The Red Phoenix

Recent Posts - page 26

• Kent State Massacre: If you dare to struggle, you dare to win

  By R. Nesbitt on May 4, 2023

  

  On May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard fired into a crowd of student demonstrators who were on strike against President Richard Nixon’s announcement to expand the Vietnam War into Cambodia. The Kent State University students in Ohio had assembled… Read More ›

• Letter to the Phoenix: Teachers, the front line revolutionaries

  By Editor-in-Chief on May 3, 2023

  

  Note: The Red Phoenix does not edit the content of letters and reproduces them as a glimpse into the minds of working people in the United States. The Red Phoenix received the following letter from A. Dewy, a public school… Read More ›

• Economic problems and elections dominated May Day rallies in Turkey

  By Editor-in-Chief on May 3, 2023

  

  The economic crisis, poor working conditions and the presidential and parliamentary elections to be held on May 14 dominated the May Day rallies. Published in Evrensel Daily. May Day, International Day of Unity, Struggle and Solidarity of the Working Class… Read More ›

• Paddy Whalen: Tribune of the People

  By Editor-in-Chief on May 1, 2023

  

  By the Maryland Division of the American Party of Labor. The American Party of Labor is proud to announce the foundation of a Maryland state Division, headquartered in the Baltimore metropolitan area. After a period of deliberation, the Maryland comrades… Read More ›

• Unionized Starbucks workers strike again

  By Editor-in-Chief on April 29, 2023

  

  By Sofia D., Red Phoenix correspondent, Minnesota. On April 27, Starbucks workers at 300 Snelling Ave S. in St. Paul, Minnesota, returned to the picket line after the nationwide strike on March 2022, demanding a return to the regular 20-person… Read More ›

• Hollywood Blacklist: “Objective, Burma!”

  By Editor-in-Chief on April 28, 2023

  

  By Ed Rampell, Red Phoenix guest contributor, California. (Note: This is the unedited text for the introduction to the April 23 screening of Objective, Burma! at the Academy Museum for this series commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Hollywood Blacklist.)… Read More ›

• Remembering the Italian partisans who ended Mussolini’s violence

  By John Palameda on April 28, 2023

  

  By John Palameda, Red Phoenix correspondent, Illinois. On the anniversary of Mussolini’s death, online left spaces are often filled with the pictures of il duce and his closest allies strung up in the Piazza Quindici Martiri in Milan. As an… Read More ›

• Hollywood Blacklist: The Duke, draft-dodging opportunist

  By Editor-in-Chief on April 26, 2023

  

  By Ed Rampell, Red Phoenix guest contributor, California. (Note: This is the unedited text for the introduction to the April 16 screening of “Three Faces West,” at the Academy Museum for this series commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Hollywood… Read More ›

• May 1 Manifesto: Let’s unite the struggles for wages to the fight for social revolution

  By Editor-in-Chief on April 26, 2023

  

  By the CIPOML Coordinating Committee The International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations (CIPOML) greets the workers all over the world on the occasion of May Day, emblematic date that symbolizes the struggle waged by the international proletariat against capitalist… Read More ›

• Hollywood Blacklist: “Cloak and Dagger” and “None Shall Escape”

  By Editor-in-Chief on April 25, 2023

  

  By Ed Rampell, Red Phoenix guest contributor, California. (Note: This is the edited text for the introduction to the April 14 screening of “Cloak and Dagger” by Ed Rampell and to “None Shall Escape” by Roger Memos, the director and… Read More ›

• Hollywood Blacklist: “Tender Comrade” and “Sahara”

  By Editor-in-Chief on April 22, 2023

  

  By Ed Rampell, Red Phoenix guest contributor. This is the edited text for the introduction to the April 13 screening of Tender Comrade and Sahara at the Academy Museum for this series commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Hollywood Blacklist…. Read More ›

• Dominican Republic: No re-election or going back to the P.L.D. model of government

  By Editor-in-Chief on April 21, 2023

  

  By the Communist Party of Labor (PCT), Dominican Republic. Notes on the situation In this political period in the country, leaders of the PLD (Party of Dominican Liberation1), former officials of the government of Danilo Medina (2012-2020), have been arrested… Read More ›

• The Two Academias: A response to the illusion of upward mobility in higher ed.

  By John Palameda on April 21, 2023

  

  By John Palameda, Red Phoenix correspondent, Illinois. John Palameda is a member of the American Party of Labor, an adjunct professor of English, and President of his local adjunct faculty union. When I first saw the headline for Amos Dewy’s… Read More ›

• Minneapolis attempts to placate civilians with police agreement

  By Editor-in-Chief on April 21, 2023

  

  By Sofia D., Red Phoenix correspondent, Minnesota. Minneapolis has just agreed to a settlement with its Department of Human Rights to “eliminate” racist practices in the police force. This agreement goes further than the now-dead HF 1078 by targeting various… Read More ›

• National Poetry Month: Pablo Neruda (1904–1973)

  By Editor-in-Chief on April 20, 2023

  

  “I have always wanted the hands of people to be seen in poetry.” By Hari Kumar, Red Phoenix international correspondent. Introduction and short precis of Neruda’s life Recent reports about Neruda’s death have re-sparked interest in this great Chilean poet…. Read More ›

• ‹ Older Entries
• Newer Entries ›