AHS Workers Demand a Safe Workplace
This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Highland Hospital in Oakland, CA. Healthcare workers at Highland and throughout the Bay Area were shocked to learn of the stabbing death of a social worker at a San Francisco General Hospital clinic earlier this month. Although SF General administrators are now agreeing […]
When Workers Organize, The Bosses Listen
This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Highland Hospital in Oakland, CA. Employees of AHS, especially at Highland, have been calling on the administration to protect patients from immigration enforcement in the hospital. They have been hosting Know Your Rights trainings, passing around badge buddies with info about how to […]
Stronger Together
This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Highland Hospital in Oakland, CA. A proposal has been circulating at Highland recently for registered nurses to form their own chapter board within SEIU. Nurses were concerned that they were not well represented in the current chapter board, which is primarily composed of […]
“Financialize Everything”: How ‘Prediction Markets’ Are Selling the End of the World
Early this month, CNN reportedly formed a partnership with Kalshi, “the world’s largest prediction market company” according to Axios. As part of the deal, CNN will embed data from Kalshi’s online market into live news broadcasts, “includ[ing] prediction market content related to politics, news, culture and weather.” Kalshi, alongside their main major competitor Polymarket, offers a marketplace […]
Anti-Semitic Attack in Australia: We Must Fight Racism and the Capitalist System That Fuels It
December 15, 2025 editorial of the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, translated from French. On Sunday, December 14, two assailants killed 15 people and wounded 42 others by shooting into a crowd gathered to celebrate the Jewish holiday, Hanukkah, on Bondi Beach in Sydney. One shooter was disarmed by a Syrian immigrant who courageously […]
Demonstrators “Scrape ICE” Out of Home Depot
People are getting creative in how they denounce ICE raids in their communities. In recent weeks, hundreds have gathered at Home Depot stores throughout the country protesting ICE’s presence. Demonstrators have organized symbolic “buy-in” protests where dozens line up to buy a single 17¢ ice scraper, only to immediately line up again and return it. The intention […]
Pam Bondi Memo Criminalizes Political Dissent
In a leaked memo dated December 4, Attorney General Pam Bondi directed the FBI to “compile a list of groups or entities engaged in acts that may constitute domestic terrorism.” She goes on to broaden the definition of domestic terrorism to include those who support problematic “political and social agendas” such as “opposition to law and […]
Speak Out Now National Newsletter: December 15, 2025
Download .pdf leafletDownload .pdf leaflet (Baltimore, Maryland)Download .pdf leaflet (The Triangle, North Carolina) Join In the Fight In 2026! The Triangle, North Carolina: U.S. Capitalism Wants Immigrant Labor, but Terrorizes Immigrants While the Trump administration is carrying out brutal immigration raids throughout the country in cities like Charlotte, they are quietly making it easier to […]
UC Berkeley Suspends Lecturer Peyrin Kao After Pro-Palestine Advocacy
In August 2025, at the start of the fall semester, UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) lecturer Peyrin Kao went on a 38-day hunger strike to protest the genocide in Gaza and bring greater awareness onto the university campus. Kao states that he ate only 250 calories a day to represent the famine Gazans are currently experiencing. […]
Ukraine: Capitalists Profit as Millions Suffer
The corruption scandal currently rocking the government of Ukraine says a lot about what the ruling classes of nation-states really care about. While they often own the media and choose the politicians who tell us that “we’re all in this together,” the reality couldn’t be further from the truth. In 2019, television comedian Volodymyr Zelensky […]
France: The 2026 Budget: A Jackpot for Bosses!
December 8, 2025 editorial of the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, translated from French. The latest episode in a never-ending parliamentary saga [in France]: the vote on the social security budget! It was passed by a narrow majority (13 votes) of Members of Parliament (MPs) and with the support of the majority of Socialist […]
If you want peace, prepare the revolution!
December 1, 2025 editorial of the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, translated from French. After Fabien Mandon, the [French] army’s chief of staff, declared that we must be ready to “accept losing our children,” [President] Macron announced the return of the military service as early as 2026—on a voluntary basis. Designated volunteers: children of […]
Todo su sistema es un crimen de guerra contra los pueblos del mundo
En los últimos meses, el ejército estadounidense ha llevado a cabo repetidos ataques aéreos contra pequeños barcos pesqueros en el Caribe y el océano Pacífico oriental. Cada pocos días, la administración Trump se ha jactado de bombardear sin piedad los barcos y matar a todos los que iban a bordo casi en todas las ocasiones. […]
15 Years Ago Today: Georgia Prisoners Strike Against Legal Slavery
15 years ago today, on December 9, 2010, prisoners in Georgia began a prison work strike that lasted at least six days. Although it’s not known exactly how many prisoners took part, there were at least hundreds of strikers spread over at least seven prisons throughout the state. In these prisons, prisoner-workers refused to do […]
Their Whole System is a War Crime on the People of the World
In the last several months, the U.S. military has repeatedly conducted air strikes on small fishing boats in the Caribbean and the eastern Pacific Ocean. Almost every few days, the Trump administration has bragged about ruthlessly bombing boats and killing everyone on board nearly every single time. Trump and the head of the newly named […]
Hundreds of Palestinians Killed In Gaza Despite Ceasefire
Since the announcement of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, more than 360 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli gunfire and bombings, with thousands more injured. Satellite images show the bulldozing of entire neighborhoods behind the “Yellow Line”- the area of Gaza occupied by Israeli troops. A fraction of the aid needed to sustain the needs of the […]
Cancelled Shift? Know Your Rights!
This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Highland Hospital in Oakland, CA. Although it’s rare, every once in a while at Highland we are actually overstaffed for a shift, where there are more nurses scheduled than can be assigned to the number of patients. When this happens, management might try […]
AHS – The Grinch Stealing Xmas
This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Highland Hospital in Oakland, CA. Workers throughout Alameda Health System are understandably concerned about the upcoming layoffs, which couldn’t have come at a worse time right before the holidays. Families are waiting to make travel plans and buy gifts, knowing they might not […]
Layoffs Announced at AHS
This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Highland Hospital in Oakland, CA. We were notified via email a couple weeks ago that 372 positions are being considered in a new workforce reduction plan. Then last week, AHS administration confirmed that these positions would in fact be laid off. Here’s what […]
AHS Employees Give ICE the Cold Shoulder
This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Highland Hospital in Oakland, CA. AHS employees have repeatedly asked AHS admin for stronger and clearer policies around ICE, similar to what some other hospitals have. Yet admin’s response is always the same: we already have policies in place and you can find […]