As results poured in from the Nevada caucus – showing a landslide victory for Bernie Sanders – liberal news outlets went into panic. MSNBC host Chris Matthews likened the Sanders victory to the fall of France to the Nazis. Such… Read More ›
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Who are the Sanders Supporters? An Afternoon at a Sanders Organizing Meeting
On Saturday, February 15th, nearly 60 supporters of the Bernie Sanders campaign, notified by little more the BERN campaign app and facebook events, crowded into Bill’s Pizza and Pub in Grayslake, IL, a northern suburb of Chicago. The Red Phoenix… Read More ›
Chicago Judge Overrules New Trial for Chicago Police Torture Victim
Gerald Reed’s mother speaks to the press after the verdict Chicago Judge Thomas Hennelly has today overturned a previous ruling by now-retired Judge Gainor to vacate the conviction of Gerald Reed, who has already served 30 years in prison for… Read More ›
Richard Reilly, Presente!
Today, the heart of our beloved comrade and brother, Dick Reilly, ceased to beat. Comrade Reilly was a veteran activist and fighter for socialism, for the Palestinian and Irish people, and for the cause of all the oppressed and exploited… Read More ›
Black History Month: The Communist and Internationalist Poetry of Interwar Harlem
“Not to plunge into the complex jungle of human relationships and analyze them is to leave the field to fascists and I won’t and can’t do that.” // Richard Wright “Let us sound the bugle-call for militancy. Let us have… Read More ›
2020 International Antifascist Youth Camp
From 31st of July to 9th of August we will meet in Berlin as young people from all over the world to discuss our hopes, experiences and future. Together we aim to strengthen the public voice against a political system that… Read More ›
Kentucky Miners Illustrate Worker Power With Spontaneous Act of Resistance
On January 13, 2020, a group of miners from the Quest Energy, company in Pike County, Kentucky blocked the railways carrying a heap of mined coal. Over 50 workers have been denied pay for the past three weeks totaling between… Read More ›
Defiant Iraqi People Once Again the Victims of Global Proxy War
As the Trump Administration backs away from antagonizing Iran to the brink of war given his precarious domestic political situation, Iraq will almost certainly remain in the crossfire for years to come. The birthplace of civilization is now the primary… Read More ›
Strikes and Threats Against Iran Continue
The Suffering of Iraqi and Iranian Workers and the Tasks of Anti-War Activists Are Far From Over It’s been four days since the unsanctioned assassination of Qasem Soleimani (Major General of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and leader of Iranian-backed… Read More ›
American Workers Have No Fight With Iranian Workers, No Blood For Trump’s Posturing!
In the late hours of January 2nd, news broke that the US had executed an unsanctioned murder of leading Irani military figure Qassim Soleimani by drone bombing. It comes only days after a protest shattered windows at the US embassy… Read More ›
New Jersey Council Meeting Disrupted by Anti-ICE Protestors
The Essex County Freeholders convened on December 11 to decide on two policy proposals. One involved spending on parks. The other proposal was for an oversight committee for the Essex County Correctional Facility. Unfortunately for the freeholders, they were unable… Read More ›
The UAW and CTU Strikes, and Their Lessons
Rank and File Forge Ahead, Moderate Leadership and Capitalist Government Pull Them Back The past months saw some of the most significant labor strikes in recent American history. Across the country, nearly 50,000 UAW workers struck against General Motors, demanding… Read More ›
The National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression is Refounded
On Sunday, November 24, 2019, the Final Plenary of the Conference to Refound the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression approved the following Resolution: Whereas we called this conference to re-found the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression… Read More ›
Revolutionary Communist Party of Bolivia: Not One Step Back! Defend the Rights That we Have Won
Translated by Red Star Publishers The burning of the Wiphala [national and indigenous flag of Bolivia – translator’s note] and its rapid removal from the dais of the Plurinational Legislative Assembly is a lack of respect for the patriotic symbol… Read More ›
Revolutionary Communist Party of Bolivia: Down With the Fascistic Coup, Down With the Double-Talk of the Repressive and Violent MAS… Fight for a Patriotic, Democratic and Popular Alternative!
Translated by Red Star Publishers The crisis unleashed in Bolivia is the result of the deterioration of the model of the “process of change” that came into power 13 years ago for the purpose of the profound transformation of our… Read More ›
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