Introduction The Hunger Games (2012), based on the book of the same name by Suzanne Collins, is not an easy film to watch. It follows the story of an adolescent girl named Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) made to fight in a… Read More ›
History
St. Patrick’s Day and the Irish Struggle
St. Patrick’s Day is typically portrayed as a day for drinking, festivities and revelry. However, we in the American Party of Labor believe that revolutionaries should set aside some time every year to remember the tragedy of discrimination the Irish… Read More ›
Central Africa: Don’t Elevate Joseph Kony
ANALYSIS Put yourself in Joseph Kony’s shoes: imagine you are a fugitive leader of a rebel band in the forests of central Africa, travelling on foot and avoiding encounter with any organized military force. You have spurned peace talks and… Read More ›
Should Occupy Use Violence?
I Dunno, Should the Cops? by KEVIN CARSON Back in the mid-1980s, when the African National Congress was still fighting the South Africa’s apartheid regime, I recall Secretary of State George Schultz testifying before some Senate committee. He clutched his… Read More ›
Alexandra Kollontai: ‘Women’s Day’ February 1913
The article ‘Women’s Day’ by Alexandra Kollontai was published in the newspaper Pravda one week before the first-ever celebration in Russia of the Day of International Solidarity among the Female Proletariat on 23 February (8 March), 1913. In St Petersburg… Read More ›
Clara Zetkin on Organizing Women Workers
Clara Zetkin (1857-1933) founded International Women’s Day on the 8th March, 1911. Clara Zetkin was German born: When Adolf Hitler and his fascist National Socialist German Workers Party with the assistance of the other reactionaries took over power, the Communist… Read More ›
Juan Perón and Social-Fascism in Argentina
History of the Terms “Social-Democracy” and “Social-Fascism” The term “social-democracy” has been used by the left since the time of Marx and Engels. The term is a pejorative one today, since it has become almost synonymous with liberal reformism. About… Read More ›
‘The blackest lie in history’: Republican congressional candidate says the Holocaust never happened
-Illinois candidate Arthur Jones, 64, ‘organises Nazi events to celebrate Hitler’s birthday’ -‘The Holocaust is an international extortion racket’ -Candidate has spent life savings on congressional run A congressional candidate running as a Republican in the upcoming Illinois primary says… Read More ›
Syria isn’t the ‘new Bosnia’, despite the narcissistic hopes of the Western commentariat
By Brendan O’Neill Oh no, this is not good, this is not good at all: more and more Western observers are starting to describe Syria as “the new Bosnia”. Which can mean only one thing. The liberal commentariat is on… Read More ›
The CIA, Cuba and Operation Peter Pan
Where’s Captain Hook in NPR’s Fairy Tale? by SAUL LANDAU and NELSON P. VALDES “Los niños nacen para ser felices.” – José Martí On November 19, 2011 NPR broadcast “Children Of Cuba Remember: Their Flight To America.” Reporter Greg Allen… Read More ›
The “Feminism” of Maggie Thatcher
Celebrating the Self-Empowerment of Elite White Women by GAIL DINES I usually like watching Meryl Streep, but I seriously hope that she doesn’t win an Oscar on Sunday for her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher. I couldn’t stand the thought of… Read More ›
Taliban Warns US to Learn From Soviet Defeat
It was 23 years ago this week that the Soviet occupation forces finally gave up on a bloody decade-long war in Afghanistan, limping out of the country with their own economy in tatters, and the Soviet-backed Afghan government on the… Read More ›
Myths About Socialism: Is It Really Just a Matter of Corporate Greed?
Unlike other political philosophers, Karl Marx did not simply dream up an ideal society or concoct ad hoc solutions to the social problems he saw in his time. Marx was an observer who devoted far more of his time and energy… Read More ›
Protests as Bahrain uprising anniversary gets under way
Clashes have continued overnight in Bahrain’s capital, Manama. Security forces fired tear gas and stun grenades at protesters who gathered ahead of the first anniversary of the start of pro-democracy demonstrations in the Gulf kingdom on Tuesday. Thousands are expected… Read More ›
The Red Phoenix 