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June Vass (she/her) is the editor-in-chief of the Red Phoenix, the Director of the Information Bureau of the American Party of Labor, and a member of the National Writers Union. She is based in Orlando, FL.

• Party of Labour of Iran (Toufan): The life of the worker-activist Shahrokh Zamani is in Danger!

  By Editor-in-Chief on April 18, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  All the worker-activists must be released immediately and unconditionally from the prison of the Islamic Republic of Iran ! Dear comrades, The criminal regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran has intensified the repression of all the worker-activists, particularly, of Shahrokh… Read More ›

• Fascists Attempt to Storm Teach-In at Chicago Union Hall

  By Editor-in-Chief on April 13, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  April 12 saw a heated confrontation between Fascists and Anti-fascists when about forty Maidan supporters attempted to break into an Anti-fascist sponsored teach-in at United Electric Hall on S. Ashland. The forty Maidan supporters included demonstrators flying the flags of… Read More ›

• Iris Mary Jessie Cremer, 1943-2014

  By Editor-in-Chief on April 4, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Dear Comrades, You will be sad to hear that Iris Cremer, the long-time secretary of the UK Stalin Society, passed away peacefully yesterday evening after a short illness. She was 70. Her contribution to the world revolutionary movement was not… Read More ›

• Final Resolution of the 19th Plenary of the ICMLPO

  By Editor-in-Chief on March 22, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  In the Middle of the World, in an atmosphere of internationalist comradeship and solidarity, the members of the International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations (ICMLPO) met to share and discuss analysis and experiences. We arrived at resolutions that will… Read More ›

• Venezuela: The Right Conspires While the Government Does Not Solve the People’s Problems

  By Editor-in-Chief on March 15, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  En Marcha #1640 February 21 to 27, 2014 Organ of the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador The most reactionary sectors of the Venezuelan right are trying to exploit the discontent among a large sector of the population to prepare a… Read More ›

• Fascists take deputy prime minister and other posts in Ukraine’s new government

  By Editor-in-Chief on March 5, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  By Tash Shifrin Fascists are now part of Ukraine’s government. Oleksandr Sych, of the fascist Svoboda party, has been appointed as deputy prime minister of Ukraine. He will take the post under prime minister Arseniy Yatseniuk of the neo-liberal, conservative Batkivshchyna (“Fatherland”)… Read More ›

• Euromaidan: The play with EU integration

  By Editor-in-Chief on February 22, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  by Dmitry Kolesnik A large group of aggressive young men smash windows and fiercely throw bottles and stones. Behind them there’s a huge crowd shouting ‘We want in the EU’. The picture should apparently frighten people in the EU countries. Some… Read More ›

• Michael Parenti: 85 Billionaires and the Better Half

  By Editor-in-Chief on February 20, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  The world’s 85 richest individuals possess as much wealth as the 3.5 billion souls who compose the poorer half of the world’s population, or so it was announced in a report by Oxfam International. The assertion sounds implausible to me. … Read More ›

• Michael Parenti: What’s a Slum? Urban Poverty and Marginality in America

  By Editor-in-Chief on February 18, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  When I was about thirteen-years-old I chanced upon an article in Henry Luce’s Life magazine that described East Harlem ( a Manhattan working class neighborhood) as “a slum inhabited by beggar poor Italians, Negroes, and Puerto Ricans,” words that stung… Read More ›

• Marxist–Leninist Communist Party of Venezuela: 2014 – A Decisive Year for Venezuela

  By Editor-in-Chief on February 16, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  2014 – A Decisive Year for Venezuela The year that has just begun suggests a change in the conditions of struggle in Venezuela, changes that have been growing since early 2013 when the bourgeoisie intensified its economic, political and ideological campaign… Read More ›

• Red Action (Croatia): Information Concerning the Current Rebellion in Bosnia and Herzegovina for our Foreign Comrades

  By Editor-in-Chief on February 12, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  – Protest started on 4th of February in the industrial city of Tuzla. Workers of several privatized companies based in Tuzla organized a protest (without the help or support of trade-unions) demanding the cancellation of privatizations and against closing-down of… Read More ›

• New Munich agreement

  By Editor-in-Chief on February 5, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Neoliberal whitewashing of neo-Nazis in Ukraine There is no such ‘miracle’ that cannot be done with the help of just media whitewashing. As if with a wave of a magic wand, those who were first portrayed as reactionary thugs suddenly… Read More ›

• Editorial: Get off that Bandwagon

  By Editor-in-Chief on January 31, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  By George Bialek. If you’re a Facebook user chances are you’ve probably seen a popular “meme” regarding Iceland. It’s the one that supposedly quotes some Icelandic politician who was asked something like “Why has Iceland managed to do so well… Read More ›

• On this day sixty-nine years ago, the Red Army liberated Auschwitz-Birkenau

  By Editor-in-Chief on January 27, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Red Army liberators recall shock of Auschwitz By Natalia Reiter With additional reporting by Ron Popeski Dated: 26 Jan 2005 KRAKOW, Poland, Jan 26 (Reuters) — When 60 years ago Anatoly Shapiro commanded his Red Army troops to secure a… Read More ›

• Not My War

  By Editor-in-Chief on January 23, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  By Svitlana Tsiberganova Dear activists of Maidan, I understand that you have your mobilization, resistance, and your own war. But every one of your posts and reposts calling “all real men to come out” I associate with a call, voiced from… Read More ›