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• Actually, It’s the System

  By The Red Phoenix on October 31, 2009 • ( 0 )

  

  [Please note that the APL does not necessarily endorse the political line of the author] Capitalism In Crisis: Actually, “It’s the System, Stupid” At the capitalist system’s core lies its central conflict. On one side, corporate boards of directors pursue… Read More ›

• Atlas is Going to Shrug

  By The Red Phoenix on October 28, 2009 • ( 0 )

  One of the more disturbing trends I and many others have noted during this rise of radical right-wing extremism in the US is the popularization of the ideology of Ayn Rand. Surely some of the readers have noticed the people… Read More ›

• Gandhi Was Wrong – Nonviolence Doesn’t Work

  By The Red Phoenix on October 18, 2009 • ( 0 )

  

  “And people like me! Because I force them to! With violence!” – Travis of the Cosmos Pacifism as a Sacred Cow It’s time to lead another liberal sacred cow to the killing floor. I’m talking about non-violence. I’ve never exactly… Read More ›

• Review of “Capitalism: A Love Story”

  By The Red Phoenix on October 16, 2009 • ( 0 )

  First of all, I will give Moore credit for making certain ideas mainstream (what other remotely progressive or even politically challenging material are you going to see at a multiplex cinema?), and for his interviews with the working people of… Read More ›

• A New Type of Democracy

  By The Red Phoenix on October 9, 2009 • ( 0 )

  Bourgeois ideologists and their reformist hangers-on shout from the roof-tops about “universal democracy”, “democracy for all”, which allegedly exists in the capitalist world. They hold up this “pure” bourgeois democracy in contrast to the dictatorship of the proletariat which is… Read More ›

• Obama Is Not A Socialist

  By The Red Phoenix on October 7, 2009 • ( 0 )

  

  Barack Obama, the messiah of the reformist left, represents to many just as what his posters display—“Hope” and “Change.” He is simultaneously denied a hundred-fold by socialists everywhere, but this does not stop people, both on the street and in… Read More ›

• The Main Features of Art

  By The Red Phoenix on October 3, 2009 • ( 0 )

  

  Art is a form of reflection of reality in artistic images in the mind of man. Reflecting the surrounding world, art helps people to understand it and serves as a powerful instrument of political, moral and artistic education. The diversity… Read More ›

• Review of “District 9″

  By The Red Phoenix on September 29, 2009 • ( 0 )

  Spoiler-Free The plot of District 9 revolves around an alternative history of the 1980s in which an alien ship becomes stranded on Earth, leaving humanity and along with that, imperialism, to deal with the alien visitors. Throughout the film we… Read More ›

• A Socialist Revolution

  By The Red Phoenix on August 23, 2009 • ( 0 )

  

  In order to get rid of exploitation and national oppression, unemployment and poverty, the proletariat has to destroy capitalism and establish socialist society. This can be achieved only through a socialist revolution. A socialist revolution radically differs from all the… Read More ›

• Senate Votes Down F-22 Fighter Jet

  By The Red Phoenix on August 20, 2009 • ( 0 )

  

    Why should we be focusing on the Peace movement? Can we influence and reduce spending for the military? I for one believe we can, provided we have a strong grassroots and working class peace movement. Just this week the… Read More ›

• Never Again!

  By The Red Phoenix on August 6, 2009 • ( 0 )

  From a Speech by Jackie Cabasso, United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ): Konichi-wa! (Hello!) I am here in Nagasaki for the solemn commemoration of the 64th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of this beautiful port city. On August 6,… Read More ›

• On the Arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr. & America’s Unhealthy Obsession With the Police

  By The Red Phoenix on July 31, 2009 • ( 0 )

  

  In one of his comedy routines, Dave Chappelle explained why he was afraid to call the cops, even if his own house had been robbed. He acts out this scenario to his audience. Upon seeing Dave, a black man living… Read More ›

• The Right-Wing Coup in Honduras

  By The Red Phoenix on July 6, 2009 • ( 0 )

  

  A military coup has just been staged in Honduras. The coup leaders kidnapped the democratically elected president Manuel Zalaya in the middle of the night, forged a resignation letter and declared Roberto Micheletti, a legislator, as the country’s new president…. Read More ›

• The Illusion is Crumbling: the War Cover-Up

  By The Red Phoenix on June 25, 2009 • ( 0 )

  

  Each class of society has its own reaction to the present war: the American proletariat sees the need for peace, while the capitalists try to use “patriotic” symbolism to win more of the population over to the side of imperialism…. Read More ›

• The Democratic Peoples’ Republic of Korea Deserves Self-Determination and Nuclear Technology

  By The Red Phoenix on June 18, 2009 • ( 0 )

  Imperialist powers such as the United States, the UK, Russia and China have been eager to “condemn” the recent underground test of a nuclear device by the DPRK (North Korea). President Obama was quick to announce on TV that the… Read More ›