News and Analysis from the United States
On January 20, 1942, fifteen high-ranking members of the Nazi Party, the SS, the fascist economic administration, and the government bureaucracy were summoned to a top-secret meeting in the quiet Berlin suburb of Wansee. There was only one item on the… Read More ›
Its location in the very heart of imperialism and reaction gives the proletariat of the United States a vital role to play in the world revolutionary process. However, and perhaps for that very reason, efforts at creating a revolutionary vanguard… Read More ›
By Benjamin J. Rizzo, Red Phoenix correspondent, Florida. All-day rain and unusually cold temperatures did not deter Central Florida socialists, including comrades from the American Party of Labor, from converging on Orlando City Hall on Sun., Jan. 27 for an… Read More ›
The following letter was received by the American Party of Labor from the Coordination Committee of the International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations. Translation is by Red Phoenix staff. “Comrades Alfonso Casal, National Chair and, Víctor Vaughn, National… Read More ›
All over the country, you hear people say how well the economy is doing, Republicans brag about it, Democrats can’t deny it, and it’s repeated by every corporate news talking head. Yet, the boom of the economy moves parallel to… Read More ›
Originally published in Vanguardia Proletaria, organ of the Communist Party of Mexico (Marxist-Leninist), November 13, 2018. Translated by Red Phoenix staff. Historically, academia and the intelligentsia have played an important role in the social field, because they assume two positions:… Read More ›
The American Party of Labor resolutely and emphatically condemns the gross violation of international law and fundamental human decency that occurred at the US/Mexico Border when agents of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the US Border Patrol… Read More ›
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 ›
It has been just over a week since a neo-Nazi walked into a synagogue and opened fired on the congregants of the L’Simcha who were there celebrating the ancient rite of the bris; a ritual that Jewish men have gone… Read More ›
“I heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world.” Bob Dylan, A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall The rain is falling very hard indeed. In a move that might very well signal the reversal of the social-democratic… Read More ›
“National and racial chauvinism is a vestige of the misanthropic customs characteristic of the period of cannibalism. Antisemitism, as an extreme form of racial chauvinism, is the most dangerous vestige of cannibalism. Antisemitism is of advantage to the exploiters as… Read More ›
At a time when national tension concerning our southern border is at its zenith, those in progressive circles are beginning to ask “what is to be done?” To attempt to answer that, I met up with a group of working… Read More ›
Gary Manning is a non-traditional student attending a community college in Alabama. We sat down with him to discuss the intersection of the rising cost of college education and increasing numbers of students, traditional and non, returning to school to… Read More ›
As the midterm cycle comes to a close, the amount of people able to actually vote has decreased. This decline in registered voters is not out of apathy of the American public, or because the country is full of people… Read More ›
Across the United States, a conversation about a caravan of over 1,500 people from Honduras is on the lips of nearly every American and is saturated in our national media. The workers from Honduras are heading to the United States… Read More ›
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