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Teacher, union member, baseball enthusiast, communist.
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Sacramento Residents Resist Gentrification and Racial Displacement
By Peter Charles Kraljev, Red Phoenix Correspondent Sacremento Oak Park is a neighborhood on the south side of city of Sacramento, form 1900 to the 1960s, it thrived economically and culturally, home to the Park Meat Market, and Arata Bros… Read More ›
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American Party of Labor: “Let the People Be Trump’s Judge and Jury!”
The American Party of Labor condemns the acquittal of Donald Trump, who clearly wanted and started a racist white middle class riot in Washington DC. Ultimately, though, we know justice will never be procured from within the American state, and… Read More ›
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Unlawful Sweeps of Homeless Encampments Continue in Sacramento
By Peter Charles Kraljev Red-Phoenix Correspondent, Sacramento On July 17 2020, after a several month-long legal battle with the Sacramento Homeless Union lead by its president Crystal Rose Sanchez, the Superior Court of Sacramento passed a court ruling that prohibits… Read More ›
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2020 Is Over, But the Urgency of Our Revolutionary Organizing Only Grows
By: Andrea Johnson, a PhD student, Union Member, and member of the American Party of Labor. It’s been a rough year in America. Coronavirus arrived in the United States in January, which quickly manifested into country-wide lockdowns in March, massive… Read More ›
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Californian Workers March to Assemblyman’s House to Demand Eviction Protection
By: Peter Kraljev, Red Phoenix Correspondent Sacramento On Wednesday December 16 2020, 20 people and a caravan of SUVs gathered in Sacramento, California to put on a posada, a theatrical tradition popular in Latin American and other Catholic majority nations… Read More ›
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American Party of Labor: This Holiday Season, We Remember Those Lost, and Fight for a Working Class Future
The American Party of Labor wishes a happy end of the year to all the working class and oppressed people in the United States and around the world, and a happy celebration of all religious and secular holidays marked at… Read More ›
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In A Storied Alabama Union District, Amazon Workers Prepare to Hold Union Vote
By: Jay Hyde, Red Phoenix Correspondent Alabama This November, Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama made an unprecedented move by notifying federal labor authorities of their plan to hold a unionization vote, due to poor working conditions exacerbated even further by… Read More ›
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Letter: As A Former Soldier, Today I Remember the Victims of Imperialism
The Red Phoenix received the following letter from Hannah, a former soldier now working as a nurse, on her thoughts on this Veteran’s Day. The Red Phoenix reproduces letters without editing their content. This letter contains graphic accounts of US… Read More ›
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Kamala Harris and Her Circumstances: Virtudes Alvarez (Communist Workers Party) on the Election of Harris
By Virtudes Alvarez, Translated by J. Palameda // November 8, 2020. The recently concluded electoral process in the United States of America is an obligatory topic in the analysis of international politics. All its aspects are important, including the election… Read More ›
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Class Consciousness and the Fight for Civil Rights in the NBA
By Frank Nawrot, Edited by R.E. Rule “[Racism] is a product of the system and…is the intention of the way this system was built…in order for things to change…there needs to be some dismantling of how things are currently.” -Malika… Read More ›
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Battle for the Battleground State: Voters in Florida Speak Out
Red Phoenix correspondent Kallista Mirobel spoke to several Floridians on how they felt going into the 2020 election in the state that is often the nexus of national attention on November 3rd. By Kallista Mirobel A month before the 2020… Read More ›
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Letter to the Phoenix: Why Does Voting in the Presidential Elections Seem So Important?
Note: The Red Phoenix does not edit the content of letters and reproduces them as a glimpse into the minds of working people in the US. The Red Phoenix received the following letter from G. Green on the nature of… Read More ›
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Chicago Teachers Fight Back, and Win, Against Reckless Reopening
As school districts and universities across the country are being pressured into opening by Trump, and even liberal ally Anthony Fauci, teachers in Chicago have already begun to fight back, and win, against school administrators and reckless reopening. The Chicago… Read More ›
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The Mythology of American Democracy Came Crashing Down Last Night—Fight for a Working Class Alternative!
Last night saw the great mythology of the United States—of free expression, compromise, and democracy—come crashing down in fire, smoke, pepper spray, curfews, and police abuse. It became clear beyond any doubt that the only thing holding the American government… Read More ›
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The Murderers of Ahmaud Arbery Have Been Arrested. It Isn’t Enough.
The father-son family of lynchers in Brunswick, Georgia have been arrested and charged with the aggravated assault and murder of Ahmaud Arbery. A national campaign to see the men arrested grew rapidly in the wake of recently release video of… Read More ›