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• Report: Nearly Half of Detroit Adults “Functionally Illiterate”

  By The Red Phoenix on May 6, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  DETROIT (WWJ) – According to a new report, 47 percent of Detroiters are ”functionally illiterate.” The alarming new statistics were released by the Detroit Regional Workforce Fund on Wednesday. WWJ Newsradio 950 spoke with the Fund’s Director, Karen Tyler-Ruiz, who… Read More ›

• Pictures from Chicago May Day 2011

  By The Red Phoenix on May 5, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

• Alienation: The Pain of All Working People

  By The Red Phoenix on May 3, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Any person who is conscious at any level of what happens in the world, from occurrences within their immediate surroundings to larger forces driving political economy in one nation-state or many, must comprehend that there is something wrong. Working men… Read More ›

• Celebrate International Workers’ Day 2011!

  By The Red Phoenix on May 1, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Today we celebrate May Day, also known as International Workers’ Day, a holiday celebrated by working people worldwide. This day began in commemoration of the 1886 Haymarket Massacre in Chicago, where police fired upon workers striking for an eight-hour-day. Since… Read More ›

• The West’s silence over Bahrain smacks of double standards

  By The Red Phoenix on April 30, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  The absence of pressure on Saudi Arabia and Bahrain will only deepen the gulf of distrust between Iran and the west The European Union and the Obama administration have made a splendid art of double standards by imposing sanctions on… Read More ›

• Study: Gitmo Doctors Ignored Signs of Torture

  By The Red Phoenix on April 28, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  < Officials Shrugged Off Data Suggesting Beatings by Jason Ditz, April 26, 2011 A newly released study details a number of cases in which government doctors at Guantanamo Bay ignored strong evidence of torture and other signs of detainee abuse…. Read More ›

• Wikileaks revelations about Gitmo bad news for Obama

  By The Red Phoenix on April 27, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  In May 2009, when U.S. President Barack Obama was defending his decision to close Guantanamo’s prison, he vowed to review the intelligence files of every remaining detainee. “We’re cleaning up something that is, quite simply, a mess — a misguided… Read More ›

• Chicago May Day 2011

  By The Red Phoenix on April 23, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: On May Day, as millions of people around the world celebrate workers’ rights, a coalition of grassroots immigrant rights activists, anti-war organizations, rank and file workers and community members are calling on Chicago to march! We march… Read More ›

• Alleged Subaru Ad in Israel Depicts Running Down Palestinian Children

  By The Red Phoenix on April 22, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  This story is still developing. The Red Phoenix reprints this article for informational purposes, although some of its claims are disputed. We will provide updates as they become available. … A new advertisement in Israel, meant to show the “power… Read More ›

• Friendly Feudalism: The Tibet Myth

  By The Red Phoenix on April 21, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  by Michael Parenti I. For Lords and Lamas Along with the blood drenched landscape of religious conflict there is the experience of inner peace and solace that every religion promises, none more so than Buddhism. Standing in marked contrast to… Read More ›

• Strongman Michigan Governor & Emergency Manager Seize Dictatorial Power; Fire over 5,000 Teachers

  By The Red Phoenix on April 18, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  The Emergency Financial Manager for the city of Benton Harbor has stripped power from all elected officials of the city in a move sure to make citizens believe they voted to shatter any illusions of democracy. The Governor of Michigan,… Read More ›

• America’s Plantation Prisons

  By The Red Phoenix on April 15, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  by Maya Schenwar On an expanse of 18,000 acres of farmland, 59 miles northwest of Baton Rouge, long rows of men, mostly African-American, till the fields under the hot Louisiana sun. The men pick cotton, wheat, soybeans and corn. They… Read More ›

• Review of “The Theory of the Leisure Class”

  By The Red Phoenix on April 12, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  “The history of all hitherto society is a history of class struggle.” These words, from Marx’s Manifesto of the Communist Party, assert an essential truth about the organization of human civilization through exploitative modes of production. From slave economies to… Read More ›

• Libya: Popular Uprising, Civilian War or Military Attack?

  By The Red Phoenix on April 9, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Interview: Grégoire Lalieu & Michel Collon After Tunisia and Egypt, has the Arab revolution reached Libya ? What is happening at the moment in Libya is different. In Tunisia and Egypt, the lack of freedom was flagrant. However, it was… Read More ›

• Libya and the World of Oil

  By The Red Phoenix on April 7, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  By Noam Chomsky Last month, at the international tribunal on crimes during the civil war in Sierra Leone, the trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor came to an end. The chief prosecutor, U.S. law professor David Crane, informed The… Read More ›