Category: Articles

Deadly Expansion of ICE Detentions

As ICE and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) expand their operations and build a larger network of concentration camps nationwide, they have also become deadlier for those caught up in the system. The 32 deaths in custody that occurred in 2025 made it the deadliest year for ICE in more than two decades. So far […]

Solidarity with Meatpacking Workers in Colorado!

On Monday, March 16, meatpacking workers in Greeley, Colorado, began a two-week strike against Swift Beef Co. and Pilgrim’s Pride, the U.S.-based subsidiaries of JBS, the giant Brazilian meatpacking corporation. This is the first major strike in the U.S. meatpacking industry in four decades, since the hard-fought but failed Hormel strike in Austin, Minnesota in […]

One Month into Trump’s Bloody So-Called “Excursion”

It has been nearly one month since Trump’s administration, together with Israel, launched a war against the Islamic Republic of Iran. Since the war began, the lies and distortions coming from Trump’s mouth have been nearly endless. He declared war, and then said it’s not a war. He called for the overthrow of the Islamic […]

Another Abducted Child

As ICE continues to terrorize the country, another child has been abducted and deported – this time from our own backyard: Hayward, California. Six-year-old Joseph Andrey Londono Rodriguez was taken by ICE and sent to Colombia after his mother was arrested in San Francisco on March 3rd. Joseph, who is deaf, was deported without critical assistive […]

Iranian Oil Fields Bombed – The Devastating Health and Environmental Toll of War 

In the aftermath of the U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iranian oil deposits two weekends ago, black rain fell over parts of Iran. Iranians also reported having headaches and witnessing what some called “acid rain” falling on buildings and cars.   Inhaling particles from the smoke created from the oil field bombing could be extremely toxic, especially for people with […]

Billionaires Buying Our Elections

A New York Times analysis this month found that just 300 billionaires and their immediate family members made 19% of all U.S. federal campaign contributions in 2024. Each billionaire donated about as much as 100,000 typical donors combined. This accounting of their contributions is likely an underestimate, as it does not include donations made through […]

Layoffs Delayed to June 30th!

This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Highland Hospital in Oakland, CA. AHS workers have been showing up and speaking out against the cuts to services and layoffs planned throughout our healthcare system. We organized with each other, reached out to the public, and made our voices too loud to […]

Their Brutal War Shows the Priorities of Their System

This devastating war on the people of Iran by the murderous regimes of the U.S. and Israel has continued for two weeks, hitting over 6,000 locations across Iran, killing over one thousand civilians and displacing an estimated 3.2 million people. They have struck an elementary school for girls, killing at least 170 people, mostly young […]

Country Joe McDonald – A Voice of the Anti-War Movement

Country Joe McDonald passed away on March 7, 2026 at the age of 84. He was a hugely prolific singer and songwriter, an important figure, along with his band Country Joe and the Fish, in the Bay Area psychedelic rock scene of the 1960s, and is known most for his anti-war protest anthem “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die Rag,” […]

AI-Generated Content & Misinformation Rampant After US Attacks Iran

In the wake of recent U.S. military strikes against Iran, social media platforms have become battlegrounds for disinformation. While the initial uptick in fake and AI-generated images happened during the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine war, the war with Iran marks a dangerous evolution in disinformation. High-quality artificial intelligence tools that weren’t readily available in 2022 are now […]

U.S. and Israeli Attack on the People of Iran is Built on Lies

The current war against Iran by the United States and Israel has been a huge disaster for the people of Iran as well as throughout the region. Thousands of people in Iran and the Gulf States have been killed. Donald Trump has declared he is not interested in making any deal with Iran and that […]

Paramount-Warner-Brothers Merger Continues Media Centralization

After months of a back-and-forth bidding war between Netflix and Paramount-Skydance, Netflix last week chose not to counter Paramount-Skydance’s latest offer for Warner Bros. Discovery, paving the way for these two giant media companies to merge. While Paramount-Skydance is a social media/entertainment entity, the financing for the deal comes mostly from Oracle, an I.T. giant […]

Kaiser: Another Long Strike is Over, What Happens When It’s Your Turn?

This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser Oakland in Oakland, CA. After four weeks on the picket line, the strike by UNAC/UHCP workers was called off last week (week of 2/23). While UNAC/UHCP leadership cited significant progress at the bargaining table as the reason for returning to work, including […]

San Francisco Mayor Says: More Cops, Less of Everything Else

The San Francisco Bay Area is one of the wealthiest and most productive economic areas in the whole world. Its working people are in a constant state of crisis and forced to endure wave after wave of austerity. San Francisco public schools face layoffs and school closures, even before teachers were forced to strike for modest […]

The Voice of Hind Rajab Speaks to us All

At a time when the genocide in Gaza has fallen off the front page of the news, Director Kaouther Ben Hania’s film The Voice of Hind Rajab compels us to confront the ongoing violence against the Palestinian people. The film tells the true story of a five-year-old Palestinian girl named Hind who is trapped alone in a […]

Iran and 125 Years of Imperialism

An earlier version of this article was published here on July 2, 2025. 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 […]

Iran Timeline: A History of Imperialist Aggression

The U.S. attack on Iran in 2026 is only the latest in decades of U.S. aggression against that country. U.S. imperialism, whether directed by the Democratic Party or the Republican Party, has worked tirelessly to dominate Iran and control its resources. This current war has nothing to do with protecting the U.S. or defending any […]

ICE in Minnesota – It’s Not Over

On February 12th, “Border Czar” Tom Homan announced the end of Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota. This drawing back of forces is the result of the very public and visible refusal by the people of the Twin Cities to stand by while their neighbors were brutalized and kidnapped. But over two weeks later, has ICE […]

Lawsuit Alleges that Meta Fails to Protect Youth

In February 2026, a 20-year-old California woman known in court as Kaley G.M. testified in a major trial against Meta Platforms and Google. She argues that Instagram and YouTube were designed in ways that made her addicted as a child, harming her mental health. Kaley said she began using YouTube at age 6 and Instagram at 9, […]

No to U.S.-Israel War on the People of Iran!

Together with Israel, the United States began its murderous bombing campaign against the people of Iran. A day after the strikes began, Trump announced that Iran’s leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed along with several other key military and political leaders of Iran. Thus far, the U.S. and Israel have bombed over 2,000 targets in […]

France: Against the Far Right: Advancing a Revolutionary Alternative

February 16, 2026 editorial of the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, translated from French. The death of Quentin Deranque, a racist and fundamentalist far-right activist, has been used to justify a sweeping campaign of lies, insults, and smears. Media outlets and politicians—from the far right to the mainstream right and even parts of the […]

The United States Tightens the Noose Around Cuba’s Neck – We Must Say “NO!”

On January 29th, Donald Trump issued an executive order titled, “Addressing Threats To The United States By The Government Of Cuba.” The executive order threatened massive tariffs on any country that provides oil to Cuba, arguing that Cuba somehow poses a serious national security threat to the United States and citing the Cuban government’s alleged […]

The Epstein Files: Abuse, Power, and No Consequences

What we are seeing with the latest release from the Epstein files is not a breakthrough, but a burial. As of January 30, 3.5 million pages are now public, but no prosecutions, reforms, or consequences have come with them. This is not an accident. The release has been carefully separated from real justice, trying to […]

Trump Administration Gives a Green Light to Poisoning the World Faster

On February 12, President Trump and Lee Zeldin, the head of his Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), announced that the agency would no longer recognize the “endangerment rule,” a 2010 EPA decision that climate change is a danger to both human health and the environment. This announcement flies in the face of decades of agreement by […]

India: Another Mass Strike Shows Potential Power

On February 12, at least 300 million people took to the streets in India for a one-day strike. They were taking organized action in opposition to changes to labor laws and recent trade deals with the U.S., New Zealand, and European Union (E.U.).  The strike brought together farmers and a diverse range of workers to […]

Black History Month and Self-Liberation

During Black History Month, our attention often focuses on the stories and achievements of great leaders. But those leaders are famous only because of the activism of masses of people for their own liberation. Freedom for Black people in the United States and across the Americas was not won by politicians’ speeches, laws, or reform. […]

Billionaires Create the Chaos. We Can Stop It!

Everywhere we look, the U.S. government and the billionaires they serve are attacking us day after day. They are slashing budgets and cutting our social safety nets, working to replace jobs with AI and robots, cutting regulations to dig for and use more climate-destroying fossil fuels, and laying siege to cities with armed, masked ICE […]

AHS Publishes List of Proposed Closures

This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Highland Hospital in Oakland, CA. As required by state law, AHS executives published a list of the proposed closures and elimination of services they are planning in the ongoing layoffs. This 59-page document includes the elimination of outpatient behavioral health services, the closure […]

The Hidden Labor Behind Waymo’s “Self-Driving” Cars

During a U.S. Senate hearing on February 4, Waymo disclosed that it relies on remote workers in the Philippines to assist its self-driving vehicles with navigation. When a Waymo car encounters a complex or ambiguous situation on the road, it can reach out to a human remote operator for guidance on interpreting its surrounding environment. […]

Mistrial Declared in Case Against Pro-Palestine Stanford Students


The trial against Stanford students who participated in a pro-Palestine protest in June 2024 began earlier this year. Five students were charged with felony conspiracy to trespass and vandalism for occupying the office of the university’s president. This case stood out not just for the severity of the charges, but for the disparity between the alleged damage […]

Teachers Forced to Strike for Marginal Gains

After four days on the picket line, February 9-12, the United Educators of San Francisco ended their strike. The results? Teachers got a 5% raise over two years, while para-educators got a 8.5% raise. In addition, starting in January 2027, all 6,500 members of the SF teachers union and their families will have 100% of their health care covered by San […]

Kaiser UNAC/UHCP Strike: An Injury to One is an Injury to All!

This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser Oakland in Oakland, CA. It is now the fourth week of the UNAC/UHCP strike, and while many workers are still standing strong on the picket line, many are also feeling the economic pressure to return to work. Last week, reinforcements briefly arrived […]

SF’s March For Billionaires – They Don’t Need Defending!

The announcement of a march in support of billionaires, claiming that the state of California was at risk of losing a precious asset in the ultra-wealthy, drew ridicule and confusion, with many refusing to believe it could be serious. Roughly 20 people joined the march, presenting at various levels of seeming earnestness, and surrounded by counter […]

France: Facing Politicians’ Games, Let’s Make Our Anger Heard!

February 16, 2026 editorial of the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, translated from French. Local bigwigs entrenched in office for decades, newcomers eager to take their place, the entire political world is at the starting line for the municipal elections [in France]… often with their sights set on the presidential and legislative elections of […]

Nuclear Treaty Expires, Further Threatening All Humanity

On February 3, the one internationally agreed upon treaty limiting the development and deployment of nuclear weapons expired. Humanity is closer to species and planet altering disaster than ever before. After 1972, when the U.S. and Russia (then the Soviet Union) signed the first of a series of Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaties, their actions had been […]

San Francisco: Solidarity with our Teachers!

For the first time in nearly 50 years, the United Educators of San Francisco (UESF) is on strike. More than 6,500 teachers, para-educators, counselors and other workers set up picket lines instead of classrooms on Monday. The San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) comprises over 50,000 students across 111 schools. While the workers’ demand for […]

The Epstein Files: Capitalists are the Biggest Predators!

February 9, 2026 editorial of the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, translated from French. The U.S. Department of Justice’s continued release of documents on the Epstein case, a billionaire who, in addition to his business dealings, ran a prostitution ring involving young women, some as young as 14, and who died while in custody, […]

There’s No Denying Reality

The shitstorm that flies out of the White House has caused many people to turn away from reading, watching, or listening to what is called “the news.” What’s the point? The threats of war, promises of peace, and declarations of peace while a war rages all seem aimed at creating an atmosphere of chaos. Small […]

No Other Choice But to See “No Other Choice”

No Other Choice, in theaters now, is a dark comedy brought to us by director Park Chan-wook based on a 1997 novel The Ax. Park is known for several hit films, including Old Boy and The Handmaiden. Many moviegoers are comparing No Other Choice to Parasite due to its dark themes and anti-capitalist message. It […]

Trump, AI, and the Capitalist Restructuring of Education

download .pdf A major restructuring of education is underway nationwide, at both federal and state levels, to better align education with shifting economic needs. There are several converging factors increasing the momentum and magnitude of this restructuring, including declining birth rates, low enrollment, federal and state budget cuts, greater curriculum control and political repression. And […]