Leon V. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Florida– Donald Trump has just become the first U.S. president to be convicted as a felon. Today, May 30, 2024, Trump was found guilty on all 34 counts of fraud related to the… Read More ›
Elections
Trump on trial: We must expand democracy, restrict reactionary momentum
R. Nesbitt | Red Phoenix guest contributor | Maryland — The Supreme Court of the United States sat last week to preside over the case brought forward by the legal team of Donald Trump to challenge the legality of his… Read More ›
Removal of Trump from Colorado, Maine ballots should not be controversial
Anna I. / Red Phoenix correspondent, Ohio. Colorado and Maine have made moves to bar former president Donald Trump from appearing on the ballot in their states. According to section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, those who… Read More ›
Is Cuba a dictatorship? A look at the Cuban electoral system
By Savio Peres, Pinar del Río, Cuba.Published in A Verdade #267, March 2023. One of the countries that fascists and liberals attack most in Latin America is Cuba. They shout that Cuba is a dictatorship and that the Castro family… Read More ›
Why It Matters: The new balance of power in the American government
By Mike B, Red Phoenix correspondent, Ohio. The dust has settled from the farcical election of Kevin McCarthy to the position of Speaker of the House. That left the current state of the American government more dysfunctional than ever. McCarthy’s… Read More ›
NAARPR Calls for Protests November 4, 2020 — After the election, the peoples mandate for change must be carried out!
In this triple pandemic of racism, COVID-19, and recession our National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression is issuing a call to all the democratic forces presently engaged in the struggle against racist injustice, the economic slaughter of our communities… Read More ›
Voter Suppression Against Minority Workers
As the midterm cycle comes to a close, the amount of people able to actually vote has decreased. This decline in registered voters is not out of apathy of the American public, or because the country is full of people… Read More ›
“Karl Marx’s Legacy in the Reinvigoration of the US Labor Movement:” Presentation by the American Party of Labor at the 22nd International Seminar on the Problems of the Revolution in Latin America.
Quito, Ecuador (July 26, 2018) This presentation was delivered by Comrade John Palameda at the 22nd International Seminar as a delegate representing the American Party of Labor. A year has passed since the National Secretary of the American Party of… Read More ›
Donald Trump and the Rise of American Neo-Fascism
– The American Party of Labor, and Marxism-Leninism in general, defines fascism as the open terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary, most chauvinist and most imperialist elements of a ruling class exercised through a fascist political party or organization having… Read More ›
Report from the Anti-Trump Resistance in Chicago
by Nicole Dimitrov When I heard that Donald Trump was scheduled to speak at University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), I knew that I had to be a present individual at the protest despite fears that Trump supporters had physically… Read More ›
2013: A Short Story
Willis Smith awoke to the sound of his radio alarm and rose from his bed. So began another day living under the System. There was no time to have breakfast, given the demanding hours required by his employer. Given the… Read More ›
Who Will March for Marissa Alexander?
by Marissa Jackson On the morning after the Morning After, the racial tension in this country could be popped with a needle. If the prevailing narrative is to be believed, Black America is furious, outraged and depressed about George Zimmerman’s… Read More ›
New mayor of Miss. capital rejects gentrification
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS, Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A one-time black nationalist was inaugurated as mayor of Mississippi’s capital city Monday, saying he wants Jackson to be a unified community where people of diverse backgrounds can make a living…. Read More ›
Chokwe Lumumba Elected Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi
BY KIRSTEN WEST Former Ward 2 Councilman and Chokwe Lumumba, 65, is the new mayor of Jackson, Miss., winning the general election with 87 percent of the vote, reports Fight Back! News. “I’m just delighted. I feel wonderfully well about the people and their… Read More ›
Analyzing Barack Obama
Among the many accusations leveled against Barack Obama by the political right, few have become so commonly accepted as the claim that he is a socialist and even a Marxist. Even in what passes for mainstream political discourse one can… Read More ›
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