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Mass layoffs in tech: Sacrificing workers to boost stock prices
Victor Vaughn | Red Phoenix correspondent | Maryland– The memo Elon Musk1 sent by email announcing Tesla was laying off 10% of its global workforce in April was surprisingly candid: “There is nothing I hate more, but it must be done,” the emerald heir opined, claiming the layoffs were necessary to allow the EV manufacturer…
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Europeans: The response to the rise of reaction is to intensify class struggle and popular struggle!
Published by the Workers’ Communist Party of France (PCOF) on June 11, 2024. Translated from French by Sofia D. for the Red Phoenix– The results of the European elections are overshadowed by Macron’s declaration of the dissolution of the National Assembly, and that the first round of legislative elections will be held by June 30.…
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California’s Salton Sea: At the intersection of capitalist-driven environmental catastrophe
M. A. Booth | Red Phoenix correspondent | Kentucky– Over the course of the 20th century, an endorheic rift lake — a collection of water within a basin with no evident outlet — in the California desert has become the center of an ongoing environmental disaster. Fueled by a lack of effective water management from…
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Kanaky: The colonial repression must stop! “Thawing of the electorate” policy must be retired!
Published by the Workers’ Communist Party of France (PCOF) on May 22, 2024.Translated from French by Sofia D. for the Red Phoenix– Throughout the week, the Kanak people, their allies, their social political organizations, unions, their elected officials… they have continually voiced their opposition to the legal project of “dégel du corps électoral” which Macron,…
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On immigration, Biden’s executive order, and the international proletariat
Keegan D. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Illinois– The reactionary imperialist war criminal in a liberal mask, Joe Biden, is implementing an executive order which will shut down the already incredibly limited American immigrant asylum system. The order would shut down the asylum system if the observed number of instances of undocumented immigration over the…
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Trump convicted! What does this mean for the working class?
Leon V. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Florida– Donald Trump has just become the first U.S. president to be convicted as a felon. Today, May 30, 2024, Trump was found guilty on all 34 counts of fraud related to the “Hush Money Trial.” While there is currently no date slated for sentencing, one can assume…
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Tenth Congress of the PCOF: French workers have a proud history of resistance to oppression
The American Party of Labor congratulates our comrades of the Workers’ Communist Party of France (PCOF) who recently held their tenth Congress. Below we share the fraternal greetings sent from our Party to theirs, followed by their own report on the success of this Congress and the current state of their work. To the comrade…
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Raisi, a fundamental part of the repressive state apparatus of Iran, has died
PCR Chile | Translated for the Red Phoenix by Camilo Lazo– Ebrahim Raisi, the President of Iran, has died. Iran, a theocratic capitalist regime that since 1979 has imposed Islamic law on the workers and the people through the use of terror, silenced any type of dissent, prohibited unions, labor parties and all types of…
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75th Anniversary of NATO; No to your wars of terror and plunder!
Published in Scintilla #145, May 2024 by Communist Platform – for the Communist Party of the Proletariat of Italy— Resolution of European Parties and Organizations members of the ICMLPO, adopted in April 2024 (the signatories are listed at the end). According to the preamble of the NATO Treaty, it defends “peace, democracy, freedom and the…
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Fraternal greeting from Revolutionary Communist Party of Chile to APL 5th Congress
The following is a comradely greeting sent from the Revolutionary Communist Party of Chile to the American Party of Labor on behalf of the party’s Fifth Congress. Greetings from the Revolutionary Communist Party of Chile to the American Party of Labor (APL) Comrades: Please receive fraternal and militant greetings from our Party to the 5th…
