Seattle Anti-Imperialist Committee

As of January 13th, 2012, Seattle Anti-Imperialist Committee has unanimously decided to disband. This decision was not the result of any political difference among us on our principles of unity, and we agreed that our last group activity would be to write this statement.
SAIC was organized in August 2005 as a working alliance between [...]

Ten years ago Bush used the 9-11 terrorist atrocity as the excuse for stepping up U.S. militarism in the name of a “war on terror.” In this, he was fully supported by the Democrats. Their first act was to invade weak Afghanistan on October 7, not just to exact bloody revenge on al [...]

May 1, 2011 is the 125th anniversary of the U.S. 1886 general strike for the 8-hour day. Since then, May 1st has become the holiday of workers everywhere, a day when workers assess the progress of their movement, and a day of marches, protests, struggle, and international solidarity.
This May Day comes with the international working [...]

Organize against Obama’s endless wars abroad & reaction at home!
The Bush administration used the September 11, 2001 terrorist atrocity to justify a policy of resurgent imperialism. Today, by escalating the bloodshed in Afghanistan, stepping up attacks on Pakistan, and passing the highest war budgets since WWII, the Obama administration continues to pursue the same disastrous [...]

Nearly everyone has now seen the video or read about the testimony of eyewitnesses at the coroner’s inquest. They show that on August 30, in broad daylight, SPD officer Birk brutally murdered Native American woodcarver John T. Williams. Approaching Williams at some distance from behind, Birk unleashed a fusillade of five bullets four seconds after issuing the first of three rapid “orders” for Williams to put down the legal pocket knife he’d been using on a piece of wood. John was hit and killed by four of the bullets as he began to turn around with his knife folded shut.