By the LGBTQIA+ Commission of the American Party of Labor. An Immediate Origin of Modern Struggle, Existence, and Recognition: On June 28th, 1970 the very first Pride marches were held in New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago to commemorate… Read More ›
History
The Second Amendment of the Constitution does not justify the “right to bear arms”
By Hari Kumar, Deputy National Secretary of the American Party of Labor. The historical distortions around the Second Amendment: The Second (2nd) Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is often cited by the National Rifle Association (NRA), right wingers, and members… Read More ›
On homosexuality in the USSR
By Alfonso Casal, National Chair of the American Party of Labor. The fact that homosexuality was criminally sanctioned under Soviet law is something that is often thrown in the face of communists in general, and used to “discredit” Comrade Stalin… Read More ›
On women’s rights and abortion in the USSR
By Alfonso Casal, National Chair of the American Party of Labor. The status of women under socialism: (Constitution of the U.S.S.R., Article 122.)Commentary by J. Stalin. “Women in the U.S.S.R. are accorded equal rights with men in all spheres of… Read More ›
Kent State Massacre: If you dare to struggle, you dare to win
On May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard fired into a crowd of student demonstrators who were on strike against President Richard Nixon’s announcement to expand the Vietnam War into Cambodia. The Kent State University students in Ohio had assembled… Read More ›
Paddy Whalen: Tribune of the People
By the Maryland Division of the American Party of Labor. The American Party of Labor is proud to announce the foundation of a Maryland state Division, headquartered in the Baltimore metropolitan area. After a period of deliberation, the Maryland comrades… Read More ›
Remembering the Italian partisans who ended Mussolini’s violence
By John Palameda, Red Phoenix correspondent, Illinois. On the anniversary of Mussolini’s death, online left spaces are often filled with the pictures of il duce and his closest allies strung up in the Piazza Quindici Martiri in Milan. As an… Read More ›
Hollywood Blacklist: “Tender Comrade” and “Sahara”
By Ed Rampell, Red Phoenix guest contributor. This is the edited text for the introduction to the April 13 screening of Tender Comrade and Sahara at the Academy Museum for this series commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Hollywood Blacklist…. Read More ›
The military-industrial complex is a key driver of capitalist accumulation
By Leonard Zorfass, Red Phoenix correspondent, New Jersey. The tragic events that unfolded in the early hours of October 3, 2015, in Kunduz, Afghanistan, illustrate the brutal and inhumane nature of imperialism in its current form. The airstrike that resulted… Read More ›
It can happen here: Three L.A. museums shine spotlights on the Hollywood Blacklist’s 75th anniversary
By Ed Rampell, Red Phoenix guest contributor. Three museums are commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Hollywood Blacklist, the darkest period in Tinseltown history. What happened during this period of rightwing repression? As actor Humphrey Bogart put it: “We saw… Read More ›
“I wanna see feisty disabled people change the world”
By V. Valentino, Red Phoenix correspondent, California. The founders of this country espoused the idea that every person had the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness – although we understand clearly that this was meant only for… Read More ›
Long live Enver Hoxha!
On April 11, 1985, the revolutionary leader of socialist Albania passed away from a lingering heart condition at the age of 76. Enver Hoxha was born in 1908 to a petty-bourgeois family in Gjirokastër, then a part of the Ottoman… Read More ›
William Z. Foster’s “Pages From a Worker’s Life”
By Benjamin J. Rizzo, Red Phoenix correspondent, Florida. The Red Phoenix is proud to present this inspiring excerpt from “Pages From a Worker’s Life,” a volume of autobiography by William Z. Foster (1881-1961), originally published in 1939. Foster had a… Read More ›
“The Trotskyist World Movement”
By Klaus Riis, Workers Communist Party (APK), Denmark. Translated from Danish. In the current situation, with the national and international class struggle sharpening, the political and ideological class struggle sharpens as well. In our country we see not only the… Read More ›
Changes in forms of imperialism over stages of capitalist development
By Hari Kumar, Red Phoenix international correspondent. 1. Introduction As Engels noted: “Everything moves, changes, comes into being and passes away.” Imperialism has changed in form over the years. For example, the form may vary by the relative positions of… Read More ›