On May 4 teachers in Oakland, California, went on a seven-day strike that ended with a tentative agreement. Many teachers felt that the contract was mediocre at best. The timing of the strike was very difficult for students, teachers, staff, and families, since the...
May 15, 2023, Editorial of the Workplace Newsletters of the Etincelle fraction of the New Anticapitalist Party (NPA), Translated from French After months of extreme right-wing demonstrations in the city of Saint-Brévin-Les-Pins, from the National Rally (RN) Party to...
A new United Nations climate assessment report builds on previous reports to paint a picture of oceans continuing to heat up along with our global atmosphere. This is the latest in a series of reports that show a more rapid rate of increase in global ocean surface...
In the worst mine accident in decades, 27 people were killed in a fire in a gold mine in southern Peru. In the province of Arequipa, a circuit breaker in a small gold mine short-circuited causing the deadly fire. This incident shows the danger faced by miners in Peru,...
For the first time since the 1980s, the U.S. has sent nuclear submarines to dock in South Korea. The goal of the U.S. in doing so is to threaten North Korea in response to that country’s continued nuclear weapons tests and belligerent statements about the U.S. The...
