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• Northern Illinois Shelters Close Their Doors to the Homeless

  By gboshcka on March 18, 2020

  

  McHenry county PADS of the Pioneer Center for Human Services in Woodstock, IL. The pandemic of COVID-19 is sweeping the globe and stress testing the inadequate mechanisms in place for dealing with public health and wellbeing.  Here in Illinois, the… Read More ›

• Federal Government Spends $1.5 Trillion for 30 Minutes of Stock Gains

  By John Palameda on March 12, 2020

  

  In a move aimed at curbing the quickly stumbling stock market, the New York Federal Reserve injected 1.5 trillion dollars into the market today. The Fed released a statement, claiming that “These changes are being made to address highly unusual… Read More ›

• Liberal Pundits Can’t Hide the Simple Truth: Socialism is Fascism’s Greatest Nemesis

  By J Thalmann on March 2, 2020

  

  As results poured in from the Nevada caucus – showing a landslide victory for Bernie Sanders – liberal news outlets went into panic. MSNBC host Chris Matthews likened the Sanders victory to the fall of France to the Nazis. Such… Read More ›

• Who are the Sanders Supporters? An Afternoon at a Sanders Organizing Meeting

  By Editor-in-Chief on March 1, 2020

  

  On Saturday, February 15th, nearly 60 supporters of the Bernie Sanders campaign, notified by little more the BERN campaign app and facebook events, crowded into Bill’s Pizza and Pub in Grayslake, IL, a northern suburb of Chicago. The Red Phoenix… Read More ›

• Editorial: “Reductio ad Hitlerum.”

  By Editor-in-Chief on February 27, 2020

  

  By Alfonso Casal There is an unofficial logical fallacy, humorously named “Reductio ad Hitlerum.”  Taking its place alongside other, more time-honored logical errors, Reductio ad Hitlerum, entails trying to win an argument by comparing the opposing view to the late… Read More ›

• A Bright Red Star Has Joined the Heavens

  By Editor-in-Chief on February 26, 2020

  

  We are deeply saddened to report that today, February 26, 2020, at the age of 99, Comrade Nexhmije Hoxha has died.  In a lifetime that spanned nearly a century, Comrade Nexhmije was at the forefront of some of the most… Read More ›

• Chicago Judge Overrules New Trial for Chicago Police Torture Victim

  By John Palameda on February 14, 2020

  

  Gerald Reed’s mother speaks to the press after the verdict Chicago Judge Thomas Hennelly has today overturned a previous ruling by now-retired Judge Gainor to vacate the conviction of Gerald Reed, who has already served 30 years in prison for… Read More ›

• Richard Reilly, Presente!

  By Editor-in-Chief on February 12, 2020

  

  Today, the heart of our beloved comrade and brother, Dick Reilly, ceased to beat.  Comrade Reilly was a veteran activist and fighter for socialism, for the Palestinian and Irish people, and for the cause of all the oppressed and exploited… Read More ›

• Birthing a Super Power: US Society and Imperialism from World War I to World War II. A Brief Historical Narrative.

  By Alfonso Casal on February 11, 2020

  

  The United States Enters the Great War. World War I (1914–1918) was arguably the formative event of the twentieth century, yet the United States had stayed out of the opening rounds of the war. Reelected in 1916 using the campaign… Read More ›

• Black History Month: The Communist and Internationalist Poetry of Interwar Harlem

  By Editor-in-Chief on February 7, 2020

  

  “Not to plunge into the complex jungle of  human relationships and analyze them is to leave the field to fascists and I won’t and can’t do that.” // Richard Wright “Let us sound the bugle-call for militancy. Let us have… Read More ›

• Statement of the Labour Party of Iran (Toufan) on Recent Developments in the Middle East Region

  By Editor-in-Chief on January 23, 2020

  

  The assassination of Qassem Soleimani by the U.S. and the Iranian and the world response to it, has prompted our Party to reaffirm its principled stance on the matter and investigate the effects of this U.S. terrorist action on Iran… Read More ›

• 2020 International Antifascist Youth Camp

  By Editor-in-Chief on January 21, 2020

  

  From 31st of July to 9th of August we will meet in Berlin as young people from all over the world to discuss our hopes, experiences and future. Together we aim to strengthen the public voice against a political system that… Read More ›

• Now Available in English: “The Indigenous and Popular Uprising, A Victory Over Neoliberalism.”

  By Editor-in-Chief on January 18, 2020

  

  Hot off the presses and just translated into English, The Indigenous and Popular Uprising, A Victory Over Neoliberalism, by Pablo Miranda of the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador, is a blow-by-blow account of the rebellion that shook the neoliberal regime… Read More ›

• Kentucky Miners Illustrate Worker Power With Spontaneous Act of Resistance

  By L.Zorfass on January 15, 2020

  

  On January 13, 2020, a group of miners from the Quest Energy, company in Pike County, Kentucky blocked the railways carrying a heap of mined coal. Over 50 workers have been denied pay for the past three weeks totaling between… Read More ›

• Defiant Iraqi People Once Again the Victims of Global Proxy War

  By J Thalmann on January 10, 2020

  

  As the Trump Administration backs away from antagonizing Iran to the brink of war given his precarious domestic political situation, Iraq will almost certainly remain in the crossfire for years to come. The birthplace of civilization is now the primary… Read More ›

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