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• The Return of Duvalier

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

  

  Of all the various tinpot dictators that the United States government has supported over the years, very few match up to the notoriety of François “Papa Doc” Duvalier and his son Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier of Haiti, whom in the… Read More ›

• Statement on Unemployment

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

  

  For Immediate Release The January unemployment figures have been released. We believe that they will be slightly lower than before, and that the Obama Administration will be using this to say that their policies are working. However, there is a… Read More ›

• Israel: A Palestinian Trail of Tears

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

  

  There is a Middle Eastern state that repeatedly disobeys United Nations directives issued to it. This state has weapons of mass destruction and violates its neighbor’s borders on a routine basis. When it does, it commits ethnic cleansing and the… Read More ›

• On the 1997 Albanian Rebellion

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

  

  In light of the recent unrest in Albania, we release this analysis of the events in Albania in 1997 and the forces leading up to that revolution for the reader’s benefit. For the recent events, click here for an article… Read More ›

• Cold War Butcher in Custody

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

  

  CIA-trained ‘terrorist’ in US court Margarita Morales Fernandez couldn’t be in court to see the former CIA agent who allegedly killed her father and 72 others aboard a Cuban airplane in one of the world’s worst airline attacks before September… Read More ›

• Briefly on “Reverse-Racism”

  By The Red Phoenix on January 19, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Although it is common to hear it in public discourse, particularly in regards to television and radio, the truth is that the concept of “reverse-racism” or “reverse discrimination” is at best a bogeyman erected by the corporate media and at… Read More ›

• MLK Day: the Lessons of Pacifism & the Civil Rights Movement

  By The Red Phoenix on January 17, 2011 • ( 0 )

  MLK Day: A Dream Lost From 01/10 Today is the celebration of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday in the United States. While it is ostensibly celebrated to promote the Civil Rights Movement, one wonders why MLK, among all… Read More ›

• The Fight Against Unions Presses On; NLRB Threatens to Sue Arizona and others for their Curb on Unionization

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

  

  In their drive to battle against the rights of workers to organize in the workplace, the states of Arizona, South Carolina, South Dakota and Utah have put forth amendments to their labor law which conflict with federal law and are… Read More ›

• Update on Haiti

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

  

  Just a few days into the new year, the situation in Haiti is dire. One year ago, on January 12th, a magnitude 7.0 ravaged the Caribbean nation, killing an estimated 230,000, and rendering over a million people homeless. While officially,… Read More ›

• Propaganda Review: National Guard & Kid Rock’s “Warrior”

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

  

  The most blatant and disgusting use of music by an advertisement has to be the National Guard recruitment ad that uses Kid Rock’s neo-fascistic fantasy theme “Warrior.” The ad goes back and forth between images of soldiers in military vehicles,… Read More ›

• Privilege and Marxism

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

  

  Allan G. Johnson’s book Privilege, Power, and Difference is a useful tool for understanding how systems of privilege work in contemporary capitalism. In a frank and accessible manner, he lays bare a framework for understanding how power relations and comparative… Read More ›

• The Arizona Apartheid Spreads

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

  

  With the killing of the DREAM Act, states are now moving to implement similar laws to those in Arizona, signifying a reactionary swing to the right which threatens the lives and livelihoods of many Hispanic, Latino and Amerindian workers. Immigrant… Read More ›

• Review of Call of Duty: Black Ops

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

  

  Call of Duty: Black Ops (2010) is yet another first-person shooter fetishizing imperialist war and allowing children to be their own one-man death-squads in a virtual world. America’s youth will be tossing grenades, firing automatic weapons, slitting throats and even… Read More ›

• Senate Kills the DREAM

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

  

  The Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act, known as the DREAM Act, was first introduced in 2003. Since that time, there have been countless marches, petitions and sit-ins in an attempt to get Congress to pass it. The… Read More ›

• Resolution Supporting the Revolutionary Forces in Ecuador

  By The Red Phoenix on December 26, 2010 • ( 0 )

  

  [Update Jan. 15, 2011: “The Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador (PCMLE) was born in August, 1964 in rebellion against the revisionist leadership of the Communist Party of Ecuador (PCE) and its endorsement of the then Soviet-line of peaceful transition to… Read More ›