Memorial for Ruchell “Cinque” Magee & Letter Writing to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal (Dec. 9 at 12pm)
(This is a repost of an event originally posted on SF Indybay) Celebrate the life and legacy of Ruchell Magee, America’s longest held political prisoner and write to Philadelphia D.A. Krasner that he stop prosecuting Mumia who is innocent and framed. This is a panel discussion organized by Carole Seligman. Saturday December 9 at 12pm […]
The COP28 Climate Conference is Part of the Problem
COP28 – the 28th annual meeting of the United Nations “Conference of the Parties” to discuss progress towards stopping the climate crisis, starts November 30. This year COP is being hosted by the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the 7th largest oil-producing country in the world – this is just the beginning of the farce that […]
Against All Racism, Against All Divisions, the Unity of the Working Class
As the French government condemns protesters against the war in Gaza as “anti-Semites”, it is working with right-wing anti-Semites to pass a xenophobic immigration bill.
Baltimore: Nurses at Saint Agnes Hospital Win Union Recognition
Nurses at Saint Agnes Hospital in Baltimore have won union recognition.
In The Face of Global Crisis, What Did Biden and China’s President Xi Accomplish?
Biden and Xi met at APEC, but their meeting was more for optics than action.
Thankful For What?
Many happenings around the world are not things to be thankful for.
Millions of Children Lose Medicaid Health Coverage
Since April, at least 2 million children have lost Medicaid health insurance throughout 21 U.S. states. The reports by researchers at the Georgetown Center for Children and Families and KFF, a health policy organization, sound the alarm of the declining health protections available for children in poverty. States are taking away Medicaid as the poverty rate for children doubled since 2022. Children and […]
Fed Up With Politics? Whose Politics?
Recent reports in the New York Times are verifying what most of us already knew: millions of people in the United States, likely the vast majority, are fed up with politics and politicians. They are sick of the perceived drama, disfunction, unkept promises, conflict, and outright ineffectiveness of political institutions on all levels. This phenomenon […]
Fossil Fuel Production Increases as Earth Burns
A new study by the Copernicus Climate Change Service calculates that 2023 will go down in history as the hottest year on record, and the hottest year in 125,000 years! Not only did the earth experience its hottest consecutive days ever this July, but this October has now been found to have been the warmest […]
The Israeli State, Armed Wing of the Imperialist Powers against the People
November 13, 2023 editorial of the New Anti-capitalist Party (NPA) in France, translated from French Unable to continue banning demonstrations in support of the Palestinian people, (French President) Macron attempted a counter-fire by having his underlings launch a call to demonstrate “against anti-Semitism.” For days, all the media relayed the call. As did almost all […]
Baltimore: Racist Sentencing of Teen Squeegee Worker
In July of 2022, a group of Black teens was washing windshields, known as “squeegeeing,” at a busy downtown Baltimore intersection. A 48-year-old white man got out of his car and threatened the youths with a baseball bat, swinging the bat at at least one of them. One of the teens pulled a gun and […]
APEC: Who is Prioritized?
These articles are reprinted from Speak Out’s workplace newsletter at Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) and focus on the impacts of this conference which happen at the expense of BART workers and ordinary people in the San Francisco community. Priorities Top executives of major corporations and politicians, including President Biden, Chinese President Xi Jinping, Ferdinand […]
Governments and the Extreme Right Support the Massacres in Gaza — The People Denounce Them in the Streets!
November 6, 2023 editorial of the New Anti-capitalist Party (NPA) in France, translated from French. The Israeli army is now in the very heart of Gaza City, striking on the ground as indiscriminately as it did from the air. Half of all homes have been razed to the ground. More than 10,000 people have already […]
Mike Johnson: Another Reactionary Speaker of the House
On October 25th, the Republican Party finally elected a new Speaker of the House of Representatives after weeks of internal wrangling. The new Speaker is Mike Johnson, who has been a member of Congress since 2016. And he is now second in line to the presidency. But who is Mike Johnson? And what can we […]
Gaza: ¿de qué lado estás?
La brutalidad de la guerra genocida de Israel contra el pueblo palestino se está ampliando. La situación en Gaza es una catástrofe humanitaria completa debido a la intensificación de los bombardeos, una invasión terrestre y el bloqueo de suministros esenciales. Más de 11,000 personas han sido matadas, entre ellas más de 4,500 niños. Miles de […]
Gaza – Which Side Are You On?
The brutality of Israel’s genocidal war on the Palestinian people is expanding. The situation in Gaza is a full-fledged humanitarian catastrophe due to intensifying bombing raids, a ground invasion, and the blockade of essential supplies. More than 11,000 people have been killed, including over 4,500 children. Thousands of people are unaccounted for, trapped under the […]
Access to Reproductive Rights Depends on Us
The November 7 elections affirmed something we already knew: a solid majority of people in the United States support people’s right to an abortion and the larger right to make their own decisions about their bodies and their healthcare. In the typically “red” states of Virginia, Kentucky, Pennsylvania and Ohio, voters either voted against the […]
Air Quality Nightmare in Delhi
Delhi, India, one of the largest cities in the world, was blanketed in the first week of November by some of its worst air quality ever. The city and its surroundings, a metro area home to nearly 28 million people, have become notorious in recent decades for their unhealthy air pollution, especially at least a […]
Hundreds of Thousands in the U.S. and Elsewhere Protest Genocidal Bombing of Gaza
On Saturday, November 4, an estimated 300,000 people marched in Washington, DC to demonstrate in support of the Palestinian people and oppose the brutal genocidal bombings of the residents of occupied Gaza. People traveled from as far as Florida, Massachusetts, and Kentucky to participate in the DC demonstration, which occurred on the same day as […]
Protesters Against Israel’s War on Gaza Block North Carolina Highway
On Thursday afternoon, November 2, the Durham, North Carolina branch of Jewish Voices For Peace led 200 or more protestors against Israel’s merciless war on the people of Gaza in a lunch hour march through downtown Durham. Protesters then marched onto a nearby highway where some 40 sat down, blocking traffic for more than two […]
Autoworkers Make Gains In New Union Contracts, But Big Challenges Lie Ahead
UAW workers won gains with their strike, but they were limited by the way the UAW organized the strike.
Stand in Solidarity with the People of Palestine!
The ferocity of Israel’s war on the people of Palestine is increasing and turning vast areas of Gaza into rubble. In response, people around the world are mobilizing in response to this genocidal attack. People have mobilized in the streets across the Middle East, Europe, South Asia, the U.S., and other parts of the world. […]
Video: Online Town Hall with Zeiad Abbas Shamrouch about the situation in Gaza
Zeiad Abbas Shamrouch is a Palestinian refugee and the Executive Director of the Middle East Children’s Alliance (mecaforpeace.org). This war is a U.S. war — armed, paid for, and backed up by the U.S. government. Our solidarity lies in building a movement here as part of a worldwide resistance. On November 12, 2023, Zeiad Abbas […]
Not in Our Name: Grow the Movement to Support the Palestinian People!
Since the October 7 attack on Israel by Hamas, the U.S. and European capitalist classes have rallied around Israel. Not only have they done this with military aid and direct military backup, they have done it symbolically and rhetorically, whether with a Presidential visit to the imperialist outpost or with words proclaiming Israel’s right to […]