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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.
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Cancer, capitalism, and corporate farms in Iowa
Juneau W. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Iowa– Iowa is one of the most important centers for agriculture in the United States and, depending on who you ask, the world. However, it is also the state with the second highest… Read More ›
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Disaster averted, life-saving asbestos ban upheld
John M. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Colorado The Trump administration’s recent decision to abandon plans to reconsider the Biden-era ban on chrysotile asbestos, the last form of this deadly mineral still used in the United States, is a rare… Read More ›
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Taking back the narrative on Zohran Mamdani
Jo Mason | Red Phoenix correspondent | Illinois– On June 24, 2025, Zohran Mamdani defeated the AIPAC-funded Democratic juggernaut Andrew Cuomo in the primary election for the New York mayoral race, which will be held in November. For many on… Read More ›
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McKees Rocks Strike “greatest labor fight in all history”
Thomas K. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Ohio– “Men are persecuted, robbed, and slaughtered, and their wives are abused in a manner worse than death… all to obtain or retain positions that barely keep starvation from the door.” Rev. Father… Read More ›
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Ripple effects of unchecked power from Gaza to Boulder
John M. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Colorado– On Sunday, June 1, 2025, a violent attack disrupted a peaceful gathering in Boulder, Colorado, organized by Run for Their Lives, a group raising awareness for Israeli hostages held in Gaza. The… Read More ›
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The Front Range Rail: Battling corporate interests for Fort Collins workers
John M. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Colorado– Fort Collins workers are tired of being stuck in traffic, spending hard-earned wages on gas and car repairs just to get to work. The Front Range Passenger Rail, a proposed 173-mile line… Read More ›
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Fascist rally in Kansas City met with silence, inaction by officials
Marina S. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Kansas– On Saturday, May 24, around 150 members of the fascist paramilitary group known as the Patriot Front, emerging from a fleet of rented cargo vans, invaded the steps of the Kansas City… Read More ›
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Crisis in the bourgeois legal system
Misha G. | Red Phoenix correspondent | New Jersey– As the Trump administration tightens its grip on state power and continues to purge dissent, it has escalated a pattern that even liberal defenders of bourgeois legality find shocking. His regime… Read More ›
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International Interview: Protest wave against deportations in the USA
Arbeit Zukunft | July 3, 2025 | Editor’s note translated from German for the Red Phoenix | Interview questions and answers published in original English– At the beginning of June, the reports about large waves of protests in Los Angeles… Read More ›
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80 years after the Trinity Test, communities still seek justice
Resist U.S.-Led War Movement | July 16, 2025– Today, 80 years ago, the US conducted the Trinity Nuclear Test on July 16, 1945, in the New Mexico desert, marking the dawn of the atomic age. The test’s first victims of… Read More ›
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On Juneteenth, people of the Bronx demanded, “Down with ICE!”
Maurice B. | Red Phoenix correspondent | New York– On June 19, popularly celebrated as Juneteenth, organizers and working-class organizations from across the Bronx mobilized at Fordham Plaza to speak out and rally in response to the ever-growing presence of… Read More ›
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Holy alliance against Palestine, the bogey of “antisemitism”
Michael G. | Red Phoenix correspondent | New Jersey– We are living through a moment of accelerating repression. Mass deportations violate both domestic and international law. Basic rights—speech, assembly, protest—are being gutted. Fascists no longer hide behind legality. Dissent, especially… Read More ›
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Reclaiming the radical history of Pride
Sylvia Rivera, Marsha P. Johnson, and the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries Marina S. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Kansas— In 1973, the New York City Pride March, originally called Christopher Street Liberation Day, barred drag queens from openly attending the… Read More ›
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Israel rejects two-state solution, continues expansion of illegal settlements
S. Argun | Red Phoenix correspondent | Washington– Israel announced recently that they have approved 22 new settlements in the occupied West Bank, including 12 existing illegal settlements, now fully legitimized in the eyes of the Israeli state, and nine… Read More ›
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Private prison pivots to detain ICE victims as people of Leavenworth fight back
Marina S. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Kansas– The city of Leavenworth, Kansas has become an unlikely center of activity in the ongoing struggle against the unprecedented fascist violence perpetrated by ICE under the Trump regime. Back in Feb. 2025,… Read More ›
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