History
Celebrate International Workers’ Day 2011!
Today we celebrate May Day, also known as International Workers’ Day, a holiday celebrated by working people worldwide. This day began in commemoration of the 1886 Haymarket Massacre in Chicago, where police fired upon workers striking for an eight-hour-day. Since… Read More ›
Review of “Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis”
In any society, police forces and other agents of organized repression do their work on behalf of that society’s ruling class. In capitalism, the police are the reserve army of capital, protecting bourgeois property and society from working people and… Read More ›
Friendly Feudalism: The Tibet Myth
by Michael Parenti I. For Lords and Lamas Along with the blood drenched landscape of religious conflict there is the experience of inner peace and solace that every religion promises, none more so than Buddhism. Standing in marked contrast to… Read More ›
America’s Plantation Prisons
by Maya Schenwar On an expanse of 18,000 acres of farmland, 59 miles northwest of Baton Rouge, long rows of men, mostly African-American, till the fields under the hot Louisiana sun. The men pick cotton, wheat, soybeans and corn. They… Read More ›
Review of “The Theory of the Leisure Class”
“The history of all hitherto society is a history of class struggle.” These words, from Marx’s Manifesto of the Communist Party, assert an essential truth about the organization of human civilization through exploitative modes of production. From slave economies to… Read More ›
Libya: Popular Uprising, Civilian War or Military Attack?
Interview: Grégoire Lalieu & Michel Collon After Tunisia and Egypt, has the Arab revolution reached Libya ? What is happening at the moment in Libya is different. In Tunisia and Egypt, the lack of freedom was flagrant. However, it was… Read More ›
Libya and the World of Oil
By Noam Chomsky Last month, at the international tribunal on crimes during the civil war in Sierra Leone, the trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor came to an end. The chief prosecutor, U.S. law professor David Crane, informed The… Read More ›
Review of Jean-Luc Godard’s “La Chinoise” (The Chinese)
Film Synopsis La Chinoise follows five young people in late 1960’s France who form a revolutionary Maoist organization and live together in a loft. They name their organization “Aden Arabie” (English: Aden, Arabia), named after a novel by French writer… Read More ›
Israel Threatens “Unilateral Steps” if UN Recognizes Palestinian State
Israel informed the 15 members of the United Nations Security Council last week, as well as several other prominent European Union countries, that if the Palestinian Authority persists in its efforts to gain recognition in September as a state within… Read More ›
The Deindustrialization of Detroit
Detroit lost 25% of its population in the last decade Detroit, which reached a population peak of 1.85 million residents in 1950, was once the fourth-largest city in the U.S. Detroit registered the largest population decrease among all United States… Read More ›
Murderer of the Miners: Don Blankenship & Massey Energy
There are those who think of the trade union struggle as the workers’ fight for better wages and benefits, but there are times when this struggle is a matter of life and death. The mining industry is a perfect example… Read More ›
Operation Odyssey Dawn: Libya to get the “Kosovo Treatment”
Another “Humanitarian Bombing” – First Yugoslavia, Now Libya President Barack Obama has now made the exact same speech Bill Clinton made on network news back in 1999 – promising “no ground forces” in the next American-led war of aggression. U.N…. Read More ›
A Brief History of the Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil War (1936 – 1939) has come to symbolize the clash between the ideologies of liberalism, socialism and communism versus conservatism, traditionalism and fascism. Spain, at the dawn of the 20th century, was caught in a crisis of… Read More ›
Update on Tunisia
TUNIS // For years, Hamma Hammami’s chief concern was staying out of a Tunisian jail. Today, it is fielding non-stop phone calls from local and international media. “The fact that we spoke against Ben Ali gives us credibility,” said Mr… Read More ›
The Red Phoenix 