Musk’s DOGE Days Are Over
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and Trump’s favorite tech bro, is taking a step back from the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). In a characteristically dramatic post on X, he announced: “Back to spending 24/7 at work and sleeping in conference/server/factory rooms. I must be super focused on X/xAI and Tesla (plus Starship […]
We Must Remember George Floyd and Organize Against the System That Killed Him
Five years ago, we witnessed George Floyd being slowly murdered in broad daylight by a Minneapolis police officer. Handcuffed, face down, and calling out, “I can’t breathe,” Floyd was crushed under the weight of a cop’s knee for over nine minutes, while his accomplices stood by and did nothing. That horrific murder ignited a wave […]
El último plan aterrador de la Administración Trump para los migrantes: deportarlos a Libia
La Administración Trump está en conversaciones con varios países africanos, entre los que destaca Libia, con el fin de alcanzar un acuerdo similar al ya vigente con El Salvador. También se ha informado de que la Administración está manteniendo «conversaciones» similares para reubicar a toda la población de Gaza en Libia, a cambio de los […]
El presupuesto de Trump: una guerra de clase para enriquecer aún más a los ricos
El proyecto de ley fiscal y presupuestaria propuesto por Trump y los republicanos supone un enorme regalo para los más ricos del país y un enorme aumento al gasto militar, que se financiará recortando programas que los pobres y la clase trabajadora necesitan para sobrevivir. La agenda de la administración Trump es cada vez más […]
Trump Administration’s Latest Horrifying Plan for Migrants: Deport Them to Libya
The Trump administration is in talks with several African nations, most notably Libya, in an attempt to secure a deal similar to the one already in place with El Salvador. There has also been reporting that the administration is in similar “talks” in order to relocate the entire population of Gaza to Libya, in exchange for […]
Marginalized Communities Pay the Price for NEA Cuts
Dozens of arts organizations were recently notified that the grants they had received from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) were canceled. This is part of the Trump administration’s budget proposal that looks to eliminate the NEA altogether. In the Bay Area alone, nearly 30 nonprofits have confirmed they have lost grants they were […]
The Trump Family Gets Even Richer with the Presidency
Trump’s recent visit to the Middle East demonstrated clearly how Trump and his family are profiting like never before, receiving billions of dollars in new business deals with governments and investment funds in the region. What was presented as a diplomatic trip was, in reality, a business tour for his family. The money comes from […]
“The Encampments”: A Review
“The Encampments,” a timely documentary produced by Macklemore, follows the story of the student encampments that formed at Columbia and other universities in response to the war in Gaza. The film opens with the origin of the camps, when students’ earnest attempts to organize divestment campaigns in their universities were met with increasingly hostile responses […]
Nothing Says ‘Well-Run Hospital’ Like New Lightbulbs
This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland Hospitals in Oakland, CA. Over the last couple of weeks at Highland you’ve probably walked under workers installing new lights – one of the last things most of us thought needed replacing. While some appreciated the additional brightness, others got […]
Working in Healthcare (AKA Sacrifice With No Returns)
This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland Hospitals in Oakland, CA. There is an obvious healthcare crisis in the U.S. Every year thousands of people struggle to pay for medical care, and many go through the unpleasant surprise that, despite paying for health insurance every month, they […]
“A Thorn in [the French Postal Service] La Poste’s Side”: Momentum Builds in Support of Revolutionary Postal Workers in France’s Hauts-de-Seine Department (Region)
This article was written by activists of the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France. We will publish a follow-up after the postal workers’ trial scheduled for June 12. Five postal workers from the Hauts-de-Seine department (a region in the Paris suburbs) are set to stand trial on June 12, 2025, charged with “trespassing,” “assault” and […]
Train Engineers Strike NJ Transit for 3 Days
On Friday, May 16, more than 400 NJ Transit train engineers (the workers who drive the trains) went on strike. One of the nation’s largest rail transit systems shut down, leaving the entire region in a state of economic and social uncertainty. Although the strike lasted only three days before a tentative agreement brought them […]
Gaza, a Genocide Taking Place Under Our Eyes
May 19, 2025 editorial of the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, translated from French. As of Sunday, the Israeli army launched a major ground invasion of the Gaza Strip, subsequent to bombings that have claimed the lives of hundreds. Appearing on Israeli television on May 16, Zvi Sukkot, a far-right Israeli supremacist member of […]
We Need Staff Not Signs
This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland Hospitals in Oakland, CA. Unfortunately, healthcare workers know that when dealing with the public in a high stress environment, unpredictable and threatening situations can sometimes occur. According to OSHA (the Occupational Safety and Health Administration), healthcare workers are at six […]
They Never Miss an Opportunity
This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now newsletter for BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit), a rapid transit rail system in the San Francisco Bay Area – May 19, 2025 BART HQ and politicians in Sacramento had a lot to say when the system was down. Did they really think that people who couldn’t […]
AmeriCorps Cuts Expose the Exploitation of Young Workers
Over 1,000 programs funded by AmeriCorps will close after the Trump administration cut nearly $400 million in program funding. Any slashing of services and resources provided to at-need communities are an attack on our lives. But the fact that so many programs will close because of the loss of AmeriCorps funding should make us look again […]
Trump’s Budget: Class War to Make the Rich Richer
Trump and the Republican’s proposed tax and budget bill is a massive handout to the richest people in the country, and an enormous increase to military spending — to be paid for by gutting programs that poor and working-class people need to survive. The agenda of the Trump administration is increasingly clear for all to […]
We Remember Malcolm X on His 100th Birthday
In the year 2025 in the United States, we are witnessing increasingly blatant and violent repression. With racist and brutal language coming from politicians and right-wing media, students being arrested and threatened with deportation, and undocumented people being rounded up and shipped off to foreign nations, it may seem that the United States is experiencing […]
Video: Trump’s Assault on the Planet is an Assault on Us!
Transcript: It is impossible to ignore the impact of the climate crisis that is already upon us. From the acceleration of the mass extinction of hundreds of species, and disastrous weather events that are becoming more frequent and more destructive, to the mass displacement of tens of millions of people every year due to climate […]
Trump Says, “You’re Fired” – Government Workers Need an Organized Fight to Save Jobs and Social Services
Donald Trump began his second presidency determined to shut down U.S. government programs, which his billionaire cronies say get in the way of making ever-growing profits. For example, regulations limiting pollution had to be sharply cut back because enforcing them would cost big corporations money. In addition, the Trump administration, in an effort to fund […]
The Israeli Army is Killing on a Massive Scale, and Western Leaders are Letting It Happen
May 12, 2025 editorial of the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, translated from French. “We have decided to intensify the operation in Gaza,” Netanyahu said on May 5. “The operation includes a large-scale attack and the displacement of most of Gaza’s population,” added the Israeli army spokesperson. Intensify the operation? Make things worse than […]
Speak Out Celebrates May Day in the Bay
San Francisco Bay Area Speak Out Socialists recently organized a celebration of May Day, or International Workers Day. Friends, coworkers, and comrades gathered to watch recorded greetings from activists in different parts of the world, hear a history of May Day and its relevance to our struggles today, and enjoy spoken word and musical performances. […]
No podemos depender de ellos ni de sus tribunales
Nos enfrentamos a un reino del caos. Desde que comenzó su segundo mandato, Trump ha aprobado una orden ejecutiva tras otra para aplicar sus políticas. Cuando no consigue que el poder legislativo apruebe una ley, simplemente ordena que se haga. Cuando se presentan demandas contra él, las ignora. Cuando los jueces le ordenan que deje […]
No podemos aceptar esta «nueva normalidad»
Meses después del inicio de la presidencia de Trump, la agenda de su administración no podría ser más clara: más riqueza para los multimillonarios y más poder para la presidencia. La administración se está preparando para aprobar 4,5 billones de dólares en recortes de impuestos para multimillonarios y corporaciones en diez años, que piensanpagar con […]
Speak Out Now National Newsletter: May 12, 2025
Download .pdf leaflet Download .pdf leaflet (Bay Area, California)Download .pdf leaflet (Baltimore, Maryland)Download .pdf leaflet (The Triangle, North Carolina) We Can’t Depend on Them or Their Courts We are facing a reign of chaos. Since starting his second term in office, Trump has passed one executive order after another to implement his policies. When he […]
We Can’t Depend on Them or Their Courts
We are facing a reign of chaos. Since starting his second term in office, Trump has passed one executive order after another to implement his policies. When he can’t get the legislature to pass a law, he just orders it done. When lawsuits are filed against him, he ignores them. When judges order his actions […]
When the Union Won’t Fight, Workers Stand Up
Baltimore Department of Public Works (DPW) workers are angry that their union, AFSCME Local 44, has failed to properly represent them. In fact, they say it has actually worked hand in hand with the city to create a crony system for hiring and promotion, while not bargaining for better working conditions. This is after two […]
Sanctuary Status Isn’t Enough to Protect Our Communities
“Wait ‘til you see what’s coming” – Tom Homan, Trump’s “border czar,” issued a thinly-veiled threat at state and local officials across the country last Thursday, May 1st. The warning shot issued by Homan is just the latest development in the Trump administration’s inhumane policy towards immigrants. Homan was responding to a question about Wisconsin […]
Happy Nurses Week!
This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland Hospitals in Oakland, CA. It’s that time of year again when nurses everywhere are honored by their workplaces with tokens of appreciation. For all your hard work and dedication, you might get a keychain or a pen, or a “thank […]
Kaiser Mental Health Workers Reach Tentative Agreement
This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland Hospitals in Oakland, CA. On Monday, May 5th, a tentative agreement (TA) was reached between the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW), the union which mental health workers at Kaiser are organized in, and Kaiser in Southern California. Mental health […]
Sick and Stressed Out From Work? You’re Not Alone.
This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland Hospitals in Oakland, CA. Working at Kaiser Oakland means being prepared to deal with the effects of chronic short staffing, never-ending workloads, and long hours. It’s no surprise that so many of us end up facing physical and mental health […]
Cinco de Mayo Parades Cancelled Out of Fear
Ahead of the weekend celebrations, Philadelphia and Chicago canceled their annual Cinco de Mayo parades out of fear that their community would be targeted by ICE raids. The holiday celebrates the Mexican victory over the French in the Battle of Puebla in 1862. The parades usually draw tens of thousands of people. But with attacks […]
¡Nuestra Tierra, Nuestras Vidas! ¡No su lucro!
Trump y los multimillonarios a los que representa han intensificado su desenfreno en la búsqueda del lucro. Los crecientes ataques a las regulaciones medioambientales y al derecho de los estados a aplicar sus propias regulaciones llevarán a una rápida destrucción del medio ambiente en todo el mundo. Se trata de un intento de volver a […]
¡Celebra el Día Internacional de los Trabajadores!
El Primero de Mayo es el Día Mayo o Día Internacional de los Trabajadores. En esta fecha, se celebran manifestaciones, marchas, festivales y reuniones en la gran mayoría de los países del mundo. Es una celebración de la clase trabajadora internacional y de la necesidad de una vida mejor para los trabajadores de todo el […]
Los 100 primeros días de Trump: Un ataque a nuestras vidas
La semana pasada se cumplieron los primeros cien días de Trump en el cargo. Trump hizo campaña haciendo todo tipo de promesas vacías para mejorar la vida de las personas. Pero a los cien días de su presidencia, los verdaderos objetivos de su administración no podrían ser más claros: atacar a los trabajadores, recortar los […]
Public-Private: The Slaughter of Jobs. It’s Up to Us to Unite in the Struggle, All Together, Side by Side.
May 5, 2025 editorial of the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, translated from French. May 1, International Workers’ Day, was an opportunity to make the voice of the working class heard, in the face of the prevailing reactionary and militaristic rhetoric, in France as much as in the rest of the world. In the […]
Oakland Teachers’ Strike Called Off
On the morning of Tuesday, April 29th, Oakland educators received an email from their union president stating that the Oakland Education Association (OEA) would engage in a one-day unfair labor practice (ULP) strike that Thursday, May 1st. Ultimately, the strike never happened. However, there was a lot of mixed messaging across the media, from the […]
Trump’s First 100 Days: An Attack on Our Lives
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Trump’s Tariffs Are An Attack on Workers
On April 2nd, Trump announced a range of new tariffs on goods imported into the United States from almost every country in the world. The Trump administration has implemented a 10% baseline tariff on almost all goods imported into the U.S., with even higher “reciprocal tariffs” on goods from a select group of countries that […]
More Pain From Budget Cuts Will Hit Soon
As Trump has issued executive order after executive order and his billionaire bureaucrats have cut the federal workforce by tens of thousands, millions more are waiting anxiously for the pain to begin. While those who have lost their jobs are already feeling the emotional and financial stress of their loss, the rest of us know […]
Sinners: Blues, Blood, and the Burden of Survival
Sinners is a film that, in the words of Oakland-born writer-producer-director Ryan Coogler, is “raging against the concept of genre.” Part deeply personal portrait of a Black community in 1932 Jim Crow Mississippi, part magical-realist tribute to the cultural power of Delta blues, part gory monster movie blockbuster, this movie attempts a lot and succeeds frequently […]