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• MLK Day: the Lessons of Pacifism & the Civil Rights Movement

  By The Red Phoenix on January 17, 2011 • ( 0 )

  MLK Day: A Dream Lost From 01/10 Today is the celebration of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday in the United States. While it is ostensibly celebrated to promote the Civil Rights Movement, one wonders why MLK, among all… Read More ›

• The Fight Against Unions Presses On; NLRB Threatens to Sue Arizona and others for their Curb on Unionization

  By The Red Phoenix on January 15, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  In their drive to battle against the rights of workers to organize in the workplace, the states of Arizona, South Carolina, South Dakota and Utah have put forth amendments to their labor law which conflict with federal law and are… Read More ›

• Uprisings in Tunisia & Algeria

  By Victor Vaughn on January 13, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  The North African countries of Tunisia and Algeria have seen widespread worker uprisings, riots and clashes between police and protesters for the past three weeks in reaction to rising cost of living, skyrocketing unemployment and poor living conditions. The mass… Read More ›

• Spokesman for the Tunisian Workers Communist Party Arrested

  By Victor Vaughn on January 12, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

    Hamma Hammami, spokesman for the illegal Tunisian Workers Communist Party. [Translated from Arabic] [Postscript –  Hammami has been released from prison after Ben Ali fled the country due to continuing protests. The struggle in Tunisia continues.] The police arrested… Read More ›

• Update on Haiti

  By The Red Phoenix on January 10, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Just a few days into the new year, the situation in Haiti is dire. One year ago, on January 12th, a magnitude 7.0 ravaged the Caribbean nation, killing an estimated 230,000, and rendering over a million people homeless. While officially,… Read More ›

• Propaganda Review: National Guard & Kid Rock’s “Warrior”

  By The Red Phoenix on January 9, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  The most blatant and disgusting use of music by an advertisement has to be the National Guard recruitment ad that uses Kid Rock’s neo-fascistic fantasy theme “Warrior.” The ad goes back and forth between images of soldiers in military vehicles,… Read More ›

• Privilege and Marxism

  By The Red Phoenix on January 7, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Allan G. Johnson’s book Privilege, Power, and Difference is a useful tool for understanding how systems of privilege work in contemporary capitalism. In a frank and accessible manner, he lays bare a framework for understanding how power relations and comparative… Read More ›

• The Arizona Apartheid Spreads

  By The Red Phoenix on January 5, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  With the killing of the DREAM Act, states are now moving to implement similar laws to those in Arizona, signifying a reactionary swing to the right which threatens the lives and livelihoods of many Hispanic, Latino and Amerindian workers. Immigrant… Read More ›

• Review of Call of Duty: Black Ops

  By The Red Phoenix on January 3, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Call of Duty: Black Ops (2010) is yet another first-person shooter fetishizing imperialist war and allowing children to be their own one-man death-squads in a virtual world. America’s youth will be tossing grenades, firing automatic weapons, slitting throats and even… Read More ›

• Senate Kills the DREAM

  By The Red Phoenix on January 1, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  The Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act, known as the DREAM Act, was first introduced in 2003. Since that time, there have been countless marches, petitions and sit-ins in an attempt to get Congress to pass it. The… Read More ›

• Resolution Supporting the Revolutionary Forces in Ecuador

  By The Red Phoenix on December 26, 2010 • ( 0 )

  

  [Update Jan. 15, 2011: “The Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador (PCMLE) was born in August, 1964 in rebellion against the revisionist leadership of the Communist Party of Ecuador (PCE) and its endorsement of the then Soviet-line of peaceful transition to… Read More ›

• The Largest Prison Strike In American History Goes Ignored By US Media

  By The Red Phoenix on December 23, 2010 • ( 0 )

  

  (Original article here) Today marks the end of a seven-day strike where tens of thousands of inmates in Georgia refused to work or leave their cells until their demands had been met. The odd thing is, that until today, no… Read More ›

• The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 in Perspective

  By Editor-in-Chief on December 22, 2010 • ( 0 )

  

  On Dec. 13th, President Obama signed the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, a law that, according to the White House press release on the subject, “authorizes funding for federal school meal and child nutrition programs and increases access to… Read More ›

• Statement of Solidarity with Georgia Prisoner Strike

  By Editor-in-Chief on December 21, 2010 • ( 0 )

  Sign the Statement! A Moment for Movement-Building: Statement of Solidarity with Georgia Prisoner Strike On December 9, 2010, thousands of prisoners in at least six Georgia state prisons initiated the largest prisoner strike in U.S. history, uniting across racial boundaries… Read More ›

• Postmodern Theory: The Chains of Illusive Truth

  By The Red Phoenix on December 20, 2010 • ( 0 )

  

  In any sort of theoretical discussion, be it in the realm of history, psychology, philosophy or sociology, there is always the potential for one to engage a debate by dismissing the very validity of having a debate in the first… Read More ›

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