John M. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Colorado– As 2026 unfolds, working-class families across the United States face yet another assault on their living standards, with a majority of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) poised to implement price increases in… Read More ›
Economy
Trump regime aids corporations via tax dodges, gambling the future of U.S.
Thomas K. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Ohio– In global trade news, U.S. multinational corporations will be exempt from paying new global minimum taxes. Avoiding this minimum tax requirement will deeply affect the United States competitiveness in the global trade… Read More ›
U.S. ditches 66 global bodies to unleash unilateral domination
John M. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Colorado– In a brazen display of arrogance, President Trump signed a presidential memorandum, directing the United States to withdraw from 66 international organizations (31 UN entities and 35 non-UN groups) effectively abandoning multilateral… Read More ›
Twin Cities general strike, coordinated actions demonstrate resolve of the people
By members of the Ernst Thälmann Division of the APL | Minnesota– Friday, Jan. 23 – over 50,000 workers and protesters in the Twin Cities showed out for multiple protests and picket lines on a one-day “general strike” organized by… Read More ›
Unemployment surge signals deeper cracks in U.S. labor market
John M. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Colorado– As the final days of 2025 unfold, the U.S. economy confronts a somber reality: millions more workers are sidelined, their livelihoods eroded by a system that prioritizes profit over people. The Bureau… Read More ›
Tariff rebate tease is token gesture amid soaring consumer burdens
John M. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Colorado– In a bid to placate rising public frustration over escalating living costs, President Donald Trump has teased the idea of sending tariff rebate checks to American households, framing them as a direct… Read More ›
Chicago’s budget crisis as case study for necessity of socialism
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 ›
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 ›