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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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Coal miners fight cuts to black lung disability benefits
Thomas K. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Ohio– The National Institute of Occupational Health and Safety (NIOSH) came under attack recently by the Trump administration by means of funding cuts, with one specifically targeted a program that provided screening for… Read More ›
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Oliver Law, a forgotten pioneer in the Black radical tradition
Maurice B. | Red Phoenix correspondent | New York– Throughout the history of the United States, the continuous and unrelenting struggle of the African-descendant peoples of this country has been part and parcel of the great sweeping march of progressive… Read More ›
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St. Paul attacks rent control, gives landlords a carte blanche to workers’ wallets
Margarethe Wegner | Red Phoenix correspondent | Minnesota– At the start of May, the Saint Paul City Council reversed its 2021 rent control measures in a 4-3 vote, selling out its constituents to developers desperate to extract higher rents. These… Read More ›
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Judicial decay, cancelled elections, increasing fascistization
R. Nesbitt | Red Phoenix correspondent | Maryland– There are now Republicans in the United States who have cancelled elections. In Miami, Florida, county commissioners have postponed city elections until November of 2026, without any presentation to the people, without… Read More ›
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Ohio budget bill strips LGBTQ rights, defunds public libraries, schools
Thomas K. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Ohio– Ohio House Bill 96, a “budget bill” which passed through the state senate and was signed into law by Gov. Mike DeWine, includes a direct attack on the rights and identity of… Read More ›
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Privatization and commercialization of space fail to deliver on promises… again…
Allison P. | Red Phoenix international correspondent– 2337 27 May 2025 UTC, 33 Raptor engines roared to life in a glorious return to flight for the Starship Super Heavy program, carrying with it hope for the future and the promises… Read More ›
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The “Molly Maguires,” America’s first great class war
Maurice B. | Red Phoenix correspondent | New York– There’s them on top and them below; push up, or push down. Who’s got more push? That’s all that counts. – Sean Connery as Jack Kehoe June 21, 2025 marked 148… Read More ›
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After 35 years, “Paris Is Burning” remains essential class-conscious queer cinema
Marina S. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Kansas– “I remember my dad used to say, ‘You have three strikes against you in this world. Every black man has two, that they’re just black and they’re a male. But you’re black… Read More ›
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Gov. Polis vetoes Worker Protection Act, betrays Colorado’s working class
John M. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Colorado– On May 16, 2025, Colorado Governor Jared Polis dealt a devastating blow to the state’s labor movement, and, in the same stroke, a blow to the illusion of the bourgeois union’s militancy… Read More ›
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Call to the peoples of the world: Let us oppose American-Israeli aggression against Iran!
Israel’s aggression against Iran, which began on June 13 with intensive airstrikes and assassinations, continues. Just as the justification for the attack on Iraq was “Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction,” the justification for the attack on Iran is “Iran’s nuclear… Read More ›
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Party of Labor of Iran (Toufan): Statement on Israeli aggression against Iran and its people
Foreign Relations Committee of the Party of Labor of Iran (Toufan) | June 13, 2025– The Party of Labor of Iran strongly condemns the terrorist and criminal aerial attack by the Zionist Israeli regime against Iran. In the early hours… Read More ›
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Lake Loveland’s decline puts water and livelihoods at stake
John M. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Colorado– In Loveland, Colorado, Lake Loveland is shrinking at an alarming rate, its muddy banks strewn with dead fish; a haunting symbol of climate change’s relentless assault on working-class communities. Climate change is… Read More ›
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Sean Duffy’s racist demagoguery cannot conceal intensifying exploitation of truck drivers
Sofia D. | Oppressed Nationalities Commission of the American Party of Labor— [Nota del editor: Haga clic aquí para leer este artículo en inglés.] Sean Duffy, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation under Trump, signed the “Enforcing Commonsense Rules Of… Read More ›
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La demagógica racista de Sean Duffy no puede ocultar la intensificación de la explotación de los camioneros
Sofia D. | Comisión de Nacionalidades Oprimidas del American Party of Labor | traducido por Camilo Lazo— [Editor’s note: To read this article in English, click here.] Sean Duffy, secretario del Departamento de Transportación de EE. UU. bajo Trump, firmó… Read More ›
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Twin Cities workers resist militarized terror against refugees
Margarethe Wegner & Eris Rosenburg | Red Phoenix correspondents | Minnesota– On June 3, the workers of Minneapolis met Trump’s jackbooted thugs on Lake Street in the defense of their neighbors, when the newly expanded Homeland Security Task Force (HSTF)… Read More ›
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