Plan to Cut Disability Benefits from Low-Income Families
A ProPublica investigation revealed a new change proposed by the Trump administration that would cut Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits for up to 400,000 Americans with disabilities. The SSI system provides a very modest basic income to adults who are unable to work due to severe disabilities such as Down syndrome, autism, or blindness. The maximum monthly […]
San Francisco Mayor Says: More Cops, Less of Everything Else
The San Francisco Bay Area is one of the wealthiest and most productive economic areas in the whole world. Its working people are in a constant state of crisis and forced to endure wave after wave of austerity. San Francisco public schools face layoffs and school closures, even before teachers were forced to strike for modest […]
France: Facing Politicians’ Games, Let’s Make Our Anger Heard!
February 16, 2026 editorial of the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, translated from French. Local bigwigs entrenched in office for decades, newcomers eager to take their place, the entire political world is at the starting line for the municipal elections [in France]… often with their sights set on the presidential and legislative elections of […]
France: Class Contempt and War on the Poor: Capitalism Must Be Brought to an End!
November 10, 2025 editorial of the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, translated from French. Listening to deputies debate the budget, you’d think we — the people who keep this society running — were to blame for everything: workers supposedly living off the “generosity” of the healthcare system, retirees taking it easy instead of dying […]
France: Workers, Whether Born Here or Elsewhere, Let’s Unite in the Battle Against Bosses!
November 3, 2025, editorial of the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, translated from French. Last Thursday, the RN (extreme right-wing National Rally party in France) won a vote in the National Assembly for the first time: a resolution denouncing the 1968 Franco-Algerian migration agreement. Yet another opportunity for the RN to spew its racist […]
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. […]
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 […]
We Must Reject the Monopoly Game on Ukraine Led by Trump, Putin and Their European Servants: No War Economy, nor Austerity for the Working Classes!
March 17, 2025 editorial of the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, translated from French. The negotiations among the great powers over the war in Ukraine are in full swing: Putin lays down his conditions, Trump grows impatient, and European leaders, led by [French President] Macron, try to interfere in the game. Their aim? Certainly […]
We Are the Ones We’ve Been Waiting For
Week after week, more federal workers are being fired and more federal funding is stripped away from public services by the Trump/Musk regime. And now the “Trump budget” has begun to take shape. Musk’s DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) cut funds and fired hundreds of workers at the Federal Aviation Administration. Soon after, Musk’s company, […]
Trump’s Presidency: An Open Attack on Working People
Trump’s strategy since taking office has been clear: to grab as much power for the presidency as possible, while he and Elon Musk — the wealthiest person in the world, who was unelected — systematically try to dismantle public services, while pushing through massive tax breaks for the wealthy and corporations. This is what we’ve […]
When the Government Declares War on the Unemployed
This is the April 1, 2024 editorial of the New Anti-capitalist Party (NPA) in France, translated from French. Under the pretext of a government deficit, following the growth of subsidies to employers and the swelling of the military budget, French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal has just declared war on the unemployed. On the program: reduction […]
People in Greece Rise Up Against Austerity after Tragedy
Greece has been rocked by protests for the past several weeks in response to a train crash that took place on February 28th. The crash occurred after a train carrying students crashed into a freight train. Both trains were traveling in opposite directions on the same track. The crash left 57 people dead, many of whom were students and […]
France: When Prices Rise, Tempers Do Too…
September 19, 2022, Editorial of the Workplace Newsletters of the Etincelle fraction of the NPA. Translated from French. The funeral of the Queen of England took place on Monday. As millions of Britons face inflation and wonder if they will be able to keep warm this winter, tens of millions of pounds were spent, heads […]
Retirements on the Chopping Block
Across the country, state and city governments are using the excuse of budget deficits to cut funding for whatever they think they can get away with. After continuously cutting funds for education, social services, transportation, and housing, the latest item on their chopping block is public workers’ pensions. Politicians try to blame the budget shortfalls […]