News and Analysis from the United States
John M. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Colorado– On Sunday, June 1, 2025, a violent attack disrupted a peaceful gathering in Boulder, Colorado, organized by Run for Their Lives, a group raising awareness for Israeli hostages held in Gaza. The… Read More ›
John M. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Colorado– Fort Collins workers are tired of being stuck in traffic, spending hard-earned wages on gas and car repairs just to get to work. The Front Range Passenger Rail, a proposed 173-mile line… Read More ›
Marina S. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Kansas– On Saturday, May 24, around 150 members of the fascist paramilitary group known as the Patriot Front, emerging from a fleet of rented cargo vans, invaded the steps of the Kansas City… Read More ›
Misha G. | Red Phoenix correspondent | New Jersey– As the Trump administration tightens its grip on state power and continues to purge dissent, it has escalated a pattern that even liberal defenders of bourgeois legality find shocking. His regime… Read More ›
Arbeit Zukunft | July 3, 2025 | Editor’s note translated from German for the Red Phoenix | Interview questions and answers published in original English– At the beginning of June, the reports about large waves of protests in Los Angeles… Read More ›
Resist U.S.-Led War Movement | July 16, 2025– Today, 80 years ago, the US conducted the Trinity Nuclear Test on July 16, 1945, in the New Mexico desert, marking the dawn of the atomic age. The test’s first victims of… Read More ›
Maurice B. | Red Phoenix correspondent | New York– On June 19, popularly celebrated as Juneteenth, organizers and working-class organizations from across the Bronx mobilized at Fordham Plaza to speak out and rally in response to the ever-growing presence of… Read More ›
Michael G. | Red Phoenix correspondent | New Jersey– We are living through a moment of accelerating repression. Mass deportations violate both domestic and international law. Basic rights—speech, assembly, protest—are being gutted. Fascists no longer hide behind legality. Dissent, especially… Read More ›
Sylvia Rivera, Marsha P. Johnson, and the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries Marina S. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Kansas— In 1973, the New York City Pride March, originally called Christopher Street Liberation Day, barred drag queens from openly attending the… Read More ›
Marina S. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Kansas– The city of Leavenworth, Kansas has become an unlikely center of activity in the ongoing struggle against the unprecedented fascist violence perpetrated by ICE under the Trump regime. Back in Feb. 2025,… Read More ›
Thomas K. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Ohio– The National Institute of Occupational Health and Safety (NIOSH) came under attack recently by the Trump administration by means of funding cuts, with one specifically targeted a program that provided screening for… Read More ›
Margarethe Wegner | Red Phoenix correspondent | Minnesota– At the start of May, the Saint Paul City Council reversed its 2021 rent control measures in a 4-3 vote, selling out its constituents to developers desperate to extract higher rents. These… Read More ›
R. Nesbitt | Red Phoenix correspondent | Maryland– There are now Republicans in the United States who have cancelled elections. In Miami, Florida, county commissioners have postponed city elections until November of 2026, without any presentation to the people, without… Read More ›
Thomas K. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Ohio– Ohio House Bill 96, a “budget bill” which passed through the state senate and was signed into law by Gov. Mike DeWine, includes a direct attack on the rights and identity of… Read More ›
Allison P. | Red Phoenix international correspondent– 2337 27 May 2025 UTC, 33 Raptor engines roared to life in a glorious return to flight for the Starship Super Heavy program, carrying with it hope for the future and the promises… Read More ›
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