In light of the recent unrest in Albania, we release this analysis of the events in Albania in 1997 and the forces leading up to that revolution for the reader’s benefit. For the recent events, click here for an article… Read More ›
Communism
American Left-Wing Music
Left-wing music has been a cornerstone of the American socialist movement throughout its entire history. Stemming from the early 1900s to the present day, a good number of musicians and bands have expounded socialism through their lyrics and song content…. Read More ›
The Truth about the Shelling of Yeonpyeong
U.S. Imperialists Seek War With North Korea If you live in the United States or any other imperialist or imperialist-subjugated country, you have doubtlessly heard the news reports of the recent North Korean “attack” on a South Korean island, laced… Read More ›
On Marxism-Leninism
When one removes the rose-colored glasses of American consumerist ideology, that anti-culture which assures us that happiness is only “one purchase away,” the world we see is one plagued by stratification. We live in a world of billionaires and starving… Read More ›
Celebrate the 91st Anniversary of American Communism
Today marks the 91st anniversary of the birth of the first American Communist Party. The Communist Labor Party was formed on August 31, 1919 by John Reed, Benjamin Gitlow and other expelled members from the Socialist Party of America. The… Read More ›
Dialectics & Marxist Philosophy
What does one gain from studying Marxist philosophy? Marxist philosophy (1) is a harmonious system of man’s views of the surrounding world, the laws of its development and ways of cognising it. A study of philosophy, therefore, provides us with… Read More ›
The Revolutionary Process
It is without a doubt that our society as it stands is in desperate need of change. How does society truly change? What does change entail? Numerous ideologies have different ways of approaching these questions. Liberalism acknowledges that “change” to… Read More ›
Review: Glenn Beck’s “Revolutionary Holocaust: Live Free or Die”
Part VI of VI: The Chinese Great Leap Forward Glenn Beck ends his series with an attack on the Chinese Revolution. He claims that the Chinese leader Mao Zedong was the greatest mass murderer of all time, even worse than… Read More ›
Review of “Enemy at the Gates”
Personal Reflection: “The Reds” as the Good Guys I was about ten years old when my mother took the family to see Enemy at the Gates (2001). For one, this was the first time in my life that I was… Read More ›
Review: Glenn Beck’s “Revolutionary Holocaust: Live Free or Die”
Part IV of VI: Hunger & Holocaust – Glenn Beck on Stalin Glenn Beck begins his segment on Joseph Stalin by calling the Ukrainian famine in the Soviet Union a genocide. He states: “Most know that the horrors of the… Read More ›
The Myth of Overpopulation
What people who say that “population explosion is a phenomenon within itself” might not have considered is that most problems attributed to overpopulation are actually caused by political, social and economic conditions. The “overpopulation” movement is a disguise for the… Read More ›
Thoughts on Class Struggle
Is the Class Struggle Dead? Well, that’s certainly what I’ve been told many times, by both pro-bourgeois and self-professed “socialist” people. I think any Marxist organization must deal with this, and the result will either be that a truly revolutionary… Read More ›
The Tasks Before Us
This year of 2008, the second half, witnessed the beginning of the activities of the American Party of Labor. At the present time, the most urgent business to be attended to is that of the practice of the APL. I… Read More ›
Labor Theory of Value, a Simple Explanation
We will start this explanation of the labor theory of value with an analogy from outside the sphere of economics. A teenage boy is arguing with his mother about borrowing the car. A shrink watches their interaction and he doesn’t… Read More ›
The Red Phoenix 