Translated by Red Phoenix staff. Syria is an example of inter-imperialist disputes, of its inhuman and violent character. Unfortunately, as always happens, while the powerful enrich themselves with the “business” of war, it is the people who pay the consequences… Read More ›
World History
In China, Capitalism is Being Consolidated, Not Socialism
From: En Marcha (Central Organ of the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador), November 22, 29, December 5 and 13 2017. Translation by George Gruenthal. During the 1980s, China’s economy was already shifting to “market forces,” a process that deepened with the… 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 ›
International Platform of the ICMLPO (Unity & Struggle)
The following international platform has been endorsed and adopted by the APL. ON CAPITALISM, THE WORKING CLASS AND THE FIGHT FOR COMMUNISM I. Capitalism and the Working Class 1. Since society has split into classes, the whole of history has… Read More ›
The French Revolution: Now and Then, Now and Again
by Alfonso Casal “I will not begin my speech by saying that the French Republic is a drooling, stinking bitch. I will not say it, because everyone knows!” (O’Shea, 1989). Such were the words spoken, not so very long ago,… Read More ›
The Greek Debt Crisis: A Misnomer for the European Imperialist Crisis
August 2015 Hari Kumar 1. An Introduction to Greece 2. The Truman Doctrine – Greece becomes dependent upon the USA after the Second World War 3. The Greek Junta – Greece by now fully a client state of the USA… 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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
The Real Legacy of Ariel Sharon
Former Israeli Prime Minister and war criminal Ariel Sharon died on Jan 11th, 2014, after having spent the last eight years in a coma. He was 85 years old. Sharon was directly involved in war crimes and massacres throughout his… Read More ›
Review of Grover Furr’s “Khrushchev Lied”
by Alfonso Casal There are certain assumptions one can make, with a high degree of certainty, regarding Grover Furr’s Khrushchev Lied. The first is that, had Furr written a similar book in any area of historical specialization other than Soviet-era… Read More ›
Islam, Terrorism and Hypocrisy: U.S. Imperialism in the Muslim World
by Douglas Hill Ever since 9/11, the U.S. government has launched the “War on Terror,” and enacted a virtual avalanche of legislation aimed at containing the threat of Islamic terrorism. Much of this legislation legitimizes the ethnic profiling of people… Read More ›
The Crimes of Ariel Sharon
by Alexander Cockburn And Jeffrey St. Clair Some incorrigible optimists have suggested that only a right-wing extremist of the notoriety of Likud leader Ariel Sharon will have the credentials to broker any sort of lasting settlement with the Palestinians. Maybe… Read More ›