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Ian Ocx (He/Him) is a college student, worker, organizer, and member of the American Party of Labor.
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Supreme Court refuses to defend constitutional right to organize
Ian Ocx and Svetlana Hagan | Red Phoenix correspondents | Texas– On Monday, April 15, 2024 the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) announced that it would be refusing to hear McKesson v. Doe, a case that centers around… Read More ›
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Not Enough! Biden’s proclamation on Transgender Day of Visibility
Ian Ocx | LGBTQIA+ Commissioner of the American Party of Labor | Texas– On March 29, President Joe Biden announced the official recognition of Transgender Day of Visibility by the government of the United States. In this announcement, Biden stated… Read More ›
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Transgender Day of Remembrance 2023: Up with Liberation
By Ian Ocx, LGBTQIA+ Commissioner of the American Party of Labor. Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance, a day that all of us in the LGBTQIA+ community and its allies use to bring attention to the previous and ongoing struggles… Read More ›
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Clearing the air on infantile U.S. gun culture: Marx revisited
By Ian Ocx and June Vass. In the wake of the unprecedented increase in deadly mass shootings across the United States over the last decade we in the American Party of Labor found it necessary to put forward a dialectical… Read More ›
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Book review: “Radicals in the Barrio”
By Ian Ocx, Red Phoenix correspondent, Texas. Radicals in the Barrio, originally published in June 2018, and written by Justin Akers Chacón, a labor rights activists and professor of Chicano History at San Diego City College, is a well researched… Read More ›
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The anti-Marxist nature of Queer-Antagonistic Revisionism
By Ian Ocx and Red Nesbitt of the American Party of Labor. Introduction In his report to the Eighth Congress of the Party of Labor of Albania, comrade Enver Hoxha stated, “The Marxist-Leninists are not conservative and fanatical, as the… Read More ›
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Gov. Abbott attacks Texas worker safety regulations, water breaks
By Ian Ocx, Red Phoenix correspondent, Texas. Texas Governor Greg Abbott recently signed HB 2127 into law which will take effect September 1, 2023. The publicly stated purpose and goal for this bill, which held broad Republican Party support, is… Read More ›
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We cannot allow capitalism to sanitize Pride!
By Ian Ocx, LGBTQIA+ Commissioner of the American Party of Labor. Over the last year the LGBTQIA+ Commission of the American Party of Labor has been doing its best to cover, report on, organize within, and provide a Marxist-Leninist analysis… Read More ›
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The debt ceiling debate: An open attack on the working class
By Ian Ocx and Hari Kumar, Red Phoenix correspondents. Late in the night June 1, 2023, Congress voted to pass an agreement on the debt ceiling to prevent the US government from defaulting on its national debt. This debate recurs… Read More ›
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The continued danger and tragedy of America’s gun violence
By Ian Ocx, Red Phoenix correspondent, Texas. On Saturday May 6th, 2023 a self-described neo-Nazi named Mauricio Garcia (33, he/him), who was wearing a vest with the abbreviation R.W.D.S. (“Right Wing Death Squad”) arrived at an outlet mall in Allen,… Read More ›
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Rail companies, profit, and the neglect of public safety
By Ian Ocx, Red Phoenix correspondent, Texas. On Friday, February 3rd, the city of East Palestine, Ohio experienced the result of corporate greed when a train derailed in the area, igniting a fire that burned tons of toxic vinyl chloride… Read More ›
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Class struggle in the fast food industry
By: Ian Ocx, Red Phoenix correspondent, Texas. In Fort Worth, Texas, a few miles outside of Dallas, McDonald’s announced the opening of the first ever “fully” automated fast food restaurant, where customers place and pick up their orders without interacting… Read More ›
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A Call to Fight Like Hell for the Living
By: Ian Ocx, Red Phoenix Correspondent Texas. On November 21st the LGBTQIA+ community in Colorado Springs came together to celebrate the victories the transgender and gender-nonconforming community has won over the years, and to honor those who have been lost,… Read More ›
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Texas Governor Attacks the Safety of Transgender Youth
By: Ian Ocx, Red Phoenix Correspondent Texas On Febuary 22nd a statement was released by Texas governor Greg Abbot in which he officially directed the Texas State Department of Family and Protective Services to consider and prosecute “so-called sex change… Read More ›
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Working Class Women In Texas Reject Anti-Abortion Law
By: Ian Ocx, Red Phoenix Correspondent Texas On September 1st the reactionary SB8 bill otherwise known as the “heartbeat law” that was passed by the Texas state congress in May of 2021 finally went into effect. SB8 is one of… Read More ›
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