France: Inflation, Employer Violence, Back to School… To Learn to Fight Back
August 23, 2023, Editorial of the Workplace Newsletters of the Etincelle fraction of the New Anticapitalist Party (NPA), Translated from French “My advice to consumers? Visit the stores, exercise your critical faculties”. This is the advice given to families by Michel-Édouard Leclerc, head of the Leclerc supermarket chain. When it comes to saving money, the […]
More Handouts for a BART Landlord?
The landlord of the Coliseum Connections apartment building near the Coliseum station, which flooded on New Year’s Eve, is suing the City of Oakland. He is saying it’s the city’s fault that his building flooded due to poor storm drain infrastructure, and he should be paid back thousands of dollars in damages. While he has […]
Coup in Niger: No Solution for the People’s Misery
On July 26th in Niger, military officers of the Presidential Guard launched a coup against President Mohamed Bazoum. The officers were led by General Abdourahmane Tchiani, who proclaimed himself leader while promising to hand over power to civilians in three years. The coup was immediately condemned by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), […]
Montana Youth Demand “the Right to a Clean and Healthful Environment”
People living in Montana have the right to a “clean and healthful environment” according to Judge Kathy Seeley of the Montana District Court in Helena. This decision came after the judge spent a week listening to experts explain how fossil fuel-related pollution is the direct cause of the dangerous rise in temperatures around the world. […]
Trump Indictments: Whose Democracy is Under Threat?
The past few months have been historic for many reasons. Record-breaking heat has made this summer the hottest ever – at least so far. These extreme temperatures have led to hellish heat waves and have contributed to the unprecedented fires in both Canada and Hawaii. But the climate is not the only thing heating up […]
San Francisco Mime Troupe: “Breakdown” Review
For over 60 years the San Francisco Mime Troupe has performed political theater in public parks throughout the Bay Area and abroad. The Tony-award winning company maintains their mission “to create and produce theater that presents a working-class analysis of the events that shape our society, that exposes social and economic injustice, that demands revolutionary change on […]
The Biden Administration Says You’re on Your Own as COVID-19 Cases Rise
The U.S. is experiencing a recent rise in COVID-19 cases, but the government has decided it’s not a problem anymore, and is not taking any action to mitigate it.
Gilead and Big Pharma: Profits over Patients
Gilead Sciences delayed a new, more-effective AIDS treatment drug so they could continue profiting from the still-patented old drugs.
Heat Waves Freaking Out Healthcare
Hospitals have faced a surge in people needing treatment during the recent heat waves.
The Deadly Fire in Hawaii – A Profit-Driven Disaster
The death toll continues to rise from the fire that has ravaged the island of Maui in Hawaii. More than 90 deaths have been recorded so far, but the number is almost certain to rise. The fire is the worst so far in modern U.S. history, worse than the 2018 Camp fire in California which […]
Baltimore Gas & Electric: Huge Profits, Zero Accountability
As winter began in late 2022, Adrienne Smith of the Easterwood neighborhood in West Baltimore had her gas service turned off, leaving her family without heat, hot water, or a functional stove. Smith had refused access to Baltimore Gas & Electric (BGE) when the utility company insisted on performing modifications to her home to install […]
Netanyahu’s Government Delivers a Blow to Israel’s Supposed Democracy
After six months of demonstrations in which tens of thousands of Israelis took to the streets in opposition, the right-wing Netanyahu government has finally succeeded in passing its proposed reform to the country’s court system. The courts, under the new legislation will not have a right to overturn legislation passed by the Knesset, Israel’s parliament. […]
Guerra nuclear: ¿a un paso de distancia?
En las últimas semanas, la película Oppenheimer ha sido ampliamente discutida en los medios y muchas personas la han visto en los cines. La película se centra en la vida y obra de J. Robert Oppenheimer, el científico que lideró el esfuerzo del ejército estadounidense para desarrollar la primera arma nuclear durante la Segunda Guerra […]
Calor de verano: la crisis climática se desarrolla ante nuestros ojos
Este verano ha visto olas de calor récord en los EE. UU. y el resto del mundo. Durante tres días consecutivos entre el 4 y el 6 de julio, la temperatura global promedio fue la más alta jamás registrada en la historia humana. Aquí en los EE. UU., muchas regiones del país están sufriendo las […]
Film Review: Oppenheimer
Christopher Nolan’s latest film has been a box office hit, an adaptation of the biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, American Prometheus, written by Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin. Oppenheimer provides a perspective on the intertwined technical, political, and moral issues confronting the scientists who developed the first atomic bomb. The film follows the life of […]
The Cobalt Mine That Never Was
The so-called capitalist transition to green energy has a problem: it isn’t profitable to produce cobalt, a key element in the construction of lithium-ion batteries. Most of the world’s cobalt production is currently in China, which has large reserves of the metal. The U.S. government, wanting to compete with China and meet future demand for cobalt, is […]
Floods Around the World
This summer has brought terrifying news: heat waves across the world have led to hundreds of deaths in the US alone; July 2023 was the hottest month in the past 120,000 years. In addition, flooding has been reported in countries across the world. In Juneau, Alaska, a melting glacier led to the flooding of the Mendenhall River, which set a new […]
France: The True Face of Macron’s Republic
Hedi was beaten by Macron’s police, causing him to lose part of his skull.
Who’s BART? or Whose BART?
Who is BART? And who does BART belong to? The workers, and the public.
School Libraries Under Threat in Houston
Houston Independent School District is converting school libraries into student discipline centers.
Film Review: Barbie
Barbie is a film about a pink-studded plastic doll from a surreal land where everything seems perfect so long as you don’t question it. When she ventures into the human world, namely Los Angeles, she comes face to face with the equally surreal nature of this society. In Barbieland, everything is possible if you’re Barbie. […]
Nuclear War: A Hair Trigger Away?
In the past few weeks, the film Oppenheimer has been widely discussed in the media, and many people have seen it in theaters. The film focuses on the life and work of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the scientist who led the U.S. military’s effort to develop the first nuclear weapon during World War II. After successfully […]
August 6: The Anniversary of Nuclear War — NEVER AGAIN!
August 6, 2023 is the 78th anniversary of the start of nuclear war. In 1945, the United States military dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, killing at least 70,000 civilians. Three days later, they dropped another on Nagasaki, killing at least 40,000 more. These are the U.S. military’s estimates at the time, so the […]
Erie, Pa. Strikers Make Unusual Demands
In late June, 1,400 workers in Erie, Pennsylvania went on strike against the Westinghouse Airbrake Technologies Corporation, better known as Wabtec, one of the few U.S.-based manufacturers of railroad locomotives and train technology. We support them in their strike, which has some typical features of most labor conflicts. Demands for better pay and better treatment […]
NO to the Guilty Verdict in the Baltimore Squeegee Case!
The trial over the shooting of a motorist by a teenage squeegee worker in Baltimore has come to an end. A year after the shooting the jury reached the verdict that the teenager, tried as an adult, was guilty of voluntary manslaughter, the use of a firearm in a crime, and being a minor in […]
Russia: Boris Kagarlitsky in Custody, While Yevgeny Prigozhin Still at Large!
By Michelle Verdier, posted on July 31, 2023 on the website of the New Anti-capitalist Party (NPA) in France; translated from French. “Let’s rally in support of Boris Kagarlitsky!” On July 25, various Russian leftist and far-leftist voices, including the Telegram channel of the Russian Socialist Movement (RSD, a group linked to the Fourth International), […]
The UPS Contract – Now It’s Up to the Workers
On July 25, the bargaining team of the Teamsters union and United Parcel Service (UPS) reached a tentative agreement on a five-year contract for more than 340,000 workers. Teamster members will vote on the contract from August 3 to August 22. UPS management and the union’s top officials, along with the U.S. Department of Labor […]
In Macron’s World, even Vacations Suck!
July 24, 2023, Editorial of the Workplace Newsletters of the Etincelle Fraction of the New Anti-capitalist Party (NPA) in France; Translated from French This summer, the number of people who have decided not to go on vacation is approaching 40% – a very sad record indeed. France may still be one of the world’s most […]
Ruchell Magee Goes Free
Longtime political prisoner Ruchell Magee was released after spending 67 years behind bars. Magee was born in Jim Crow Louisiana in 1939 and faced the full brunt of white supremacy in the United States. As a 16-year-old, he was arrested on false charges of rape for having a relationship with a white woman in a […]