Pro-Israel District Attorney Recused for Conflict of Interests in Stanford 11 Trial
In June 2024, twelve Stanford University students occupied the Stanford president’s office, demanding the school divest from Israel amidst the genocide in Palestine. Five of those twelve students were criminally charged with felony vandalism and felony conspiracy to trespass – disproportionately punitive charges when compared to the actual alleged cost of damages. The first trial was declared […]
The Voice of Hind Rajab Speaks to us All
At a time when the genocide in Gaza has fallen off the front page of the news, Director Kaouther Ben Hania’s film The Voice of Hind Rajab compels us to confront the ongoing violence against the Palestinian people. The film tells the true story of a five-year-old Palestinian girl named Hind who is trapped alone in a […]
Another “Ceasefire” Where One Side Ceases and Israel Fires
One month ago, on October 10th, a ceasefire was proclaimed between Israel and Hamas. This so-called ceasefire agreement is coming after more than two years of genocidal violence carried out on the Palestinians. During that time the equivalent of 13 nuclear bombs have been dropped on Gaza. At least 75,190 Palestinians have been killed. We […]
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 […]
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 […]
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: 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 […]
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 […]
Public Meeting (Sun, October 19 & 26): No Kings, No Billionaires! It’s Time to Organize!
Speak Out Socialists Public Meetings Under Trump, we face: The Democrats don’t have solutions. It’s up to us! Come to a presentation and bring your friends and your ideas to discuss what we can begin to do. Join us for a presentation and discussion. $5 dollar donation requested, no one turned away Join us in […]
Bardem, Einbinder Demand Justice in Gaza
Several nominees and winners took this year’s Emmy awards to call for the international community to end its complicity in Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. ‘Hacks’ star Hannah Einbinder, who won the award for outstanding supporting actress in a comedy series, shouted “Free Palestine” as she was played off the stage. Javier Bardem, nominated for […]
Event Video (Sept 21, 2025): NO GENOCIDE IN OUR NAME! STOP THE FAMINE!
An update on Gaza by Nora Barrows-Friedman Speak Out Socialists Public Meetings An update on the situation in Gaza by Nora Barrows-Friedman, an activist and associate editor for The Electronic Intifada (electronicintifada.net) and co-host with Ali Abunimah, of the radio show, The Electronic Intifada, Tuesdays on KPFA 94.1FM (kpfa.org). She has been a reporter and […]
Israel Escalates Its Holocaust In Gaza
On August 7, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced to a Fox News interviewer that Israel would “take” the entire Gaza strip. One day later, the Israeli security cabinet approved this just-announced plan. While the details of any such plan are unclear and may not actually yet exist, it is clear that Israel now intends […]
Support for the Palestinian People in France and the Issues at Stake
This article was written by activists of the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France. In recent weeks, a certain turning point seems to have affected part of French public opinion regarding the situation in Gaza. Last month, a poll estimated that “74% of French people would approve of sanctions against Israel if the massacre continues.” […]
Mahmoud Khalil Walks Free – And Continues the Fight
After 104 days in ICE detention, Palestinian activist and Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil was released June 20th. Khalil was arrested by federal immigration agents without a warrant on March 8th, separated from his wife Noor Abdalla in the lobby of his campus residential building. Agents took Khalil to a remote detention center in Jena, […]
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 […]
Israel Begins Annexation of Gaza
In late March Israel resumed its war on the Palestinians of the Gaza strip, killing and wounding thousands more Palestinians. Since the war began in October 2023, more than 51,000 Gazans have been killed along with another 115,000 wounded. And now, for the first time since this war began, Israeli political and military leaders are […]
Israel Continues Its Deadly Assault On Gaza
Since early morning on Tuesday, March 18, Israel has been carrying out deadly airstrikes across Gaza that are reported to have killed at least 506 people. Of those, at least 200 were children. At least 600 more have been wounded. Many of the strikes took place in heavily populated areas with homes and makeshift schools. […]
Remembering Aaron Bushnell: “I will no longer be complicit in genocide”
It has now been a year since U.S. Airman Aaron Bushnell burned himself to death outside the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C. in support of Palestinian lives. Before his sacrifice, Bushnell shared these words: “I will no longer be complicit in genocide. I am about to engage in an extreme act of protest, but compared […]
Speak Out Now National Newsletter: October 21, 2024
Download .pdf leaflet (Baltimore)Download .pdf leaflet (Bay Area, California)Download .pdf leaflet (North Carolina) Their Election is Over, Our Future is Up to Us! As of November 4, 2024, people are still casting their votes, and we might not know who officially won the presidential election for weeks. With so much uncertainty, it’s important to look […]
The Situation in the Middle East (Oct. 2024)
This is a series of articles published in October 2024 on the situation in the Middle East in the preceding year, by the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France.
Against Israel’s Escalating War Supported by the Major Powers
October 28, 2024 editorial of the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, translated from French. Israel is expanding its war in the Middle East: after the destruction of Gaza, the bombing and invasion of Lebanon, tens of thousands of dead, wounded and hundreds of thousands displaced, it has attacked military bases in Iran, under the […]
Update on the U.S./Israeli War on the Middle East
Israel continues its wars in Gaza and Lebanon, while the U.S. continues to provide material support.
Between Embarrassment and Support, in Spite of Everything, the West is Complicit in the Crimes of the Israeli Army and State
This article is part of a series from the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, looking back at the situation in the Middle East over the past year. Originally published Oct. 4, 2024. On the pretext of bringing home the 60,000 inhabitants of northern Israel who have been forced to take refuge elsewhere in the […]
Demonstrating for Palestine: a Symbolic Act or an Important Element in the Balance of Power?
This article is part of a series from the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, looking back at the situation in the Middle East over the past year. Originally published Oct. 4, 2024. The terrorist prowess of the Mossad, which has succeeded in booby-trapping the beepers of Hezbollah cadres, and the extension of the perimeter […]
In Israel, the Zionist State in A Headlong Rush to War… How Far?
This article is part of a series from the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, looking back at the situation in the Middle East over the past year. Originally published Oct. 4, 2024. Close ranks and “let the army win”: this slogan, printed on the takeaway bags of a fast food chain in Israel, could […]
Faced with Israel’s Offensives, Iran’s Leaders in a Dangerous Balancing Act
This article is part of a series from the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, looking back at the situation in the Middle East over the past year. Originally published Oct. 4, 2024. Since October 7, Iran had remained aloof from the conflict in Palestine, in a balancing act between fear of a conflagration that […]
Speak Out Now National Newsletter: October 21, 2024
Download .pdf leaflet (Baltimore)Download .pdf leaflet (Bay Area, California)Download .pdf leaflet (North Carolina) Words Won’t Save Lives, No More Aid to Israel! The situation in Gaza and the Middle East is rapidly deteriorating. Israeli forces are carrying out a relentless military campaign with no signs of stopping. Horrific footage and reports of atrocities flood the […]
Words Won’t Save Lives, No More Aid to Israel!
The situation in Gaza and the Middle East is rapidly deteriorating. Israeli forces are carrying out a relentless military campaign with no signs of stopping. Horrific footage and reports of atrocities flood the media: people burned alive in hospital beds in Gaza, Israeli soldiers shooting U.N. peacekeepers, and entire neighborhoods in Gaza reduced to rubble. […]
Speak Out Now National Newsletter: October 7, 2024
Download .pdf leafletDownload .pdf leaflet (Baltimore)Download .pdf leaflet (California)Download .pdf leaflet (North Carolina) Solidarity with Palestinians and the Oppressed October 7 marks one year since Israel’s escalation of attacks on Palestine, allegedly in response to an attack by Hamas. But this date represents only a small chapter in a much longer history. The October 7, […]
Upcoming Bay Area Demonstrations! (10/6 in San Francisco, 10/8 in Berkeley)
Join Speak Out Socialists for two upcoming protests against the US/Israeli war on the people of the Middle East! Sunday, October 6, 1pm – Meet at 16th & Valencia in San Francisco Tuesday, October 8, 6pm – Meet at the Crescent Lawn at UC Berkeley
We Must Oppose This War on the Middle East
On Tuesday, September 17, the Israeli government expanded its reign of terror across the broader Middle East in a new wave of attacks on Lebanon. Hundreds of pagers and hand-held radios simultaneously exploded on two successive days in Lebanon, wounding around 3,000. People were killed, lost their eyes and fingers and suffered injuries to their […]
How the Government Tried to Stop the UAW from Opposing the War on Gaza
Whether on questions of international politics or how to struggle in the workplaces, workers shouldn’t take orders from the government, which represents the wealthy and big business.
End the U.S. Government Support for Israel’s Genocide of Palestinians
In every way we can, we must continue and increase our opposition to this genocide. The Israeli assault on Palestine has not stopped – our activity can’t stop either.
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 […]
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 […]
While the Headlines Focus on Trump and Harris, Gaza Continues to Suffer
Although the Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza has received less news coverage recently, it is still ongoing.
From Newark to Palestine: Lessons from the Rutgers-Newark Solidarity Encampment
Since October 7, by even the most conservative estimates, the Israeli state has killed over 40,000 Palestinians in Gaza. The United States funds this genocide, sending billions of dollars annually to Israel in money and weapons. When students at Columbia University demonstrated their opposition to the genocide by forming an encampment, they were met with […]
No to the Massacre in Rafah Carried Out in Our Name!
We can build on what has started, and begin to spread our movement, to stand in support of the Palestinian people, in any way we can. The bombs that destroy their hospitals, the tanks that fire on their homes and crush their tents, the artillery and bullets that rip through people’s bodies indiscriminately, leaving thousands dead, — all are paid for by our tax dollars. This genocidal assault is being carried out in our name. It must be stopped, and it’s our responsibility, living in the U.S., Israel’s chief ally and weapons dealer, to end this war. #FreePalestine #StopGenocide
The Student Movement Survives and Grows
Despite political repression, the student protest movement against the genocide in Gaza has spread and grown.
For a world without borders and bosses, urgent revolution!
May 6, 2024 editorial of the New Anticapitalist Party (NPA) in France, translated from French Occupations of university campuses have multiplied in recent weeks, in the United States and now in France, as at Sciences Po and many other universities, to denounce the ongoing massacre in Gaza. Everywhere, young people are pitching tents, occupying campuses […]
We Must Oppose This War on the Palestinian People
The war on the people of Gaza has entered its seventh month. That is seven months of incessant bombing, the terror of invading Israeli troops, shooting people at will – young and old, male and female. Hospitals been been bombed into rubble and scenes of mass executions have been uncovered. At least 35,000 people have […]
We Will NOT Be Silenced!
On April 29, the administration of Columbia University in New York City gave an ultimatum to students who are active in opposition to the ongoing genocide in Gaza, demanding they abandon their encampment or be suspended. In response, student activists have occupied one of Columbia’s main halls, renaming it “Hind’s Hall” after Hind Rajab, a […]
May Day: There Is Power in the Working Class
General Newsletter April 28, 2024 Download .pdf leaflet May Day: There Is Power in the Working Class In the 1880s, the United States was deeply unequal and divided. A few families owned the overwhelming bulk of U.S. wealth, and workers had to work up to 16 hours per day. Workers had no rights on the […]
Israel Threatens to Drag the World Into its War
The Palestinians are being bombed and starved by Israel with the support of U.S., European and some governments in the Middle East. The horror they are raining down on the people trapped in Gaza is justified as a response to the October 7th attack by Hamas, the party that rules Gaza. Now, the stakes are […]
Israel Took the World to the Brink, and Backed Off, Only to Prepare a New Attack in Gaza
On April 19, Israel launched its attack on Iran. Israel was responding to Iran’s April 14 attack on Israel, which was itself a retaliation for the Israeli assassination of an Iranian general two weeks earlier. Luckily for the world, Israeli officials decided to make a most limited and symbolic strike on Friday. Drones as well […]
Famine: a Genocidal Policy for Gaza
Famine is choking the life out of the population of Gaza where two million people struggle to live. At no other point in recent history has there been such starvation of an entire population. The United Nations predicts that more than 200 people will be dying from starvation every day. Nearly 700,000 people, almost a […]
Vanderbilt Students Protest Suppression
Last Tuesday, March 26, police arrested four students and as many as twenty more were suspended on the campus of Tennessee’s Vanderbilt University after they occupied the university’s main hall for twenty-two hours. A local reporter was also arrested. Right-wing media outlets (see any recent coverage by Fox News) are mocking the protesters, painting the […]