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• Clara Zetkin on Organizing Women Workers

  By The Red Phoenix on March 8, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Clara Zetkin (1857-1933) founded International Women’s Day on the 8th March, 1911. In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day and in the memory of comrade Zetkin we invite our readers to read her speech to the Fourth… Read More ›

• The Oil Spill: A Legacy of Filth

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

  

  By even the lightest estimates, the British Petroleum (BP) oil catastrophe can be counted as one of the greatest man-made environmental disasters of all time. There is little argument that the spill is a calamity that has blighted the livelihoods… Read More ›

• Imperialism: A Beginner’s Guide

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

  

  In waging its resistance to capitalist exploitation abroad, the worker’s movement has heavily involved itself in anti-imperialism in its actions and stances. In resisting this force, it is essential for us to have a coherent and consistent understanding of imperialism…. Read More ›

• Walker Locks Protestors Out of Capitol Building

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

  

  MADISON, Wis. — The administration of Gov. Scott Walker abruptly locked out protesters from the Capitol on Monday morning, the latest gambit in the showdown between the new Republican governor and demonstrators rallying against his plan to strip public employee… Read More ›

• Police Won’t Boot Protesters From Wisconsin Capitol (video)

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

• Wisconsin Protesters Defy Order to Leave

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

  

  On Sunday, Walker said he would not back down in his confrontation with the public sector unions and repeated his threat to lay off state workers if the standoff continues. “If we do not get these changes and the Senate… Read More ›

• The Scott Walker Phone Call & the Attack on Unions in Wisconsin

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

  

  Most of reporter Ian Murphy’s prank call to Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker was fairly innocuous. Governor Walker, who thought he was talking to billionaire Tea Party backer David Koch, laid out some of his strategies for luring the 14 missing… Read More ›

• State says Wisconsin Capitol Protesters have to leave Sunday

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

  

  Thousands of demonstrators who have occupied the Capitol for nearly two weeks will have to leave by 4 p.m. Sunday, state Capitol Police Chief Charles Tubbs said Friday. In a statement, Tubbs said the building will reopen on Monday at… Read More ›

• Glenn Beck Has Meltdown over Wisconsin Protests; Jon Stewart Throws Left under the Bus Again

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

  

  Right-Wing and Phony Left Slander Protests Who didn’t see this coming? Every time real-live working people show the slightest hint of independent thought media clowns come out the woodwork to belittle, insult and undermine the movement in any way they… Read More ›

• Wisconsin Protests Continue

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

  

  Wisconsin Protests Draw Thousands Of Workers Fighting For Key Union Rights MADISON, Wis. — On Friday, February 11, at the same hour that the world watched the former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak resign his post, the newly appointed Republican Governor… Read More ›

• Desperate Bid of the U.S. to Avoid Regime Change in Egypt

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

  

  From TML Daily of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist): The Anglo-Zionist imperialists, with the U.S. at the helm are desperately trying to divert the people’s movement in Egypt from accomplishing its just aim of regime change and to block the… Read More ›

• Review of “Redacted”

  By The Red Phoenix on February 16, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Introduction: A Better War Movie In American cinematography, war movies have come in two flavors exclusively: those movies which ultimately support and fetishize war, and those films which are critical of certain wars and actions; typically coming from a liberal… Read More ›

• Wisconsin Governor Threatens to call in National Guard against State Workers

  By The Red Phoenix on February 14, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker made the dramatic announcement on the morning of 11 February that he is prepared to call in the Wisconsin National Guard to respond if there is any unrest among state employees. In the wake of his… Read More ›

• Obama to Propose Slashing Home Heating Aid for Poor

  By The Red Phoenix on February 11, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  President Obama’s 2012 budget, set to be released on Monday, will propose cutting $2.5 billion from a $5 billion program that provides home heating aid for the poor, according to the National Journal. A perennial budget target, the Low-Income Home… Read More ›

• An Analysis of the American Service Economy

  By The Red Phoenix on February 10, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Over the course of recent decades, a theory had been presented over and over in the bourgeois press. This theory is known as a “service-based economy.” On the face of it, this theory seems plausible. Like most bourgeois economic theories,… Read More ›