Petition to Save the Life of Amir Nasr-Azadani — Professional Iranian Soccer Player Sentenced to Death
Amir Nasr-Azadani, 26 years-old, is a professional soccer player in Iran who has been sentenced to death for participating in the recent protests sparked by the murder of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, killed while in Iranian police custody. A petition has been created to try to save his life, which can be signed here. Nasr-Azadani is […]
Human Sacrifice — The Cost of Doing Business at the World Cup
Today, we often react in horror to the accounts of ancient societies that carried out human sacrifice, as if the modern world has moved far past these brutal practices. But today there are more contemporary forms of human sacrifice that many of us have become accustomed to. Recently, a chief executive of the Qatar World […]
Covid, Flu and RSV Highlight a System That Won’t Protect Us
Despite the fact that Covid remains the third leading cause of death, killing about 400 people in the U.S. a day, the vast majority of whom are over the age of 65, the Federal Government has ended the Covid emergency declaration which provided funds for vaccination, treatment, and testing. At the same time, the triple […]
France: Pension Reform – Life ahead of us Spent…Working!
December 12, 2022, Editorial of the Workplace Newsletters of the Etincelle fraction of the NPA, Translated from French. The destruction of the planet has made 2022 the warmest year ever recorded in France. But winter is here and the cold is setting in. For many of us, managing to keep warm will become a nagging […]
Keystone Pipeline Spills in Kansas …Again
TC Energy of Canada’s Keystone pipeline spilled more than 14,000 barrels of crude oil, or 588,000 gallons, into a river in Washington County, Kansas, making it one of the largest crude spills in the United States in nearly a decade. This is the biggest spill of several thousand barrels of crude on this pipeline since […]
Largest Ever Higher Education Strike in UK
In November, an estimated 70,000 researchers, academics and administrators went on strike at 150 different university campuses across the United Kingdom. These strikes are the largest in the history of higher public education in the UK. This struggle has been brewing for some time. Over the past four years, universities have been shut down several […]
Free Mumia Abu-Jamal! Rally Thurs. Dec. 15 at 5pm, San Francisco
5 PM on Thursday, December 15, 2022 Federal Building, San Francisco, 7th and Mission Streets Mumia Is innocent! But this innocent, framed-up man has been held for over four decades in prison. Mumia is an internationally known political prisoner. As a former Black Panther and MOVE supporter, Mumia was framed for a crime he did […]
Fare Evasion
The following article has been edited and reprinted from our workplace newsletter at Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) in the San Francisco Bay Area. For context, station agents are agents that work in the booth at each station to help passengers. For some station agents, fare evasion presents real challenges. People who pay their way to ride […]
Staughton Lynd: Scholar and Defender of the Working Class
On Thursday, November 17, scholar of the people and lifelong activist Staughton Lynd died at the age of 92. Lynd was part of a generation of young scholars who came of age in the 1960s, perhaps best exemplified by himself and Howard Zinn, who sought to pursue knowledge and scholarship in the struggle to make […]
December 7, 1941: The Attack on Pearl Harbor and the Mass Incarceration of Japanese Americans
On December 7, 1941, Japan bombed the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The attack on Pearl Harbor did not come out of nowhere. It was the culmination of growing economic competition, including sanctions, over which of these two empires would control the resources and markets of the Asian Pacific. The attack brought the […]
Amazon Workers Around The World Stand Up On Black Friday
Another annual ritual of capitalism has came and gone — Black Friday, the day following Thanksgiving which marks the beginning of the holiday shopping season. For working people in retail, transportation, and logistics, this day and the following month can be extremely chaotic and stressful on top of all of the normal pressures that people […]
800 Longshore Workers Walk Out In Mobile, Alabama
On November 22nd, 800 longshore workers in Mobile, Alabama in the union International Longshoremen’s Association Local 1410 began a strike against the CSA Equipment Company at what is said to be the 11th largest seaport in the United States. The workers have been working without a contract for over four years since October 2018. Since […]
La lucha los trabajadores ferroviarios es nuestra lucha
El viernes pasado, el presidente Biden firmó una resolución del Congreso para imponer un contrato a los trabajadores ferroviarios. Él y el Congreso tomaron esta medida a pesar de que la mayoría de los trabajadores ferroviarios habían votado para rechazar ese mismo contrato. A pesar de las ganancias excepcionales que están obteniendo las empresas ferroviarias, […]
The Railway Workers’ Fight Is Our Fight
Last Friday, President Biden signed a Congressional resolution to impose a contract on railway workers. He and Congress took this action in spite of the fact that the majority of railway workers had voted to reject that very same contract. Despite the exceptional profits that the railway companies are making, Congress didn’t direct the companies […]
Anti-Government Protests Rock China
Online and on social media, Chinese families blamed authorities for the death of a four-month-old girl after access to medical care was delayed because of the government’s harsh, so-called zero-Covid policies. In southern China, protesters broke out of buildings locked down because of those same zero-Covid policies, confronting health care workers and ransacking stores to […]
Netflix Movie “Moxie” Provides Example of Youth Organizing against Sexism
Moxie is a movie on Netflix about a group of high school women who stand up to sexism at their school. The main character, Vivian, is inspired by a new student at her school whose response to a discussion in class on the novel The Great Gatsby is to question why they are reading a […]
A Rising Tide Lifts All Yachts
Surprise, surprise… Over the past three decades almost all the gains from economic growth in the United States went to the wealthiest in society. The Congressional Budget Office recently released a report that looked at the trends in family wealth distribution from 1989 to 2019. In a wide variety of ways, data was measured and […]
Soccer Without Borders, But Not Without Profits
November 28, 2022, Editorial of the Workplace Newsletters of the Etincelle fraction of the NPA, Translated from French The World Cup has had a turbulent start, not only because of the defeat of the Argentinian national team against Saudi Arabia, or the injury of the “golden ball” winner, Karim Benzema, but also because of the […]
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