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 ›
History
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 ›
Psychiatric hospital uprising, the first Irish Soviet
On Jan. 24, 1919, the red flag was raised over the Monaghan Lunatic Asylum, the first Soviet of the wider Irish Revolution, and one of the first Soviets declared outside of Russia. Much less well known than the Limerick Soviet, which… Read More ›
From Wounded Knee to Dakota Access Pipeline, Standing Rock still stands
Nadya H. / Red Phoenix correspondent, Maryland. On December 29, 1890, over 250 Lakota men, women, and children were executed in what is known today as the Wounded Knee Massacre. Under pretenses of relocation, 500 soldiers of the 7th Cavalry… Read More ›
32 years since capitalist barbarity dissolved USSR, but socialism will rise again!
Artyom S. / Red Phoenix correspondent, Maryland. “What would happen if capital succeeded in smashing the Republic of Soviets? There would set in an era of the blackest reaction in all the capitalist and colonial countries, the working class and the… Read More ›
73 years after first national ban of lobotomies, patient wellness still not priority
Allison P. / Red Phoenix international correspondent. Jan. 17, 1947 — The first transorbital prefrontal lobotomy is performed. Dec. 10, 1949 — António Egas Moniz is awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for introducing the infamous frontal lobotomy for refractory… Read More ›