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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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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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