Solidarity with the struggle of the Palestinian people By Workers’ Communist Party (APK), Denmark. APK expresses its full solidarity with the heroic struggling of the Palestinian people. We strongly condemn and abhor apartheid Israel’s latest criminal attack against Jenin and… Read More ›
International
Translations, Party Statements, and News from Around the World.
Police brutality riots in France, Eurocommunists nowhere to be found!
By Leon V., Red Phoenix correspondent, Florida. France has erupted into riots after the police killing of Nahel Merzouk, a 17 year old French-African, during a traffic stop. The protestors — who are composed of European French, French-Africans, and immigrants… Read More ›
Coast Guard neglect results in migrant deaths
By Sofia D., Red Phoenix correspondent, Minnesota. On June 14, a fishing boat containing around 750 refugees from Syria, Egypt, Pakistan, and Palestine capsized off the coast of Greece, killing up to 650 people on board. The blame for the… Read More ›
Putin, Prigozhin, two peas in a pod — what just happened in Russia?
By Hari Kumar, Red Phoenix international correspondent. The oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin, who founded the armed mercenary group called “Wagner,” is today’s Coriolanus. Similar to that Roman general in an arrogant hubris fueling a spectacular turn-coat-ism, he now only awaits his… Read More ›
The myth of Stalin’s ‘demoralisation’ in 1941
Written by Bill Bland for the Communist League. First published in Compass No. 135, April 2000. Note from editor June Vass: Bland led the Communist League as a founding member until his death in 2001. This article was one of… Read More ›
Morocco: A political system without accountability
By Democratic Way, Morocco. Originally published in Democratic Path #507. English translation provided by Sofia D. for the Red Phoenix. Translator’s note: This article was produced by our comrades in Democratic Way (the Moroccan organization of the ICMLPO) concerning recent… Read More ›
The second round of the presidential election in Turkey and the results of the unequal equation!
The most important lesson that the opposition should learn from these elections is that despite the unequal equation, it is in the government’s favour to prevent the struggle of the people by equating change and democracy only with votes. By… Read More ›
EMEP’s election statement: United people’s struggle will overthrow the one-man regime
Labour Party of Turkey (EMEP) made a statement on the presidential and parliamentary elections held on 14 May. EMEP called on all laborers to mobilize to overthrow the one-man regime in the second round. “Despite the ruling party’s use of… Read More ›
Palestine bleeds and the world watches
On May 9, 2023, the Israeli Defense Force conducted a two-hour aerial bombardment of the Gaza Strip in response to attacks by Hamas after a political prisoner, Khader Adnan, passed away from a hunger strike. Although there had been a… Read More ›
Indigenous people of Sumatra protest P&G deforestation at Ohio May Day
By Robin H., Red Phoenix correspondent, Ohio. On May Day, activists with the Rainforest Action Network, The Blackbird Collective, and Study Group for the People’s Initiative Development (KSPPM), and representatives from the Pargamanan-Bintang Maria community of Sumatra, Indonesia, marched in… Read More ›
Economic problems and elections dominated May Day rallies in Turkey
The economic crisis, poor working conditions and the presidential and parliamentary elections to be held on May 14 dominated the May Day rallies. Published in Evrensel Daily. May Day, International Day of Unity, Struggle and Solidarity of the Working Class… 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 ›
Dominican Republic: No re-election or going back to the P.L.D. model of government
By the Communist Party of Labor (PCT), Dominican Republic. Notes on the situation In this political period in the country, leaders of the PLD (Party of Dominican Liberation1), former officials of the government of Danilo Medina (2012-2020), have been arrested… 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 ›
The struggle to end violence against women is the struggle against fascism!
By Indira Xavier and Larissa Maymi, Coordination of the Olga Benario Women’s Movement. Published in A Verdade #267, March 2023. Earlier this March, research published by Datafolha and the Brazilian Forum on Public Security showed that in 2022, every six… Read More ›