By Ed Rampell, Red Phoenix guest contributor, California. (Note: This is the edited text for the introduction to the April 14 screening of “Cloak and Dagger” by Ed Rampell and to “None Shall Escape” by Roger Memos, the director and… Read More ›
Media & Culture
Working Class perspective on books, movies, video games and other art.
Hollywood Blacklist: “Tender Comrade” and “Sahara”
By Ed Rampell, Red Phoenix guest contributor. This is the edited text for the introduction to the April 13 screening of Tender Comrade and Sahara at the Academy Museum for this series commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Hollywood Blacklist…. 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 ›
It can happen here: Three L.A. museums shine spotlights on the Hollywood Blacklist’s 75th anniversary
By Ed Rampell, Red Phoenix guest contributor. Three museums are commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Hollywood Blacklist, the darkest period in Tinseltown history. What happened during this period of rightwing repression? As actor Humphrey Bogart put it: “We saw… Read More ›
“Judas and the Black Messiah” and what 30 pieces of silver can buy
In February of 2021, the independent film “Judas and the Black Messiah” was released to critical and audience acclaim. The film, detailing how the infiltration of the Black Panther Party by car thief-turned-FBI agent, Bill O’Neal, lead to the assassination… Read More ›
Why It Matters: Elon Musk and the decline of Twitter
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 ›
Class Consciousness and the Fight for Civil Rights in the NBA
By Frank Nawrot, Edited by R.E. Rule “[Racism] is a product of the system and…is the intention of the way this system was built…in order for things to change…there needs to be some dismantling of how things are currently.” -Malika… Read More ›
In Remembering Baseball’s Racist Past and Present, Today’s Players Continue the Fight for a Radical Future
Major league baseball players recently displayed powerful class and racial unity during the sport’s annual celebration of Jackie Robinson’s courageous legacy. Just as Robinson’s story reflected the history of postwar America, today’s players understand that the game has been and is intimately connected with the tenor of the country’s racial relations.
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 ›
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 ›
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