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International Interview: Protest wave against deportations in the USA
Arbeit Zukunft | July 3, 2025 | Editor’s note translated from German for the Red Phoenix | Interview questions and answers published in original English– At the beginning of June, the reports about large waves of protests in Los Angeles and later the entire USA were increasing. The trigger was deportations by the United States…
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80 years after the Trinity Test, communities still seek justice
Resist U.S.-Led War Movement | July 16, 2025– Today, 80 years ago, the US conducted the Trinity Nuclear Test on July 16, 1945, in the New Mexico desert, marking the dawn of the atomic age. The test’s first victims of nuclear fall out were the nearly half a million people, who lived within a 150-mile…
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On Juneteenth, people of the Bronx demanded, “Down with ICE!”
Maurice B. | Red Phoenix correspondent | New York– On June 19, popularly celebrated as Juneteenth, organizers and working-class organizations from across the Bronx mobilized at Fordham Plaza to speak out and rally in response to the ever-growing presence of the Gestapo emulators of ICE agents across the borough. In recent weeks, there have been…
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Holy alliance against Palestine, the bogey of “antisemitism”
Michael G. | Red Phoenix correspondent | New Jersey– We are living through a moment of accelerating repression. Mass deportations violate both domestic and international law. Basic rights—speech, assembly, protest—are being gutted. Fascists no longer hide behind legality. Dissent, especially resistance to the genocide in Palestine, is met with Gestapo-like surveillance, arrests and police violence,…
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Reclaiming the radical history of Pride
In 1973, the New York City Pride March, originally called Christopher Street Liberation Day, barred drag queens from openly attending the event. While the term drag queen today has a very limited connotation, in the 1970s this was not the case. As the contemporary term transgender had not reached widespread use, the terms “drag queen”…
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Israel rejects two-state solution, continues expansion of illegal settlements
S. Argun | Red Phoenix correspondent | Washington– Israel announced recently that they have approved 22 new settlements in the occupied West Bank, including 12 existing illegal settlements, now fully legitimized in the eyes of the Israeli state, and nine new settlements. The current Israeli government has legalized or established 50 new settlements since 2022.…
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Private prison pivots to detain ICE victims as people of Leavenworth fight back
Marina S. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Kansas– The city of Leavenworth, Kansas has become an unlikely center of activity in the ongoing struggle against the unprecedented fascist violence perpetrated by ICE under the Trump regime. Back in Feb. 2025, it was reported that CoreCivic, formerly Corrections Corporation of America, was quietly attempting to negotiate…
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Coal miners fight cuts to black lung disability benefits
Thomas K. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Ohio– The National Institute of Occupational Health and Safety (NIOSH) came under attack recently by the Trump administration by means of funding cuts, with one specifically targeted a program that provided screening for black lung, a disease caused by long term inhalation of coal dust, to about 40%…
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Oliver Law, a forgotten pioneer in the Black radical tradition
Maurice B. | Red Phoenix correspondent | New York– Throughout the history of the United States, the continuous and unrelenting struggle of the African-descendant peoples of this country has been part and parcel of the great sweeping march of progressive change. From the times of chattel slavery and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and the rebellions…
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St. Paul attacks rent control, gives landlords a carte blanche to workers’ wallets
Margarethe Wegner | Red Phoenix correspondent | Minnesota– At the start of May, the Saint Paul City Council reversed its 2021 rent control measures in a 4-3 vote, selling out its constituents to developers desperate to extract higher rents. These original measures consisted of a rolling rent control that would slow the rate of rent…
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