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I.C.E. seeks to place Kansas City at heart of planned network of concentration camps
Marina S. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Kansas– On the morning of Jan. 13, residents of the Kansas City Northland reported that dozens of vehicles displaying ICE logos were found in a parking lot within sight of a popular local amusement park. The placement of the vehicles, so close to such a popular attraction for…
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I.W.A.: Counter Rising Fascism with Working Women’s Unity!
International Women’s Alliance | March 7, 2026— The first months of 2026 have laid bare the reality of the crisis in the global capitalist system: that conflict between imperialist powers will result in war and economic instability, and that the most vulnerable in society will endure the brunt of the crisis. Already in 2026 women…
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Success of Bread and Roses Strike of 1912 demonstrates value of workplace organizing, community solidarity
Thomas K. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Ohio– The Bread and Roses Strike of 1912 was one of the most significant labor struggles in U.S. history. Often grossly misunderstood as a spontaneous action, this strike was but one of many at this workplace, and built upon years of depraved exploitation by the mill owners, and…
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Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, Archbishop of Chicago: “A Call to Conscience”
Editor’s note: In the early hours of Feb. 28, 2026, U.S. and Israeli forces launched a series coordinated military attacks against the Islamic Republic of Iran. As of March 13, 2026, the war is still ongoing with thousands of Iranian civilian and military causalities and dozens of U.S. military causalities and counting. Although the Trump…
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“Red Aid” Service to the People Program builds connections in communities, labor movement
Shakti L. & Meyer K. | Red Phoenix correspondents | New York– As the contradictions of capitalism reach a critical point with homelessness, food insecurity, poverty, debt, unemployment and wage exploitation; and as the ruling class resorts to fascism to defend its interests, the working class and homeless are forced to bear the full weight…
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Left-right divide among Ohio union workers manufactured by capitalist class
Thomas K. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Ohio– A recent news report attempted to shed light on the current Ohio labor political landscape, where unions are shifting rightward. It highlights two “labor leaders” inside of the state and they both share their perspectives on the growing divide in union labor. The report both correctly and…
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I.C.E. weaponization of family bonds results in barbaric murder of Wael Tarabishi
John M. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Colorado– In the heart of American fascist tyranny, where the ruling class clings to power through border walls, deportation squads, and endless wars abroad, another family has been shattered by the terroristic machinery of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Wael Tarabishi, a 30-year-old U.S. citizen battling…
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Kansas revokes transgender residents’ driver’s licenses, paving way for heightened state repression
Transgender Kansas residents began receiving lettersfrom the state informing them that their driver’s licenses would be invalidated and that they must surrender them immediately, to be replaced by ones with incorrect gender markers on them. This escalation comes after a repressive anti-trans law, SB 244, was passed in the Midwestern state earlier this month requiring…
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Experts warn U.S. in early stages of transgender genocide, but truth may be worse
Ilektra M. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Oregon– While conditions for transgender people in the United States have long been suboptimal, the second Trump administration is making clear moves to not only erase what modest progress has been made in the past few decades, but to wholly eliminate transgender people as a population. In the…
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