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My friend, Jack Shulman
Camilo Lazo | National Chair of the American Party of Labor | In memory of Jack Shulman on the 110th anniversary of his birth, July 29, 2024– I suppose it’s a very sad commentary on the present state of our movement — especially in the US — when one learns of the death of a…
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Jack Shulman: Testimony of an American Communist. Part 3: William Z. Foster
The following is part three of an interview conducted with veteran American communist Jack Shulman, an early anti-revisionist Marxist-Leninist, shortly before his passing in 1999. The first section deals with Comrade Shulman’s experience as a member of the anti-fascist Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War. Part two focuses on his activity organizing for…
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Two war parties battling over the world’s biggest war chest
A statement from the Resist US-Led War Movement | July 24, 2024– While Joe Biden has withdrawn from the 2024 Presidential election race, the oppressed and exploited people of the world are still made victims by two sides of the same pro-war imperialist American government. Ultimately, both the Trump and Biden-Harris Administrations further entrenched… the…
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Sonya Massey murdered in cold blood by Illinois sheriff’s deputy
Sofia D. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Virginia– On July 6, Deputy Sean Grayson shot Sonya Massey, 36, in the face three times while responding to her call to 911. Sonya Massey had called to report a possible intruder. As the sheriffs arrived, Massey was heating a pot of water on the stove. Grayson told…
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European elections: The crisis of the system is visible!
Statement by the International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations (ICMLPO) | July 18, 2024– The European election results have mercilessly exposed the crisis of the bourgeois-capitalist system and its internal contradictions. In many countries, the number of non-voters and abstentions was very high, sometimes higher than the votes for the strongest party. In France,…
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As in Austria’s July Revolt, we must stand against fascism!
Nadya H. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Maryland– On July 15, 1927, militarized police forces in Vienna, Austria fired upon a crowd of protesters, killing 89 attendees while wounding 600 others in what has come to be known as the July Revolt. The protests had been organized in response to the acquittal of the three…
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Migrants save Latin American economies
Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador (PCMLE) | July 9, 2024 | Translated from Spanish for the Red Phoenix– Every year, Latin American migrants send billions of dollars to their families, values that serve to sustain the economies of their countries, but which, even so, do not help their governments to do anything for them. $155…
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Coalition to March on the RNC is set to protest in Milwaukee on July 15
Statement from the Coalition to March on the RNC— Milwaukee, WI– With the Republican National Convention just a week away, some are asking “Why march on the RNC?” However, the correct question should be: “Why not? Why not march on the Republican National Convention? Why not march on those leading the attacks on women’s and…
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Manoel Lisboa: 80 years of immortality
Manoel Lisboa de Moura, founder and top leader of the Revolutionary Communist Party of Brazil, had been a militant since his school days, as well as an actor and theater director. He began his medical studies at UFAL, but abandoned them to dedicate himself to the clandestine struggle against the fascist military dictatorship. He was…
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What, to the slave, is the Fourth of July?
On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass was invited to address the citizens of his hometown, Rochester, New York. Whatever the expectations of his audience on that 76th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Douglass used the occasion not to celebrate the nation’s triumphs but to remind all of its continuing enslavement of…
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