As we look at the crisis today, we see more and more that what Karl Marx said on the double character of capitalism rings truer than ever. In this system, “when wealth is produced, poverty is produced also.” In the… Read More ›
Workers Struggle
News relating to Organized Labor, Strikes, Unionization, and Worker’s Struggles in the Workplace.
Half of US Children, Most Black Children, Will Use Food Stamps
The results of a recent Cornell University study are shocking: 90% of black children, 90% of children in single-parent homes and nearly 50% of American children as a whole will eat meals provided for by food stamps at one point… Read More ›
Actually, It’s the System
[Please note that the APL does not necessarily endorse the political line of the author] Capitalism In Crisis: Actually, “It’s the System, Stupid” At the capitalist system’s core lies its central conflict. On one side, corporate boards of directors pursue… Read More ›
Gandhi Was Wrong – Nonviolence Doesn’t Work
“And people like me! Because I force them to! With violence!” – Travis of the Cosmos Pacifism as a Sacred Cow It’s time to lead another liberal sacred cow to the killing floor. I’m talking about non-violence. I’ve never exactly… Read More ›
Review of “Capitalism: A Love Story”
First of all, I will give Moore credit for making certain ideas mainstream (what other remotely progressive or even politically challenging material are you going to see at a multiplex cinema?), and for his interviews with the working people of… Read More ›
A New Type of Democracy
Bourgeois ideologists and their reformist hangers-on shout from the roof-tops about “universal democracy”, “democracy for all”, which allegedly exists in the capitalist world. They hold up this “pure” bourgeois democracy in contrast to the dictatorship of the proletariat which is… Read More ›
The Main Features of Art
Art is a form of reflection of reality in artistic images in the mind of man. Reflecting the surrounding world, art helps people to understand it and serves as a powerful instrument of political, moral and artistic education. The diversity… Read More ›
A Socialist Revolution
In order to get rid of exploitation and national oppression, unemployment and poverty, the proletariat has to destroy capitalism and establish socialist society. This can be achieved only through a socialist revolution. A socialist revolution radically differs from all the… Read More ›
Senate Votes Down F-22 Fighter Jet
Why should we be focusing on the Peace movement? Can we influence and reduce spending for the military? I for one believe we can, provided we have a strong grassroots and working class peace movement. Just this week the… Read More ›
On the Arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr. & America’s Unhealthy Obsession With the Police
In one of his comedy routines, Dave Chappelle explained why he was afraid to call the cops, even if his own house had been robbed. He acts out this scenario to his audience. Upon seeing Dave, a black man living… Read More ›
Health Care, Workers’ Union Rights & Much More: “We Can Get it If We Try”
In the words of the great rock-singing group, Sly and the Family Stone, “You Can Make It If You Try.” Those were encouraging words then and are very appropriate today. We are hearing, too often, that we can get Health… Read More ›
Morality in Socialist Society
The Essence of Morality and Its Place in Social Life Morality or ethics is the aggregate of standards or rules of behaviour in society, reflecting people’s ideas of justice and injustice, good and evil, honour and dishonour, etc. In… Read More ›
Thoughts on Class Struggle
Is the Class Struggle Dead? Well, that’s certainly what I’ve been told many times, by both pro-bourgeois and self-professed “socialist” people. I think any Marxist organization must deal with this, and the result will either be that a truly revolutionary… Read More ›
The Dictatorship of the Proletariat
The proletariat has the great historical mission of destroying capitalism and building a classless communist society. Yet this new society does not grow out of capitalism directly and at once. Between capitalism and communism “lies the period of the revolutionary… Read More ›
Welfare Queens
If there’s anything that we can all agree on, it’s our hatred of these fools leeching off the government and the labor of the working class. The government has already given them over a trillion dollars, and their still coming… Read More ›
The Red Phoenix 