On a Sunday afternoon this April, a program manager at HSBC bank in London sat down to “prep for this week’s work,” when he had a heart attack. He didn’t see his life flash before his eyes or even think about his three children. Instead, his first thoughts were about...
In March of 1968, the French student movement started in Nanterre, a suburb of Paris, at a brand new university campus. The campus had been built four years earlier on a sort of “no-man’s land,” next to an Algerian workers’ shantytown. Some of these students were...
Have you filled up the gas tank recently? Bought groceries? If you feel like you have to dig deeper in your wallet to get less, and spend more just to simply get by, you are not imagining things. This past April, American workers saw a jump in inflation of 4.2%,...
The ransomware attack on the Colonial Pipeline cut off nearly half the supply of gasoline and jet fuel to much of the East Coast. Oil companies had already started jacking up gas prices in anticipation of people traveling this summer. The cyberattack gave them an...
This article has been translated from the French in Convergences Revolutionnaires, a publication of Etincelle fraction of the NPA Clashes between young Palestinian demonstrators and Israeli police continued in East Jerusalem and there is no indication that in the...
