Mario Benedetti (September 14, 1920 – May 17, 2009) was one of the most eloquent voices of the New Latin American Literature of the 1960s. Committed to progressive change and anti-imperialist in form and content, Benedetti’s poems inspired activists and… Read More ›
Since November 17 a broad movement has developed of tens of thousands of people, dressed in yellow vests, who are occupying highway junctions, blocking access roads and demonstrating every Saturday in Paris and other cities. This movement is also developing… Read More ›
Originally published by the Unión de la Juventud Revolucionaria de México, found here. Translated by Red Phoenix staff. During the 1960s, the government at the time claimed that the country was moving relentlessly toward economic modernity. They called the crumbs that capitalism… Read More ›
The Red Phoenix is now on Twitter, at https://twitter.com/APLRedPhoenix Follow the Red Phoenix on Twitter for updates on our local activities, posts from labor activists and communist organizers, pictures and videos from actions across the country, and to keep up on… Read More ›
Originally published in Arbeit Zukunft, the paper for the Organization for the Construction of the Communist Workers Party of Germany. On June 20, 1938, communist and anti-fascist partisan Liselotte (Lilo) Herrmann was executed by the murderous henchmen of the Nazis by… Read More ›
The last several weeks saw two major victories for the emerging anti-fascist forces in the United States. First, on March 5th, Richard Spencer’s talk at Michigan State University faced overwhelming opposition, with elements of the Traditionalist Worker’s Party being driven… Read More ›
From Piattaforma Comunista (03/06/2018) Translation by Red Phoenix staff. The result of the counted votes and the increasing abstention (27.1% of the electorate, equivalent to about 12.5 million citizens) in the elections of March 4 reveal a wide popular, anti-system… Read More ›
Originally published in En Marcha, organ of the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador, 03/02/2018. Translation by Red Phoenix staff. Morales represents a self-described government of the left but finds himself handed over to right-wing forces. He uses a progressive discourse… Read More ›
TUNIS (Reuters). January 9, 2018 Tunisia’s main opposition party will step up protests until the government drops the “unjust” 2018 budget, its leader said on Tuesday, a day after demonstrations against austerity measures broke out. “Today we have a meeting… Read More ›
Revolution is the midwife of every old society, which is pregnant with a new one. The grassroots movement in Iran that is entering its 5thday is an expression of the rejection of the totality of the criminal mafia in… Read More ›
By Alejandro Rios Originally published as Socialismo de Siglo XXI: Nueva Teorizacion de Viejas Ideas Antimarxistas, Ediciones de la Revolucion Ecuatoriana (Quito, 2008). Originally appeared in English translation in Revolutionary Democracy, Volume XIV, No. 2, September 2008. Introduction The offensive… Read More ›
Eduardo Artés Brichetti, First Secretary of the Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action), is running for President of Chile on the Union Patriotica (UPA) ticket. The following biography was issued by the UPA. The Chilean general election will be held on… Read More ›
By Jonathan Palameda In Durham, North Carolina on the afternoon of August 14th, 2017, a gathering of activists including elements from the Workers World Party climbed a statue greased by cops to impede climbing, tied a rope around the statue… Read More ›
In 1099, the city of Jerusalem fell to the knights of the first crusade. What happened following the capture of the city is one of the blackest marks on Western Christendom throughout its entire history. The city’s population was put… Read More ›
We are intrigued by the Lawrence & Wishart statement on the Marx Engels Collected Works published on April 25, 2014 via their web site. The reaction of the “Marxist community” at large has been wholly negative to the actions — completely legal… Read More ›
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