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Anti-revisionist Marxist-Leninist, National Secretary of the American Party of Labor (APL).

• The tragic tale of the iBOT wheelchair

  By Victor Vaughn on January 12, 2024

  

  The iBOT should be remembered as another example of how capitalism doesn’t drive innovation, but has become a destructive force to the development of humanity. The Museum of Failure, an exhibit featuring failed consumer products from around the world, has… Read More ›

• “Red Cup Rebellion” nationwide solidarity actions in support of Starbucks workers

  By Victor Vaughn on November 30, 2023

  

  Victor Vaughn, Red Phoenix corespondent, Maryland. Starbucks workers nationwide organized strikes and customer solidarity actions against the company’s unfair labor practices on its busiest sales day, Red Cup Day, Nov. 16. Following a year-long struggle, over 360 Starbucks stores with… Read More ›

• Union-led Amazon strike expands to Baltimore warehouses

  By Victor Vaughn on November 21, 2023

  

  By Victor Vaughn, Red Phoenix correspondent, Maryland. Striking Amazon workers led by members of the Teamsters union picketed two Amazon warehouses in Baltimore (BWI2 and BWI5) on the evening of Wednesday, Nov. 8, joining the nationwide protest initiated by unionized… Read More ›

• Inflation and recession, the cyclical crisis of capitalism

  By Victor Vaughn on February 16, 2023

  

  The prices for things keep rising: why? Nothing is untouched by inflation, not even books. The Economist recently reported that some publishers are actually starting to shrink the white space between characters and run text closer to the ends of… Read More ›

• Frederick Douglass: “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?”

  By Victor Vaughn on July 4, 2018

  

  Mr. President, Friends and Fellow Citizens: He who could address this audience without a quailing sensation, has stronger nerves than I have. I do not remember ever to have appeared as a speaker before any assembly more shrinkingly, nor with… Read More ›

• Why Does the Pseudo-Left Hate Grover Furr?

  By Victor Vaughn on November 19, 2017

  

  Grover Furr is an American professor and author. He has taught at Montclair State University in New Jersey for over four decades, and has written essays, articles and books on Soviet history in both Russian and English. Though his body… Read More ›

• Interview With Jalen Evans of Black Lives Matter Baltimore

  By Victor Vaughn on August 31, 2017

  

  Would you mind if we start off with some background about yourself? Your name, where you came from, where you grew up, when you started working with Black Lives Matter, etc.? My name is Jalen Evans. I grew up in… Read More ›

• American Party of Labor Statement on the Baltimore Resistance

  By Victor Vaughn on April 28, 2015

  

  The American Party of Labor recognizes that the youth-led resistance in Baltimore is an expression of the righteous anger and frustration of the people against state terrorism and police brutality. 10,000 people from across the country marched in the streets… Read More ›

• American Party of Labor Statement on the Anti-Racist Rebellion in Ferguson

  By Victor Vaughn on November 27, 2014

  

  On August 9th in the town of Ferguson in Missouri, white police officer Darren Wilson fatally shot Michael Brown, a black teenager, firing twelve shots and hitting him six times, including twice in the head. The 18-year-old Michael Brown was… Read More ›

• The Real Legacy of Ariel Sharon

  By Victor Vaughn on January 17, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Former Israeli Prime Minister and war criminal Ariel Sharon died on Jan 11th, 2014, after having spent the last eight years in a coma. He was 85 years old. Sharon was directly involved in war crimes and massacres throughout his… Read More ›

• Review of “Lesson Plan: The Story of the Third Wave” (2011)

  By Victor Vaughn on January 4, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  The opening title of Lesson Plan: The Story of the Third Wave (2011) reads: “In 1967 a High School student asked his history teacher how the German people could so easily follow Adolph Hitler. What follows is the result of… Read More ›

• R.I.P. Nelson Mandela (1918 – 2013)

  By Victor Vaughn on December 5, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Today we mourn a great loss for humanity – the passing of Nelson Mandela, a hero of the struggle against apartheid in South Africa and the father of the modern South African state. As a member of the African National… Read More ›

• Cold War Killer File: the Death Squads of El Salvador – Part 1

  By Victor Vaughn on August 12, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  “All I know is that D’Aubuisson is a free enterprise man and deeply religious.” – Jesse Helms “[T[ake care of this archbishop, these Jesuits, these other priests and especially these foreigners who are ruining the minds of our children. And… Read More ›

• Review of “Animal Farm” (1954 & 1999 Films)

  By Victor Vaughn on July 26, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Introduction Hailed by capitalist literary critics, Trotskyites and anarchists as a masterpiece, the mediocre book Animal Farm has served a very important role in distorting the history of socialism in the Soviet Union. Modern editions of the book hail author… Read More ›

• The Soviet Jews, Zionism & Israel

  By Victor Vaughn on June 30, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  “Zionism” is a political movement that calls for the establishment of a Jewish state, manifested mostly in support for the current state of Israel, established in 1948. Zionism, in claiming to establish a Jewish state in the lands of Palestine,… Read More ›