Category: Articles

Workers Unionize at Yosemite and Sequoia & Kings National Parks

In a historic move last month, 97% of workers at two California national parks voted to unionize, joining the National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE). Workers at Yosemite and Sequoia & Kings national parks had been organizing for years, but were unable to secure enough votes to unionize until this summer, when conditions for park […]

Microsoft Relies on the Genocide in Gaza to Drive Innovation

A recent investigation revealed that Microsoft’s cloud services, Azure, store 11,500 terabytes of Israeli military data. That’s approximately 200 million hours of audio. This is part of a custom plan Israel’s military surveillance agency, Unit 8200, negotiated with Microsoft to provide practically unlimited storage of their data. The plan started in 2022 when Israel was supposed to […]

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 […]

We Run the Hospital – Not ICE!

This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland Hospitals in Oakland, CA. Last week in Palo Alto, a woman collapsed during an ICE arrest and was taken to Stanford Hospital. Despite having a serious medical condition, agents allowed only a brief family visit and did not give information […]

Incremental Overtime Blues

This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland Hospitals in Oakland, CA. Every so often, hospital management gets the bright idea that they can save money by threatening workers over their use of “incremental overtime.” This is the type of overtime that accrues when you clock in two […]

McCarthyism Returns to U.S. Immigration Policy

The U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services (USCIS) recently issued new guidelines regarding an immigration officer’s ability to deport or deny entry to immigrants if they are determined to have committed “anti-American” speech or are involved with an organization which promotes anti-American ideology. The agency is in charge of processing immigration, asylum, and refugee applications, issuing (or denying) […]

Renewable Energy? Not Under Capitalism!  

The Trump energy policy is built on four planks: increased domestic production, “streamlined” permitting, “energy independence,” and promoting economic growth. The concrete implications of this project are becoming clear as subsidies for renewable energy and electric vehicles are rolled back at the same time as Trump intervenes to keep coal power stations open. Some renewables advocates have tried to find a positive in […]

Air Canada Workers Defy Government to Continue Strike

On August 17th, over 10,000 striking Air Canada workers took a historic step and continued their strike in defiance of a government order to return to work. In this extraordinary moment, workers forced Air Canada back to the bargaining table, and a tentative agreement was reached. After workers’ existing union contract expired in March, labor […]

Kaiser San Rafael Nurses Protest Potential Layoffs

On August 21st, nurses at the Kaiser San Rafael facility held a one-day protest in response to the looming threat of 41 nursing positions being eliminated this October. These layoffs, if carried out, would not only affect the workers who lose their jobs, but also those who remain—forcing them to shoulder an even greater burden […]

Stop the Famine – No Genocide in Our Name!

According to the UN and international health organizations, the people of Gaza City are experiencing a severe famine. They report that, by the end of September, more than 640,000 people in Gaza City will face the highest level of food insecurity, Phase 5 – Famine (at least two adults or four children under five per […]

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, […]

Trump’s Attack on the Smithsonian Is Historical Revisionism

Earlier this week, Trump escalated his attacks on the Smithsonian, along with several other museums in Washington, D.C. He claimed that the institution overemphasizes “how bad slavery was.” He called on the Secretary of the Smithsonian for a thorough review to ensure the elimination of so-called “anti-American ideology” from the Smithsonian and its subsidiary museums, […]

Local 29 Workers Rebid for Positions

This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland Hospitals in Oakland, CA. In the past months, Kaiser administration has increasingly pushed to reduce staff, cut corners, automate tasks, and consolidate departments in an effort to increase profits. For cashier receptionists at Kaiser, this has recently meant having to […]

Budgeting for Dummies

This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland Hospitals in Oakland, CA. AHS is about to face severe budget deficits thanks to new Medicaid cuts, something CEO James Jackson has called the ‘nuclear option.’ In a stunning display of “collaboration,” he asked for our ideas on how to […]

Seven Month Delay in Certification Pay

This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland Hospitals in Oakland, CA. Over a year ago, in July of 2024, Alameda Health System nurses voted to approve a new contract that includes an additional 3% compensation for holding a specialty certification. The contract states that the new pay […]

SZA Calls Out AI

Grammy-winning singer-songwriter SZA recently used her large social media platform to express frustration over the harm caused by Artificial Intelligence (AI): Please google how much energy and pollution it takes to run Ai..please google the beautiful black cities like Memphis that are SUFFERING because of twitters new Ai system. PLEASE JUST GOOGLE ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM. AI […]

We Must Resist Their Militarization of Society!

Since August 11th, in response to Trump’s blatant lies about a so-called “crime invasion,” hundreds of National Guard troops and armed federal agents have descended upon Washington D.C, patrolling the city, intimidating, harassing, and arresting anyone they can. And now some right wing governors in other states have said they also plan to send hundreds […]

The Hormel Strike 40 Years Later – What Lessons Can We Learn?

On August 17, 1985, workers at the Hormel meatpacking plant in the small town of Austin, Minnesota began a strike that lasted just more than one year. In the course of the strike, the approximately 1,500 workers who struck, and much of Austin’s population, generated a strong, united fightback against corporate greed and union concessions. […]

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 […]

Stand Against Alligator Alcatraz

In another massive attack against immigrants, an abandoned Florida airport was turned into the “Alligator Alcatraz” immigration detention facility. In early July, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis pushed through the facility that holds up to 5,000 detainees. Built in just eight days, there are immediate concerns about the detention center’s dangerous conditions. As soon as it opened, news […]

Workers In India Stand Up

On Wednesday July 9th, there was a general strike of workers across India. The union confederations say that 250 million workers were on strike throughout the country. It is reported to have included workers in the banking, insurance, postal, coal mining, highway and construction industries. The strike was organized to fight the reforms of the […]

Trump and Epstein Are Only Two of the Many Predators We Need to Get Rid Of

Donald Trump and his administration have been engulfed in yet another scandal. But unlike previous scandals, this one is creating real divisions among many of his supporters. The issue today centers on Trump’s refusal to release information regarding Jeffrey Epstein, and his recent mocking of many supporters who were hoping to get transparency on this […]

Greek Port Workers Refuse to Load Genocide Materials

Last week, on July 16, port workers in Piraeus, Greece blocked shipment of weapons grade steel in route to Israel for use in that nation’s ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. Workers and their union said in advance that they would not handle or load and unload the cargo. When it arrived, hundreds of dockworkers […]

ICE: Hands Off Our Patients

This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland Hospitals in Oakland, CA. Last week, Highland workers organized an in-person know your rights training for how to respond to ICE if they show up to the hospital. Lawyers taught workers a lot over their lunch break, here are some […]

Trump’s Cuts Will Affect All of Us Everywhere

Since taking office in late January, Trump and his anti-worker bureaucrats have already begun to slash and burn many of the programs and resources that we need. Now that Congress has passed and Trump has signed into law what they called their “Big Beautiful Bill,” the larger cuts that we have all worried about are […]

Microsoft Has Money for AI But Not Its Workforce

Earlier this month, Microsoft confirmed it would reduce its staff by 4%, laying off around 9,000 people from its total workforce. This is the company’s second round of massive layoffs this year. Back in May, 7,000 more people lost their jobs at Microsoft. To add insult to injury, the company boasted $500 million in savings […]

Mask Off Maersk

In June, the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) scored a major (though partial) victory in its campaign to shut off supply chains to Israel as it conducts its genocide against the Palestinian people. Maersk is a global shipping company deeply complicit in Israel’s crimes against humanity. It has contracted with the U.S. Department of Defense to […]

Texas Tragedy: A Glimpse of What’s to Come

Last week, torrential rainfall ripped through Kerr County, Texas, causing catastrophic flooding. More than a summer’s worth of rain fell on the region in a few hours, raising the water level of the Guadalupe River from 3 feet to 30 feet in just 45 minutes during the middle of the night. People were not adequately […]

San Francisco Fights Back Against ICE Terror 

Late Tuesday morning, around a dozen ICE agents forced through a crowd of protesters, deploying tear gas and pointing a gun at protestors and press. Video shows federal agents shoving a handcuffed man into the back of an unmarked van before speeding through the handful of protestors who stood in front of the vehicle, dragging one person […]

Newark and Detroit, July 1967: A Brief History and Lessons for Today

Today, July 12, 2025, we face the specter of ICE raids and potentially even military incursions into and against working-class communities nationwide. As these raids have ramped up, people have begun to respond, first in localized ways and now with slowly expanding protests both large and small. This is not the first time that military […]

5,000-Gallon Diesel Spill: Johns Hopkins Fails Baltimore – Again

In June 2025, Johns Hopkins Hospital allowed 5,000 gallons of diesel fuel to spill from two underground tanks into Baltimore’s storm drains and, from there, into the harbor. The spill covered wildlife like turtles and birds, and the water itself in red-dyed fuel. At first, Hopkins claimed the spill was only 200 gallons. That number […]

Trump’s Attack on Education: An Acceleration of a Decades-Long Assault

Introduction As part of the Trump administration’s overall strategy of gutting federal programs and social services, suppressing free speech, and criminalizing resistance, they have especially targeted education at every level. They have placed the Department of Education on the chopping block, whose funds primarily serve students with disabilities and low-income school districts. They have used […]

Panama: Workers Rise Up Against Repression and Imperialism

Since March 2025, workers across Panama have revolted against a new pension law that attacks their rights. The government’s response has been brutal repression. Panama’s leaders declared a state of emergency in June, suspended constitutional rights, and sent thousands of police to Bocas del Toro, a province in the northwest, known for its banana plantations […]

The System Will Not Bring Us Justice

The Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs ruling was a massive disappointment, and a reminder that the carceral system, far from delivering justice, often serves to protect wealth and power. Despite the rightful public scrutiny of Combs’s violence, he was found not guilty on charges of racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking. The jury of eight men and four […]

Bob Vylan Is Not the Story – They Are the Distraction

Palestinians desperate for aid have been repeatedly gunned down while seeking food and supplies, now solely provided by the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (backed by the U.S. and Israel). Since beginning its operations in late April 2025, “more than 500 Palestinians have been killed and almost 4,000 injured” while trying to access lifesaving aid at one of […]

Workers at Children’s Hospital Oakland Are Under Attack!

This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland Hospitals in Oakland, CA. Workers at Oakland’s Children’s Hospital just ended a two-week strike involving members of the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW), California Nurses Association (CNA), and the International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE). The strike was in […]

Workers Deserve *Real* Just Culture

This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland Hospitals in Oakland, CA. When there is an incident involving a patient, such as a medication error or a patient fall, management conducts an investigation to see what went wrong and who to blame. Healthcare facilities often state that they […]

Climate Change: Our Lives Are Worth More Than Their Profits!

July 1, 2025 editorial of the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, translated from French. An intense heatwave is sweeping across the country, and Météo France (Weather Forecasts France) has placed most districts on alert, with temperatures expected to exceed 40°C (104° Fahrenheit). The climate emergency is once again reminding us of the violent inequalities […]

French Post Office Fight: After the Success of June 12, Spread the Word Now about the Battle for Acquittal! Prepare for the Mobilization on July 10 for the Verdict!

This article was submitted July 1, 2025 by activists of the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France. More than 600 people attended the rally for the five La Poste (postal) workers from the 92nd department (governmental district). Among the participants were nearly 200 postal workers, including just over a hundred from the Paris region. A […]

Iran and 125 Years of Imperialism

The Iranian nation-state, presently under attack by both Israel and the United States, has a long history as an object of imperialist aggression. Although the degree to which western powers were able to influence and dominate Iran has varied, since approximately 1900 two major western capitalist powers have regularly intervened to either control or undermine […]

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.” […]

The End of Work… or the End of Profit?

Dossier No. 37, June 26, 2025; this “dossier” is a collection of short articles by the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France (translated from French) Some capitalists dream of replacing humans with AI: no more demands, no more strikes! Mechanization is as old as capitalism itself, that is, the investment of capital in production proper. […]

High-tech genocide

Dossier No. 37, June 26, 2025; this “dossier” is a collection of short articles by the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France (translated from French) It would have been surprising if the armies, which have led the research on AI, had not used it! The Israeli army has already implemented it (as others undoubtedly have) […]