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Celebrate the 91st Anniversary of American Communism
Today marks the 91st anniversary of the birth of the first American Communist Party. The Communist Labor Party was formed on August 31, 1919 by John Reed, Benjamin Gitlow and other expelled members from the Socialist Party of America. The… Read More ›
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Tea Party Sparks Controversy over “Ground Zero Mosque”
The Controversy The American press has manufactured an infamous controversy over the incorrectly-named “Ground Zero Mosque.” It is nearly impossible for us to resist such an easy opportunity to highlight the boundless stupidity of the right, which shines brighter than… Read More ›
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Dialectics & Marxist Philosophy
What does one gain from studying Marxist philosophy? Marxist philosophy (1) is a harmonious system of man’s views of the surrounding world, the laws of its development and ways of cognising it. A study of philosophy, therefore, provides us with… Read More ›
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California Proposition 8 Overturned
On August 4, 2010, Chief Judge Vaughn Walker struck down Proposition 8, a ballot initiative passed in California in November 2008 which had previously prevented any same-sex couples from getting married. In his statement, he ruled that the proposition violated… Read More ›
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The Revolutionary Process
It is without a doubt that our society as it stands is in desperate need of change. How does society truly change? What does change entail? Numerous ideologies have different ways of approaching these questions. Liberalism acknowledges that “change” to… Read More ›
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Arizona’s Anti-Immigrant Bill Stalled
SB 1070 Arizona’s anti-immigrant law SB 1070 was to be implemented next week, but U.S. District Court Judge Susan Bolton has blocked the controversial racial profiling sections of the law from taking effect due to pressure from the United Front… Read More ›
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Communism Vs. American Exceptionalism
Among the fallacies Americans have come to accept regarding communism, one of the most prevalent is the notion that communism is anti-American and threatens the “sacred foundations” of our presumed American freedom. During the Red Scares and the era of… Read More ›
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Review: Genocide, War Crimes and the West
Adam Jones’ book Genocide, War Crimes and the West: History and Complicity is an incredibly revealing anthology containing accounts of atrocities carried out by Western imperial capitalism and those who serve its interests abroad. Articles describing the little-known and little-understood… Read More ›
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Leaked Afghanistan Papers Expose Truth of US War Crimes
The 25th of July, 2010 is a day that will be marked in history. The media has been abuzz about the release by Wikileaks of the Afghanistan War Logs, which are being called the “new Pentagon Papers.” Wikileaks founder Julian… Read More ›
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The Myth of Capitalist Democracy
Capitalist “democracies” always pride themselves on how democratic their systems are, being that despite any blatant differences in economic power or existing societal prejudices based around race, gender, sexuality or nationality, the system is fair and just because of its… Read More ›
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The Media’s Love Affair with Zionism/Israel
So you don’t believe that the imperialist bourgeois media takes an active interest in framing the information you consume on a daily basis? Think its all about being “fair and balanced?”Most recently, the Western bourgeois media made good use of… Read More ›
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Review of “This Land is Their Land”
In a world where the grossest forms of capitalist exploitation are ignored or rendered mundane by a bourgeois media machine fueled on free market fetishism and “news” about as enlightening as a lobotomy, it is refreshing to see a decent… Read More ›
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On the Day of American Independence
Today is the 4th of July, a holiday celebrated all over the nation as the date of American Independence from the British crown. I was considering burning an American flag to protest US foreign policy, imperial aggression, indigenous holocaust, sponsorship… Read More ›
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Adam Smith’s Invisible Hand Ain’t Gonna Clean This Up
I know that for the past thirty years, at least since the Reagan Administration, the US has perused a policy of “let the market fix it,” “deregulate” and other such policies. These policies are wrongheaded and have led to the… Read More ›
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Resources Discovered in Afghanistan and Zimbabwe
Within a few days of each other, US media has reported tremendous mineral wealth in Afghanistan and in Zimbabwe, two countries noted for their poverty. In the case of Afghanistan, The New York Times reported that “nearly $1 trillion in… Read More ›
The Red Phoenix 