October 10, 2022, Editorial of the Workplace Newsletters of the Etincelle fraction of the NPA, Translated from French. For a month now throughout Iran, the insurgent population has been confronting a ferocious dictatorship. The deaths can be counted in the...
The Sum of Us, by Heather McGee, is an extremely interesting, but frustrating, book on racism in the United States. It is a useful account in under 300 pages of how capitalism has used racism in the U.S. and how it costs everyone – especially the working class. She...
(This is a slightly updated reprint of a 2020 article by Speak Out Now.) Monday, October 10, 2022 is Indigenous People’s Day, but the longstanding U.S. tradition is to celebrate it as Columbus Day. The official change of name was marked in 1989 with a decree by the...
In the United Kingdom (U.K.), more than 50,000 rail workers represented by three unions recently went on strike, bringing rail services throughout the country nearly to a standstill. In many areas, no trains are running, and direct services between Britain’s biggest...
In late September, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a “partial mobilization” of new Russian troops to be drafted into the country’s invasion of Ukraine. This announcement meant that 300,000 Russians between the ages of 18-60 with prior combat experience were...
