Tag: protest

Stay Tuned – For No Union Updates

This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Highland Hospital in Oakland, CA. With no updates from the county supervisors’ ad hoc committee, workers are desperate for news about what is happening with the planned layoffs that are now barely a month away! Unfortunately the union “updates” leave us with more […]

Rally with Workers to Stop the Layoffs!

This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Highland Hospital in Oakland, CA. Join AHS workers and fellow community members on May 5th from 4-6pm for a rally outside the AHS executives’ Jack London Square offices! AHS executives are spending millions of taxpayer dollars on waterfront offices, despite already having perfectly […]

AHS Publishes List of Proposed Closures

This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Highland Hospital in Oakland, CA. As required by state law, AHS executives published a list of the proposed closures and elimination of services they are planning in the ongoing layoffs. This 59-page document includes the elimination of outpatient behavioral health services, the closure […]

County Supervisors Call Out AHS Leadership

This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Highland Hospital in Oakland, CA. Workers packed the Board of Supervisors meeting last week to tell county officials about the absurdity of AHS’s proposed layoff plan. Yet again, workers and the community spoke of the importance of AHS services, and the detrimental impacts […]

Bay Area: Students Lead the Way! Abolish ICE!

Tens of thousands of students walked out of classrooms all across the Bay Area on Friday, joining hundreds of thousands across the country in demanding justice for the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti at the hands of federal agents, and an end to the daily brutality in Minnesota and nearly everywhere else that ICE has been deployed. In San Francisco, students […]

The Islamic Republic of Iran Shaken by Revolt

On December 28, masses of people took to the streets across Iran in protests that, in many cases, called for the downfall of the Islamic Republic. The Iranian regime responded with intense repression against the protesters with at least 4,500 reported massacred and many more missing. Not only was the regime shaken by the revolt […]

Minnesotans Are Defending Their Communities Against Authoritarian ICE Terror

The U.S. government’s terror agents in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) are carrying out their most aggressively violent attack campaign to date. Over 3,000 agents have flooded into Minneapolis and elsewhere in Minnesota in the past weeks. They are carrying out a brutally racist operation against local Somali and […]

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 […]

Turning Point USA at University of California Berkeley

On Monday, November 10, University of California (UC) Berkeley hosted the final stop of the Turning Point USA (TPUSA) college campus tour. TPUSA, founded in 2012 by Charlie Kirk, is a far-right Christian nationalist organization. It claims to promote free speech on campuses while in reality advancing bigotry against people of color, women, the LGBTQ+ […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

Workers Memorial Day, 2026

Speak Out Socialists received this poem from a friend in New Jersey. On an afternoon when trees flaunt flowersin a chilling wind,I will sit waiting on a stairwayfor the march to start.We will walk through New Jersey streetsshouting defiance, shouting power,mourning the workers who have diedsince last we marched. In the city around us,restaurant kitchens […]

Starting September 10, let’s strike to stop all policies that serve the bosses!

September 1, 2025 editorial of the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, translated from French. French Prime Minister Bayrou’s counterattack, calling for a “confidence” vote in the [National Assembly] two days before the September 10th mobilization, which will likely cause the collapse of his government and his resignation, did not affect all those who are […]

Hands Off Our Community! Hands Off Immigrants!

download as 2-sided leaflet (8.5×11) An Attack on Our Communities The Trump administration has launched attacks on people across the country it claims are criminals, with the goal of deporting one million people each year. The new Federal budget has $45 billion to build new privately run detention centers. The budget for ICE, the masked, […]

The War Machine Rumbles On, From Palestine to LA

An estimated 5 million people around the country marched in Saturday’s No Kings protests. The marches in Los Angeles drew crowds of around 200,000, and were overwhelmingly peaceful. However, once the “official” protest drew to a close around 4 p.m., officers of the Los Angeles Police and Sheriff’s departments began to violently repress the demonstrators who […]

Workers Protect Each Other at Highland

This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland Hospitals in Oakland, CA. Last Friday, workers at Highland rose up in defense of one of their own when a billboard van, operated by a right-wing media group known for doxxing and harassment, parked at the hospital’s entrance to target […]

Fightback Against Trump’s Attacks: Where could it go from here?

In recent weeks the Trump administration has ramped up efforts to terrorize, detain and deport immigrant workers. Urged by top immigration officials to “turn the creative knob up to 11,” Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have begun widespread raids on workplaces, farms, sporting events, nightclubs, schools, and more. They were instructed to “push the […]

¡Juntos Podemos Hacer Frente a ICE y a Todos Los Abusos!

En todo el país, la administración Trump está enviando agentes de ICE fuertemente armados para destrozar comunidades de inmigrantes. Han secuestrado y arrastrado a personas en furgonetas sin distintivos, con agentes vestidos de civil, enmascarados y sin identificarse. Han deportado a docenas de inmigrantes a prisiones brutales en otros países. Han atacado a niños de […]

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 […]

Protests Span the U.S. and Show the Anger!

On Saturday, April 5, “Hands Off” protests spanned the United States. At least one million people rallied and marched in a clear sign of the growing rage towards the Trump administration’s attacks on the middle and working classes. Protesters raged about a wide range of struggles and injustices. Among the core messages was that billionaires […]

Protests Against Elon Musk and Tesla

Since February 15th, a wave of protests has swept across the U.S., especially aimed at Elon Musk and Tesla. These demonstrations are a bold move by ordinary people to stand up against corporate power and influence, particularly in a time period when politicians and the courts seem willing to cave in to this power. The […]

Berkeley Protests for Humanity of Unhoused People

Berkeley, California community members are protesting the criminalization and displacement of unhoused people, which has increased since Governor Gavin Newsom passed an executive order to remove people living in encampments. A coalition of activists and unhoused people have pitched tents on the lawn of Berkeley’s Old City Hall, painted with the message: “Where Do We […]

Remembering Barbara Dane: Artist and Freedom Fighter

On October 20, singer, songwriter and activist Barbara Dane died at the age of 97 in Oakland, California, where she had lived for decades. She was suffering from heart failure and died through assisted suicide. Dane experienced racial and class antagonisms in her earliest years growing up in Detroit during the Great Depression. From her […]

Event in Baltimore: Sat, Sep. 21, 7:30pm (In-Person and Virtual)

From Mass Struggles to Winning:What can we learn from recent uprisings around the world? Saturday, September 21, 7:30pm ET NoMüNoMü, 709 N Howard St, Baltimore, MD 21201$5 suggested donation Amidst global recessions and housing crises, increased militarization, and the rise of the far right, we saw during the decade 2010-2020 what seemed like massive, spontaneous […]

France: After Election Time, Let’s Bring on the Time for Social Struggle! 

July 8, 2024 editorial of the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, translated from French [Far-right leaders] Bardella, Le Pen and their ally Ciotti were unable to break out the champagne on Sunday evening, and all the better for it. Seeing the defeated faces of the Rassemblement National (RN – National Rally party) leaders on […]

Kenya Protests and Imperialism

For more than a week, hundreds of thousands in Kenya hit the streets to protest a recently proposed finance bill that would have raised taxes on many everyday essentials. Bread, cooking oil, sugar, sanitary napkins and more basic necessities would have been hit by the tax, which would have struck hardest at the working poor […]

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 […]

Stop the Genocide: June 8 Rally for Palestine in Washington, D.C.

The White House, 12 pm, June 8 Click here for the full poster image. convened by: Palestinian Youth Movement National Students for Justice in Palestine ANSWER Coalition The People’s Forum International Peoples’ Assembly Al-Awda: The Palestine Right to Return Coalition PALESTINIAN ASSEMBLY FOR LIBERATION Palestinian American Community Center (PACC) – NJ

When Vietnam War Vets Protested the War

On June 1, 2024, the United States continues to support and finance Israel’s genocidal war against Palestinians. Protests against the war have simmered for months, and since mid-April, protests have exploded on college campuses as tens of thousands of young people in the U.S. and worldwide have slept on malls, been arrested, and protested at […]

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 […]

Fighting AI

This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland Hospitals in Oakland, CA. About two weeks ago, nurses rallied in front of the Kaiser SF facility to protest the rapid introduction of Artificial Intelligence (AI) at Kaiser, and the lack of transparency in how these technologies are being implemented […]

A Long History of Campus Repression

As university presidents, their capitalist Boards of Directors and politicians call in local police, state troopers and national guards to attempt to crush student protests against the genocide in Gaza, we are reminded that those same forces have a long history of violently repressing student voices. One of the worst examples of this occurred on […]

“You’ve Kicked A Sleeping Giant” – A Day Without Immigrant Workers

As we move closer to the elections, we hear more and more racist rhetoric against immigrants, particularly coming from right-wing Republican figures like Donald Trump. He has referred to immigrants as “not human” and “animals” who are “poisoning the blood of our country.” This dehumanizing language is harmful to immigrants by encouraging violence towards them. […]

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 […]

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 […]

U.S. Airman Sacrifices His Life to Free Palestine

Aaron Bushnell’s self-immolation outside the Israeli embassy in Washington, DC captured the attention of the world. The active-duty member of the U.S. Air Force, disillusioned by the military and U.S. government, morally rejected the U.S. government’s support for Israel’s genocide of Palestinians. The U.S. has provided Israel with the weapons and intelligence to carry out […]

Farmers of India March for Economic Survival

Farmers in India have marched to the capital, New Delhi, to urge the government to meet their demands. This is the second time farmers in India have mobilized themselves to this level in the past three years. In 2020 and 2021, tens of thousands of farmers protested three agricultural reform laws that would have weakened […]

Flight Attendants Protest Poor Wages and Working Conditions

Tens of thousands of flight attendants rallied and picketed Tuesday at 30 major airports across the globe to demand that the airline industry provide higher wages and better working conditions. The demonstrations showed that many rank-and-file flight attendants were united and militant. Three unions jointly organized the “Worldwide Flight Attendant Day of Action.” These were […]

Solidarity with Farmers’ Anger: It’s Capitalism That’s Starving Us All!

NOTE: Farmers across Europe have this week protested against their unbearable economic conditions, from France where the biggest protests have seen farmers use their tractors to block roads around Paris, to Germany, Italy, Spain, Greece, Poland, and Romania. Here is the January 29, 2024 editorial of the New Anti-capitalist Party (NPA) in France, translated from […]