Tag: protest

Abortion: Our Bodies – Our Rights – Our Choice!

Since the U.S. Supreme Court decision to remove federal protections for legal access to abortion, abortion access has declined nationwide. Currently, 14 states have complete bans, and eight have strict restrictions – almost half of all states. Some laws being enforced date back to the 1800s, and others criminalize people who travel for care or […]

The Fight for People’s Park Today

On Thursday, January 4, police invaded People’s Park in Berkeley, California, closing access to the area. Around midnight, residents of the park, students, and other community members were violently pushed out by hundreds of police – university police, Alameda County sheriffs, California state police and others. (University officials have refused to say how many police […]

People’s Park – A Legacy of Protest and Possibility

In 1969, a small plot of land near the University of California (U.C.) Berkeley became a site of symbolic protest against war and racism, a place where students and community members came together to imagine a better world, and to demonstrate their vision of the future they wanted to create. They took this small plot […]

The Israeli State, Armed Wing of the Imperialist Powers against the People

November 13, 2023 editorial of the New Anti-capitalist Party (NPA) in France, translated from French Unable to continue banning demonstrations in support of the Palestinian people, (French President) Macron attempted a counter-fire by having his underlings launch a call to demonstrate “against anti-Semitism.” For days, all the media relayed the call. As did almost all […]

Access to Reproductive Rights Depends on Us

The November 7 elections affirmed something we already knew: a solid majority of people in the United States support people’s right to an abortion and the larger right to make their own decisions about their bodies and their healthcare. In the typically “red” states of Virginia, Kentucky, Pennsylvania and Ohio, voters either voted against the […]

Hundreds of Thousands in the U.S. and Elsewhere Protest Genocidal Bombing of Gaza

On Saturday, November 4, an estimated 300,000 people marched in Washington, DC to demonstrate in support of the Palestinian people and oppose the brutal genocidal bombings of the residents of occupied Gaza. People traveled from as far as Florida, Massachusetts, and Kentucky to participate in the DC demonstration, which occurred on the same day as […]

Protesters Against Israel’s War on Gaza Block North Carolina Highway

On Thursday afternoon, November 2, the Durham, North Carolina branch of Jewish Voices For Peace led 200 or more protestors against Israel’s merciless war on the people of Gaza in a lunch hour march through downtown Durham. Protesters then marched onto a nearby highway where some 40 sat down, blocking traffic for more than two […]

Not in Our Name: Grow the Movement to Support the Palestinian People!

Since the October 7 attack on Israel by Hamas, the U.S. and European capitalist classes have rallied around Israel. Not only have they done this with military aid and direct military backup, they have done it symbolically and rhetorically, whether with a Presidential visit to the imperialist outpost or with words proclaiming Israel’s right to […]

The March to End Fossil Fuels: Global Actions Confront the Climate Emergency

On Sunday, September 17, roughly 75,000 people flooded the streets of New York City for the largest demonstration for climate action in years. This was part of a global movement leading up to the United Nations Climate Ambition Summit. Over 500 actions were organized around the world as a global climate action week, with an […]

Back to the Streets!

In 2019, millions of people flooded the streets in over 125 countries, united in our understanding that life and our natural world need to be saved from a human-enhanced catastrophe. One teenager in Sweden, Greta Thunberg, staged a school strike every Friday. Media coverage of her protest captured the imagination of people everywhere. Hundreds of […]

France: Oppose “Social Dialogue” and Racist Provocations: Back to the Streets!

September 4, 2023 editorial of the Workplace Newsletters of the Etincelle fraction of the New Anticapitalist Party (NPA). Translated from French. Profits are at record levels, the crisis is worsening, inflation is squeezing our budgets and wages are falling. The social climate is tense. Macron is doing his utmost to prevent demonstrations and strikes from […]

BART– the Land Baron: Displaced Coliseum Connections Tenants 

The following is reprinted from Speak Out Now’s workplace newsletter at Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) in the San Francisco Bay area. Tenants from the Coliseum Connections apartment building next to Coliseum station are still displaced after their building flooded last New Years Eve. They have been living in hotels for 7 months while the […]

Peru – The Third March on Lima and the Ongoing Struggle Against the Government

Last Wednesday, 21,000 people or more marched through the streets of Lima, Peru. The crowds held signs, chanted, and made their attitude known – they oppose the current government of President Dina Boluarte, which has attacked indigenous rights, and stands ready to privatize the state system of pensions. Meanwhile, the Boluarte government has done nothing […]

France: We Don’t Want their Social Order

July 10, 2023, Editorial of the Workplace Newsletters of the Etincelle fraction of the New Anticapitalist Party, Translated from French Their Police Who Kill and Maim… All the politicians, from the RN (far-right party) to the SP (center-left Socialist Party) and FCP (French Communist Party), via the LR (liberal-conservative party) and the majority are closing […]

France: We Stand With the Vertbaudet Workers!

May 22, 2023 editorial of the Workplace Newsletters of the Etincelle fraction of the NPA, translated from French. Last Tuesday, May 16, the police intervened to break up a picket line of workers at the warehouse of a children’s clothing company, Vertbaudet, in Marquette-les-Lille (northern French town). One worker was rushed to a hospital with […]

France: Macron in Trouble Plays the Race Card, and the Billy Club!

May 8, 2023 editorial of the Workplace Newsletters of the Etincelle fraction of the New Anticapitalist Party (NPA), translated from French. The government is still trying to end the fight against the pension reform… It can even thank the trade union leaders, who agreed to meet with Macron on May 17, and who set the […]

30 Years After LGBTQ March on Washington: We Are Still Fighting for Freedom

The March On April 25, 1993, more than a million people participated in a March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay, and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation. Despite being left out of the official title, protestors attended who were also concerned about transgender and other queer rights. Other marches had occurred during the decade before, with […]

Determined Until the Withdrawal of the Pension Reform!

April 10, 2023 Editorial of the Workplace Newsletters of the Etincelle fraction of the NPA. Translated from French. The demonstrations of April 6 were once again numerous – young people, workers, pensioners gathered in the streets of large and small cities. This is enough to make the government tremble, a government that will use any […]

People in Greece Rise Up Against Austerity after Tragedy

Greece has been rocked by protests for the past several weeks in response to a train crash that took place on February 28th. The crash occurred after a train carrying students crashed into a freight train. Both trains were traveling in opposite directions on the same track. The crash left 57 people dead, many of whom were students and […]

South Africans Take to the Streets

Tired of rampant corruption, energy shortages, poor standards of living, and now a partial government bailout of an ineffective energy company, many South Africans are protesting all these problems and demanding that their President, Cyril Ramaphosa, resign.  The protests occurred Monday in the capital Johannesburg and dozens of other cities, and were organized by the […]

Cops Repress Protesters in Atlanta

An independent autopsy of Manuel Esteban Paez Terán, the activist killed in January while protesting the development of the so-called Cop City police training center outside of Atlanta, revealed that they were shot 14 times, all from the front, and possibly while seated cross-legged, most likely with their hands raised. While this autopsy doesn’t answer […]

Students Protest DeSantis’s Attacks on Academic Freedom

Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida is creating a blueprint for reactionary control of public colleges and universities that will affect Florida first, but possibly the entire United States if he or another right-wing Republican is elected President in 2024 or after.  Over the past month, students have organized protests to oppose this attempt to take […]

France: Force the Government and the Bosses to Back Off!

January 16, 2023 editorial of the workplace newsletters of the Etincelle fraction of the New Anticapitalist Party (NPA). Translated from French. The government keeps repeating “we are living longer, so we have to work longer.” But only when we work less do we live longer! When you’re a worker, your life span is not the […]

2023: ¿Quién decidirá nuestro futuro?

Nuestro futuro puede sentirse inseguro y fuera de nuestro control durante estos tiempos. Pero, como todos sabemos, las cosas pueden cambiar rápidamente cuando las personas se animan a responder, como vimos después del asesinato de George Floyd. Nos enfrentamos a problemas graves. Tenemos un sistema de salud que en realidad es un sistema de cuidado […]

2023: Who Will Decide Our Future?

Our future can feel insecure and out of our control during these times. But, as we all know, things can change rapidly when people are moved to respond, like we saw following the murder of George Floyd. We are confronting some serious problems. We have a healthcare system which is in reality a wealthcare system […]

Amazon Workers Around The World Stand Up On Black Friday

Another annual ritual of capitalism has came and gone — Black Friday, the day following Thanksgiving which marks the beginning of the holiday shopping season. For working people in retail, transportation, and logistics, this day and the following month can be extremely chaotic and stressful on top of all of the normal pressures that people […]

Anti-Government Protests Rock China

Online and on social media, Chinese families blamed authorities for the death of a four-month-old girl after access to medical care was delayed because of the government’s harsh, so-called zero-Covid policies. In southern China, protesters broke out of buildings locked down because of those same zero-Covid policies, confronting health care workers and ransacking stores to […]

Haitians Rise Up Amidst Social Crisis in the Country

For several weeks, there have been renewed demonstrations and revolts by the Haitian population in opposition to social and economic crisis in the country. This most recent social rebellion was triggered by the decision of the Haitian government to end fuel subsidies in the middle of September. Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, […]

La Lucha Iraní: Una Esperanza Para Todos Nosotros

A menudo, cuando las personas observan el estado actual del mundo, dicen: “Nada es posible, nada puede cambiar” o “Estoy listo, pero nadie más lo está”. Y luego, de repente, lo que parecía imposible ayer, parece posible hoy, y millones de personas están manifestándose en las calles de todo el mundo. Y los miedos que […]

Iran: The Women Lead a Social Revolt

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 dozens, the arrests in the thousands. On September 16, the so-called morality police arrested a […]

French Editorial: Backing Its Women, Iran has Erupted!

September 26, 2022 editorial of the Workplace Newsletters of the Etincelle fraction of the NPA. Translated from French. On September 16, a 22-year-old woman named Mahsa Amini died at the hands of Iran’s morality police. Her crime was to have worn her veil “inappropriately.” Some Iranian women – whose images have been seen around the […]

People’s Park in Berkeley, CA is Under Attack!

Early in the morning on Wednesday, August 3rd, UC Berkeley started demolishing People’s Park in Berkeley, California to build student housing. Riot police and private security guards stood guard throughout the morning as workers installed perimeter fencing around the park and started cutting down trees. Throughout the night, groups of protesters were unable to prevent […]

Oakland: The Fight Against School Closures Grows

The struggle to keep the school doors open may not be easy, but it is winnable. But it will take an even larger, more organized and continued mobilization by Oakland parents, students, teachers and staff to win this fight.

Remembering Occupy Ten Years Later

Ten years ago, on September 17, a movement calling itself Occupy emerged on the streets of New York City in Zuccotti Park of the financial district. Quickly the movement spread to other parts of the United States, and eventually, the world. It was an important moment in many peoples’ lives. After all, this many protests […]