Pava | Red Phoenix correspondent | Florida– The experience of Puerto Rican resistance to American imperialism serves as an immensely inspiring example to oppressed peoples in the U.S. and around the world in their struggle for a truly democratic, socialist society…. Read More ›
History
Indigenous resistance to ICE, a new front in an old war
Evan R. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Oregon– According to Oglala Lakota president Frank Star Comes Out, four Lakota Sioux people were abducted by ICE agents in Minneapolis last month. According to the tribe, one of its citizens was released… Read More ›
El Lector: Struggle for a worker’s voice in Florida cigar factories
Leon Valentine | Red Phoenix correspondent | Florida– Anyone who is familiar with Tampa, FL, has most likely heard of its accompanying Ybor City. Today Ybor is a hub of entertainment with blocks filled with bars, clubs, and cigar lounges,… Read More ›
Hitler’s theory of Lebensraum (Living Space) and the Yankees’ Manifest Destiny
The Yankee Aggression against Venezuela: Between Hitler’s theory of Living Space and the Yankee’s Manifest Destiny. What do they have in common? Manuel Salazar | Lucha Jan. 5, 2026 | Dominican Republic | Translated for the Red Phoenix by Maurice B.–… Read More ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
Lessons from the failures of the Kurdish movement in recent decades
A Look at the Message of Abdullah Öcalan, Leader of the PKK, and Lessons from the Failures of the Kurdish Movement in Recent Decades Party of Labor of Iran (Toufan) | April, 2025– Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned leader of the… Read More ›
80 years since the victory of the epic struggles of the peoples against fascist barbarism
En Marcha #2136, May 7 to 13, 2025 | Translated from Spanish for the Red Phoenix— On May 9, 1945, Nazi Germany signed its surrender in Berlin, after having provoked the bloody war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. Eighty… Read More ›
Black History Month and the Black radical tradition
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 ›
My friend, Jack Shulman
Camilo Lazo | National Chair of the American Party of Labor | In memory of Jack Shulman on the 110th anniversary of his birth, July 29, 2024– I suppose it’s a very sad commentary on the present state of our… Read More ›
Jack Shulman: Testimony of an American Communist. Part 3: William Z. Foster
The following is part three of an interview conducted with veteran American communist Jack Shulman, an early anti-revisionist Marxist-Leninist, shortly before his passing in 1999. The first section deals with Comrade Shulman’s experience as a member of the anti-fascist Abraham… Read More ›
As in Austria’s July Revolt, we must stand against fascism!
Nadya H. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Maryland– On July 15, 1927, militarized police forces in Vienna, Austria fired upon a crowd of protesters, killing 89 attendees while wounding 600 others in what has come to be known as the… Read More ›
Manoel Lisboa: 80 years of immortality
Manoel Lisboa de Moura, founder and top leader of the Revolutionary Communist Party of Brazil, had been a militant since his school days, as well as an actor and theater director. He began his medical studies at UFAL, but abandoned… Read More ›
What, to the slave, is the Fourth of July?
On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass was invited to address the citizens of his hometown, Rochester, New York. Whatever the expectations of his audience on that 76th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Douglass used the occasion… Read More ›