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 ›
History
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 ›
The death of war criminal Kissinger: Give the devil his due
R. Nesbitt, Red Phoenix guest contributor, Maryland. On Nov. 29, former Secretary of State of the United States, Henry Kissinger passed away in his home in Connecticut at the age of 100. News of his demise has elicited repudiation of… Read More ›
On Palestine, the Palestine Liberation Movement, and USA Imperialism: A Marxist-Leninist View
In response to the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack prompting the wholesale slaughter of the Palestinian people By Hari Kumar, Red Phoenix international correspondent. Introduction The history of the Palestinian liberation movement is very convoluted and long. Furthermore the many… Read More ›
The Fall of Lin Biao
By Camilo Lazo, Red Phoenix correspondent, Illinois. A review of Yao Ming-Le’s The Conspiracy and Murder of Mao’s Heir. In his political diary, Albanian Marxist-Leninist Enver Hoxha commented that the official Chinese government version of the death of Mao Zedong’s… Read More ›
Tribute to Tomás Martínez Pinacho, communist journalist slain in Mexico
By Red Nesbitt, Red Phoenix correspondent, Maryland. On August 25, 2020, activist, journalist and organizer Tomás Martínez was assassinated at a restaurant in the town of Miahuatlán de Porfirio Diaz, in the state of Oaxaca. Martínez was a member of… Read More ›
The Communists and the Bolivarian process
An editorial by the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Venezuela (PCMLV). Translated from Spanish by Camilo Lazo for the Red Phoenix. In this edition we want to address a topical problem, which is of great interest to the international and national… Read More ›
A remembrance: Why did the USA drop its atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
By Hari Kumar, Red Phoenix international correspondent. Foreword: The anniversary of the USA dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima (August 6) and Nagasaki (August 9) recently passed. The horrific toll on the Japanese working people is still felt today. We should… Read More ›
The Warsaw Uprising, August 1, 1944
By Hari Kumar, Red Phoenix international correspondent. On August 1, 1944 — 79 years ago — the Warsaw Uprising was launched in secrecy. It led to a Polish massacre from the Nazi forces. Why had it been called, and why was… Read More ›
The anti-Marxist nature of Queer-Antagonistic Revisionism
By Ian Ocx and Red Nesbitt of the American Party of Labor. Introduction In his report to the Eighth Congress of the Party of Labor of Albania, comrade Enver Hoxha stated, “The Marxist-Leninists are not conservative and fanatical, as the… Read More ›
In defense of Foster from the slander of “Settlers”
By Leon V., Red Phoenix correspondent, Florida. Published in the 1980’s, J. Sakai’s Settlers has enjoyed a cult following among portions of American revisionists. Sakai pulls no punches in attacking everything he considers an aspect of “settler-colonialism,” some of which… Read More ›
The myth of Stalin’s ‘demoralisation’ in 1941
Written by Bill Bland for the Communist League. First published in Compass No. 135, April 2000. Note from editor June Vass: Bland led the Communist League as a founding member until his death in 2001. This article was one of… Read More ›
Hollywood Blacklist: “Salt of the Earth” and a demand for political reckoning
By Ed Rampell, Red Phoenix guest contributor, California. June 19, 2023 is the 70th anniversary of the electrocution of the so-called “atomic spies” Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Believed to be members of the Communist Party USA, the Rosenbergs were convicted… Read More ›
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