In a world where the grossest forms of capitalist exploitation are ignored or rendered mundane by a bourgeois media machine fueled on free market fetishism and “news” about as enlightening as a lobotomy, it is refreshing to see a decent… Read More ›
Labor
The Labor Movement in America
On the Day of American Independence
Today is the 4th of July, a holiday celebrated all over the nation as the date of American Independence from the British crown. I was considering burning an American flag to protest US foreign policy, imperial aggression, indigenous holocaust, sponsorship… Read More ›
The BP Oil Spill in the Gulf
Drill, Baby, Drill? The impact of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico will be felt for decades to come. With the spill generating from 12,000 to 19,000 barrels of oil a day, it now surpasses the Exxon Valdez… Read More ›
Housing is a Human Right – More Funding For Public Housing!
Earlier this week, with the imperialist media caught in a flurry over the sinking of a South Korean warship allegedly by a North Korean submarine, a reactionary stab at the working class is making its way in the halls of… Read More ›
The Waning of Trade Unions: Labor Law and its Subversion
Low Union Representation Trade unions have long been one of the only ways that workers have of advocating for themselves within the confines of capitalist production. Yet, in recent years, the number of those workers who are represented in unions… Read More ›
Celebrate International Workers’ Day 2010!
Today we celebrate May Day, also known as International Workers’ Day, a holiday celebrated by working people worldwide. This day began in commemoration of the 1886 Haymarket Massacre in Chicago, where police fired upon workers striking for an eight-hour-day. Since… Read More ›
Work Hours in the United States
How We Perceive Work & Why In the United States, work is seen through a contradictory lens. It is both the bane of a person’s existence and that which defines them. It is also vital to the American economy that… Read More ›
On the Coal Mine Explosion in West Virginia
For Immediate Release: The worst mining accident in the United States since 1970 has occurred in West Virgina. It has been reported that the company, Massey Energy, and the Upper Big Branch Mine specifically has been cited at least 300… Read More ›
On the “Health Care Reform” Scam
Increasing Capitalist Monopoly & Oligarchy The newly-passed “Health Care Reform” bill is a prime example of how the capitalist state operates to help the capitalists make money above all. This bill is a ploy, a trick to allow insurance companies… Read More ›
The Mossville Massacre
In recent years, more and more workers have taken notice of the rotten side effects of the capitalist system. In the pursuit of profits the bourgeois class has shown a complete lack of regard for any and every consequence of… Read More ›
Who Will Lead the Transition to Socialism?
Who Are the Actors in the Transition to Socialism? Essential to the realization of socialism is a vision of the class and social forces that have to be assembled to win political power. At the center of this assemblage is… Read More ›
Right-Wingers Support Fascist Military Coup in U.S.
Reaction is Growing In recent months since the election of President Obama, the first black President of the United States, right-wing and racist/racialist movements have sprung up on the political stage with renewed vigor. While this is nothing new,… Read More ›
Killing Two Capitalist Myths
There is a widespread popular myth that the capitalists are entitled to their compensation, as well as the value of other peoples’ labor, simply because they take “risks” or because they come up with original ideas for production of goods…. Read More ›
A Peoples’ Economic Recovery
By Krista Lee Hanson The current economic crisis people are facing in this country—especially the millions of workers losing their jobs, the unemployed and underemployed who can’t find work, and the millions of families facing eviction from their home—offers… Read More ›
Facts About Immigration & Joe Arpaio’s Attack on the Latino Community
Events in Maricopa The Maricopa County Sheriff’s office arrested 27 people Monday night in Arpaio’s 13th anti-immigrant raid in the Latino Community. The Sheriff’s office says 18 of these arrests were of undocumented immigrants. The two-day raid utilized helicopters and… Read More ›
The Red Phoenix 