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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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La demagógica racista de Sean Duffy no puede ocultar la intensificación de la explotación de los camioneros
Sofia D. | Comisión de Nacionalidades Oprimidas del American Party of Labor | traducido por Camilo Lazo— [Editor’s note: To read this article in English, click here.] Sean Duffy, secretario del Departamento de Transportación de EE. UU. bajo Trump, firmó la Orden “Hacer cumplir las reglas de sentido común de la carretera para los camioneros…
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Twin Cities workers resist militarized terror against refugees
Margarethe Wegner & Eris Rosenburg | Red Phoenix correspondents | Minnesota– On June 3, the workers of Minneapolis met Trump’s jackbooted thugs on Lake Street in the defense of their neighbors, when the newly expanded Homeland Security Task Force (HSTF) arrived armed and ready for war, equipped with armored vehicles and other military equipment. That…
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Workers respond to Big Beautiful Bill: “Your weapons cannot save you”
Keegan D. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Illinois– The audience of this paper is and always will be the working class, however today we have a clear message for those in the bourgeois class headed by the Trump regime: your weapons cannot save you. The internal contradictions of capitalism are sharpening, and the use of…
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Strength until justice, struggle until peace, pride until equality
R. Nesbitt | Red Phoenix correspondent | Maryland– On June 1, the first day of Pride month of 2025, the same year that the White House refused to issue any statement for this historic period of LGBTQ+ Rights, the openly gay, Comanche actor, Jonathan Joss, of King of the Hill and Parks and Recreation fame,…
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