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Taking back the narrative on Zohran Mamdani
Jo Mason | Red Phoenix correspondent | Illinois– On June 24, 2025, Zohran Mamdani defeated the AIPAC-funded Democratic juggernaut Andrew Cuomo in the primary election for the New York mayoral race, which will be held in November. For many on the left this was seen as a huge win due to Zohran’s progressive tendencies and…
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McKees Rocks Strike “greatest labor fight in all history”
Thomas K. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Ohio– “Men are persecuted, robbed, and slaughtered, and their wives are abused in a manner worse than death… all to obtain or retain positions that barely keep starvation from the door.” Rev. Father A.F. Toner, priest at St. Mary Roman Catholic Church uin McKees Rocks. The Pressed Steel…
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Ripple effects of unchecked power from Gaza to Boulder
John M. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Colorado– On Sunday, June 1, 2025, a violent attack disrupted a peaceful gathering in Boulder, Colorado, organized by Run for Their Lives, a group raising awareness for Israeli hostages held in Gaza. The assailant, identified as 45-year-old Mohamed Sabry Soliman, allegedly shouted “Free Palestine” while deploying a makeshift…
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The Front Range Rail: Battling corporate interests for Fort Collins workers
John M. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Colorado– Fort Collins workers are tired of being stuck in traffic, spending hard-earned wages on gas and car repairs just to get to work. The Front Range Passenger Rail, a proposed 173-mile line from Fort Collins to Pueblo, could change that. On May 14, 2025, the Colorado Department…
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Fascist rally in Kansas City met with silence, inaction by officials
Marina S. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Kansas– On Saturday, May 24, around 150 members of the fascist paramilitary group known as the Patriot Front, emerging from a fleet of rented cargo vans, invaded the steps of the Kansas City World War I Memorial also known as Liberty Memorial. The fascist demonstrators, dressed in uniforms…
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Crisis in the bourgeois legal system
Misha G. | Red Phoenix correspondent | New Jersey– As the Trump administration tightens its grip on state power and continues to purge dissent, it has escalated a pattern that even liberal defenders of bourgeois legality find shocking. His regime demands total obedience from the judicial system, sidelining procedural norms which serve to legitimize it…
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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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