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Anniversary of the Iraq Occupation
Seven Years of War The 20th of March, 2010 marks the seventh anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq. After seven years, over 100,000 dead Iraqi citizens, 700+ billion dollars and almost 5000 US soldier deaths later, what does the… Read More ›
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Review of “Extract”
Basic Plot Extract, written and directed by Mike Judge, involves the personal and business struggles of a small business factory owner named Joel Reynolds (Jason Bateman) as he tries to sell his extract business to the General Mills corporation. There… Read More ›
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Rwanda, Zaire & Sudan
“Out of Iraq, Into Darfur”: Humanitarian or Warmongering? The ongoing campaign for intervention in Sudan has resulted in the reduction of a complex political problem to a morality tale populated by villains and victims. Newspaper and television reports are a… Read More ›
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Comments On Current Events
News Items A big day in the bourgeois press today, from Americans being arrested arbitrarily to Glenn Becks 9/12 anniversary. While The Red Phoenix has typically addressed just one primary subject in every article, today we are going to be… Read More ›
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The Withering Away of the State
The fact that it is necessary to strengthen and develop the socialist state does not mean that it will exist for ever. As socialist statehood develops, […] it will gradually become communist self-government of the people which will embrace the… Read More ›
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The Mossville Massacre
In recent years, more and more workers have taken notice of the rotten side effects of the capitalist system. In the pursuit of profits the bourgeois class has shown a complete lack of regard for any and every consequence of… Read More ›
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A Meeting of Two Liberal Sacred Cows
Obama Meets Theocratic Ex-Dictator On the 18th of February President Obama met with the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, at the White House. The tradition of meetings between U.S. presidents and the Dalai Lama goes back to George H.W. Bush…. Read More ›
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Can Tax Cuts or More Spending Break the Capitalist Cycle?
“Boom and Bust” In 2008, America and the world entered into another recession, a financial crisis, or as some would call it a bust. It has been noted by economists for over a century now that the capitalist economy has… Read More ›
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“Revolutionary Spirit” Press Release
“Revolutionary Spirit” : Official Theoretical Journal of the American Party of Labor For Immediate Release. 28-02-2010 Revolutionary Spirit online URL: http://revolutionaryspiritapl.blogspot.com/ The Central Committee of the American Party of Labor has approved the publishing of an in-depth journal of political,… Read More ›
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A Message to American Social-Democrats
What is Social-Democracy? A “social-democrat” or “democratic socialist” is a person who seeks a supposed “third way” between capitalism and socialism, or else someone who wishes to establish socialism through peaceful means. We use terms like “socialism” loosely in this… Read More ›
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Celebrating the Manifesto
On this day in the year 1848, the Communist Manifesto was published. The book shook the society of the bourgeoisie to its very foundations and raised the consciousness of proletarians across the world. Karl Marx and Frederich Engels exposed the… Read More ›
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Review: Glenn Beck’s “Revolutionary Holocaust: Live Free or Die”
Part IV of VI: Hunger & Holocaust – Glenn Beck on Stalin Glenn Beck begins his segment on Joseph Stalin by calling the Ukrainian famine in the Soviet Union a genocide. He states: “Most know that the horrors of the… Read More ›
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Who Shot JFK? Who Cares?
Conspiracy Theories One of the certainties encountered by any person involved in the realm of political participation for any amount of time is that they will inevitably hear at least a few conspiracy theories. As a phenomenon, conspiracy politics have… Read More ›
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Imperialists Seek War with Iran
Years of Warmongering In recent weeks, the United States has undertaken a series of measures to once again reaffirm its hostile and antagonistic policies towards the Islamic Republic of Iran. Earlier in January, the US Senate approved further sanctions against… Read More ›
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Review: Glenn Beck’s “Revolutionary Holocaust: Live Free or Die”
Part III of VI: How Beck Turned Marx Into A Common Racist Glenn Beck and Jonah Goldberg cite examples of Marx’s supposed “anti-Semitism” in connection with Hitler. What Goldberg is referring to are Marx’s words on the economic status of… Read More ›
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