By: Mike B, Red Phoenix correspondent, Ohio. When 51-year-old Elon Musk purchased the social media platform Twitter in October for the sum of $44 billion, the event was heralded by reporters and pundits as one of the most consequential transactions… Read More ›
Media & Culture
Working Class perspective on books, movies, video games and other art.
Statement of the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador on the Julian Assange Affair
Translated by MLtranslations.org To the workers, youth and peoples of Ecuador, to public opinion: The case of Julian Assange reveals another element of the real nature of the regime of Lenin Moreno, of total submission, of open and covert agreements… Read More ›
Stalin at the Movies
It is strange to say that, considering he was one of the most significant figures in world history, Joseph Stalin has rarely appeared on the silver screen. Certainly, when compared to the number of films portraying individuals as widely diverse… Read More ›
Film Review: “Conspiracy” (2001)
On January 20, 1942, fifteen high-ranking members of the Nazi Party, the SS, the fascist economic administration, and the government bureaucracy were summoned to a top-secret meeting in the quiet Berlin suburb of Wansee. There was only one item on the… Read More ›
Net Neutrality and Capitalist Democracy
The repeal of net neutrality on Thursday, December 14th, allowing corporations to speed up and slow down internet service and charge for access to any number of currently free services, revealed political allegiances across contemporary American society. The far right… Read More ›
Leftism and Net Neutrality
by Garit Boshcka Most everyone critical of capitalism is aware that the ruling class will never permanently assure rights if they stand to benefit from their repeal. This has been recently shown by the new budget, vying to dismantle PBS,… Read More ›
Interview with ‘Evrensel’ Editor-in-Chief Fatih Polat
A socialist newspaper that was born at the struggle of the working class of Turkey: Evrensel “The labour is universal” – The main slogan of a working class newspaper in Turkey. The Evrensel Newspaper (The Universal) is the daily newspaper… Read More ›
Hayatin Sesi TV Has Been Blacked Out… Ww Won’t Be Silenced Or Toe The Line!
Hayatin Sesi TV was blacked out arbitrarily on Wednesday, September 28 without prior formal notice. Following our inquiries, TURKSAT the satellite broadcast company stated verbally that the company stopped our broadcast in line with the instructions given by a government… Read More ›
Editorial: Outrage
In 1099, the city of Jerusalem fell to the knights of the first crusade. What happened following the capture of the city is one of the blackest marks on Western Christendom throughout its entire history. The city’s population was put… Read More ›
Response to Lawrence & Wishart statement on MECW
We are intrigued by the Lawrence & Wishart statement on the Marx Engels Collected Works published on April 25, 2014 via their web site. The reaction of the “Marxist community” at large has been wholly negative to the actions — completely legal… Read More ›
Euromaidan: The play with EU integration
by Dmitry Kolesnik A large group of aggressive young men smash windows and fiercely throw bottles and stones. Behind them there’s a huge crowd shouting ‘We want in the EU’. The picture should apparently frighten people in the EU countries. Some… 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 ›