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Trump wins; we fight on, harder than ever!
From the Secretariat of the American Party of Labor– Donald Trump has been re-elected President of the United States. Although the election results for the U.S. House of Representatives have not yet been fully tabulated, the Republicans now have majorities in the Senate and the Supreme Court, and can be said to control all branches…
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Election 2024: Fascism is at the gates
Eris Rosenburg | Red Phoenix correspondent | Minnesota– “The American workers will not follow the bourgeoisie. They will be with us, for civil war against the bourgeoisie… I also recall the words of one of the most beloved leaders of the American proletariat, Eugene Debs, who wrote in the Appeal to Reason, I believe towards the end…
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From Maine to Texas, every single port!
R. Nesbitt | Red Phoenix correspondent | Maryland– On October 1, 2024, the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) launched a strike including several key ports all along the East Coast of the United States, from Boston and New York in the North, to New Orleans and Houston in the South. After two days of struggle, the…
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Book Review: “¡Chicana Power! Contested Histories of Feminism in the Chicana Movement”
Ian Ocx | Red Phoenix correspondent | Texas– Summary: Published in 2011 and written by Maylei Blackwell, a Chicana studies professor at UCLA’s César E. Chávez Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies, ¡Chicana Power! Contested Histories of Feminism in the Chicana Movement focuses on telling the story of and creating an inclusive historiography for the…
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One Year On, Resist the Genocide and the Brutal Zionist Invasion
“I am alone. The stress I am experiencing is hard to describe. Honestly, I don’t see a future right now. We are starting to accept that we could die at any moment.” —Nancy, a Lebanese refugee. The Zionist invasion of Lebanon is a criminal war of aggression, ethnic cleansing, and genocide in the service of…
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Healthcare workers stand against Israel’s “war on Lebanon and humanity”
The horrific attacks on Lebanon should be at the front of everyone’s mind. Israel’s attacks on Lebanon have killed thousands. They’ve turned everyday items into instruments of terror, bombing people in their homes and at their jobs. No one in Lebanon is safe from Israel. No one in Palestine is safe from Israel. Israel is…
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Voter suppression fuels disillusionment with undemocratic bourgeois elections
Anna I. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Ohio– On August 20, the homes of several Democrats in Texas were raided by armed police in an attempt to prevent “voter fraud” in the words of the state’s Attorney General, Ken Paxton. These Democrats were also part of the Latino civil rights organization, The League of United…
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Editorial: The Twilight of Trumpism?
Camilo Lazo | National Chair of the American Party of Labor– “Get[ting] rich not by production, but by pocketing the already available wealth of others, clashing every moment with the bourgeois laws themselves, an unbridled assertion of unhealthy and dissolute appetites manifested itself, particularly at the top of bourgeois society – lusts wherein wealth derived…
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Oregon anti-war demonstrators oppose McMinnville Air Show
Resist the glorification of war and militarism! McMinnville: No Oregon Air Show! In step with the national call to action against air and water shows, Resist US-Led War Portland organized a week of action against the Oregon air show this year. They held an information and open-planning session on August 28, where they were joined…
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Beijing Declaration hammers final nail in coffin of Oslo Declaration opportunism
Hannah H. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Texas– On July 23, Wang Yi and the Chinese government brokered a landmark agreement between thirteen Palestinian Political and Resistance factions, including Hamas, Fatah (representing the Palestinian Liberation Organization, PLO), Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Though this agreement has…
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