West Oakland Pollution
For decades, West Oakland has been subject to extreme pollution from freeways, the Port of Oakland, and diesel trucks idling in the neighborhood. As a result, West Oakland residents, mostly Black and Brown workers and their families, visit the emergency room for asthma at rates 85 percent higher than the county average. Deaths from heart […]
Supreme Court vs. Teamsters: Intensifying Attacks Against Workers and Unions
The Supreme Court just made it harder for unions to strike with its decision on June 1 in a case brought by Glacier Northwest – a Seattle concrete company – against a local Teamsters union and some of its members. The decision was 8-1 for the company. The ruling expanded the power of a corporation to […]
Artificial Intelligence – A Danger to Humanity, Harnessed to Capitalism’s Greed
Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) has been in the headlines regularly in the last months. Many leading scientists and corporate officials in high tech industries have made statements regarding the dangers it poses. For example, Dr. Geoffrey Hinton, a computer scientist seen as the godfather of A.I., announced his retirement from Google, saying he regrets his work […]
Attack on Dissent: Members of the Atlanta Solidarity Fund Charged with Terrorism?
On May 31, a SWAT team in Atlanta raided the home of three board members of the Atlanta Solidarity Fund (ASF) and arrested them for the crime of bailing out protesters fighting the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, or Cop City, which is a planned massive training space for law enforcement officers from across the […]
France: June 6 and Beyond: Our Anger Runs Deep and Isn’t About to Cool Off!
June 4, 2023 editorial of the Workplace Newsletters of the Etincelle fraction of the New Anticapitalist Party (NPA), translated from French. On Saturday June 3, visitors to Paris’s Disneyland were surprised to see a parade of a thousand angry employees. For several weeks at the initiative of an “anti-inflation movement” (MAI) there have been protests […]
Indian and Other Rail Catastrophes
Last Friday’s train crash along a busy commuter rail line in eastern India brought to the fore – again – the deadly consequences of poor maintenance on rail lines around the world. The crash occurred on a busy intercity line when one passenger train collided head-on with a stationary freight train at 80mph. The impact […]