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Budget cuts continue to suffocate coal miners
Thomas K. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Ohio– You load sixteen tons and what do you get? Black lung is what you get. In the Spring of 2025, a slew of Trump regime budget cuts to National Institute of Occupational… Read More ›
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“No contract, no coffee!” Starbucks workers stand united against union-busting
Thomas K. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Ohio– Starbucks baristas from around the country have gotten together to exercise their collective muscle and stand against rampant understaffing and poor pay. Starbucks has been and continues to be one of the… Read More ›
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Denver STAR program provides five years of safer streets, stronger communities
John M. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Colorado– In the shadow of Denver’s bustling neighborhoods, where working-class families juggle long shifts, rising rents, and the daily grind of making ends meet, a quiet revolution has been underway since 2020. It’s… Read More ›
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‘One Battle After Another’: Fun yet limited bourgeois depiction of revolutionary struggle
Keegan D. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Illinois– One Battle After Another, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and starring Chase Infiniti, Teyana Taylor, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Sean Penn, is a spectacle that has gripped audiences across the country since its… Read More ›
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Graham Platner and Bernie Sanders demonstrate failure of reform
Pierce H. | Red Phoenix correspondent | California– Graham Platner, an oyster farmer and Iraqi War veteran running for Senate in Maine, recently had his campaign steeped in controversy for his past statements and a Nazi insignia chest tattoo. He… Read More ›
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Price of climate change, Hurricane Melissa leaves Caribbean in ruins
John M. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Colorado– In the sweltering heat of late October, the Atlantic Ocean birthed a monster. Hurricane Melissa, the thirteenth named storm of an already punishing 2025 season, exploded from a disorganized tropical wave into… Read More ›
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A personal tribute to the Movement for Struggle in Neighborhoods
Alberes Simão | A Verdade Nov. 13, 2025 | Translated from Portuguese for the Red Phoenix | Brazil– Thanks to the example of the Movement for Struggle in Neighborhoods, Villages and Slums, the MLB, we can see that it is… Read More ›
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Transphobic rhetoric fuels right-wing terror
Keegan D. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Illinois– For the last several years reactionary conspiracy theorists have spread the dangerous lie that transgender people are disproportionately responsible for political violence and gun violence in general. This deception, based on a… Read More ›
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Modern brownshirts: Trump’s fascist thugs attack pre-K school in Chicago
Keegan D. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Illinois– Since beginning operation “Midway Blitz” – an aggressive push to arrest immigrants with criminal records in Chicago – Trump’s modern brownshirts, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Patrol… Read More ›
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Establishment fears of a reformist by policy, socialist by self-declaration
Misha G. and June Vass | Red Phoenix correspondents– Zohran Mamdani — a Muslim, an immigrant, and a self-proclaimed democratic socialist — has managed to win the election for Mayor of New York City, in a country which has trained… Read More ›
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Pay student teachers, resist the fascist attack on education!
Mark G. | The Justice | Nov. 4, 2025– Today, the United States faces a deep crisis in education. Literacy rates are declining, teachers are leaving the profession in droves, the Trump administration is preparing to abolish special education and public education… Read More ›
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Socialism in the United States?
Erick Macay Rubio | Enfoque Rebelde | Translated from Spanish for the Red Phoenix by Camilo Lazo– Zohran Mamdani has just been elected mayor of New York City. A Muslim and an open democratic socialist, Mamdani’s victory is nothing short… Read More ›
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¿Socialismo en los Estados Unidos?
Erick Macay Rubio | Enfoque Rebelde | English translation here— Zohran Mamdani acaba de ganar las elecciones a la alcaldía de Nueva York. Un musulmán y declarado “socialista democrático” ha logrado vencer en un país cuyo pueblo ha sido adoctrinado… Read More ›
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Chicago’s budget crisis as case study for necessity of socialism
Keegan D. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Illinois– Around the entire globe the contradictions inherent to the capitalist mode of production are sharpening and bringing the world further into a situation of crisis, and one case which serves as evidence… Read More ›
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American Party of Labor statement on U.S. aggression against Venezuela
The Secretariat of the American Party of Labor | Nov. 3, 2025– The American Party of Labor condemns the continued campaign of aggression waged by the Trump Administration against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. The recent bombing of Venezuelan civilian… Read More ›
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CIPOML: On U.S. imperialist aggression against Venezuela
January 31, 2026
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In praise of Michael Parenti (1933–2026)
January 25, 2026
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Statement on the increasing fascist violence in the Twin Cities, MN
January 18, 2026
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Yesterday’s “weapons of mass destruction” are today’s “narco-terrorists”
January 5, 2026
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No war with Venezuela! Release President Maduro!
January 3, 2026
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