Translation by Red Phoenix staff Innumerable are Karl Marx’s contributions to humanity. Frederick Engels, his companion and inseparable friend in the joys and sufferings of life, affirmed, in his funeral speech that Marx was the greatest genius in history in… Read More ›
Translated by Red Phoenix staff. The international Marxist-Leninist movement, the proletariat and the peoples of the world, celebrate the bicentenary of the birth of Karl Marx, founder of scientific communism, great educator and guide of the world proletariat, inspirer and… Read More ›
Translated by Red Phoenix staff. The quote that we reproduce below, often cited in studies on Marx and his relationship with France, gives us a good introduction to this article for the magazine Unity and Struggle consecrated to Marx on… Read More ›
By Hari Kumar On the 200th anniversary of Karl Marx’s birth, many commemorations of this great man will be made. Even his bourgeois enemies will no doubt acknowledge, how brilliant he was. However, these observers will also label him as… Read More ›
From: En Marcha (Central Organ of the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador), November 22, 29, December 5 and 13 2017. Translation by George Gruenthal. During the 1980s, China’s economy was already shifting to “market forces,” a process that deepened with the… Read More ›
Reprinted with permission of the Labour Party (EMEP), Turkey. Capital, the masterpiece of Karl Marx, the founder of scientific socialism, is 150 years old. The analysis made in the first volume of this work, which was the only published volume… Read More ›
by Leonard Zorfass, edited by Polina Brik On April 12, 2017, Betsy DeVos, the Secretary of Education under the highly reactionary far-right Trump administration, declared that the reforms made to help protect students in debt from defaulting on their student loans… Read More ›
PART ONE: “Two, Three, many Vietnams”: National Liberation and the Rise of the Third World (1945 – 1991) Asia, Africa and Latin America in the Early Years of the Century With the exception of Latin America, and several noteworthy cases… Read More ›
Together with the workers and peoples of the world, we are outraged and condemn the genocide of the Israeli government and army against the Palestinian People! Coinciding with the 20th anniversary of the Declaration of Quito, which proclaimed the birth… Read More ›
by Alfonso Casal Most people reading this can agree on two incontestable facts: namely, that in 1956 a revisionist clique headed by Nikita Khrushchev took control of the Soviet party and state; and in 1991, the Soviet Union was dismembered and… Read More ›
In the 21st century the world continues to be divided. The contradiction between Labor and Capital in all spheres is the division that reflects the antagonism between labor and the increasing socialization of production on the one hand, and the… Read More ›
The reason for the Soma Massacre is the insatiable indulgence in exploitation by the bosses 284 miners have lost their lives in Soma, Manisa in a mine owned by Soma Coal Inc. The death toll is expected to rise and there… Read More ›
The world’s 85 richest individuals possess as much wealth as the 3.5 billion souls who compose the poorer half of the world’s population, or so it was announced in a report by Oxfam International. The assertion sounds implausible to me. … Read More ›
When I was about thirteen-years-old I chanced upon an article in Henry Luce’s Life magazine that described East Harlem ( a Manhattan working class neighborhood) as “a slum inhabited by beggar poor Italians, Negroes, and Puerto Ricans,” words that stung… Read More ›
In his book “The Polical Economy of Growth”, Paul Baran reminds us that from the standpoint of the bourgeoisie, feudalism provided wastefulness because of its socioeconomic organization and parasitic functionaries and institutions, while from the standpoint of the feudalist, essential,… Read More ›
