Israel Steps Up Its Attacks on the West Bank
On Wednesday, August 28th, the state of Israel carried out major attacks in the West Bank, the worst in 20 years. Israeli military forces launched airstrikes, tore up streets, bulldozed homes, attacked with drones, and sent battalions of soldiers into the Palestinian cities of Jenin and Tulkarem in the northern West Bank. At least ten […]
Johns Hopkins Privatizes Police Force Against Opposition by Students and Neighbors
In a controversial move, Johns Hopkins University, one of Baltimore’s most elite institutions, began a push in early 2018 to privatize a campus police force, citing “a spike in citywide crime” as their motivation. With the backdrop of the 2013 murder of Tyrone West by Morgan State University and Baltimore City police officers, the 2015 murder of Freddie Gray by […]
Kamala Harris: Supporting Workers in Words Only
Kamala Harris’ insistence that the Democrats are pro-labor and support the working class has been one of the campaign’s loudest messages, especially at the recent Democratic National Convention. The party convention saw endorsement speeches from United Automobile Workers (UAW) president Shawn Fain as well as other major union presidents, including from the American Federation of […]
Kaiser’s Allergy to Staffing
This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland Hospitals in Oakland, CA. Is Kaiser allergic to being fully staffed? Because often when an employee leaves, the position never gets reposted. So departments run on skeleton crews, with overworked and burned out staff who are one crisis away from […]
State Supreme Court Rules Against Alameda Health System Workers
This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland Hospitals in Oakland, CA. In a unanimous ruling on August 15th, the California Supreme Court found that public healthcare workers are not protected by the same labor laws as employees of private healthcare systems. The case (Stone vs Alameda Health […]
New Delhi Women and Doctors Demand No More Violence
Women and doctors held demonstrations in New Delhi, after the rape and murder of a junior doctor.
Who Do the Billionaires Support? Both Parties!
In recent months mainstream newspapers have featured stories about some of the divisions and potential conflicts among both individual capitalists and groups of capitalists in this 2024 election. It’s been reported that many tech billionaires are supporting Trump and the Republicans, especially if they’re invested heavily in crypto currency. Fossil fuel company leaders and owners […]
How Much Are Our Lives Worth?
Richmond, California is a city in the northeast of the San Francisco Bay Area, with a mostly working-class Black and Brown population. The city’s main employer is the Chevron oil refinery. Thousands of workers and contractors are employed at the massive sprawling complex that refines an estimated 240,000 barrels of crude oil per day. Over […]
Democratic Party Shows its True Colors on Palestine
On the third day of the Democratic National Convention, the parents of an Israeli-American hostage in Gaza appealed for the release of the hostages. The Convention crowd chanted, “Bring them home!” But the hostage’s father said, “There is a surplus of agony on all sides of the tragic conflict in the Middle East. In a […]
Venezuela: NO to the politicians, YES to Workers’ Organization and Power!
Neither “socialist” President Maduro nor the right-wing opposition serve the Venezuelan people.
August 1791: The Haitian Revolution Shook the World
In August 1791, slaves in Haiti rose up against their oppression.
Speak Out Now National Newsletter: August 19, 2024
Download .pdf leaflet We Cannot Count on Harris and the Democrats The Democratic National Convention (DNC) historically is the time when the party’s presidential candidate would be officially selected. But a virtual roll-call has already been done. So the selection of Harris and Walz at the convention is a formality. Keynote speakers include Biden, the […]
The East Coast and Gulf Ports Longshore Contract Expires September 30: Will the Union Settle or Strike?
Negotiations for new contracts covering 45,000 longshoremen, working at 11 ports on the Atlantic seaboard and the Gulf Coast, are at a standstill. On June 10th, the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) broke them off, saying that longshore employers were continuing to violate the existing contract. The ILA has scheduled a meeting of local union officers for September 4th and […]
Transphobia Hurts Us All – Inside and Outside of the Olympics
The 2024 Olympics played the same old tune of gender discrimination and transphobia. Despite it’s claim of being the “largest, gender equal sporting event in the world,” transphobia still managed to make its way to the games. Due to subjective ideas of who is and is not a woman, oppressive surveillance has for years been […]
Love Island USA: Capitalism’s Idea of Love
In its 6th season, the Peacock reality show Love Island USA has become the most-watched series in the United States. Millions have witnessed the ridiculousness of a highly choreographed presentation of romance under a system that works overtime to find profit in every aspect of life. Capitalism erodes genuine feelings of love by making us […]
Kaiser: Morning Confusion
This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland Hospitals in Oakland, CA. Last Wednesday Kaiser Oakland implemented a new policy. Now, before 8am, workers have to enter the hospital for a shift by badging in to the main entrance on MacArthur, as opposed to the usual normal door […]
Criminalizing Mask Wearing Sets Dangerous Precedent as COVID Rises
This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland Hospitals in Oakland, CA. Last week legislators in Nassau County, New York approved a bill banning masks in public spaces, saying “concealing your identity” by wearing a mask is a misdemeanor offense punishable by up to a year of jail […]
Missing Supplies Risk Patients’ Lives
This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland Hospitals in Oakland, CA. When lives are at stake, every second counts as hospital staff reach for supplies they need to provide patient care. Nurses and other staff depend on supply rooms being well-stocked so they can focus on their […]
10 Years: From Staten Island to Ferguson
It has been 10 years since the police murders of Eric Garner and Michael Brown. Since then, there have been more murders by racist police – and more protests against those murders.
Solidarity with the Revolt in Bangladesh!
August 12, 2024 editorial of the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, translated from French Monday the 5th of August, hundreds of thousands of demonstrators rose up and the Palace of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh, who had been in power for 15 years, was stormed. Faced with this spectacular success of popular mobilization, […]
Con el apoyo de EE.UU., Israel amenaza con una guerra más amplia
La brutalidad de Israel ha vuelto a amenazar con desencadenar una guerra regional más amplia en Medio Oriente. Recientemente, Israel asesinó a uno de los principales dirigentes políticos de Hamás, Ismail Haniyeh, que había sido su principal negociador en las conversaciones de alto el fuego. Esto ocurrió horas después de que también asesinaran a un […]
Israel Threatens Wider War with U.S. Support
Israel’s brutality has again threatened to spark a wider regional war in the Middle East. Recently, Israel assassinated one of Hamas’s main political leaders, Ismail Haniyeh, who had been their lead negotiator in ceasefire talks. This happened in Iran hours after they also assassinated a top Hezbollah military commander in Lebanon. Iran has promised a […]
Tim Walz – The Reality
Democratic Presidential candidate Kamala Harris has introduced her Vice-Presidential candidate, current Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. The mainstream media is generally touting Walz, noting he’s from rural Nebraska, was a longtime teacher and National Guard member, then a Congressperson, and is now in his second term as Minnesota Governor. He has been called folksy and a […]
Wrongly Blaming Immigrants at the Republican National Convention
At the Republican National Convention, the right wing continued to spread lies about immigrants to fuel fear among conservative working people. Texas senator, Ted Cruz, repeated the same old anti-immigrant rhetoric, claiming that, “We are facing an invasion on our southern border – not figuratively, a literal invasion.” Republican House Speaker of Louisiana, Mike Johnson, […]
Heat Death in Baltimore: The Fatal Cost of Ignoring Worker Safety
The tragic death of Baltimore Department of Public Works (DPW) sanitation worker Ronald Silver II exposes a devastating truth about the conditions of our working class. On August 2, Silver died of heat stroke while working, a totally preventable tragedy if proper safety measures had been in place. On that day, temperatures reached 99 degrees, […]
Gaza 2024
August 5, 2024 editorial of the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, translated from French Israel’s assassination in Beirut on Tuesday, July 30 of a Lebanese Hezbollah leader, followed by the assassination in Tehran of one of the political leaders of the Palestinian Hamas, who had been invited to the Iranian capital for the inauguration […]
Beware the Olympic Flame’s Backfire!
July 29, 2024 editorial of the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, translated from French With the opening ceremony, the organizers of the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games wanted us to live the dream of a mythical and inclusive France. They succeeded, much to the chagrin of all the fascists and bigots, by evoking the […]
Kamala Harris: lo mismo de siempre
Muchas cosas han cambiado en las últimas semanas. Justo después de que Biden se viera finalmente obligado a abandonar la carrera presidencial y apoyara a Kamala Harris como su sucesora, el Partido Demócrata recibió una descarga en el brazo. Han sido capaces de crear una nueva expectación en torno a Harris. Los medios de comunicación […]
Billionaires Won’t Save Us From Health Inequality
Donations from billionaires are not a substitute for having a system that works for all of us.
Freedom Summer 1964: A Movement for Freedom and Democracy
It is 60 years since Freedom Summer. Originally known as the Mississippi Summer Project, what came to be known as Freedom Summer brought together more than 1,000 college-age students to travel to Mississippi to support the Black freedom movement in one of the most systematically racist states of the United States. Most of the participants […]
Against Milei’s Repression in Argentina: Solidarity with PO (the Workers’ Party) and People Fighting Back
This is an appeal for support from our comrades in the Partido Obrero (Workers’ Party) of Argentina, a revolutionary socialist organization. Help with your contribution to the defense fund and by spreading the word about the situation. You can donate through PayPal to schiaffinojavi@outlook.com. We will be direct. In Argentina, we need your help to […]
Speak Out Now National Newsletter: August 5, 2024
Download .pdf leaflet Nuclear War: An Increasing Threat to the World Seventy-nine years ago, on August 6 and 9, 1945, the first nuclear weapons were dropped on civilian populations. Tens of thousands of lives were incinerated in the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States. Hundreds of thousands suffered and died from […]
Netanyahu’s Speech to Congress – Some Applaud, Others Boycott, All Are Complicit
Last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was invited to speak by both Democratic and Republican congressional leaders before a joint session of Congress. Though the leadership of both parties chose to invite Netanyahu, 96 representatives and senators chose not to attend the speech. This is double the number that refused to attend his address […]
Las elecciones de 2024: El problema no es quién está en la boleta
En las últimas semanas han aumentado los llamados a que el presidente Biden abandone las elecciones presidenciales. Su actuación en el debate, así como en recientes ruedas de prensa, han mostrado un notable deterioro de sus capacidades mentales y físicas. A menudo le cuesta completar frases, llama a la gente por el nombre equivocado y […]