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 ›
Literature
Book Review: ¡Chicana Power! Contested Histories of Feminism in the Chicana Movement
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 ›
The Fall of Lin Biao
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 ›
Book review: “Radicals in the Barrio”
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 ›
National Poetry Month: Pablo Neruda (1904–1973)
“I have always wanted the hands of people to be seen in poetry.” By Hari Kumar, Red Phoenix international correspondent. Introduction and short precis of Neruda’s life Recent reports about Neruda’s death have re-sparked interest in this great Chilean poet…. Read More ›
Two Poems by Mario Benedetti
Mario Benedetti (September 14, 1920 – May 17, 2009) was one of the most eloquent voices of the New Latin American Literature of the 1960s. Committed to progressive change and anti-imperialist in form and content, Benedetti’s poems inspired activists and… 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 ›
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 ›
“Dreadful Deceit”: Race is a myth
A historian argues that one of the defining elements of American culture is merely a “social fiction” by LAURA MILLER Jacqueline Jones’ provocative new history, “Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race From the Colonial Era to Obama’s America,” contains a startling sentence on… Read More ›
Pablo Neruda May Have Been Killed By a CIA Double Agent
By SANTIAGO WILLS Nearly 40 years after the fact, Pablo Neruda’s death still bewilders Chilean authorities. Neruda, a Nobel laureate described by famed Mexican author Carlos Fuentes, as “the first great poet of the Spanish language since the 17th century,”… Read More ›
Of Flags & Butter: An Analysis of American White Supremacy Through Symbols
American racism and white supremacy is not limited to the physical realm, but is also a mental phenomenon – it is possible for the mind to be colonized by racist and white supremacist ideology, just as it is possible for… Read More ›
‘Anti-Semitic’ Romanian author nominated for Nobel Prize
Writers’ association in Moldova reportedly nominates Paul Goma – who is accused of ‘denying the Holocaust, falsifying historical facts’ – for Nobel Prize in Literature. A writers’ association in Moldova has reportedly nominated Paul Goma, a Romanian author accused of… Read More ›
JFK secretly freed rapists, drug dealers and Mafia hitmen to kill Castro and curb threat of Communism, claims explosive new book
Revelations made by journalist Bill Deane in new book ‘Smooth Criminal’ It tells story of alleged CIA spy and ‘one-man crime wave’ Dave Riley Claims criminals allowed on ‘crime sprees’ in US when not working for CIA Deane: ‘Riley was typical recruit:… Read More ›
Chile judge orders exhumation of Pablo Neruda’s remains
A judge in Chile has ordered the exhumation of the remains of the poet Pablo Neruda, as part of an inquest into his death in 1973. The left-wing Nobel Prize winner died 12 days after a military coup replaced the… Read More ›
Israeli Court Whitewashes Military Role in Murder of American Activist
No Justice for Martyred Internationalist On 28 August 2012, an Israeli court in Haifa rejected charges that the Israeli Defense Forces or Israel’s Ministry of Defense were in any way responsible for the killing of American internationalist and solidarity activist… Read More ›
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