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Workers Struggles

Articles

Consumers and Producers

February 25, 2025

This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now newsletter for BART (Bay Area Rapid …

Articles

Argentina: Against Milei, One Million Proudly Angry

February 18, 2025

After Argentina’s President Milei gave a reactionary speech, a million demonstrators marched against him. …

Articles

Layoffs: Let the Fear Switch Sides!

February 18, 2025

Mass layoffs are happening in both the U.S. and France. The ruling class is trying to threaten the working class; let us return the threat! …

Articles

Black History Month 2025: The Struggle Must Be Renewed

February 18, 2025

During Black History Month, remember the struggles the Black people have fought and what they have won. …

Articles

Workers and Unions Facing a Crisis, But We Can Change Direction!

February 17, 2025

The working class has the power to mount an effective opposition to Trump, in contrast to the feeble actions by bureaucratic union leaderships and the Democratic Party. …

Articles

The Intentional Chaos and Real Dangers of Trump’s First Weeks

February 5, 2025

The chaos of Trump’s rapid-fire executive orders is part distraction, and part attacks on the working class. …

Articles

France: To the “Bosses’ Disgruntlement,” Let’s Oppose Our United Anger!

February 5, 2025

February 3, 2025 editorial of the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, translated from French …

Articles

Serbian Students and Workers Fight Back

February 4, 2025

Serbian students are leading a protest movement against the corruption of the government, which had led to people dying in a roof collapse. …

Articles

French and Immigrant Workers: Same Bosses, Same Fight!

January 29, 2025

January 27, 2025 editorial of the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, translated from French …

Articles

Celebrating the Anniversary of the Egyptian Revolution

January 27, 2025

A revolution started in Egypt on January 25, 2011. …

Articles

Teamsters Mount Picket Lines at Amazon Facilities to Demand Big Changes

December 19, 2024

Conditions at Amazon are so bad that in some years, 75% of the approximately 900,000 …

Articles

BART in the News

December 16, 2024

The following is reprinted from Speak Out Now’s workplace newsletter at Bay Area Rapid Transit …

Articles

France: The Only Positive Way Out of the Political Crisis: Mobilize to Impose Our Demands!

December 11, 2024

Workers went on strike as Prime Minister Barnier’s was brought down. Amidst the crisis in the government, the workers can impose their demands. …

Articles

Port Talks Break Down. International Solidarity is Key.

December 9, 2024

After the ILA stopped its strike, negotiations have broken down. Worker power is built on solidarity, although the union bureaucrats such as Daggett aren’t interested in that. …

Articles

Underground Resistance: The Struggle of South Africa’s Artisanal Miners

December 5, 2024

Recent events in South Africa highlight the deadly conditions faced by artisanal miners, caught between …

Articles

Report from the Picket Line: SF Hotel Workers Won’t Concede To Corporate Greed

December 2, 2024

San Francisco hotel workers are in their third month of a strike. …

Articles

Thankful For Those Who Refused to Accept the Unacceptable

November 27, 2024

On Thanksgiving, be thankful for all those who refused to accept the unacceptable. …

Articles

France: Against Layoffs and All Attacks on Workers, Let’s Build a Fight “All Together!”

November 26, 2024

To oppose layoffs and attacks on workers, we must fight together! …

Articles

The 1945 U.A.W. Strike and the Victorious Post War Strike Wave

November 21, 2024

In recent years workers activity has bubbled nationwide. In the service and retail sectors, in …

Articles

France: Against Attacks by Employers and Government: We Will Not Accept Sacrifices!

November 20, 2024

When the bosses attack us with layoffs and pay cuts, we must fight against them together. …

Articles

The Working Class Party – Posing an Alternative to the Parties of the Rich

November 12, 2024

The Working Class Party ran candidates in the 2024 elections, winning hundreds of thousands of votes. …

Articles

Boeing Workers Win Substantial Wage Increases, But Big Challenges Lie Ahead

November 9, 2024

After seven weeks on strike, the thirty-three thousand Boeing machinists, members of the International Association …

Articles

The Dockworkers’ Fight: Who Does Automation Serve?

November 8, 2024

In early October, one of the main demands of the striking dockworkers represented by the …

Articles

Health Care in the U.S. — A Nurse’s View

October 31, 2024

I’m a nurse, I work in the San Francisco Bay Area. I’ve been a nurse …

Articles

Update: Kaiser Mental Health Workers Strike

October 29, 2024

This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland …

Articles

Argentinian Students and Workers Rise against Right-Wing Policies

October 28, 2024

In Argentina, massive student protests are being held against Milei’s cuts to public universities. …

Articles

Boeing Strikers Again Reject New Offer – Workers Say, “No pensions; No Planes.”

October 27, 2024

Thirty-three thousand Boeing machinists, members of the International Association of Machinists (IAM), on Wednesday, October …

Articles

AC Transit Board Meeting Turns into a Protest!

October 20, 2024

This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now AC Transit newsletter. AC Transit is …

Articles

The Strike at Boeing Continues

October 15, 2024

Boeing workers in Seattle continue to strike, while negotiations have stalled after Boeing tried to bypass the bargaining team. …

Articles

45,000 Longshore Workers Shut Down Atlantic and Gulf Coast Ports

October 2, 2024

The International Longshoreman’s Association is on strike at 36 ports. …

Articles

Boeing Strikers Holding Fast in Seattle

October 1, 2024

Boeing are continuing their strike, as they have a lot of leverage over the company. …

Articles

Longshore Union President Daggett Challenges Shipping Companies: But is it a Bluff?

September 25, 2024

The head of the International Longshoremen’s Association has threatened to strike if they cannot come to an agreement with the shipping industry; the shipping industry has responded by threatening a Taft-Hartley injunction. …

Articles

France: Lots of Noise at Matignon (Government Headquarters)… But the Inspiration is in Martinique (French Caribbean Colony)!

September 23, 2024

September 23, 2024 editorial of the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, translated from French …

Articles

Stand With The Workers Party In Argentina!

September 16, 2024

Argentinian President Milei has been attacking the working class, including by criminally charging members of the Partido Obrero and the piquetero movement. Join us for a rally on September 23! …

Articles

How the Government Tried to Stop the UAW from Opposing the War on Gaza

September 14, 2024

Whether on questions of international politics or how to struggle in the workplaces, workers shouldn’t take orders from the government, which represents the wealthy and big business. …

Articles

France: We Can Only Make Ourselves Heard through Our Struggles

September 14, 2024

September 9, 2024 editorial of the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France: We are far more numerous than those we are fighting, the bosses and the rulers! …

Articles

Political Repression Intensifies

September 13, 2024

As we increase our demands, our outrage, and our protests, they will intensify their attempts to repress us. …

Articles

The issues in CWA’s strike against AT&T in 9 Southeastern States

September 10, 2024

The Communications Workers of America (CWA) contract with AT&T expired on August 3, but bargaining began months …

Articles

Hotel Workers Strike, But Is It Enough?

September 9, 2024

Hotel workers went on a strike over Labor Day weekend, but is such a short symbolic strike enough? …

Articles

August 1791: The Haitian Revolution Shook the World

August 21, 2024

In August 1791, slaves in Haiti rose up against their oppression. …

Articles

The East Coast and Gulf Ports Longshore Contract Expires September 30: Will the Union Settle or Strike? 

August 18, 2024

Negotiations for new contracts covering 45,000 longshoremen, working at 11 ports on the Atlantic seaboard …

Articles

Solidarity with the Revolt in Bangladesh!

August 12, 2024

August 12, 2024 editorial of the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, translated from French …

Articles

Heat Death in Baltimore: The Fatal Cost of Ignoring Worker Safety

August 7, 2024

The tragic death of Baltimore Department of Public Works (DPW) sanitation worker Ronald Silver II …

Articles

Between a Rock and a Hard Place

July 30, 2024

This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now workplace newsletter at Bay Area Rapid …

Articles

Boeing Machinists Authorize Strike

July 29, 2024

Boeing’s unionized machinists held strike authorization votes on July 17th. As many as 30,000 of …

Articles

Samsung Workers Challenge Company

July 24, 2024

Samsung workers have gone on their first strike against the company. …

Articles

San Francisco’s General Strike, 90 years later

July 15, 2024

This week, we celebrate the 90th anniversary of the 1934 general strike in San Francisco, …

Articles

Labor Peace or Class War?

July 15, 2024

(reprinted from the BART newsletter) Earlier this year during the negotiations with the Big 3 …

Articles

Why did the United Autoworkers (UAW) fail in Alabama?

May 30, 2024

Non-union auto plants now employ about 50% of the workers building cars and trucks in …

Articles

General Strike in Argentina

May 22, 2024

On May 9, Argentinian workers conducted a general strike against the policies of President Milei. …

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Editorials

We Must Stand Up Against Their Blatant Attacks on our Lives

September 20, 2026

It couldn’t be any clearer that this is a society openly run in the interests …

Editorials

Their Democracy: Buy or Block Our Votes

September 13, 2026

In the first-ever Republican Midterm Convention on September 9 (which cost Dallas taxpayers nearly $2 …

Articles

September 11, 2001: When the Terror Inflicted Around the World Came Home

September 9, 2026

President George W. Bush in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks at the World Trade Center. …

Editorials

9/11: 25 Years of Terror Waged by the U.S. on the World

September 7, 2026

This week marks 25 years since the 9/11 attacks, which tragically killed many innocent civilians …

Editorials

Access to Food is a Basic Human Right!

August 31, 2026

For increasing numbers of people, every trip to the grocery store has become traumatic. Food …

Editorials

Their “Record Economy” is Working for the Billionaires, Not Us

August 24, 2026

Trump often likes to talk about how he is overseeing the greatest economy the U.S. …

Editorials

AI in the Capitalists’ Hands Threatens Us All

August 16, 2026

Thousands of people around the country, in small towns and cities alike, have packed town …

Editorials

Their System Pours More Gas on a World on Fire

August 9, 2026

Our world is burning, and those who rule this society are doing nothing but pouring …

Editorials

The Enormous Costs of the US War on Iran Continue to Grow

July 26, 2026

The U.S. claims their unjustified war of destruction on Iran is pausing in order to …

Editorials

ICE Out of Everywhere – Abolish ICE!

July 19, 2026

The recent murder of two men at the hands of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) …

Editorials

We Can’t Accept Their System of War and Destruction

July 12, 2026

The U.S. military has reignited its totally unnecessary, brutal war on Iran. In just the …

Articles

Trump Moves to End South Africa HIV/AIDS Program

June 28, 2026

Trump is ending PEPFAR in South Africa, which will likely result in 500,000 AIDS-related deaths. …

Articles

Red Alert for Our Working and Living Conditions: It’s Time to Take Matters into Our Own Hands!

June 23, 2026

June 22, 2026 editorial of the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, translated from French. …

Articles

Pride: Nobody’s Free Until Everybody’s Free

June 22, 2026

June is Pride Month, when the LGBTQ+ community celebrates its enduring resilience in the face …

Articles

France: 2027 Presidential Election: Selma Labib, a working-class and revolutionary candidate, supported by Gaël Quirante

June 21, 2026

The National Political Committee of the NPA-Revolutionaries, which met on June 6 and 7, decided …

Articles

The World Cup Reflects the Common Struggles of Workers Everywhere

June 14, 2026

The 2026 World Cup finally kicked off across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. It is …

Articles

The World is Not Welcome in This World Cup

June 14, 2026

The 2026 FIFA World Cup, an event that should unite the world, instead appears to be defined by exclusion. …

Articles

Bolivia: Paz Enacts State of Emergency and Intensifies Repression

June 13, 2026

In the face of any attempt to impose an authoritarian solution to the Bolivian crisis, …

Articles

Northern Ireland: Racist Protests and Riots Following a Stabbing

June 12, 2026

Published on June 11, 2026 by the New Anticapitalist Party—Revolutionaries in France (translated from the …

Articles

Paris Internationalist Meetings — On the Eve of Imminent Upheavals: Discussions on the Path Forward for Revolutionaries

June 12, 2026

Published on May 29, 2026 by the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, translated from …

Articles

Protecting Children: This Is Not the Government’s Priority

June 11, 2026

June 8, 2026 editorial of the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, translated from French …

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