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Shady pro-cop petition campaign by “Safer Portland” sparks rage, distrust within community
At a time when Portland officials claim there is not enough money to adequately fund the public services working-class residents rely upon, and these services are facing severe cuts, millions of dollars in climate investments are being targeted for reallocation to policing instead. Behind this effort is Safer Portland, a police-backed political action committee campaigning…
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Red Phoenix Live! July 15, 2026
The Red Phoenix Live! provides real news for workers, by workers. Tune in every Wednesday at 8:30pm ET for the latest headlines and political discussion through a class lens. Hosted by comrades Jo Mason and Maurice Brunson. All power to the working people!
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Colorado beef processing plant assaults workers in Fort Morgan
In a move that lays bare the raw power imbalance between giant corporations and the working people who keep their operations running, Cargill has locked out more than 1,700 workers at its massive beef processing plant in Fort Morgan, CO. The action, which began on May 20, 2026, came after union members overwhelmingly rejected the…
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The Pullman Strike of 1894: A lesson on limits of unionism in class struggle
In the summer of 1894, as economic depression devastated working-class communities across the United States, a struggle erupted that would bring the nation’s rail system to a standstill and pit hundreds of thousands of workers against some of the most powerful interests in the country. What began as a local dispute at the Pullman Palace…
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Illinois data center fight reveals fault lines in labor movement
In Grayslake, a northwest suburb of Chicago, a local movement aiming to stop a 472-acre data center from being built in a residential area faced another hurdle as the local city government packed a city council meeting with over 100 members of the International Union of Operation Engineers (IUOE) Locals 150 and 152. In a…
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Red Phoenix Live! July 8, 2026 ft. Action for Cuba Committee
The Red Phoenix Live! provides real news for workers, by workers. Tune in every Wednesday at 8:30pm ET for the latest headlines and political discussion through a class lens. Hosted by comrades Jo Mason and Maurice Brunson. All power to the working people!
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Review: “Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age” by Ibram X. Kendi
Camilo Lazo | National Chair of the American Party of Labor– If one were to reduce Ibram X. Kendi’s Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age to a single sentence, it would be. “I have only one thing to say to the so-called ‘Great Replacement.’ If people are being replaced, then perhaps it…
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Michael Parenti Interview: On Culture, Karl Marx, and America’s ‘Founding Fathers’
Ed Rampell | Red Phoenix guest contributor | California Editor’s note: Ed Rampell was named after legendary CBS broadcaster Edward R. Murrow because of his TV exposes of Senator Joe McCarthy. Rampell majored in Cinema at Manhattan’s Hunter College and is an L.A.-based film historian/critic who co-organized the 2017 70th anniversary Blacklist remembrance at the…
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Today, July 4, 2026
R. Nesbitt | Red Phoenix correspondent | Maryland– Today, July 4th, 2026, marks 250 years since the Declaration of Independence of the new United States of America from the British Empire. This event was a watershed moment in advancing the era of bourgeois revolutions against the remnants of feudal political power in the West, and…
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1776 and All That: Marxism and American Bourgeois Revolution
Camilo Lazo | National Chair of the American Party of Labor– On July 4th, Americans will once again gather beneath the “bombs bursting in air,” surrounded by the aroma of grilling bratwurst, while bourgeois politicians of every stripe wrap themselves in the language of “liberty,” “democracy,” and the “Founding Fathers.” Yet scarcely will the charcoal…
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