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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 Los Angeles, CA.

• Parallels of Tyranny: MAGA and Nazism

  By Editor-in-Chief on March 3, 2025

  

  Maurice B. | Red Phoenix correspondent | New York– First they came for the CommunistsAnd I did not speak outBecause I was not a Communist Then they came for the SocialistsAnd I did not speak outBecause I was not a Socialist… Read More ›

• Black History Month and the Black radical tradition

  By Editor-in-Chief on February 21, 2025

  

  Maurice B. | Red Phoenix correspondent | New York– Black folks and people of color are under attack in Trump’s America. Through a number of anti-DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) Executive Orders (14173, 14151, 14148) and statements along with a… Read More ›

• Interview with People’s March organizer on standing together with “imperfect friends”

  By Editor-in-Chief on February 11, 2025

  

  Thomas K. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Ohio– The weekend before Trump’s inauguration, the working masses and oppressed peoples — women, people of color, queer community members, immigrants, and allies — banded together across the country for marches and rallies… Read More ›

• Editorial: Vultures of a feather colonize together

  By Editor-in-Chief on February 10, 2025

  

  Camilo Lazo and R. Nesbitt | Red Phoenix correspondents– In the first week of February, 2025, Donald Trump hosted Benjamin Netanyahu in the White House to a backdrop of thunderous protests of the Palestinian and anti-imperialist movement all over the… Read More ›

• Solidarity with the Greenlandic people against all imperialism

  By Editor-in-Chief on February 2, 2025

  

  Joint statement of the Workers’ Communist Party (Denmark) and the American Party of Labor (USA)– US President Donald Trump is threatening to use both military and economic power to take control over Greenland. This is an outrageous insult to the… Read More ›

• For Comrade Erol “Arif” Büyükkaraca, the struggle lives on

  By Editor-in-Chief on January 27, 2025

  

  Comrade Erol “Arif” Büyükkaraca has died. Comrade Arif was a long-time member of the Executive Board of the Labor Party of Turkey (Emek Partisi), and a life-long proletarian internationalist and revolutionary. Many of us got to know Comrade Arif at… Read More ›

• Partial amnesty for Leonard Peltier is insufficient, belated scramble to appeal to masses

  By Editor-in-Chief on January 27, 2025

  

  On the last full day of his presidency, Joe Biden granted partial amnesty for Leonard Peltier, a political prisoner who has so far served 46 years of his unjust two consecutive life sentences. It is imperative to stress that Peltier… Read More ›

• Communists of U.S. & Spain: We denounce Spain’s subservience to NATO, U.S. foreign policy!

  By Editor-in-Chief on January 25, 2025

  

  Joint statement of the American Party of Labor (APL) and the Communist Party of Spain (Marxist-Leninist) (PCEML). The US Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) has initiated an investigation into Spain’s alleged refusal to allow US-flagged cargo vessels to dock at its… Read More ›

• On the dawn of Trump’s second term, U.S. in crisis, the future is now!

  By Editor-in-Chief on January 22, 2025

  

  On Monday, January 20, 2025, Donald J. Trump was sworn in as President of the United States for the second time.  Within 24 hours, Trump signed a plethora of Executive Orders, among which, he has: Additionally, Trump revoked Executive Orders… Read More ›

• Service to the People: Caring for neighbors, united in class struggle

  By Editor-in-Chief on January 9, 2025

  

  APL John Reed Division | Washington– The evening of Dec. 28, members of the John Reed Division of the American Party of Labor ran one of our Service to the People programs in downtown Seattle, distributing free sandwiches, toiletries, drinks,… Read More ›

• Profit motive in public transit costs workers time, money, health

  By Editor-in-Chief on January 9, 2025

  

  Michael G. | Red Phoenix correspondent | New Jersey– For countless American workers, the daily grind not only involves work with horrible conditions and low pay, but also a constant struggle with unreliable and unsafe public transportation. New Jersey Transit… Read More ›

• A New Year’s message from the heart

  By Editor-in-Chief on January 1, 2025

  

  Camilo Lazo | National Chair of the American Party of Labor— Comrades, I would like to take the opportunity to wish everyone a happy and triumphant new year. Many, the usual types, are greeting 2025 in a mood of despondency… Read More ›

• Community demands justice for Ra’Lasia Wright, end to transphobic terror

  By Editor-in-Chief on December 28, 2024

  

  Eris Rosenburg and Sofia D. | Red Phoenix correspondents | Minnesota–  On the evening of Dec. 22, the South Minneapolis community came together for a solemn vigil for the late Ra’Lasia Wright, a 25-year-old Black transgender woman who fell victim… Read More ›

• EMEP: The one-man administration must withdraw its support from jihadists in Syria!

  By Editor-in-Chief on December 8, 2024

  

  Statement from the Labor Party (Emek Partisi) of Turkey, Dec. 2, 2024. Translated for the Red Phoenix. The HTS (Hayat Tahrir al-Sham), a continuation of Jabhat al-Nusra, ISIS’ first organization in Syria, and the Syrian National Army, which includes structures… Read More ›

• Reject the terror classification of the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network

  By Editor-in-Chief on November 28, 2024

  

  Ivanna J. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Washington– In a press release dated Oct. 15, the Treasury Department announced that the Canadian government has joined the U.S., Germany, and many other countries, in classifying the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network… Read More ›