Red Phoenix correspondent Kallista Mirobel spoke to several Floridians on how they felt going into the 2020 election in the state that is often the nexus of national attention on November 3rd. By Kallista Mirobel A month before the 2020… Read More ›
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Letter to the Phoenix: Why Does Voting in the Presidential Elections Seem So Important?
Note: The Red Phoenix does not edit the content of letters and reproduces them as a glimpse into the minds of working people in the US. The Red Phoenix received the following letter from G. Green on the nature of… Read More ›
In Albertville, Alabama, a Bold New Working Class Movement Confronts Entrenched White Supremacy
By: Jay Hyde, Red Phoenix Correspondent Alabama In, Albertville, Alabama, my lifelong home, which has a population of around 22,000, there is a growing struggle against a Confederate monument and a Confederate flag that sit outside the Marshall County Courthouse…. Read More ›
The National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression Calls for Protests the Day After The November Presidential Election (November 4, 2020) After the election, the peoples mandate for change must be carried out.
In this triple pandemic of racism, COVID-19, and recession our National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression is issuing a call to all the democratic forces presently engaged in the struggle against racist injustice, the economic slaughter of our communities… Read More ›
Elections Won’t Defeat Fascism, Only We Can
The Greatest Enemy of Fascism is and Always Has Been a United Working Class Movement. The whole world watches the upcoming elections in the United States. While there are other powerful imperialist nations in the post-cold war world, the U.S…. Read More ›
International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations: “Transform the Discontent of the Masses into Organization and Struggle!”
On the International Situation: The world economy is trapped in a new capitalist crisis, which occurs within the framework of the general crisis that affects the existing system. This crisis is more acute than that of the years 2008-2009, which… Read More ›
Labor Organizer: “Remove Police From Our Unions Now!”
By: Kjell Sivertsen, Uber/Lyft Worker Organizer In the wake of the police-sanctioned murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and the attempted murder of Jacob Blake, members from multiple labor unions across trade are calling for the expulsion of police. These… Read More ›
Orange Haze: The Historical, Capitalist Roots of the California Wildfires
By: Peter Charles Kraljev, Red Phoenix Correspondent Sacramento Dusk fell at 10am in northern California on September 9th as clouds of smoke blocked out the sun leaving the state with only a dimly light sky that was accompanied by an… Read More ›
9/11/1973: The Day Neo-Liberalism Showed Its Fascist Face
On this day, September 11th, 1973, the democratically-elected government of Chile, headed by President and leader of the Socialist Party, Salvador Allende, was violently ousted in a coup led by a US-backed, military junta. The Presidential Palace, La Moneda, was… Read More ›
In Remembering Baseball’s Racist Past and Present, Today’s Players Continue the Fight for a Radical Future
Major league baseball players recently displayed powerful class and racial unity during the sport’s annual celebration of Jackie Robinson’s courageous legacy. Just as Robinson’s story reflected the history of postwar America, today’s players understand that the game has been and is intimately connected with the tenor of the country’s racial relations.
Austerity, Imperialism at the Heart of Beirut Disaster
On Tuesday, August 4th, a massive explosion comparable in its explosive power to a low yield nuclear gravity bomb, erupted in the Port of Beirut, Lebanon, killing at least 137 people and wounding more than 5,000. The explosion is sourced… Read More ›
Chicago Teachers Fight Back, and Win, Against Reckless Reopening
As school districts and universities across the country are being pressured into opening by Trump, and even liberal ally Anthony Fauci, teachers in Chicago have already begun to fight back, and win, against school administrators and reckless reopening. The Chicago… Read More ›
George Floyd’s Death Reignites Uprising In Hoover, Alabama: First Hand Accounts
By: Jay Hyde, Red Phoenix Correspondent, Alabama As George Floyd’s murder at the hands of the police is igniting uprisings across America, and creating international solidarity and demonstrations in opposition to police violence abroad, protests against the Hoover Police Department… Read More ›
“A Lot of People Are Going to Die, and It’s Because of Capitalism:” First Hand Accounts from Florida
By Kallista Mirobel As Governor Ron DeSantis prepares to fully reopen the state of Florida in spite of the surging number of cases in the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of workers across Florida who have already been on the front lines… Read More ›
The Banner of Black Lives Matter: Summer 2020
Originally published in Evrensel Daily: US student Toivo Asheeke wrote on the ongoing protests: “It was the first time to discuss the financial resources of the police, who emerged as slave hunters.” Toivo ASHEEKE Student at Binghamton University. With protests,… Read More ›
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