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Federal Court Disenfranchises Native Voters
On Oct. 30th, 2018, a lawsuit was filed against the state of North Dakota to overturn its ID requirements for voting. A little over a week later on Thursday, Nov. 1, a federal judge Daniel L. Hoveland denied the changing… Read More ›
A Surge Of Strikes Shakes The Elite
Over the past year, there have been more labor strikes and marches than in recent memory. Across the country, working-class people have been standing up against the capitalist elite and their state in increasing numbers and in diverse locations. From… Read More ›
Historical Sketch: American Conservatism and the New Right, 1960 – 2008
Conservatism and Crisis The Civil Rights, Women’s, anti-war, and social change movements of the 1960s and 1970s, spawned a conservative backlash that manifested itself in various ways. From the pagers of National Review magazine, to the conspiracy theories of the… Read More ›
Tax Breaks for Who? U.S. Students Currently Unable to Deduct Tuition in 2018 Returns
Students preparing to file their taxes for 2018 should prepare for an unpleasant surprise in their return numbers. For the 2018 tax year, those taxes filed now in early 2019, all U.S. college students are currently (as of February 8th)… Read More ›
The Article Facebook Doesn’t Want You to Share: Venezuela Is Not Alone
The following article from the Cuban newspaper Granma is being censored by Facebook, and is not shareable on the platform with the original link. We present it here. Update: As of 2/8, Facebook has restored sharing of the article, after the… Read More ›
Film Review: “Conspiracy” (2001)
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 ›
The American Party of Labor: Ten Years of Struggle
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 ›
“Hands off Venezuela” Say Orlando Socialists
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 American Party of Labor Has Been Granted Observer Status in the International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations
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 ›
Trump’s Tax Cuts and Tariffs Cost Nearly 40,000 Workers Their Jobs
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 ›
Academicism-Intellectualism, A Dangerous Influence on the Mass Movement
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 ›
Statement of the American Party of Labor on Events at the US/Mexico Border
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 ›
Cuba Pulls its Doctors from Brasil After the Election of Fascist Bolsonaro: Declaration of the Cuban Ministry of Health
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 ›
On the L’Simcha Massacre: Another Dark Chapter in the History of American Anti-Semitism
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 ›
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