Most of reporter Ian Murphy’s prank call to Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker was fairly innocuous. Governor Walker, who thought he was talking to billionaire Tea Party backer David Koch, laid out some of his strategies for luring the 14 missing… Read More ›
The Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act, known as the DREAM Act, was first introduced in 2003. Since that time, there have been countless marches, petitions and sit-ins in an attempt to get Congress to pass it. The… Read More ›
Resurgence of the Right Republicans made gains nationally in the 2010 Midterm elections as the Democrats lost their majority in the House of Representatives but retained the Senate. The Democratic Party holds 188 seats in the House and 53 in… Read More ›
The Man & the Myth “I’d like to harness their youthful energy with a strap.”–Concerning student demonstrations in California, 1966 “The entire graduated income tax structure was created by Karl Marx. It has no justification in getting government revenue.”–During the… Read More ›
On August 4, 2010, Chief Judge Vaughn Walker struck down Proposition 8, a ballot initiative passed in California in November 2008 which had previously prevented any same-sex couples from getting married. In his statement, he ruled that the proposition violated… Read More ›
It is without a doubt that our society as it stands is in desperate need of change. How does society truly change? What does change entail? Numerous ideologies have different ways of approaching these questions. Liberalism acknowledges that “change” to… Read More ›
Among the fallacies Americans have come to accept regarding communism, one of the most prevalent is the notion that communism is anti-American and threatens the “sacred foundations” of our presumed American freedom. During the Red Scares and the era of… Read More ›
Capitalist “democracies” always pride themselves on how democratic their systems are, being that despite any blatant differences in economic power or existing societal prejudices based around race, gender, sexuality or nationality, the system is fair and just because of its… Read More ›
News Items A big day in the bourgeois press today, from Americans being arrested arbitrarily to Glenn Becks 9/12 anniversary. While The Red Phoenix has typically addressed just one primary subject in every article, today we are going to be… Read More ›
The US Supreme Court Rules Corporations Can Now Buy Elections For over a century, claims have been made about the death of bourgeois democracy in the American Empire. However, on January 21st 2010, what was left of bourgeois democracy died…. Read More ›
First of all, I will give Moore credit for making certain ideas mainstream (what other remotely progressive or even politically challenging material are you going to see at a multiplex cinema?), and for his interviews with the working people of… Read More ›
Barack Obama, the messiah of the reformist left, represents to many just as what his posters display—“Hope” and “Change.” He is simultaneously denied a hundred-fold by socialists everywhere, but this does not stop people, both on the street and in… Read More ›
Why should we be focusing on the Peace movement? Can we influence and reduce spending for the military? I for one believe we can, provided we have a strong grassroots and working class peace movement. Just this week the… Read More ›
With simple slogans such as “Hope” and “Change,” Barack Obama assumed power in January. His promises gave hope to some progressives that the country would enter a new age of peaceful cooperation with other nations and that our people would… Read More ›
Barack Obama, a “Democrat,” has been elected as president of the United States of America. He won with over 69 million votes, while McCain (Republican Party) received over 59 million and the PSL and Socialist candidates received 7,000 and 6,800,… Read More ›
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