France: For Our Demands, We’ll All Have to Pitch in!

France: For Our Demands, We’ll All Have to Pitch in!

July 15, 2024 editorial of the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, translated from French Since July 8 (election day), negotiations have been underway in all parties to put forward the name of a Prime Minister. In the New Popular Front (NFP),...
San Francisco’s General Strike, 90 years later

San Francisco’s General Strike, 90 years later

This week, we celebrate the 90th anniversary of the 1934 general strike in San Francisco, when 150,000 workers across the Bay Area shut down the city for four days in a tremendous display of worker power. The strike had begun on May 9 as a West Coast-wide walkout of...
Technology Fads are Hungry for Power

Technology Fads are Hungry for Power

The International Energy Agency published a report earlier in 2024 with a warning that the demand for energy is predicted to grow at a faster rate over the next two years. One of the main contributing factors is the growth of data centers. Data centers are massive...
Bird Flu: Is This the Next Pandemic?

Bird Flu: Is This the Next Pandemic?

Since the start of July, five farmworkers in the United States have been infected with bird flu (H5N1). There has been a rising number of cases of this flu in people since the start of the year. Experts are concerned that, with the limited testing of poultry, cattle,...
Beryl a Symptom of Global Warming

Beryl a Symptom of Global Warming

For the entire first week of July, Hurricane Beryl churned through the Caribbean Sea, causing catastrophic damage to some smaller windward islands and serious damage along the coastlines of larger islands like Jamaica and the coast of Mexico. That was as a category 4...