By Hari Kumar, Red Phoenix international correspondent. Today is the anniversary of the USSR final victory of the Battle of Stalingrad (August 23, 1942 — February 2, 1943). It was after this battle that the tide turned in the Second… Read More ›
Second World War
The 1943 Famine in India and the Role of Winston Churchill
By Marcial Tardón From Octubre, Organ of the Communist Party of Spain (ML), January 2019 If we do not investigate history strictly, we could speculate that Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of Great Britain in two periods (1940-45 and 1951-55), was a… Read More ›
International Conference of Maxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations: Hundredth Anniversary of the Third, Communist, International
Next year, 2019, the International Conference of M-L Parties and Organizations (ICMLPO) has decided to commemorate this hundredth anniversary. One of the future projects proposed in the ICMLPO is to organize the Marxist-Leninist Communist International, with the aim of promoting… Read More ›
Editorial: There is No Such Thing as an “Ex” Nazi
Sure, people can join and leave neo-Nazi movements; but that’s not what I’m getting at. There are certain things from which, if you go there, there is no turning back. Being a Nazi is one of them. There is no… Read More ›
Celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution
Join the American Party of Labor; Bayan-USA; the Party of Communists, USA; the Freedom Road Socialist Organization, the Workers World Party, the Party for Socialism and Liberation; the Harlem Coalition Against War, the United National Anti-War Committee; the International Action… Read More ›
False Equivalency and the Fetishism of Free Speech
In the days following the murder of activist Heather Heyer as a result of the fascist attack in Charlottesville, leftists far and wide correctly condemned the words and actions of the neo-fascist Trump, who explicitly – and repeatedly – declared a… Read More ›
Statement of the American Party of Labor on the Looming Threat of War Against the DPRK
– The U.S. has sought to overthrow the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea ever since its inception At the end of World War II, Yeo Un-hyung was elected as the President of the People’s Republic of Korea (PRK), governed by… Read More ›
The Rise and Fall of Third Worldism – Part 1
PART ONE: “Two, Three, many Vietnams”: National Liberation and the Rise of the Third World (1945 – 1991) Asia, Africa and Latin America in the Early Years of the Century With the exception of Latin America, and several noteworthy cases… Read More ›
Fascists take deputy prime minister and other posts in Ukraine’s new government
By Tash Shifrin Fascists are now part of Ukraine’s government. Oleksandr Sych, of the fascist Svoboda party, has been appointed as deputy prime minister of Ukraine. He will take the post under prime minister Arseniy Yatseniuk of the neo-liberal, conservative Batkivshchyna (“Fatherland”)… Read More ›
New Munich agreement
Neoliberal whitewashing of neo-Nazis in Ukraine There is no such ‘miracle’ that cannot be done with the help of just media whitewashing. As if with a wave of a magic wand, those who were first portrayed as reactionary thugs suddenly… Read More ›
Editorial: Get off that Bandwagon
By George Bialek. If you’re a Facebook user chances are you’ve probably seen a popular “meme” regarding Iceland. It’s the one that supposedly quotes some Icelandic politician who was asked something like “Why has Iceland managed to do so well… Read More ›
On this day sixty-nine years ago, the Red Army liberated Auschwitz-Birkenau
Red Army liberators recall shock of Auschwitz By Natalia Reiter With additional reporting by Ron Popeski Dated: 26 Jan 2005 KRAKOW, Poland, Jan 26 (Reuters) — When 60 years ago Anatoly Shapiro commanded his Red Army troops to secure a… Read More ›
Canadian government withheld food from hungry aboriginal kids in 1940s nutritional experiments, researcher finds
by BOB WEBER Recently published historical research says hungry aboriginal children and adults were once used as unwitting subjects in nutritional experiments by Canadian government bureaucrats. “This was the hardest thing I’ve ever written,” said Ian Mosby, who has revealed… Read More ›
A Disturbing Sign of the Times
Recently a news story about a McDonald’s worker suing her employer has started making the rounds on the internet. Twenty-seven year old Natalie Gunshannon of Dallas Township (Pennsylvania) found that instead of receiving her first paycheck via direct deposit or… Read More ›
On the Day of American Independence
Today is the 4th of July, a holiday celebrated all over the nation as the date of American Independence from the British crown. I was considering burning an American flag to protest US foreign policy, imperial aggression, indigenous holocaust, sponsorship… Read More ›