News and Analysis from the United States
The following is a detailed analysis by the Communist Party of Colombia (ML) of the current Colombian situation, its origins, and the mass assassination of social activists by the government which is intensifying in the wake of a mass street… Read More ›
Originally Published in Revolutionary Democracy, May 4th, 2021 The people of India are reeling under an unprecedented health crisis since the last two weeks as the Pandemic Covid 19 rages all around. The official machinery which tests and counts the… Read More ›
Members of the American Party of Labor wrote to the Red Phoenix to tell us what May Day means to them, in the belly of the imperialist beast. Polina Brik, New Jersey: “The meaning of May Day International Workers’ Day,… Read More ›
By: Red Phoenix Correspondent International, Polina Brik Russian president Vladimir Putin warns the West not to intervene in “internal affairs” of Russia and not to cross any “red lines”, among escalating confict between Russia, the EU, and the US. This… Read More ›
Capitalism is once again in a crisis phase. In general, it is a historical context of revolution. Because there is the “law of the non-correspondence between the development of the productive forces and the social relations of production,” revealed by… Read More ›
By: Ted Stracket, Red Phoenix Correspondent, Baltimore Saturday, March 20th, a series of nationwide solidarity demonstrations were held in support for the Amazon workers of Bessemer, Alabama who are attempting to unionize to secure safe working conditions, hazard pay, and… Read More ›
John Roland, a part-time teacher, wrote the following account of his experiences working at a Chicago-area Amazon sortation center as a seasonal worker during what Amazon calls “Peak Season,” which includes Black Friday and Christmas. Some names have been changed… Read More ›
By Peter Charles Kraljev, Red Phoenix Correspondent Sacremento Oak Park is a neighborhood on the south side of city of Sacramento, form 1900 to the 1960s, it thrived economically and culturally, home to the Park Meat Market, and Arata Bros… Read More ›
By: Red Nesbitt, Red Phoenix correspondent. In Mid-February, 2021, local service workers in the Kadıköy municipality of Istanbul went on an impromptu strike after the collapse of a five-month long collective bargaining process with the city government. In snow and… Read More ›
By Peter Charles Kraljev Red-Phoenix Correspondent, Sacramento On July 17 2020, after a several month-long legal battle with the Sacramento Homeless Union lead by its president Crystal Rose Sanchez, the Superior Court of Sacramento passed a court ruling that prohibits… Read More ›
By: Andrea Johnson, a PhD student, Union Member, and member of the American Party of Labor. It’s been a rough year in America. Coronavirus arrived in the United States in January, which quickly manifested into country-wide lockdowns in March, massive… Read More ›
The following interview was conducted with veteran American communist Jack Shulman, an early anti-revisionist Marxist-Leninist, shortly before his passing in 1999. This section, dealing with Comrade Shulman’s experience as a member of the anti-fascist Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish… Read More ›
By: Peter Kraljev, Red Phoenix Correspondent Sacramento On Wednesday December 16 2020, 20 people and a caravan of SUVs gathered in Sacramento, California to put on a posada, a theatrical tradition popular in Latin American and other Catholic majority nations… Read More ›
While millions of Americans take a sigh of relief or celebrate the electoral defeat of Donald Trump, it is critical to recognize the great degree of continuity that exists between US presidential administrations. The transfer of power from Trump to… Read More ›
By: Jay Hyde, Red Phoenix Correspondent Alabama This November, Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama made an unprecedented move by notifying federal labor authorities of their plan to hold a unionization vote, due to poor working conditions exacerbated even further by… Read More ›
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