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Cuba in the Archive Series
As part of our solidarity with Cuba, the SftP Anti-militarism and Environment Working Group is sharing a selection of articles from the SftP Archives highlighting the work of the first iteration of our organization in solidarity with Cuba. Each entry in this series includes a link to read the online…
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SftP Statement on Cuba
In this time of escalated imperialist aggression by the United States and its allies, Cuba faces renewed threat of military aggression, compounding more than six decades of counter-insurgency and illegal blockades led by the United States. It is imperative that we uphold the Cuban people’s fight for liberation, itself situated…
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Move the 2026 ICM out of the United States
On March 15th, we launched a petition to boycott the 2026 International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Philadelphia in light of the Trump administration’s belligerent violence escalating around the world. Since then, we have garnered over 1800 signatures (and counting) from mathematicians around the world who share our discontent with…
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Statement Demanding Ethics Clause in IU Investment Policy
Members of the Indiana University Board of Trustees and the IU Foundation: As scientists, educators, and workers committed to the liberation of knowledge production from systems of profit and oppression, we at Science for the People– Bloomington stand in solidarity with the IU Divestment Coalition’s demand for an ethics clause…
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Solidarity with Venezuelan Science—SftP Statement
In its monstrous assault upon the sovereignty of the Venezuelan people on January 3, the United States has kidnapped president Nicholás Maduro Moros and first lady Cilia Flores, killing at least 100 people. Leading up to this operation, the US extrajudicially murdered at least 123 people in strikes in and…
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Kalaniyot
In the period shortly after Oct 7th, a vigil was held on Boston Common, where MIT Physics Professor Dr. Or Hen gave a speech inviting any community members to come to him, to speak their concerns and build community.[1] This is the origin story of Kalaniyot, a US-Israeli academic initiative,…
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Oliners for Palestine Military Ethics Screening Policy
Introduction Engineering, especially in the US, has been critical in enabling mass violence inflicted on people both in and outside the US. The American military-industrial complex has been a central driver of both industry and engineering education, evidenced by Olin College’s roots in ammunition manufacturing—Franklin W. Olin’s businesses were major…
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Defending Science: For Whom, By What Means, Toward What Ends?
Nearly a decade after the slogan “Believe Science” became popularized, the established scientific profession is once again called upon by the opposition to the second Trump administration to take a political stance. Whereas the first such “defense of science” in 2017 confronted conspiratorial dismissals of the scientific consensus on climate…
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Science is Never Apolitical
“Wonder and the Life of Palestinian Astronomy,” an article from Volume 23, Issue 1: Science Under Occupation from the print magazine of our organization, was featured in the lab assignment materials of an astronomy course at Columbia University. It was selected in an effort to highlight the privilege that students…
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Science for the People, No Tech for Apartheid, and the Tech Workers’ Coalition endorse the Boycott Amazon! campaign
EN / FR As Amazon prepares to shutter its operations in Québec, laying off over 4,500 Amazon workers and partnered delivery workers, Science for the People, No Tech for Apartheid, and the Tech Workers’ Coalition stand in solidarity with affected workers and endorse the “Ici, on boycott Amazon” campaign at…