Working Class perspective on books, movies, video games and other art.
Keegan D. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Illinois– One Battle After Another, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and starring Chase Infiniti, Teyana Taylor, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Sean Penn, is a spectacle that has gripped audiences across the country since its… Read More ›
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 ›
Marina S. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Kansas– “I remember my dad used to say, ‘You have three strikes against you in this world. Every black man has two, that they’re just black and they’re a male. But you’re black… Read More ›
Allison P. | Red Phoenix international correspondent– You wake up, check the clock – it is Jan 27, 1986. You are an engineer for Thiokol. You have the benefit of hindsight, you know what happens during tomorrow’s launch. You are… Read More ›
Ian Ocx | Red Phoenix correspondent | Texas– Summary: Published in 2011 and written by Maylei Blackwell, a Chicana studies professor at UCLA’s César E. Chávez Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies, ¡Chicana Power! Contested Histories of Feminism in the… Read More ›
Ed Rampell / Red Phoenix guest contributor. If ever there was an operatic couple absolutely ideal for immortalization in the musical medium of maestros Mozart, Puccini, Rossini, Wagner, and company, it’s Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. They are indelibly iconic… Read More ›
By Camilo Lazo, Red Phoenix correspondent, Illinois. A review of Yao Ming-Le’s The Conspiracy and Murder of Mao’s Heir. In his political diary, Albanian Marxist-Leninist Enver Hoxha commented that the official Chinese government version of the death of Mao Zedong’s… Read More ›
By Red Nesbitt, Red Phoenix correspondent, Maryland. The 1989 film Glory turns 34 years old this year, as the Battle of Fort Wagner, the climax of the movie, turns 160. In the milieu of tired, historical drama epics chasing after… Read More ›
By Ian Ocx, Red Phoenix correspondent, Texas. Radicals in the Barrio, originally published in June 2018, and written by Justin Akers Chacón, a labor rights activists and professor of Chicano History at San Diego City College, is a well researched… Read More ›
By Ed Rampell, Red Phoenix guest contributor, California. June 19, 2023 is the 70th anniversary of the electrocution of the so-called “atomic spies” Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Believed to be members of the Communist Party USA, the Rosenbergs were convicted… Read More ›
By Ed Rampell, Red Phoenix guest contributor, California. (Note: This is the edited text for Rampell’s introduction to the April 29 screening of Spartacus at the Academy Museum for The Hollywood Ten at 75 Film Series from April 13-30 commemorating… Read More ›
The 2022 film, Argentina, 1985, is an Argentine historical drama based on the 1984-85 trial of the leaders of the fascist military Junta of Argentina which seized power in 1976 and ruled until 1984 when a humiliating defeat in the… Read More ›
By Sofia D., Red Phoenix correspondent, Minnesota. What is the Marxist-Leninist perspective on Artificial Intelligence (AI) generated art? Firstly what is art? Bourgeois academics and artists alike tell us that art is beauty, truth, something which captures an idea, something… Read More ›
By Ed Rampell, Red Phoenix guest contributor, California. (Note: This is the unedited text for the introduction to the April 23 screening of Objective, Burma! at the Academy Museum for this series commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Hollywood Blacklist.)… Read More ›
By Ed Rampell, Red Phoenix guest contributor, California. (Note: This is the unedited text for the introduction to the April 16 screening of “Three Faces West,” at the Academy Museum for this series commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Hollywood… Read More ›
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