Month: June 2016

To Be or Not to Be in the European Union: That is Not the Question

Brexit has prevailed with 51.9% of the votes in the referendum that took place on June 23. For months, a nauseating campaign was dominated by reactionaries, nostalgic of the British Empire, and xenophobes of all kinds wanting to make migrants responsible for all ills. Surfing on these same ideas, Prime Minister David Cameron had made […]

OPD: Exposing a Corrupt Society

The sex scandal involving the Oakland Police Department has exposed the level of corruption throughout all of law enforcement. According to the East Bay Express, at least 28 police officers on multiple occasions had sex with a teenager who was working as a sex worker. The list of officers spans multiple agencies, including at least […]

Fracking – Another Sign of an Insane System

download a .pdf of this pamphlet updated Aug. 2018 Hydraulic fracturing, also known as “fracking,” is a highly polluting process used to extract oil or natural gas trapped in rock formations deep underground. Fracking has destroyed water supplies, sickened people and animals, and disrupted life in towns across the U.S. and other countries. Yet energy […]

Hollande and Valls Want to Silence the Protests – They Won’t be Able to!

Unable to silence dissent against the Work law, Hollande and Valls threatened to ban demonstrations due to the “violence acts” that happened. As if by chance… Didn’t the Euro football championship lead to much more violent excesses like the clashes in Marseille between Russian and English hooligans? Did Hollande, Valls or Cazeneuve threaten to ban […]

What Now? Don’t Give Up!

The massive success of the June 14 demonstrations is clear. The mobilization against the Work law has continued for more than three months and shows no sign of letting go. Different sectors went on strike: refiners, garbage collectors, railway workers… At the same time, in different regions, work stoppages or strikes have taken place in […]

The Orlando Tragedy – Product of a Violent Society

Omar Mateen shot and killed 49 people and wounded 53 more in the Pulse dance club, a club for lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgendered and queer (LGBTQ) people in Orlando, Florida. What do we know about Mateen, the 29-year-old man who carried out the attack? He worked as a security guard and as a guard in […]

Reform vs. Revolution (June 11, 2016 – Brooklyn, NY)

download 8.5 x 11 flyer [.pdf 475kb] How Do We Build A Revolutionary Organization In The Working Class How Do We Link Contemporary Struggles and Campaigns to the Working Class  We have seen responses to the violent attacks of capitalism. Resistance to police murders, ecological catastrophe, and other struggles – for the most part, these […]

All Together, We Will Make Them Back Down!

Gattaz, Valls and Hollande have tried all kinds of disinformation: they said the strikers take the population “hostage”, they used blackmail about “the image of France” with the arrival of the Euro Cup, or they called to end the strikes in solidarity with the victims of the floods… Nothing helped. The majority of the population […]

France: “They Have Billions — We Are Millions”

On June 14, hundreds of thousands of French workers went on strike and held demonstrations. This action followed three and half months of struggles and over a dozen days of strikes and demonstrations, by workers and their student allies against a new law that the French government is trying to impose on them. And this […]