U.S. Regime Attacks Latin America, Focusing on Venezuela
The Trump administration has been aggressively escalating its attacks against Venezuela as well as other nations in the region. Since early September, it has carried out missile strikes on boats in international waters in the Caribbean and the Pacific, off the Venezuelan and Colombian coasts, so far killing at least 61 people. Included in the […]
US Bailout for Argentina: Workers and Farmers Pay the Price
While a Republican government shutdown halts services and threatens healthcare for millions, the White House has no problem finding $20 or $40 billion for things it wants. But the money isn’t for struggling Americans. Instead, it’s for a bailout intended to help prop up Argentina’s far-right president, Javier Milei, and a couple of Treasury Secretary […]
WE Keep Our Patients Safe From ICE!
This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Highland Hospital in Oakland, CA. Last week ICE officers escorted a patient into the ED, causing concern for staff. But workers were not discouraged, and instead quickly responded. In less than 24 hours, over 200 employees signed a letter asking for stronger policies […]
Management Ignores our MOU… Again
This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Highland Hospital in Oakland, CA. Nurses at AHS were recently required to attend annual competencies scheduled during only three days in September and two make-up days in October. Now management is threatening to take anyone off the schedule who did not attend these […]
Imperialism on the offensive, the people are fighting back
October 27, 2025, editorial of the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, translated from French. Trump deployed an aircraft carrier off the coast of Venezuela and ordered the bombing of boats in the Caribbean Sea, killing their occupants, who were immediately labeled drug traffickers—without proof; perhaps they were simply fishermen. He announced a CIA operation […]
¡Tenemos que oponernos al terror de ICE de Trump!
La administración Trump sigue desplegando agentes federales sobre la población, aterrorizando a las comunidades de inmigrantes en todo el país. ICE ha arrestado a más de 200 000 personas desde enero y, a pesar de las afirmaciones de la administración, estas redadas no están dirigidas a los delincuentes. La gran mayoría de las personas detenidas […]
James Jackson Enjoys Pay Raise Amid Budget Crisis
This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Highland Hospital in Oakland, CA. On Monday, October 27th, Alameda Health System CEO James Jackson and CFO Kim Miranda gave a presentation on the upcoming budget to the county Board of Supervisors’ Health Committee. They described how AHS is anticipating cuts of $100 […]
YouTube Allows Israel to Lie about the Famine in Gaza
A YouTube ad published by Israel’s Foreign Ministry on August 24th received many complaints from the public and government agencies for spreading misinformation. The video ad showed people buying and selling fruit, vegetables, and other goods at a street market. The on-screen text states, “There is food in Gaza. Any other claim is a lie.” […]
We Have to Oppose Trump’s ICE Terror!
The Trump administration continues to unleash federal agents on the population, terrorizing immigrant communities across the country. ICE has arrested over 200,000 people since January, and despite the administration’s claims, these raids are not aimed at criminals. The vast majority of people detained by ICE are low-income workers with no criminal records whatsoever. These raids […]
Despite Limitations, No Kings #2 Again Shows Our Potential
On October 18, for the second time in 5 months, millions filled the streets in opposition to Trump and his reactionary agenda. This was the second No Kings Day, and if anything, these protests were even larger than the one on June 14. Although demonstrations like these – largely organized by Democratic Party aligned groups […]
“Young” Republicans Say The Quiet Part Out Loud And Show Their Racism
On October 14, Politico published leaked group chats from leaders of the Young Republicans, an organization for members of the Republican Party who are aged 18-40. The chats included displays of open racism and white supremacy, antisemitism, ethnic slurs, calls for murdering political opponents in gas chambers, and glorification of Hitler and the Nazi Party. […]
Event Video (Sun, Nov 16, 2025): We Will Not Pay For Their Crisis! A Conversation with Clara Mattei
Speak Out Socialists Public Meetings Clara Mattei will join us online discuss how the chaos of Trump’s policies serve as a cover for the increase of wealth being transferred from the working class to the rich. Government services that have provided access to medical care, food, and education are being eliminated while huge amounts of […]
No más reyes capitalistas: el futuro depende de nosotros
El fin de semana pasado, se calcula que siete millones de personas salieron a las calles en 2700 ciudades y pueblos de los 50 estados de EE. UU., el Distrito de Columbia y varios territorios estadounidenses, incluido Puerto Rico, para pedir «No a los reyes» y «No a los multimillonarios». Los ataques lanzados por el […]
Peru at a Crossroads
October 19, 2025 article published by the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, translated from French. Three days after this article was published, the new president of Peru implemented a state of emergency in the largest cities, sending in the military to patrol and banning freedom of speech and assembly. In Peru, after several weeks […]
El alto el fuego de Trump no borra el genocidio
La semana pasada, Trump anunció que su administración había negociado finalmente un alto el fuego entre Hamás e Israel. Esto se presentó como un gran logro de su administración. Incluso parecía pensar que podría ganarle el Premio Nobel de la Paz. En realidad, este supuesto alto el fuego podría haberse aplicado en cualquier momento durante […]
When Government Shuts Down, Only Workers Pay
On October 1, 2025, the U.S. government shut down after Congress deadlocked over passing a bill to keep funding government services. As a result, hundreds of thousands of federal workers have been furloughed, while many others are working without pay. Millions who rely on public services like food assistance and housing aid are left in […]
France: The Lecornu Budget: A Fierce Attack. Our Only Defense: Ourselves!
October 20, 2025 editorial of the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, translated from French. On October 17, Standard & Poor’s downgraded France’s credit rating due to “high uncertainty” surrounding its public finances. The financial world is reminding [President] Macron and [Prime Minister] Lecornu that it’s their duty to crack down even harder on workers. […]
October Storm Reveals California’s Fire-Flood Crisis
Last week, a rare October storm brought heavy rain and flooding to California, causing major disruptions in transportation and even triggering some evacuation orders. In the Bay Area, the South Bay was hit particularly hard. Firefighters and tow trucks had to pull cars out of multiple parts of San Jose, and many cars were stuck […]
Chicago Communities Fight Back!
The Trump administration has been using every means available to create an atmosphere of fear and intimidation — primarily to discourage people from standing up as he cuts millions of dollars from programs that benefit the general population, all while enriching himself and the wealthiest business leaders and billionaires in the country. Some of these […]
No More Capitalist Kings—The Future Depends on Us
This past weekend, an estimated seven million people took to the streets in 2,700 cities and towns in all 50 U.S. states, D.C., and several U.S. possessions including Puerto Rico calling for “No Kings” and “No Billionaires.” The attacks waged by the Trump regime are leading to the transfer of even more massive amounts of […]
Speak Out Now National Newsletter: October 20, 2025
Download .pdf leafletDownload .pdf leaflet (Baltimore, Maryland)Download .pdf leaflet (The Triangle, North Carolina) No More Capitalist Kings—The Future Depends on Us This past weekend, an estimated seven million people took to the streets in 2,700 cities and towns in all 50 U.S. states, D.C., and several U.S. possessions including Puerto Rico calling for “No Kings” […]
Portland Protests Celebrate City’s Quirky Vibe
Portland residents are finding creative ways to respond to the threat of National Guard deployment in their city, and to continue the protests at the ICE facility that have been ongoing since June. In justifying the military deployment to the city, Trump has repeatedly described Portland as “war-ravaged,” “on fire,” and “bombed out.” To counter […]
In Direct Attacks, Trump Busts Our Unions
This past Labor Day the Trump administration hung an enormous banner over the front of the Labor Department building with the words, “American Workers First.” With banners like these and other staged events with working people standing behind him in their blue-collar work gear, the Trump administration works overtime to say how much it cares […]
Kaiser Serves up Layoffs and Junk Food
This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland Hospitals in Oakland, CA. Kaiser announced last week layoffs throughout the food service department at Oakland and other Kaiser campuses across California. Although Kaiser claims it will offer a period of continued salary and benefits to laid-off workers, this will […]
A Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing at AHS
This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland Hospitals in Oakland, CA. Remember those emails we got from a random security company called Arctic Wolf? Many of us reported these malicious looking emails to our managers and flagged them as phishing attempts. Turns out they were legit. So […]
Strike Underway at Kaiser
This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland Hospitals in Oakland, CA. Yesterday, Kaiser workers organized in the United Nurses Associations of California (UNAC) started a strike against Kaiser after their contract expired on September 30th. Like almost everyone working in healthcare, they are fighting for wage increases […]
France: It’s up to us, workers, to make our voices heard!
October 13, 2025 editorial of the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, translated from French. The parliamentary circus continues unabated. It’s a bad puppet show, where everyone tries to get their lines in, between offering their services to [President] Macron and attempting to jump on the bandwagon of widespread hatred for him, so as not […]
Trump’s Ceasefire Doesn’t Erase Genocide
Last week Trump announced that his administration had finally negotiated a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel. This was presented as some major accomplishment of his administration. He even seemed to think it could win him the Nobel Peace Prize. In reality, this so-called ceasefire could have been implemented at anytime over the past two years. […]
Gen Z Movements Spark Across the World
Over the past month, we have seen massive protests in places like Nepal, Peru, Madagascar, and Morocco. Mostly organized by young people, these uprisings have been dubbed “Gen Z” movements, referring to the generation of people now in their early adulthood, born between 1997 and the early 2010s. Despite having their own unique context, each movement has taken […]
Pro-Palestine Stanford Students Indicted with Felony Vandalism and Trespassing
In June of 2024, 12 Stanford students occupied a university building, demanding that Stanford University divest from companies, such as Palantir, linked to Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. This occurred alongside a vast country-wide movement on many university campuses calling for their own schools to divest from Israel. During the Stanford students’ occupation, University officials claimed […]
From One Continent to the Next, Youth Revolt Lights the Way!
October 6, 2025 editorial of the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, translated from French. After [former French prime ministers] Barnier and Bayrou, Lecornu (the latest to resign) has just set a new record that will be hard to beat: his government resigned before even taking office! Meanwhile, life goes on. The desperate situation of […]
Film Review: Borderland | The Line Within
Borderland | The Line Within is a timely film revealing the profiteering of the border industry and the massive infrastructure built to imprison and deport millions of people at the border and beyond. It primarily focuses on the story of Gabriela Castañeda and Kaxh Mura’l, immigrants from Mexico and Guatemala respectively, looking for a better life […]
Film Review: Gaza: Journalists Under Fire
Robert Greenwald’s 2025 documentary Gaza: Journalists Under Fire exposes the harrowing war crimes of Israel against the people of Gaza and the Palestinian journalists trying to document the atrocities. It follows the story of journalists – Belal Jadallah, Heba Al-Abadla, and Ismail al-Ghoul – who were targeted by Israel and ultimately killed for their reporting in Gaza. […]
Italian Port Workers Remind Us of Our Potential
For the past two weeks, Italian workers and a diverse layer of the population have been rising up against the genocide in Gaza. In a movement they call “Let’s Block Everything,” Italian port workers are threatening to halt all shipments from Italian ports to Israel, and much of the population is showing their support. In […]
Jane Fonda: “They’re Betting on Our Fear and Our Silence”
On October 1, more than 550 actors, producers, directors and other artists from the entertainment industry announced the formation of a new Committee for the First Amendment. This is the second life of an organization formed originally in 1947 as the Second Red Scare heated up in the United States. Its goal then was to […]
Se declaró la guerra al pueblo estadounidense
La semana pasada, Trump y su secretario de Guerra, Pete Hegseth, reunieron a los altos mandos militares estadounidenses de todo el mundo para escuchar sus planes para los próximos días. Trump anunció una declaración de guerra, no contra sus enemigos extranjeros, sino contra el pueblo estadounidense. Hablando de las ciudades estadounidenses que ha elegido como […]
Down With the Israeli Blockade! Free Palestine!
Israel is expected to deport the last of the activists it had detained and imprisoned after the interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla last Wednesday. On Monday, 171 members of the flotilla, including Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, were flown out of Israel to Greece, where they were received by crowds of supporters chanting “Free, Free Palestine!” Thunberg […]
Trump Labels Antifa a Terrorist Organization
Trump recently signed an executive order designating Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization, and directing federal agencies to “investigate, disrupt, and dismantle” their operations. However, because Antifa is not an organization with leaders and members, this order serves to threaten anyone speaking out against the government or its policies. The name “Antifa” is short for […]
Speak Out Now National Newsletter: October 6, 2025
Download .pdf leaflet (Bay Area, California)Download .pdf leaflet (Baltimore, Maryland)Download .pdf leaflet (The Triangle, North Carolina) War Declared on the People of the U.S. Last week, Trump and his Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, brought the top U.S. military officers from around the world together to listen to their plans for the days ahead. Trump […]
War Declared on the People of the U.S.
Last week, Trump and his Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, brought the top U.S. military officers from around the world together to listen to their plans for the days ahead. Trump announced a declaration of war, not on his foreign enemies, but on the people of the U.S. Talking about U.S. cities that he has […]
When Government Shuts Down, Only Workers Pay
While the government is shut down, money stops going to workers and services they need, while it continues going to the rich and military spending.
Loyal Generals or Not, Our Future is Up to Us
Trump and Hegseth’s speech to military officers show that they are preparing to use force against the population.
France: Social Regression is Not Negotiable – We Must Fight Back!
September 29, 2025 editorial of the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, translated from French. For the past week, right-wing and far-right politicians have been rallying around Nicolas Sarkozy, a former French president found guilty of criminal conspiracy. These same people constantly call for making examples of punishments for petty crime, but cannot bear to […]
Things Heating Up at Kaiser?
This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland Hospitals in Oakland, CA. On Tuesday, September 23rd, there was an informational picket at Kaiser Oakland hosted by CNA. Similar actions were taken that day at different facilities across California, such as Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Francisco, and San Leandro. […]
Artificial Intelligence Monitoring Workers at AHS
This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland Hospitals in Oakland, CA. At Highland this month, workers are all finishing up their annual mandated online competencies. There was one new slide this year, detailing the use of artificial intelligence in worker surveillance at Alameda Health System. According to […]
JCAHO: Just Continue All Hospital Operations
This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland Hospitals in Oakland, CA. We all know this is not what that acronym stands for, but we also know that management at Kaiser loves to move differently when they are expecting the accredited survey personnel to come by and evaluate […]
Zohran Mamdani: A Real Hope for New York’s Working Class?
On July 1, it was announced that Zohran Mamdani, the 33-year-old New York State Assemblyman and member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), had won the New York City Democratic primary election for mayor of New York City. He won decisively over his fiercest rival, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, by 12%. To […]