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A personal tribute to the Movement for Struggle in Neighborhoods
Alberes Simão | A Verdade Nov. 13, 2025 | Translated from Portuguese for the Red Phoenix | Brazil– Thanks to the example of the Movement for Struggle in Neighborhoods, Villages and Slums, the MLB, we can see that it is truly possible to build a new world. This is my tribute to the MLB and…
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Transphobic rhetoric fuels right-wing terror
Keegan D. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Illinois– For the last several years reactionary conspiracy theorists have spread the dangerous lie that transgender people are disproportionately responsible for political violence and gun violence in general. This deception, based on a gross misrepresentation of gun violence statistics and widespread lies surrounding the background of certain infamous…
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Modern brownshirts: Trump’s fascist thugs attack pre-K school in Chicago
Keegan D. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Illinois– Since beginning operation “Midway Blitz” – an aggressive push to arrest immigrants with criminal records in Chicago – Trump’s modern brownshirts, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP), have unleashed a wave of reactionary violence most recently culminating in an attack on…
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Establishment fears of a reformist by policy, socialist by self-declaration
Misha G. and June Vass | Red Phoenix correspondents– Zohran Mamdani — a Muslim, an immigrant, and a self-proclaimed democratic socialist — has managed to win the election for Mayor of New York City, in a country which has trained its populace to hate anything that smacks of socialism as a patriotic duty. While Mamdani…
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Pay student teachers, resist the fascist attack on education!
Mark G. | The Justice | Nov. 4, 2025– Today, the United States faces a deep crisis in education. Literacy rates are declining, teachers are leaving the profession in droves, the Trump administration is preparing to abolish special education and public education itself is under political attack. According to the National Literacy Institute, 54% of American adults read…
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Socialism in the United States?
Erick Macay Rubio | Enfoque Rebelde | Translated from Spanish for the Red Phoenix by Camilo Lazo– Zohran Mamdani has just been elected mayor of New York City. A Muslim and an open democratic socialist, Mamdani’s victory is nothing short of historic. A win in a country that has spent decades teaching its citizens that hating…
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¿Socialismo en los Estados Unidos?
Erick Macay Rubio | Enfoque Rebelde | English translation here— Zohran Mamdani acaba de ganar las elecciones a la alcaldía de Nueva York. Un musulmán y declarado “socialista democrático” ha logrado vencer en un país cuyo pueblo ha sido adoctrinado en el odio al comunismo y el socialismo como un deber patriótico. Zohran llega como…
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Chicago’s budget crisis as case study for necessity of socialism
Keegan D. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Illinois– Around the entire globe the contradictions inherent to the capitalist mode of production are sharpening and bringing the world further into a situation of crisis, and one case which serves as evidence of this reality is the budget crisis in Chicago, Illinois. Far from the openly racist…
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American Party of Labor statement on U.S. aggression against Venezuela
The Secretariat of the American Party of Labor | Nov. 3, 2025– The American Party of Labor condemns the continued campaign of aggression waged by the Trump Administration against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. The recent bombing of Venezuelan civilian fishing boats by U.S. naval forces, the imposition of inhumane economic sanctions, and the baseless…
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Columbus police kill 18-year old Ta’Shawn Davis in under two minutes
Thomas K. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Ohio– In keeping with the long standing tradition of being the chief instrument of oppression of the masses, the Columbus Police Department (CPD) makes American police proud by showing the working class that they have no intentions of seeking justice or serving the people. On Oct. 12, CPD…
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