racist CopsProtests against Racist Cop Violence Spread NationwideRacism Must Be Opposed by All of Us!Climate Change is Turning Forests into Polluters!Going Back to Work in the Pandemic: We Could Get Sick, but What about Sick Pay?Michigan Dam Breach: Climate Change, Meet Toxic Waste