Mike Davis: A Passionate Fighter and Writer for Social Change

Mike Davis: A Passionate Fighter and Writer for Social Change

At Speak Out Now we were very sad to learn of the death of Mike Davis on October 25. Mike Ryan Davis was a Marxist writer and a committed political activist, historian, and environmentalist. A true working class intellectual with a fighting spirit, he didn’t take the...
Empty Homes Yet Unhoused People – Another Sickness of the System

Empty Homes Yet Unhoused People – Another Sickness of the System

A recent report provides us with yet another example of the inhumanity of the capitalist political-economic system that shapes our world. San Francisco recently released data for 2021 that found that 61,473 homes sat empty and unused while at least 4,000 people sleep...
Brazil: Did the Left’s Victory Avoid the Worst?

Brazil: Did the Left’s Victory Avoid the Worst?

November 1, 2022, Editorial of the Workplace Newsletters of the Etincelle fraction of the New Anticapitalist Party (NPA) in France, translated from French. With 50.9% of the vote, Lula, the candidate of the Brazilian left, won against the far-right President, Jair...
UPS Worker Gets Pushed to the Edge

UPS Worker Gets Pushed to the Edge

On October 5, a UPS worker took her life on the job at a major sorting hub in Louisville, Kentucky. The incident is reported to have taken place immediately after she was fired for allegedly falling asleep on the job. After learning of her termination, she requested...