Trump and Iran – Recklessly Threatening a Bloody War
Last week, tensions escalated between the U.S. and the Iranian governments, with President Trump claiming that he had been just ten minutes away from ordering a strike on Iran. The Iranian government responded by saying it would retaliate with force as well. In other words, the U.S. almost launched a war against one of the […]
Ban layoffs and job cuts!
Over 5,000 people demonstrated last Saturday in Belfort against the planned 1,000 layoffs at General Electric. GE, Ford, Peugeot, Carrefour: the government is an accomplice to the large corporations that are laying off employees, and is leading by example with job cuts in the Post Office, National Railways, Hospitals and Education. We can expect nothing […]
Pride! Recapture the Spirit of Stonewall!
June is Pride month, we see rainbow displays in store windows and pride flags hanging from buildings and cars. The Pride Parade at the end of June transforms San Francisco into a colorful festival. Many who come to Pride don’t know where it came from. In many ways it has become more of a corporate […]
NBA Finals: More Than a Game
It’s the NBA finals. The Golden State Warriors are facing the Toronto Raptors, Canada’s only NBA basketball team, a team that has never made it this far. But if the Warriors win, it will be three championships in a row, their fourth in the last five years. For five years in a row, the months […]
Against Macron and his “act 2”, a new round of fights.
The ballot boxes have just been put back into storage, and the government and the bosses already are back to business. The bosses had waited a few weeks or months before announcing bad news about jobs, to avoid embarrassment for the government. But they didn’t even wait 48 hours to make announcement after announcement about […]