Our Holiday Bonus This year: Anxiety
This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Highland Hospital in Oakland, CA. While layoff notices are being delayed from December 24th to January 6th, the dread of wondering if you’re still “on the list” now only has more time to fester. The damage has been done – announcing layoffs for […]
Imperialism on the Move; Will the People Strike Back Soon?
January 12, 2026, editorial of the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, translated from French. After Trump’s military intervention in Venezuela to seize its oil, after reaffirming his desire to take over Greenland and its resources, now it’s Iran that the American leader is threatening with another military intervention. The pretext is to come to […]
2026: It’s All of Us vs. the Billionaire Class
2026 has begun with the Trump administration escalating their brutality against the population and increasing their threats to the world. They are drawing a line in the sand: it is the tiny class of billionaires and those who protect them on one side, and the rest of us on the other. Which direction things continue […]
Minnesotans Are Defending Their Communities Against Authoritarian ICE Terror
The U.S. government’s terror agents in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) are carrying out their most aggressively violent attack campaign to date. Over 3,000 agents have flooded into Minneapolis and elsewhere in Minnesota in the past weeks. They are carrying out a brutally racist operation against local Somali and […]
Despite repression by the Islamic regime, anger is spreading in Iran
January 3, 2026 article from the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, translated from French. In recent days, massive protests have erupted in major Iranian cities. Tehran merchants were quickly joined by students and larger segments of the population in these protests, which were initially caused by the rising cost of living (a 250% increase […]
We Must Oppose the Imperialist Aggression to Seize Venezuela’s Wealth
January 3, 2026 Statement from the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, translated from French. J Trump, the President of the United States, has claimed responsibility for the airstrikes on Venezuela, the human cost of which remains unknown at this time. He also claimed to have captured Maduro, the Venezuelan president, whom he accuses of […]
AHS Workers Demand a Safe Workplace
This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Highland Hospital in Oakland, CA. Healthcare workers at Highland and throughout the Bay Area were shocked to learn of the stabbing death of a social worker at a San Francisco General Hospital clinic earlier this month. Although SF General administrators are now agreeing […]
When Workers Organize, The Bosses Listen
This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Highland Hospital in Oakland, CA. Employees of AHS, especially at Highland, have been calling on the administration to protect patients from immigration enforcement in the hospital. They have been hosting Know Your Rights trainings, passing around badge buddies with info about how to […]
Stronger Together
This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Highland Hospital in Oakland, CA. A proposal has been circulating at Highland recently for registered nurses to form their own chapter board within SEIU. Nurses were concerned that they were not well represented in the current chapter board, which is primarily composed of […]
“Financialize Everything”: How ‘Prediction Markets’ Are Selling the End of the World
Early this month, CNN reportedly formed a partnership with Kalshi, “the world’s largest prediction market company” according to Axios. As part of the deal, CNN will embed data from Kalshi’s online market into live news broadcasts, “includ[ing] prediction market content related to politics, news, culture and weather.” Kalshi, alongside their main major competitor Polymarket, offers a marketplace […]
Anti-Semitic Attack in Australia: We Must Fight Racism and the Capitalist System That Fuels It
December 15, 2025 editorial of the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, translated from French. On Sunday, December 14, two assailants killed 15 people and wounded 42 others by shooting into a crowd gathered to celebrate the Jewish holiday, Hanukkah, on Bondi Beach in Sydney. One shooter was disarmed by a Syrian immigrant who courageously […]
Demonstrators “Scrape ICE” Out of Home Depot
People are getting creative in how they denounce ICE raids in their communities. In recent weeks, hundreds have gathered at Home Depot stores throughout the country protesting ICE’s presence. Demonstrators have organized symbolic “buy-in” protests where dozens line up to buy a single 17¢ ice scraper, only to immediately line up again and return it. The intention […]
Pam Bondi Memo Criminalizes Political Dissent
In a leaked memo dated December 4, Attorney General Pam Bondi directed the FBI to “compile a list of groups or entities engaged in acts that may constitute domestic terrorism.” She goes on to broaden the definition of domestic terrorism to include those who support problematic “political and social agendas” such as “opposition to law and […]
Speak Out Now National Newsletter: December 15, 2025
Download .pdf leafletDownload .pdf leaflet (Baltimore, Maryland)Download .pdf leaflet (The Triangle, North Carolina) Join In the Fight In 2026! The Triangle, North Carolina: U.S. Capitalism Wants Immigrant Labor, but Terrorizes Immigrants While the Trump administration is carrying out brutal immigration raids throughout the country in cities like Charlotte, they are quietly making it easier to […]
UC Berkeley Suspends Lecturer Peyrin Kao After Pro-Palestine Advocacy
In August 2025, at the start of the fall semester, UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) lecturer Peyrin Kao went on a 38-day hunger strike to protest the genocide in Gaza and bring greater awareness onto the university campus. Kao states that he ate only 250 calories a day to represent the famine Gazans are currently experiencing. […]
Ukraine: Capitalists Profit as Millions Suffer
The corruption scandal currently rocking the government of Ukraine says a lot about what the ruling classes of nation-states really care about. While they often own the media and choose the politicians who tell us that “we’re all in this together,” the reality couldn’t be further from the truth. In 2019, television comedian Volodymyr Zelensky […]
France: The 2026 Budget: A Jackpot for Bosses!
December 8, 2025 editorial of the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, translated from French. The latest episode in a never-ending parliamentary saga [in France]: the vote on the social security budget! It was passed by a narrow majority (13 votes) of Members of Parliament (MPs) and with the support of the majority of Socialist […]
If you want peace, prepare the revolution!
December 1, 2025 editorial of the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, translated from French. After Fabien Mandon, the [French] army’s chief of staff, declared that we must be ready to “accept losing our children,” [President] Macron announced the return of the military service as early as 2026—on a voluntary basis. Designated volunteers: children of […]
15 Years Ago Today: Georgia Prisoners Strike Against Legal Slavery
15 years ago today, on December 9, 2010, prisoners in Georgia began a prison work strike that lasted at least six days. Although it’s not known exactly how many prisoners took part, there were at least hundreds of strikers spread over at least seven prisons throughout the state. In these prisons, prisoner-workers refused to do […]
Their Whole System is a War Crime on the People of the World
In the last several months, the U.S. military has repeatedly conducted air strikes on small fishing boats in the Caribbean and the eastern Pacific Ocean. Almost every few days, the Trump administration has bragged about ruthlessly bombing boats and killing everyone on board nearly every single time. Trump and the head of the newly named […]
Hundreds of Palestinians Killed In Gaza Despite Ceasefire
Since the announcement of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, more than 360 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli gunfire and bombings, with thousands more injured. Satellite images show the bulldozing of entire neighborhoods behind the “Yellow Line”- the area of Gaza occupied by Israeli troops. A fraction of the aid needed to sustain the needs of the […]
Cancelled Shift? Know Your Rights!
This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Highland Hospital in Oakland, CA. Although it’s rare, every once in a while at Highland we are actually overstaffed for a shift, where there are more nurses scheduled than can be assigned to the number of patients. When this happens, management might try […]
AHS – The Grinch Stealing Xmas
This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Highland Hospital in Oakland, CA. Workers throughout Alameda Health System are understandably concerned about the upcoming layoffs, which couldn’t have come at a worse time right before the holidays. Families are waiting to make travel plans and buy gifts, knowing they might not […]
Layoffs Announced at AHS
This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Highland Hospital in Oakland, CA. We were notified via email a couple weeks ago that 372 positions are being considered in a new workforce reduction plan. Then last week, AHS administration confirmed that these positions would in fact be laid off. Here’s what […]
AHS Employees Give ICE the Cold Shoulder
This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Highland Hospital in Oakland, CA. AHS employees have repeatedly asked AHS admin for stronger and clearer policies around ICE, similar to what some other hospitals have. Yet admin’s response is always the same: we already have policies in place and you can find […]
Speak Out Now National Newsletter: December 1, 2025
Download .pdf leaflet (Bay Area, California)Download .pdf leaflet (Baltimore, Maryland)Download .pdf leaflet (The Triangle, North Carolina) What We’re Thankful For… At this Thanksgiving time in 2025, in a world filled with attacks on 99 percent of us, it’s easy to overlook the many good things that we actually do have to be thankful for. We […]
43 Day Government Shutdown and the Anatomy of a Democratic Party Sellout
The Democrats gave up their fight for ACA subsidies without getting anything in return, showing that they only wanted to appear progressive without actually being progressive.
Epstein Survivors: Let’s Follow Their Lead!
The lack of justice for survivors of abuse by Epstein and his associates shows that the government is not truly interested in helping them.
BART and ICE
BART applied for an received a grant, which would put BART in cooperation with ICE.
In One Year, the Wealth of Billionaires Increased by 16.5%
November 22, 2025 news brief from the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, translated from French. On the occasion of the G20 summit, held in Johannesburg, South Africa, on November 22 and 23, the NGO (nongovernmental organization) Oxfam calculated that the wealth of billionaires living in these countries increased from $13.4 trillion to $15.6 trillion, […]
College Stadiums are Being Used as Federal Surveillance Zones
In early November, a quiet but important story came out of college football. At least in two big games during this year, the Department of Homeland Security has been silently running a surveillance platform called the Homeland Security Information Network, or HSIN. Most fans in the stadium had no idea that while they were cheering […]
No Contract, No Coffee
Starbucks workers across the United States kicked off an open-ended unfair labor practice strike last week, with a 92% “yes” vote to strike. Workers began the strike on Starbucks’ “Red Cup Day,” the start of the holiday drink menu rollout, and have since expanded in waves to 95 stores in 65 cities, with 2000 baristas […]
Indigenous Communities Unmask COP30
As COP30, the 30th United Nations Climate Change Conference, came to an end, representatives from around the world finalized their agreements on what should and should not be included in the final report. These COPs, and the policies from the various participating countries, have so far been famously insufficient to even begin addressing climate change. […]
U.S. and Saudi Capitalists Cozy Up
On November 18, Donald Trump literally rolled out the red carpet and gave a ceremonial military welcome to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the modernizing autocrat who rules over the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Although his family kingdom and its wealth are based on the production of oil that is driving global warming, although he […]
Capitalism is Destroying the Planet; Only Workers Can Save It
November 17, 2025 editorial of the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, translated from French. Disasters follow one another and are becoming more frequent Temperatures are soaring, mega-fires are devouring entire regions, cyclones are ravaging everything in their path and droughts are destroying crops. These disasters are anything but natural: behind them lies a profit-hungry […]
Speak Out Now National Newsletter: November 17, 2025
Download .pdf leafletDownload .pdf leaflet (Baltimore, Maryland)Download .pdf leaflet (The Triangle, North Carolina) The U.S. Government is Waging War on Us All! The U.S. government has accelerated its war on the people of the U.S. and is increasing its threats against the people of South America. The government shutdown, like the threat of a military […]
The U.S. Government is Waging War on Us All!
The U.S. government has accelerated its war on the people of the U.S. and is increasing its threats against the people of South America. The government shutdown, like the threat of a military assault on Venezuela, has been a demonstration of the priorities of the government and those it really represents. For 43 days, the […]
Turning Point USA at University of California Berkeley
On Monday, November 10, University of California (UC) Berkeley hosted the final stop of the Turning Point USA (TPUSA) college campus tour. TPUSA, founded in 2012 by Charlie Kirk, is a far-right Christian nationalist organization. It claims to promote free speech on campuses while in reality advancing bigotry against people of color, women, the LGBTQ+ […]
New Record for CO2 Emissions in 2025
November 14, 2025 news brief from the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, translated from French. According to the Global Carbon Project’s annual report, CO2 emissions from fossil fuels (coal, oil, and gas) will be 1.1% higher in 2025 than the previous year, reaching 38.1 billion tons. “This is more than the average annual increase […]
Power Failure at Highland
This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Highland Hospital in Oakland, CA. Last week the power was out in the ACT for about 40 minutes. Thankfully the most necessary machines stayed on, and power was not down for long. But some important equipment, we learned, was not connected to a […]
Why Only One CT at Night?
This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Highland Hospital in Oakland, CA. Highland night shift nurses often find themselves asking why the hospital operates two CT scanners during the day, but only one at night. Highland recently achieved designation as a stroke center, meaning even more patients are coming through […]
A Common Insanity: Nuclear Weapons Documentary Review
“A Common Insanity: A Conversation with Daniel Ellsberg About Nuclear War” is a short and straight-to-the-point documentary about the unbelievable dangers of nuclear weapons. With Trump’s recent statement that the U.S. will resume nuclear testing to be on an “equal basis” with Russia and China, it is a relevant film that details what horrors even the […]
Open Enrollment Panic Week Concludes
This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Highland Hospital in Oakland, CA. The brief open enrollment period for health insurance ended last week, leaving many workers unsure if they selected the best plan for themselves and their families. But why is open enrollment such a confusing and stressful time? We […]
30 Years Of COP Have Only Led Us Towards Collapse
With every passing year, the severity and urgency of the climate crisis grow. Rising temperatures and the climatic changes that accompany them are having effects that will become more and more catastrophic, including: more frequent and intense heat waves, floods, droughts, and wildfires; major disruptions to agriculture and consequent famine; rapid spread of new epidemics; […]
Budget Cuts? Why Not Chop From the Top!
This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Highland Hospital in Oakland, CA. At the last desktop leadership chat, executives stated “all options are on the table” when asked if budget cuts may lead to layoffs. If all options are truly on the table, how about cutting executive pay? At the […]
France: Class Contempt and War on the Poor: Capitalism Must Be Brought to an End!
November 10, 2025 editorial of the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, translated from French. Listening to deputies debate the budget, you’d think we — the people who keep this society running — were to blame for everything: workers supposedly living off the “generosity” of the healthcare system, retirees taking it easy instead of dying […]
Corporate Donors Fund Trump’s $300 Million White House Ballroom
Last month in October, Trump’s destructive chaos reached the White House itself, where he began a demolition of the East Wing. His ultimate plan is to replace it with a $300 million dollar ballroom, which will span 90,000 square feet and be capable of accommodating 1,000 guests. The ballroom is intended to host galas, dinners, […]
Dick Cheney: Decades of Service to U.S. Imperialism
On the evening of Monday, November 3rd, former Vice President Dick Cheney passed away at 84 years old, from complications from pneumonia and vascular disease. While Cheney had a long history of involvement in politics stretching back to 1969, he is best known for his role as Vice President in the George W. Bush administrations […]
Another “Ceasefire” Where One Side Ceases and Israel Fires
One month ago, on October 10th, a ceasefire was proclaimed between Israel and Hamas. This so-called ceasefire agreement is coming after more than two years of genocidal violence carried out on the Palestinians. During that time the equivalent of 13 nuclear bombs have been dropped on Gaza. At least 75,190 Palestinians have been killed. We […]
Elections Aren’t Enough – Democrats Won’t Defend Us
Since Trump’s election, the Democrats have tried to appear as an opposition to Trump and the Republicans. But it was the Democrat’s defense of the billionaires at the expense of working people that helped bring Trump to power. And now, after last week’s elections, the Democrats are trying to paint their election victories as another […]