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• Nelson Mandela, in his own words

  By The Red Phoenix on June 26, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Fight Back News Service is circulating some quotes from the icon of the South African anti-apartheid movement. The following quotes are from Mandela’s 1990 speech at a Johannesburg rally to re-launch the South African Communist Party. Nelson Mandela: The ANC [African… Read More ›

• The mass protests in Brazil and the crisis of revolutionary leadership

  By The Red Phoenix on June 26, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Over the past week, Brazil has witnessed its largest protests since the end of the military dictatorship in 1985. This eruption of mass struggles has exposed, above all, the crisis of revolutionary leadership in the working class. The initial trigger… Read More ›

• The Quote That Should End the Trayvon Martin Trial

  By The Red Phoenix on June 25, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  By John H. Richardson George Zimmerman is going to be found guilty. All the evidence you need — all the evidence the cops needed — is right there in the interrogation they did with him three days after the shooting. The only… Read More ›

• In Suicide Note, Iraq War Veteran Says He Was Forced to Participate In War Crimes

  By The Red Phoenix on June 25, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  by Rania Khalek On June 10, 2013, 30-year-old Iraq War veteran Daniel Somers killed himself after writing a powerful letter to his family explaining his reasons for doing so. “My mind is a wasteland filled with visions of incredible horror,… Read More ›

• U.S. right to arm Syrian rebels, says Israeli president

  By The Red Phoenix on June 25, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  By Crispian Balmer JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli President Shimon Peres has thrown his weight behind U.S. plans to arm Syrian rebels, shrugging off fears the weapons could be turned on Israel and exacerbate the conflict. In a wide-ranging interview with… Read More ›

• Protester killed, dozens injured as Brazil police face off with a million in 100 cities

  By The Red Phoenix on June 24, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  An 18-year-old protester has been killed and dozens injured as massive protests continue in Brazil’s cities. Over a million people have flooded the streets of the country on Thursday. Mass protests continued throughout Brazil Thursday as hundreds of thousands assembled… Read More ›

• Philadelphia Closes 23 Schools, New $400 Million Prison Being Built

  By Editor-in-Chief on June 24, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  By Michael Allen Philadelphia officials are closing almost two dozen schools and decimating the budgets of the remaining schools under a so-called “doomsday” education plan. However, amid all these cuts for education, the state of Pennsylvania is building a new $400… Read More ›

• Statement of Eduardo Artes, First Secretary of the Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action) on the demonstrations in Brazil

  By The Red Phoenix on June 23, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  DISCONTENT IN BRAZIL Eduardo Artes First Secretary of the Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action) PC (AP) June 21, 2013 General Aspects The media shows us large demonstrations, bonfires and confrontations in Brazil. These are caused by the popular discontent; rejecting… Read More ›

• Iraq, 2013: The Horrors Remain the Same — Rape, Executions and Torture Abound

  By Editor-in-Chief on June 22, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  [Trigger Warning: Graphic Discussion of Sexual Violence and Torture] In today’s Iraq, it is unfortunately all too easy to find Iraqis who have had loved ones who have been detained and tortured, and the trend is increasing. Baghdad – Heba al-Shamary… Read More ›

• Nearly 300 Nike Clothing Makers Fired After Strikes in Cambodia

  By The Red Phoenix on June 22, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  PHNOM PENH, June 11 (Reuters) – Nearly 300 Cambodian garment workers who produce clothing for U.S sportswear company Nike have been dismissed for taking part in strikes seeking higher pay that turned violent, according to their union and dismissal notices…. Read More ›

• Video: FSA Commander – We will not fight Israel if they attack Syria

  By The Red Phoenix on June 22, 2013 • ( 0 )

• Detroit cop who killed 7-year-old girl walks free after mistrial

  By The Red Phoenix on June 21, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  By Stephen C. Webster Detroit police officer Joseph Weekley was spared a felony conviction on Tuesday over the killing of a 7-year-old girl after a jury deadlocked and a mistrial was declared, according to Detroit Free Press. Weekley shot and killed Aiyana… Read More ›

• Group That Had Aimed To “Change” Gays To Shut Down, Leader Also Offered Apology

  By The Red Phoenix on June 21, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  “Exodus International, the oldest and largest Christian ministry dealing with faith and homosexuality, issued an apology to the gay community for years of undue suffering and judgment at the hands of the organization and the Church as a whole,” the… Read More ›

• Paula Deen On Her Dream ‘Southern Plantation Wedding’

  By Editor-in-Chief on June 20, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  by HUNTER WALKER Last month, Food Network chef Paula Deen gave a videotaped deposition as part of a discrimination suit she’s facing in which she discussed her desire to have a “very southern style wedding” for her brother modeled after a… Read More ›

• Largest Mass Protests in Decades Continue in Brazil

  By The Red Phoenix on June 19, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Mass protests continued throughout Brazil on Monday, with hundreds of thousands of demonstrators converging in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, the capital of Brasilia and other cities. Protests initially began last week following a government announcement of an… Read More ›

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