The Labor Movement in America
Up to 3,000 Malaysians staged a protest against a rare-earth refinery yesterday over fears of radioactive contamination. The Australian mining company Lynas has been granted a licence to operate the $230m (£145m) plant, which would be the first outside China… Read More ›
The article ‘Women’s Day’ by Alexandra Kollontai was published in the newspaper Pravda one week before the first-ever celebration in Russia of the Day of International Solidarity among the Female Proletariat on 23 February (8 March), 1913. In St Petersburg… Read More ›
Clara Zetkin (1857-1933) founded International Women’s Day on the 8th March, 1911. Clara Zetkin was German born: When Adolf Hitler and his fascist National Socialist German Workers Party with the assistance of the other reactionaries took over power, the Communist… Read More ›
I recently wrote an article about my personal experiences in dealing with the medical system while undergoing surgery (“Free Market Medicine: A Personal Account”). In response, a number of readers sent me accounts of their own experiences trying to get… Read More ›
History of the Terms “Social-Democracy” and “Social-Fascism” The term “social-democracy” has been used by the left since the time of Marx and Engels. The term is a pejorative one today, since it has become almost synonymous with liberal reformism. About… Read More ›
Levi Rickert, editor-in-chief in Native Challenges SAN DIEGO COUNTY – In a story unfolding this afternoon, a group of 50 American Indians, including tribal council members and elders, are prepared to step in front of bulldozers to stop the further… Read More ›
Occupy Sacramento clashes with pro-white group SACRAMENTO, Calif. – At least two law enforcement officers were injured Monday during a clash with members of the Occupy movement who were at the state Capitol to counter a rally by a group… Read More ›
By THOMAS KAPLAN ONEIDA, N.Y. — The trucks lumber past cornfields and dilapidated farm houses, pull up to a onetime bingo hall and unload their cargo: boxes of tobacco imported from the Carolinas. Inside, employees of the Oneida Indian Nation… Read More ›
The ragtag Occupy Wall Street encampments that sprang up in scores of cities last fall, thrusting “We are the 99 percent” into the vernacular, have largely been dismantled, with a new wave of crackdowns and evictions in the past week…. Read More ›
Unlike other political philosophers, Karl Marx did not simply dream up an ideal society or concoct ad hoc solutions to the social problems he saw in his time. Marx was an observer who devoted far more of his time and energy… Read More ›
Three letters from core hunger strike organizers: Todd Ashker, Mutope Duguma (James Crawford), Arturo Castellanos by Todd Ashker Written Jan. 22, postmarked Jan. 27, 2012 – As soon as I first heard during our face to face meeting with former… Read More ›
Snow drifts reaching up to rooftops kept tens of thousands of villagers prisoners in their own homes Saturday as the death toll from Europe’s big freeze rose past 550. More heavy snow fell on the Balkans and in Italy, while… Read More ›
by JON HOCHSCHARTNER In honor of Black History Month, I’d like to briefly highlight two courageous black socialists, Lucy Parsons and A. Phillip Randolph, whose commitment to justice should inspire a resurgent Occupy movement. Lucy Parsons (c. 1853-1942) Lucy Parsons… Read More ›
by John Glaser, February 04, 2012 In a national “Day of Mass Action,” Americans protested a seemingly imminent U.S. war against Iran in over 60 cities and towns across the country. In San Francisco, about 600 people participated in the… Read More ›
from the NCTT Corcoran SHU “Death is impossible for us to fathom; it is so immense, so frightening that we will do almost anything to keep from thinking about it. Society is organized to make death invisible, to keep it… Read More ›
The Red Phoenix 