By: Devin B, Red Phoenix Correspondent NYC In the United States, there are 702 heat-related deaths per year and roughly 67,512 visits to the emergency room due to heat. As of the publication of this article, 37,864,278 people have been… Read More ›
Workers Struggle
News relating to Organized Labor, Strikes, Unionization, and Worker’s Struggles in the Workplace.
At Youngstown State, Cuts Target Diverse Faculty and Programs
By: Bobby Gallagher, Red Phoenix Correspondent Ohio Bobby Gallagher is a union organizer and member from Youngstown, Ohio. Across the country, there are issues regarding the integrity of our schools and universities. Education in this country remains an imperfect system,… Read More ›
CTU Attacked By Media Because They Have and Use Worker’s Power
By: John Palameda, Red Phoenix Correspondent Illinois The Chicago Teachers Union, for many years one of the strongest and most active remaining unions in the country, is once again in the crosshairs of the corporate media and moderate democrats led… Read More ›
Unionist On Trumka’s Legacy: A Life Lived for the Workers, But More Democratic Unions Needed
By: Mark Han Mark Han is a union organizer in the Pacific Northwest, and member of the American Party of Labor. With the unexpected passing of AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, the American Party of Labor joins the American Labor Movement… Read More ›
Baltimore Workers March in Solidarity With Amazon Union Vote
By: Ted Stracket, Red Phoenix Correspondent, Baltimore Saturday, March 20th, a series of nationwide solidarity demonstrations were held in support for the Amazon workers of Bessemer, Alabama who are attempting to unionize to secure safe working conditions, hazard pay, and… Read More ›
ICMLPO: ALL WORKING WOMEN OF THE WORLD! LET’S UNITE AGAINST EXPLOITATION, VIOLENCE AND FASCIST AGGRESSION RISEN WITH THE PANDEMIC!
It has been a year since the coronavirus pandemic has begun. 95 percent of the earth with human population has been infected. Covid-19 has not only become a public health crisis which had an impact on the billions of human… Read More ›
From Istanbul to Alabama and Montana, Workers Stand Against Neoliberal Leadership
In Mid-February, 2021, local service workers in the Kadıköy municipality of Istanbul went on an impromptu strike after the collapse of a five-month long collective bargaining process with the city government. In snow and on the street, the service workers… Read More ›
Unlawful Sweeps of Homeless Encampments Continue in Sacramento
By Peter Charles Kraljev Red-Phoenix Correspondent, Sacramento On July 17 2020, after a several month-long legal battle with the Sacramento Homeless Union lead by its president Crystal Rose Sanchez, the Superior Court of Sacramento passed a court ruling that prohibits… Read More ›
In A Storied Alabama Union District, Amazon Workers Prepare to Hold Union Vote
By: Jay Hyde, Red Phoenix Correspondent Alabama This November, Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama made an unprecedented move by notifying federal labor authorities of their plan to hold a unionization vote, due to poor working conditions exacerbated even further by… 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 ›
Birthing a Super Power: US Society and Imperialism from World War I to World War II. A Brief Historical Narrative.
The United States Enters the Great War. World War I (1914–1918) was arguably the formative event of the twentieth century, yet the United States had stayed out of the opening rounds of the war. Reelected in 1916 using the campaign… Read More ›
Now Available in English: “The Indigenous and Popular Uprising, A Victory Over Neoliberalism.”
Hot off the presses and just translated into English, The Indigenous and Popular Uprising, A Victory Over Neoliberalism, by Pablo Miranda of the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador, is a blow-by-blow account of the rebellion that shook the neoliberal regime… Read More ›
The UAW and CTU Strikes, and Their Lessons
Rank and File Forge Ahead, Moderate Leadership and Capitalist Government Pull Them Back The past months saw some of the most significant labor strikes in recent American history. Across the country, nearly 50,000 UAW workers struck against General Motors, demanding… Read More ›
Revolutionary Communist Party of Bolivia: Monopolies Rule in the “Transitional” Regime
Originally published in Tinta Roja (11/25/19) Translated by Red Star Publishers By Simon Arancibia R. Member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Communist Party of Bolivia Every government responds to the interests of a social… Read More ›
International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations: The Contradictions of Imperialist Capitalism are Sharpening, and the Struggle of the Working Class and Peoples is Growing
Translated by Red Star Publications. The plenary of the ICMLPO met in October at a time when the peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America rose up one after another. The international bourgeoisie and capitalism can do nothing but increase… Read More ›
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