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Mumia: Jeff Mackler and the Struggle for a Socialist World
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By MUMIA ABU-JAMAL
The speech below is a message of support that Mumia sent to Socialist
Action’s Jeff Mackler 2020 presidential campaign kick-off event
Jeff Mackler has spent most of his life in struggles for social justice,
from the 1960s till today—and tomorrow. From the early civil rights
movement,
the imperial war in Vietnam, the Black Liberation movement, and the
imperial wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Jeff Mackler has been on the side
of the oppressed,
those opposed by the empire. For the past 36 years, Jeff has served as
national secretary of the Socialist Action party, an anti-capitalist
organization
working to bring an end to the imperialist capitalist system.
If you name a social struggle of the last 40 years, you will always find
the name Jeff Mackler there, and his comrades in Socialist Action. In
the Communist
Manifesto, Marx and Engels wrote, “the communists everywhere support
revolutionary movements against the existing social and political order
of things.”
That sounds like Socialist Action at work, supporting struggles from the
prison-industrial complex to world struggles against imperialist
interventions.
When MOVE was attacked by the government, Socialist Action opposed these
violent and oppressive actions. When the late Lynne Stewart was attacked
by the
Bush administration, Socialist Action swiftly took the side of her
defense, calling rallies for her.
And when Pennsylvania attacked me with death warrants, Socialist Action
mobilized rallies throughout California to oppose it. When Imam Jamil
Al-Amin was
targeted by the state for being an influential leader of the Islamic and
Black communities, Socialist Action called for his freedom.
Jeff Mackler is an activist’s activist. And he has fought against the
Empire, its wars, and the battles happening on the imperial interior.
The battle ain’t over. And there’s more struggles to come. And Jeff
Mackler will be where he’s always been—right in the thick of things.
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“Tell a devout Christian that his wife is cheating on him, or that frozen
yogurt can make a man invisible, and he is likely to require as much evidence
as anyone else, and to be persuaded only to the extent that you give it. Tell
him that the book he keeps by his bed was written by an invisible deity who
will punish him with fire for eternity if he fails to accept its every
incredible claim about the universe, and he seems to require no evidence what
so ever.”
― Sam Harris,
