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• Gov. Abbott attacks Texas worker safety regulations, water breaks

  By Ian Ocx on June 29, 2023

  

  By Ian Ocx, Red Phoenix correspondent, Texas. Texas Governor Greg Abbott recently signed HB 2127 into law which will take effect September 1, 2023. The publicly stated purpose and goal for this bill, which held broad Republican Party support, is… Read More ›

• Tax Increment Financing (TIF) districts in Chicago — A new tool for the same bourgeoisie

  By Editor-in-Chief on June 28, 2023

  

  By Keegan D., Red Phoenix correspondent, Illinois. Chicago has long been a city with a rich working class culture of music, food, art, and diverse communities. The city had several waves of both foreign immigration and domestic emigration. This was… Read More ›

• Coast Guard neglect results in migrant deaths

  By Editor-in-Chief on June 26, 2023

  

  By Sofia D., Red Phoenix correspondent, Minnesota. On June 14, a fishing boat containing around 750 refugees from Syria, Egypt, Pakistan, and Palestine capsized off the coast of Greece, killing up to 650 people on board. The blame for the… Read More ›

• Putin, Prigozhin, two peas in a pod — what just happened in Russia?

  By Editor-in-Chief on June 25, 2023

  

  By Hari Kumar, Red Phoenix international correspondent. The oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin, who founded the armed mercenary group called “Wagner,” is today’s Coriolanus. Similar to that Roman general in an arrogant hubris fueling a spectacular turn-coat-ism, he now only awaits his… Read More ›

• The myth of Stalin’s ‘demoralisation’ in 1941

  By Editor-in-Chief on June 24, 2023

  

  Written by Bill Bland for the Communist League. First published in Compass No. 135, April 2000. Note from editor June Vass: Bland led the Communist League as a founding member until his death in 2001. This article was one of… Read More ›

• Hollywood Blacklist: “Salt of the Earth” and a demand for political reckoning

  By Editor-in-Chief on June 19, 2023

  

  By Ed Rampell, Red Phoenix guest contributor, California. June 19, 2023 is the 70th anniversary of the electrocution of the so-called “atomic spies” Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Believed to be members of the Communist Party USA, the Rosenbergs were convicted… Read More ›

• Morocco: A political system without accountability

  By Editor-in-Chief on June 18, 2023

  

  By Democratic Way, Morocco. Originally published in Democratic Path #507. English translation provided by Sofia D. for the Red Phoenix. Translator’s note: This article was produced by our comrades in Democratic Way (the Moroccan organization of the ICMLPO) concerning recent… Read More ›

• We cannot allow capitalism to sanitize Pride!

  By Ian Ocx on June 12, 2023

  

  By Ian Ocx, LGBTQIA+ Commissioner of the American Party of Labor. Over the last year the LGBTQIA+ Commission of the American Party of Labor has been doing its best to cover, report on, organize within, and provide a Marxist-Leninist analysis… Read More ›

• Class struggle and identity politics: Strategy and tactics

  By Editor-in-Chief on June 10, 2023

  

  By J. P. Galindo, Communist Party of Spain (Marxist-Leninist). English translation provided by Camilo Lazo for The Red Phoenix. One of the titanic tasks that Marx and Engels faced on their way to building a new materialist philosophy was to… Read More ›

• East Phillips Neighborhood Institute struggles for concessions

  By Editor-in-Chief on June 7, 2023

  

  By Sofia D., Red Phoenix correspondent, Minnesota. In 2023, the East Phillips Neighborhood Institute (EPNI) in Minneapolis will purchase the Roof Depot, a vacant lot named by its most recent corporate inhabitant. EPNI is run by activists as a 501(c)(3)… Read More ›

• U.S. Supreme Court undermines power of organized labor

  By L.Zorfass on June 5, 2023

  

  By Leonard Zorfass, Red Phoenix correspondent, New Jersey. According to a recent Supreme Court ruling released on Thursday, June 1, 2023, companies are now granted the ability to sue unions for damages resulting from strikes. Damages resulting from strikes very… Read More ›

• Pride: A brief revolutionary history

  By Editor-in-Chief on June 4, 2023

  

  By the LGBTQIA+ Commission of the American Party of Labor. An Immediate Origin of Modern Struggle, Existence, and Recognition: On June 28th, 1970 the very first Pride marches were held in New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago to commemorate… Read More ›

• The debt ceiling debate: An open attack on the working class

  By Ian Ocx on June 3, 2023

  

  By Ian Ocx and Hari Kumar, Red Phoenix correspondents. Late in the night June 1, 2023, Congress voted to pass an agreement on the debt ceiling to prevent the US government from defaulting on its national debt. This debate recurs… Read More ›

• The Second Amendment of the Constitution does not justify the “right to bear arms”

  By Editor-in-Chief on June 2, 2023

  

  By Hari Kumar, Deputy National Secretary of the American Party of Labor. The historical distortions around the Second Amendment: The Second (2nd) Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is often cited by the National Rifle Association (NRA), right wingers, and members… Read More ›

• Hollywood Blacklist: “Spartacus”

  By Editor-in-Chief on May 27, 2023

  

  By Ed Rampell, Red Phoenix guest contributor, California. (Note: This is the edited text for Rampell’s introduction to the April 29 screening of Spartacus at the Academy Museum for The Hollywood Ten at 75 Film Series from April 13-30 commemorating… Read More ›

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