Author Archives
The current editor-in-chief of the Red Phoenix is June Vass, an American Party of Labor member in Los Angeles, CA.
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The policy of the Marxist-Leninists in the current situation in Venezuela
By the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Venezuela (PCMLV). We Venezuelan Marxist-Leninists are working to consolidate our Party and its organizations, to increase our participation in politics and to expand our influence among the masses. For these tasks we value the… Read More ›
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France: A powerful social movement against the pension reform
By the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Workers of France, April 2023. Since January, a powerful workers’ and popular movement of strikes and demonstrations has shaken our country. The 10th day of mobilization took place on Tuesday,… Read More ›
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Statement of condemnation of Zionist crimes
By the Party of Labour of Iran – Toufan, Apr. 8, 2023. The revolutionary and progressive parties and organizations signed below, which follow with all anger the criminal Zionist aggression on the Palestinian people in Al-Aqsa Mosque, Jerusalem, the West… Read More ›
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Why were the rich depositors of the Silicon Valley Bank bailed out by the government?
By Hari Kumar, Red Phoenix international correspondent. The clientele of California’s failed Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) was the high tech “start-up” industry in Silicon Valley. Banking is a con industry. After all, if all depositors arrived at the bank at… Read More ›
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William Z. Foster’s “Pages From a Worker’s Life”
By Benjamin J. Rizzo, Red Phoenix correspondent, Florida. The Red Phoenix is proud to present this inspiring excerpt from “Pages From a Worker’s Life,” a volume of autobiography by William Z. Foster (1881-1961), originally published in 1939. Foster had a… Read More ›
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Dutch residents stand against cuts to public transit
By Allison P., Red Phoenix international correspondent. The tactics of the bourgeoisie are virtually universal regardless of country: privatization, cost cutting, reducing wages, and strikebreaking. In the Netherlands there have been strikes among public transport workers in recent months over… Read More ›
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The earthquakes in Turkey: A fundamental fracture – “Where is the state?”
By the Labour Party (EMEP) — Turkey. On February 6, two successive earthquakes, of 7.7 and 7.6 magnitude, occurred in the south-eastern city of Kahramanmaras, Turkey, affecting a large area and turning many cities, towns and villages into rubble. In… Read More ›
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“The City of Bridges” in disrepair at the expense of the working class
By Ryan P., Red Phoenix correspondent, Pennsylvania. In the east end of Pittsburgh, the Fern Hollow Bridge collapsed on January 28, 2022, just before 7:00 a.m. Ten people were injured, four severely so. This would have been completely brushed under… Read More ›
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Militarization in Mexico, part of fascistization and fascism
By the Communist Party of Mexico (Marxist-Leninist). Translated from Spanish. In recent years, Mexico has experienced a process of militarization unprecedented in its recent history. The federal government has increasingly turned to the armed forces to combat organized crime and… Read More ›
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And a white hood on every corner
By Leonard Zorfass, Red Phoenix correspondent, New Jersey. As protests against police brutality continue across the United States, it is important to understand the underlying systemic issues that have allowed for such atrocities to occur. One of the key factors… Read More ›
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To defend democratic freedoms is to punish the coup plotters of yesterday and today
By Heron Barroso, Editorial Board of A Verdade, as published in #266, March 2023. Translated from Portuguese. For four long years, the Brazilian people ate the bread that the devil kneaded in the hand of the fascist Jair Bolsonaro. All… Read More ›
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Nashville and the need for revolutionary change in the United States
By the LGBTQIA+ Commission of the American Party of Labor. On the morning of March 27, 2023 in Nashville, Tennessee, an armed individual named Aiden Hale forcibly entered The Covenant School and proceeded to murder three children and three staff… Read More ›
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“The Trotskyist World Movement”
By Klaus Riis, Workers Communist Party (APK), Denmark. Translated from Danish. In the current situation, with the national and international class struggle sharpening, the political and ideological class struggle sharpens as well. In our country we see not only the… Read More ›
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Is Cuba a dictatorship? A look at the Cuban electoral system
By Savio Peres, Pinar del Río, Cuba.Published in A Verdade #267, March 2023. One of the countries that fascists and liberals attack most in Latin America is Cuba. They shout that Cuba is a dictatorship and that the Castro family… Read More ›
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Starbucks worker: “I was fired four days ago for being a union organizer”
By Isabelle B, Red Phoenix correspondent, Oregon. Starbucks Workers United has been organizing for over a year for the purpose of unionizing Starbucks stores around the country. Since their launch, over 300 stores have successfully unionized in the United States…. Read More ›
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