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Judicial decay, cancelled elections, increasing fascistization
R. Nesbitt | Red Phoenix correspondent | Maryland– There are now Republicans in the United States who have cancelled elections. In Miami, Florida, county commissioners have postponed city elections until November of 2026, without any presentation to the people, without any consultation of constituents or referenda. These Republican bureaucrats have claimed that this decision was…
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Ohio budget bill strips LGBTQ rights, defunds public libraries, schools
Thomas K. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Ohio– Ohio House Bill 96, a “budget bill” which passed through the state senate and was signed into law by Gov. Mike DeWine, includes a direct attack on the rights and identity of the LGBTQ+ community as well as a deferment of funds from libraries and public schools.…
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Privatization and commercialization of space fail to deliver on promises… again…
Allison P. | Red Phoenix international correspondent– 2337 27 May 2025 UTC, 33 Raptor engines roared to life in a glorious return to flight for the Starship Super Heavy program, carrying with it hope for the future and the promises of commercial spaceflight providing cheap access to space. It failed, just as had the previous…
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Review: The “Molly Maguires,” America’s first great class war
Maurice B. | Red Phoenix correspondent | New York– “There’s them on top and them below; push up, or push down. Who’s got more push? That’s all that counts.” – Sean Connery as Jack Kehoe June 21, 2025 marked 148 years to the day since ten miners were hanged to death in Pottsville, Schuylkill County,…
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Review: After 35 years, “Paris Is Burning” remains essential class-conscious queer cinema
Marina S. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Kansas– “I remember my dad used to say, ‘You have three strikes against you in this world. Every black man has two, that they’re just black and they’re a male. But you’re black and you’re male and you’re gay. You’re gonna have a hard fuckin’ time. If you…
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Gov. Polis vetoes Worker Protection Act, betrays Colorado’s working class
John M. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Colorado– On May 16, 2025, Colorado Governor Jared Polis dealt a devastating blow to the state’s labor movement, and, in the same stroke, a blow to the illusion of the bourgeois union’s militancy or effectiveness, by vetoing Senate Bill 5 (SB-5), the Worker Protection Act. The bill aimed…
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Call to the peoples of the world: Let us oppose American-Israeli aggression against Iran!
Israel’s aggression against Iran, which began on June 13 with intensive airstrikes and assassinations, continues. Just as the justification for the attack on Iraq was “Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction,” the justification for the attack on Iran is “Iran’s nuclear program.” The news agencies report that Trump has approved US imperialism’s plan to attack Iran,…
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Party of Labor of Iran (Toufan): Statement on Israeli aggression against Iran and its people
Foreign Relations Committee of the Party of Labor of Iran (Toufan) | June 13, 2025– The Party of Labor of Iran strongly condemns the terrorist and criminal aerial attack by the Zionist Israeli regime against Iran. In the early hours of this morning, the Zionist and warmongering Israeli regime, with the approval and cooperation of…
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Lake Loveland’s decline puts water and livelihoods at stake
John M. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Colorado– In Loveland, Colorado, Lake Loveland is shrinking at an alarming rate, its muddy banks strewn with dead fish; a haunting symbol of climate change’s relentless assault on working-class communities. Climate change is robbing communities of the water they need to survive and thrive, but we have the…
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Sean Duffy’s racist demagoguery cannot conceal intensifying exploitation of truck drivers
Sofia D. | Oppressed Nationalities Commission of the American Party of Labor— [Nota del editor: Haga clic aquí para leer este artículo en inglés.] Sean Duffy, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation under Trump, signed the “Enforcing Commonsense Rules Of The Road For America’s Truck Drivers” Order on May 20, 2025, which re-introduces harsher penalties…
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