Worcester Nurses Striking for Patient Safety – Longest Strike in a Decade
Nurses at a hospital in Massachusetts are protesting unsafe practices in the longest strike in state history.
Florida Condo Collapse: Lives are the Price of Neglect
Years before the collapse of the condo building in Surfside, Florida, engineers had identified deterioration and recommended repairs – which were never made.
Democrats’ Voting Rights Act: Not Enough for Democracy
The Democrats failed to pass a voting reform bill – but even if they did, it wouldn’t have addressed big money choosing the candidates.
Amazon Lunacy: Destroying Millions of Unsold Items
Demonstrating the absurdity of capitalism, Amazon destroys millions of unsold items every week.
Prime Day – The Ultimate Capitalist Holiday
Amazon’s Prime Day is the ultimate capitalist “holiday.”
Women’s Situation Today
Capitalism has always depended on the labor of women for profits. Women have often been paid very little or nothing at all, and today they occupy the largest portion of the most essential, precarious and worst-paying jobs. Globally, women make up: 70% of healthcare workers 83% of elementary school teachers 60% of service workers Women […]
While They Get Richer, Our Lives Get Worse
We live in the wealthiest country in the World. But who controls it? It is our labor that creates the wealth of this society. But the corporations and banks and their super rich owners reap the benefits. Their greed has no limits. While most workers in the U.S. are scraping by and struggling to pay […]
June 27, 1954: A Bloody CIA-Sponsored Coup in Guatemala
On June 27, 1954, the democratically elected president of Guatemala, Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán, was deposed in a CIA-sponsored coup to protect the profits of the United Fruit Company
France: A new slap in the face for President Macron
Voters in France show who they support in the regional elections: none of the above!
The Significance of the Pullman Strike of 1894
On June 26th, 1894, members of the American Railway Union began a boycott in support of striking workers at the Pullman Palace Car Company in Pullman, Illinois (today part of Chicago’s South Side). This boycott meant workers all across the railway industry refused to work on any train that had a Pullman car attached to […]
Biden Leads the G7 in Effort to Further Demonize China
Recently, political leaders of the wealthiest “Group of 7 Nations” (G7) met to discuss what they saw as the most pressing issues that they were facing, including beating war drums against China.
States Reopening — Not A Celebration
June 15th marked the day when most states in the U.S. fully reopened their economies, lifting most COVID restrictions, and easing mask mandates. But who is really celebrating?
The Significance of Pride
Pride is much more than a festival. Most importantly, it’s a time to commemorate the LGBTQ+ community’s resistance to police violence. The event that is often considered the spark of the gay rights movement was the Stonewall Uprising in 1969. Patrons of a New York City bar, The Stonewall Inn, were routinely harassed by the […]
As Temperatures Soar, Energy Companies Cut the Power
A record-setting heat wave hit the Western United States last week in California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Texas and parts of Colorado. Some cities have hit their highest recorded temperature in over 100 years, such as Palm Springs, California, with 123 degrees.This “heat dome” is accompanied by a drought in parts of the West. The heat […]
¡La Vivienda es un Derecho! ¡Pongamos Fin a los Desalojos!
Antes de la pandemia ya estábamos enfrentando una crisis de vivienda. Un número récord de personas estaban pagando casi la mitad de sus ingresos en renta; a menudo varias personas tenían que amontonarse en pequeños apartamentos. Los campamentos de carpas estaban creciendo y millones de personas vivían lejos del trabajo para poder pagar una vivienda, […]
For a Workers’ Anti-Capitalist and Revolutionary Candidacy of the NPA in the French Presidential Elections
The French New Anticapitalist Party is currently debating which platform to adopt regarding the next presidential election. We publish here (a translation of) the platform of our French comrades of the Etincelle fraction in the NPA (New Anticapitalist Party) Platform 5 for the Congress of the NPA The National Conference of the NPA must decide […]
Let’s Vote for the Lutte Ouvrière (Workers’ Struggle) Candidate Lists
Our fraternal organization in France urged a vote for Lutte Ouvriere in the June 20 election.
Quality Health Care for All
For-Profit Healthcare Healthcare has become a multibillion-dollar industry. Hospital administrators, not healthcare workers, make decisions about worker and patient safety while pharmaceutical companies fund medical research, making their profits off of patient need. This is healthcare under capitalism – a system that prioritizes profits over peoples’ quality of life. Nearly one out of eleven people […]
How Dare They Try To Steal Our Future!
Young people today face a world of crises. It’s clear that this society does not function for the benefit of 99% of humanity. The problem is capitalism: a system where a tiny fraction of the population owns and controls the world’s resources, wealth, and the infrastructure we depend on. Democrats and Republicans both manage this […]
Upcoming Online Discussions
The capitalist system has put humanity in an emergency situation, facing global pandemics, endless wars and militarism, racism, oppression, inequality, the exploitation of the majority of the world’s people, and an environmental catastrophe that threatens all life on this planet. This is not a future we can accept. Come to a discussion about how we […]
New Prime Minister, Same Brutal Violence
On June 13th Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s longest serving Prime Minister, was unseated by Naftali Bennett, a politician even farther to the right than Netanyahu.
Billionaires and Taxes – Winning at Their Own Game
Most Americans live paycheck to paycheck, accumulate little no wealth and pay taxes. But the big capitalists live in a different world. As their wealth expands, their effective tax rates decline.
MacKenzie Scott Gives Away $2.7 Billion
MacKenzie Scott, former wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is giving away $2.7 billion. But who generated that wealth? Why should it be up to rich people like her to decide what happens with that wealth?
Abortion Rights: A Brave Young Voice!
We are thrilled to reprint the speech of Paxton Smith, the Valedictorian speaker who went off script at her Texas high school graduation.
Why We Celebrate Juneteenth
Today we celebrate Juneteenth – the most popular annual celebration of the end of slavery in the United States. On this day we commemorate June 19, 1865, when Major General Gordon Granger of the Union Army arrived in Galveston, Texas with 1,800 Union soldiers and announced that slavery was officially abolished in Texas. Although Abraham […]
Response to the Courant Communiste Revolutionaire (CCR) of France
There is currently a crisis in the French New Anticapitalist Party (NPA) of which our French comrades are a fraction known as “L’Etincelle” (The Spark). L’Etincelle, and by association Speak Out Now, have been the object of criticism by another fraction of the NPA, the Courant Communiste Revolutionnaire (CCR), which is the French section of […]
Housing is a Right! End Evictions!
Even before the pandemic, we were already facing a housing crisis. Record numbers of people were paying nearly half their income in rent, often cramming multiple people into small apartments. Tent cities were on the rise. Millions had to live far from work to afford housing, adding hours to their commute. Since the pandemic, all […]
The Brutality of Racism
Race defines much of our lives. It says who we are to a cop, a judge, our school teachers, the hiring committee, the banker loaning us money, the landlord – everyone. It is with us wherever we go. Race was a conscious creation. It was developed to divide poor workers and indentured servants of African […]
Environmental Destruction is All Around Us
We are facing a crisis like never before. The current organization of production, especially the burning of oil, coal and gas as the main sources of energy, is destroying life on the planet. The Climate Crisis Climate change is causing more frequent and more intense hurricanes which are killing people, destroying infrastructure, and completely upending […]
La Educación: la Lucha por Nuestro Futuro
La Crisis de la Educación Los problemas de la educación no pueden resolverse en una sola aula o escuela. La educación en toda sociedad sirve para mantener el orden existente y para socializar a los jóvenes para que funcionen dentro de ese orden. Eso significa educar a los niños para que funcionen en el sistema […]
Capitalismo es la Pandemia, Socialismo es la Cura
¿Quién es responsable de esta crisis? Desde hace más de un año estamos enfrentando varias crisis. Al igual que una resonancia magnética o una radiografía, estas crisis han expuesto el funcionamiento del sistema capitalista, con su gobierno de patrones y banqueros que explotan y oprimen a la mayoría de la gente del mundo. La enfermedad […]
Violence: Our Lack of Safety is First and Foremost Social!
After a person attacked a police officer with a knife in France, the French politicians are proposing remedies that don’t address the root cause of such violence.
Socialism 101: Saturday, July 3 at 4pm (pdt), 7pm (edt)
Why Capitalism is the Problem The capitalist system has put humanity in an emergency situation, facing global pandemics, endless wars and militarism, racism, oppression, inequality, the exploitation of the majority of the world’s people, and an environmental catastrophe that threatens all life on this planet. This is not a future we can accept. Join us […]
Kamala Harris Threatens the People of Guatemala
Kamala Harris admitted that immigration from Latin America is a result of poverty. What she forgot to mention is that this poverty was imposed in the most violent way by the capitalists who rule the United States.
Megadrought in Southwest Spells Our Future
The ongoing megadrought in the western U.S. is a symptom of capitalism. We need to get rid of this system in order to solve these kinds of problems.
“People Don’t Want To Work” … For Peanuts!
As unemployment benefits are running out, the media are telling us that people don’t want to work.
Biden Administration Defends Schools’ Religious Exemptions on LGBTQ Rights—in Pride Month!
The Biden administration’s Department of Justice is defending religion-based discrimination against LGBTQ students.
We Can’t Wait for Politicians to Protect Voting
The Democrats complain about Republican efforts at voter suppression, but they don’t seem to be passing any laws about it in Congress. We can’t depend on them to act.
Biden On The Environment? – Nothing Has Fundamentally Changed
The Biden administration continues to defend mining and oil projects, because it represents the capitalist system.
Capitalism is the Pandemic — Socialism is the Cure
Who Is Responsible for the Crises Today? For over a year now, we have faced a series of ongoing crises. Just like an MRI or an X-ray, these crises have exposed the functioning of the capitalist system – the rule of the bosses and bankers that exploit and oppress the majority of the people of […]
Joe Biden Steps In as Head Cop of The World
The U.S. continues to maintain its empire with Biden at the head of the military.
Witness from Colombia: A fighter on the Front Lines
A report from an activist in Colombia.
It’s the Bosses’ War Machine — Not Ours!
What They Say U.S. politicians from both parties say we fight wars to defend what they call the “free world” from tyranny. They tell us that the U.S. is a beacon of freedom and democracy. They use patriotism (another word for nationalism) and wave the flag to get us to fight their wars, claiming we […]
Education: The Fight for our Future
The Crisis in Education The problems in education can’t be solved within a single classroom or school. Education in every society serves to maintain the existing order and to socialize young people to function within it. That means educating children to function in the capitalist system, a system based on the exploitation of the overwhelming […]
Meet-Up: Sunday, June 20 at 4pm (pdt), 7pm (edt)
The problems we confront can seem overwhelming and it can be difficult to know where to start. Join us to raise your concerns, find out about Speak Out Now, discuss how to organize with those around you, and more. Join Zoom Meetinghttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/85726185150?pwd=c2RjanJZSEVtdndHRERKTHBvK28rZz09 Meeting ID: 857 2618 5150Passcode: 448075
Meet-Up: Sunday, June 20 at 11am (pdt), 2pm (edt)
The problems we confront can seem overwhelming and it can be difficult to know where to start. Join us to raise your concerns, find out about Speak Out Now, discuss how to organize with those around you, and more. Join Zoom Meetinghttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/85726185150?pwd=c2RjanJZSEVtdndHRERKTHBvK28rZz09 Meeting ID: 857 2618 5150Passcode: 448075
Meet-Up: Thursday, June 17 at 5pm (pdt), 8pm (edt)
The problems we confront can seem overwhelming and it can be difficult to know where to start. Join us to raise your concerns, find out about Speak Out Now, discuss how to organize with those around you, and more. Join Zoom Meetinghttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/85726185150?pwd=c2RjanJZSEVtdndHRERKTHBvK28rZz09 Meeting ID: 857 2618 5150Passcode: 448075
We Shouldn’t Pay For Their Crisis
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The Struggle Against Line #3 Pipeline in Minnesota
We can’t rely on capitalists to stop building oil pipelines. Only a mass movement can.
Texas Bans Abortion at Six Weeks
Texas’s ban on abortion must be fought – we can’t wait for the courts to decide.