1000+ Turn-Out for #S17, 5 arrested including SP-NY Secretary outside Goldman Sachs On September 17th over one thousand protestors took to the streets to celebrate Occupy Wall Street’s first birthday. The festivities sent Wall Street and the surrounding area into chaos as jubilant protestors marched, chanted, danced and sang in the streets, effectively shutting down the machinations of the... 

“The police occupy a unique position in the social hierarchy, and many undoubtedly enjoy the smug sense of satisfaction any authority figure gets from exercising their power. They are paid by the State to protect the wealthy and powerful and to, when need be, repress those potentially disruptive social forces: minorities, the poor and unemployed, angry disaffected youth, the rebels, outcasts and... 

Brooklyn College Campus Police and the NYPD assaulted peaceful student demonstrators outside of President Gould’s office today on campus. Multiple students were pushed against walls, thrown through doorways, and knocked to the floor, a disabled student was assaulted and had her cane taken from her, and multiple students were arrested and literally carried away by the NYPD. by Charlie Kerr from... 

“We don’t always choose when we are arrested, and we don’t always have control over how it is depicted in the press, but we do have some power over what kinds of battles we choose to wage and how we choose to wage them.” by Yotam Marom  from Waging Non violence  “The Tombs” is the less-than-endearing nickname for New York City’s Central Booking, the jail you get sent to if you are... 

May 1, 2012Socialists of America, Unite! on May 1, 2012 Occupy spread like wildfire, setting America ablaze. From large cities like New York City and Los Angeles to small towns like Martinsburg, Virginia and Mobile, Alabama, occupiers are consistently organizing, planning, discussing, and taking direct action for the 99%. Not since the 1960s and 1930s have so many people taken militant action... 

by Pham Binh from Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist Pink Scare’s (PS) response  to the debate ignited by my review  of Tony Cliff’s Lenin: Building the Party affords me the opportunity to clarify issues of secondary importance like timing, judgments, method, and implications that did not fit with the content of my responses to the Cliff book’s two defenders, Paul Le Blanc and Paul... 

“And who is teaching these rogue cops how to bruise and break poets ribs, how to block and arrest journalists in their running shoes, how to pepper spray sitting students,  and how to destroy thousands of books from the Occupy Wall Street free library?” Even a Poet Laureate Doesn’t Deserve to Get Beaten by the Police by Eliot Katz As someone who doesn’t care much about government... 

March 15, 20126:00 pmto7:00 pm    “The Occupy movement has claimed that it represents the bottom 99% of Americans while policies are geared to help the top 1% of Americans, the highest echelons of the capitalist class. In essence, the 99% are the rest of us whom have been left behind in America’s economic growth and whom are being told must bear the weight of the problem caused... 

A visit to Occupy the Government of the Federal District on February 22, 2012 and interview with spokesperson.  Read More →

“This is exactly what’s wrong with us, the U.S. socialist left. The fact that there has been almost no concrete and explicit discussion on the socialist left about the new tasks Occupy’s eruption has created for us is disturbing.” a Reply to Paul D’Amato by Pham Binh The first response to my “Occupy and the Tasks of Socialists” piece written by a leading member of an American socialist... 

On January 28th, 2012, Occupy Oakland moved to take a vacant building to use as a social center and a new place to continue organizing. This is the story of what happened that day as told by those who were a part of it. it features rare footage and interviews with Boots Riley, David Graeber, Maria Lewis, and several other witnesses to key events.  The Battle of Oakland from brandon jourdan on Vimeo.  Read More →

A Statement of the Socialist Party of New York City  The Socialist Party USA condemns the police action taken against the months long occupation of Zuccotti Park in New York City. Under the cover of dark, the NYPD cowardly entered the park and forced hundreds of protesters out. The power of our Occupation is demonstrated by the fact that the police had to shut down all subway and car traffic to the... 

by Billy Wharton While crime rates in New York City soar the New York Police Department (NYPD) spent a good part of Saturday entrapping and arresting hundreds of protesters who were moving across the Brooklyn Bridge. In the process, the police created an extremely dangerous situation for about 800 occupiers of the bridge who were effectively trapped – a police net on one side and the Hudson River...