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• 73 years after first national ban of lobotomies, patient wellness still not priority

  By Allison P. on December 9, 2023

  

  Allison P. / Red Phoenix international correspondent. Jan. 17, 1947 — The first transorbital prefrontal lobotomy is performed. Dec. 10, 1949 — António Egas Moniz is awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for introducing the infamous frontal lobotomy for refractory… Read More ›

• Solidarity with the Palestinian people!

  By Editor-in-Chief on December 9, 2023

  

  After the operation Al Aqsa Flood launched on Oct. 7 by different groups of Palestinian resistance, the Zionist state of Israel leaded by the fascist government of Netanyahu started a terroristic bombing on Gaza Strip and West Bank with its… Read More ›

• Fascist Governor arrests Unidade Popular president in São Paulo for fighting water privatization

  By Editor-in-Chief on December 7, 2023

  

  Editor’s note: The dealings of corporate overlords to privatize the water utilities of São Paulo are atrocious. We are proud of our Brazilian comrades in Unidade Popular pelo Socialismo for standing up against this crime against the people. It is… Read More ›

• Framing Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera: Mexico’s greatest revolutionary painters ride again in new opera

  By Editor-in-Chief on December 6, 2023

  

  Ed Rampell / Red Phoenix guest contributor. If ever there was an operatic couple absolutely ideal for immortalization in the musical medium of maestros Mozart, Puccini, Rossini, Wagner, and company, it’s Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. They are indelibly iconic… Read More ›

• All monopolies and the imperialists are the enemies of the peoples

  By Editor-in-Chief on December 6, 2023

  

  International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations (CIPOML) The bloody conflicts all over the world re-emphasize every day the importance and urgency of raising the flags of struggle against imperialism. The working class and peoples of the world must shoulder… Read More ›

• Frustrations with neoliberalism leading to growth of far-right in Netherlands

  By Allison P. on December 5, 2023

  

  Allison P. / Red Phoenix international correspondent. On Nov. 22, the far-right Party for Freedom (PVV) won the plurality of the vote in the Dutch election. This was not an inevitable result of history, but the result of deliberate acts… Read More ›

• World Disability Day: The fight for equal rights is not over!

  By Allison P. on December 3, 2023

  

  Allison P. / Red Phoenix international correspondent. Each year on Dec. 3, the countless struggles and adverse conditions of disabled people are brought to light by observing World Disability Day. (Formally, the “United Nations’ International Day of Persons with Disabilities.”)… Read More ›

• The death of war criminal Kissinger: Give the devil his due

  By Editor-in-Chief on December 1, 2023

  

  R. Nesbitt, Red Phoenix guest contributor, Maryland. On Nov. 29, former Secretary of State of the United States, Henry Kissinger passed away in his home in Connecticut at the age of 100. News of his demise has elicited repudiation of… Read More ›

• “Red Cup Rebellion” nationwide solidarity actions in support of Starbucks workers

  By Victor Vaughn on November 30, 2023

  

  Victor Vaughn, Red Phoenix corespondent, Maryland. Starbucks workers nationwide organized strikes and customer solidarity actions against the company’s unfair labor practices on its busiest sales day, Red Cup Day, Nov. 16. Following a year-long struggle, over 360 Starbucks stores with… Read More ›

• What’s that smell? Louisville’s “Rubbertown” continues to pollute community

  By Editor-in-Chief on November 27, 2023

  

  M. A. Booth / Kentucky. For decades, “Rubbertown” in Louisville, Kentucky, has been a major source of concern for residents of the city. Despite the local government and corporations telling us that the level of Toxic Air Contaminants (TACs) in… Read More ›

• No To APEC Unity Statement

  By Editor-in-Chief on November 25, 2023

  

  No To APEC Steering Committee At the close of our People’s Counter Summit Against APEC, we issued a unity statement to summarize the positions of the No To APEC Coalition during our 2023 campaign culminating in the 800+ person Counter… Read More ›

• Two-state solution no longer practical in Palestine

  By Editor-in-Chief on November 25, 2023

  

  By Sofia D., Red Phoenix correspondent, Minnesota. Since Hamas’ Operation Al-Aqsa Flood commenced on Oct. 7, Israel has escalated the continuous genocidal war against Palestinians. Many of the facts of this genocide are already well known, but let us review… Read More ›

• Union-led Amazon strike expands to Baltimore warehouses

  By Victor Vaughn on November 21, 2023

  

  By Victor Vaughn, Red Phoenix correspondent, Maryland. Striking Amazon workers led by members of the Teamsters union picketed two Amazon warehouses in Baltimore (BWI2 and BWI5) on the evening of Wednesday, Nov. 8, joining the nationwide protest initiated by unionized… Read More ›

• Transgender Day of Remembrance 2023: Up with Liberation

  By Ian Ocx on November 20, 2023

  

  By Ian Ocx, LGBTQIA+ Commissioner of the American Party of Labor. Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance, a day that all of us in the LGBTQIA+ community and its allies use to bring attention to the previous and ongoing struggles… Read More ›

• Communist Palestinian citizen of Israel arrested for organizing protest

  By Editor-in-Chief on November 16, 2023

  

  By Artyom S., Red Phoenix correspondent, Maryland. On the morning of November 9, 2023, leading member of the Israeli Communist Party (Maki), former leader of Hadash, and chairman of the High Follow-Up Committee for Arab Citizens of Israel, Mohammad Barakeh,… Read More ›

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