By Ben Rizzo, Red Phoenix correspondent, Florida. Long-established rights to abortion and reproductive healthcare are under attack as never before in America. The U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision of June 2022, which overturned its 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that… Read More ›
Health Care
Cuba Pulls its Doctors from Brasil After the Election of Fascist Bolsonaro: Declaration of the Cuban Ministry of Health
Originally published in Granma, 11/14/2018 “Jair Bolsonaro, president elect of Brazil, who has made direct, contemptuous and threatening comments against the presence of our doctors, has declared and reiterated that he will modify the terms and conditions of the More… Read More ›
Interview: Ernesto A. on the Alienation of Disability
Torn between the influence of gangs, drug dealers, prostitutes, thieves, and ethically depraved financial opportunities, Ernest set the goal of Honest Work for himself because he saw the destruction that desperate criminality entailed.
“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 ›
Towards A Marxist Theory of Addiction
Over the course of recent years, a trend has developed with respect to heroin and opioid addiction in America. In 2016, drug overdose was the leading cause of accidental death in the United States, due largely to dramatic increases in… Read More ›
Interview: The Homeless Home Builders of America
Imagine nearing retirement age after decades of hard work and chasing fruitless opportunities, growing up in a working class family with 7 siblings, mastering your trade young, and building the family house with your father by the age of 13;… Read More ›
Trump Tax Plan: For the Rich, On The Worker
Before becoming President of the United States, Donald Trump made his name as a ruthless capitalist with an inflated ego and brutish business practices. Throughout Trump’s time as a capitalist exploiter, his actions towards the working class included massive suppression… Read More ›
“Here in the very belly of imperialism, you have comrades”: National Spokesperson for the American Party of Labor (APL), Alfonso Casal, spoke to Evrensel
Alfonso Casal, National Spokesperson for the American Party of Labor, spoke to Evrensel about the APL and the U.S. policies. We are in the years when the imperialists’ rivalry to grab the share of the international scene has accelerated, and… Read More ›
International Platform of the ICMLPO (Unity & Struggle)
The following international platform has been endorsed and adopted by the APL. ON CAPITALISM, THE WORKING CLASS AND THE FIGHT FOR COMMUNISM I. Capitalism and the Working Class 1. Since society has split into classes, the whole of history has… Read More ›
I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave
My brief, backbreaking, rage-inducing, low-paying, dildo-packing time inside the online-shipping machine. —By Mac McClelland “DON’T TAKE ANYTHING that happens to you there personally,” the woman at the local chamber of commerce says when I tell her that tomorrow I start working at… Read More ›
Why Poor People’s Bad Decisions Make Perfect Sense
By Linda Tirado What we know about poverty is often academic. It’s rare to have a poor person actually explain it on their own behalf. So this is me doing that. There’s no way to structure this coherently. They are random… Read More ›
US military doctors participate in torture of detainees, report says
An independent report has charged that medical personnel, working under the direction of the Department of Defense and CIA in military defense facilities, violated medical ethics by participating in the torture of detainees. The services provided by American doctors and… Read More ›
Ron Paul’s Campaign Manager Died of Pneumonia, Penniless and Uninsured
by SETH ABRAMOVITCH At CNN’s Tea Party-indulging debate on Monday, Ron Paul, a medical doctor, faced a pointed line of questioning from Wolf Blitzer regarding the case of an uninsured young man who suddenly found himself in dire need of intensive health care…. Read More ›
Stress of Childhood Poverty May Have Long-Term Effect on Brain
By Nicole Ostrow Children raised in poverty or in orphanages experience chronic stress early in life that can have long-lasting effects on the brain, setting them up for future mental and physical ailments as adults, two studies found. The stress of… Read More ›
Flesh-Eating Drug Krokodil Is Now Attacking Chicago Suburbs
The flesh-eating drug Krokodil made its horrifying United States debut two weeks ago in Arizona, but as many feared, its use has spread: there have now been three reports of the drug in a Chicago suburb. Krokodil, the inexpensive “heroin substitute” that is really… Read More ›