John M. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Colorado– In a move that has ignited global outrage, the Trump administration has overseen the removal of two commemorative panels honoring Black American soldiers at the Netherlands American Cemetery, a solemn site dedicated… Read More ›
United States History
In memory of Chip Berlet (1949—2026), lifelong anti-fascist fighter
Camilo Lazo | National Chair of the American Party of Labor— Chip Berlet was my friend. Chip Berlet was a good man, a kind and gentle man. He was a man with a deep love of people, of music – especially… Read More ›
Jesse Jackson: A man out of history returns home
R. Nesbitt | Red Phoenix correspondent | Maryland– Reverend Jesse Jackson, a staunch and prolific civil rights activist, protégé of Martin Luther King Jr., and fierce fighter for oppressed people, has passed away at the age of 84. Rev. Jackson… Read More ›
Indigenous resistance to ICE, a new front in an old war
Evan R. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Oregon– According to Oglala Lakota president Frank Star Comes Out, four Lakota Sioux people were abducted by ICE agents in Minneapolis last month. According to the tribe, one of its citizens was released… Read More ›
El Lector: Struggle for a worker’s voice in Florida cigar factories
Leon Valentine | Red Phoenix correspondent | Florida– Anyone who is familiar with Tampa, FL, has most likely heard of its accompanying Ybor City. Today Ybor is a hub of entertainment with blocks filled with bars, clubs, and cigar lounges,… Read More ›
Hitler’s theory of Lebensraum (Living Space) and the Yankees’ Manifest Destiny
The Yankee Aggression against Venezuela: Between Hitler’s theory of Living Space and the Yankee’s Manifest Destiny. What do they have in common? Manuel Salazar | Lucha Jan. 5, 2026 | Dominican Republic | Translated for the Red Phoenix by Maurice B.–… Read More ›
McKees Rocks Strike “greatest labor fight in all history”
Thomas K. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Ohio– “Men are persecuted, robbed, and slaughtered, and their wives are abused in a manner worse than death… all to obtain or retain positions that barely keep starvation from the door.” Rev. Father… Read More ›
Oliver Law, a forgotten pioneer in the Black radical tradition
Maurice B. | Red Phoenix correspondent | New York– Throughout the history of the United States, the continuous and unrelenting struggle of the African-descendant peoples of this country has been part and parcel of the great sweeping march of progressive… Read More ›
The “Molly Maguires,” America’s first great class war
Maurice B. | Red Phoenix correspondent | New York– There’s them on top and them below; push up, or push down. Who’s got more push? That’s all that counts. – Sean Connery as Jack Kehoe June 21, 2025 marked 148… Read More ›
Black History Month and the Black radical tradition
Maurice B. | Red Phoenix correspondent | New York– Black folks and people of color are under attack in Trump’s America. Through a number of anti-DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) Executive Orders (14173, 14151, 14148) and statements along with a… Read More ›
My friend, Jack Shulman
Camilo Lazo | National Chair of the American Party of Labor | In memory of Jack Shulman on the 110th anniversary of his birth, July 29, 2024– I suppose it’s a very sad commentary on the present state of our… Read More ›
Jack Shulman: Testimony of an American Communist. Part 3: William Z. Foster
The following is part three of an interview conducted with veteran American communist Jack Shulman, an early anti-revisionist Marxist-Leninist, shortly before his passing in 1999. The first section deals with Comrade Shulman’s experience as a member of the anti-fascist Abraham… Read More ›
What, to the slave, is the Fourth of July?
On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass was invited to address the citizens of his hometown, Rochester, New York. Whatever the expectations of his audience on that 76th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Douglass used the occasion… Read More ›
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 ›
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 ›