Keegan D. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Illinois– Around the entire globe the contradictions inherent to the capitalist mode of production are sharpening and bringing the world further into a situation of crisis, and one case which serves as evidence… Read More ›
Economy
A.I. data centers cause rising electricity cost for consumers
S. Argun | Red Phoenix correspondent | Washington– Electricity prices are rising at rates greater than general inflation. The causes are chiefly the rise in power-sucking data centers, necessary to fuel the ongoing market speculation in “artificial intelligence” and the… Read More ›
July attack on Park Ave: Individual assassinations won’t liberate us, collective problem solving will
Meir A. | Red Phoenix correspondent | New York– Mass shootings have become such a common fixture in our headlines and newscasts that the grieving process has become exceedingly short, and the national discussion surrounding each individual event is shallow…. Read More ›
The Front Range Rail: Battling corporate interests for Fort Collins workers
John M. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Colorado– Fort Collins workers are tired of being stuck in traffic, spending hard-earned wages on gas and car repairs just to get to work. The Front Range Passenger Rail, a proposed 173-mile line… Read More ›
Workers respond to Big Beautiful Bill: “Your weapons cannot save you”
Keegan D. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Illinois– The audience of this paper is and always will be the working class, however today we have a clear message for those in the bourgeois class headed by the Trump regime: your… Read More ›
Minneapolis Public Housing Authority, City Council unite to attack public housing for real estate profits
Eris Rosenburg | Red Phoenix correspondent | Minnesota– Public housing and housing subsidies are under a two-pronged attack led by local political shysters and the foremost representatives of the U.S. financial oligarchy. At issue is an upcoming Minneapolis City Council… Read More ›
Water shortages and contamination leave Americans thirsty for answers
Thomas K. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Ohio– If corporations are allowed to continue their streak of over consumption and contamination of our water supplies, we will see dramatic water shortages in the United States within the next decade, and… Read More ›
Opinion: Trump tariffs are economic false flag
Leon V. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Florida– In a move that defies nearly all logic, both bourgeois and Marxist, Trump has gone through with his tariffs. Labeling it as the great “Liberation Day,” it seems the only thing these… Read More ›
DOGE cuts are bloodthirsty assaults on already insufficient concessions to working people
R. Nesbitt | Red Phoenix correspondent | Maryland– Even before the inauguration of Trump, Elon Musk cycled in the media often enough through his ridiculous clamoring for this second administration. His is a record of incoherent blathering but in it… Read More ›
Profit motive in public transit costs workers time, money, health
Michael G. | Red Phoenix correspondent | New Jersey– For countless American workers, the daily grind not only involves work with horrible conditions and low pay, but also a constant struggle with unreliable and unsafe public transportation. New Jersey Transit… Read More ›
Migrants save Latin American economies
Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador (PCMLE) | July 9, 2024 | Translated from Spanish for the Red Phoenix– Every year, Latin American migrants send billions of dollars to their families, values that serve to sustain the economies of their countries,… Read More ›
Opinion: Planned obsolescence shatters the myth of capitalist innovation!
M. A. Booth | Red Phoenix correspondent | Kentucky– The cheerleaders of capitalist barbarity are oftentimes found defending their system of greed and exploitation on the basis that it creates new “innovations” for our society. What kind of “innovations” are… Read More ›
Rural communities left behind by capitalism should look to socialism
American Party of Labor, Colorado Division– In the United States there is a growing sense of abandonment amongst rural working people, and while some regions may express this more directly than others, it is a trending phenomenon that cannot and… Read More ›
Bridges collapse, trains derail, infrastructure crumbles: Free trade is to blame
R. Nesbitt | Red Phoenix guest contributor | Maryland– On March 26, 2024, the cargo ship MV Dali coming out of Baltimore Harbor collided with a crucial support on the Francis Scott Key Bridge across the lower Patapsco River preceding… Read More ›
Oregon residents forced to shoulder bill for power company negligence
Orianna R. / Oregon Amid the biggest coldsnap this winter, Portland, OR, residents are forced to shoulder the bill for their power company’s negligence. On Oct. 31, 2023, the Oregon Public Utility Commission approved a general energy rate increase for… Read More ›