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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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To resist imperialism is to resist Great Power Chauvinism
Camilo Lazo | National Chair of the American Party of Labor— What a lot of talk, argument and vociferation there is nowadays about nationality and the fatherland! Liberal and radical cabinet ministers in Britain, a host of “forward-looking” journalists in France (who have proved in full agreement with their reactionary colleagues), and a swarm of official…
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Stop the massacre of the Congolese people!
Written by Aské for La Flamme, central organ of the Communist Party of Bénin, June 14 | Translated by Sofia D. for the Red Phoenix– A rebel attack perpetrated on Friday, June 7, in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has left 41 dead. This makes for new victims suffering from these…
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The occupation of Gaza: Nine months of struggle
Aspen R. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Indiana– “In today’s world no one is innocent, no one is neutral. A man is either with the oppressed or he is with the oppressors. He who takes no interest in politics gives his blessing to the prevailing order, that of the ruling classes and exploiting forces.” –George…
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Florida judge declares constitutional right to gender-affirming treatment; DeSantis prepares to retaliate
Anna I. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Ohio– A federal judge has struck down the blatantly bigoted Florida law, SB 254, ruling it as unconstitutional. The law, which banned access to gender-affirming treatments to thousands of transgender people under the age of 18 and heavily regulated adult patients who sought care, was signed by the…
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