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From Wounded Knee to Dakota Access Pipeline, Standing Rock still stands
Nadya H. / Red Phoenix correspondent, Maryland. On December 29, 1890, over 250 Lakota men, women, and children were executed in what is known today as the Wounded Knee Massacre. Under pretenses of relocation, 500 soldiers of the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army, stoked by recent tension after the assassination of Sitting…
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32 years since capitalist barbarity dissolved USSR, but socialism will rise again!
Artyom S. / Red Phoenix correspondent, Maryland. “What would happen if capital succeeded in smashing the Republic of Soviets? There would set in an era of the blackest reaction in all the capitalist and colonial countries, the working class and the oppressed peoples would be seized by the throat, the positions of international communism would be…
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Palestinian Health Unions — Urgent call for global solidarity response
Workers in Palestine — In the face of unprecedented challenges, we, the Palestinian health sector unions, stand as a unified voice representing the dedicated health workers across Gaza and the West Bank. Our unions include doctors, nurses, and other professional staff, alongside committed support workers—all tirelessly serving the people of Palestine. Today, we issue a…
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Voice to the Özak garment workers’ resistance
Turkey — Özak Textile was established 10 years ago in Urfa in southeastern Turkey as the 4th textile factory of Özak Holding. The factory mainly produces for international companies such as Levi’s, Zara and Hugo Boss. Since 1985, the holding has grown by expanding into many business lines. In addition to state subsidies and tax…
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73 years after first national ban of lobotomies, patient wellness still not priority
Allison P. / Red Phoenix international correspondent. Jan. 17, 1947 — The first transorbital prefrontal lobotomy is performed. Dec. 10, 1949 — António Egas Moniz is awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for introducing the infamous frontal lobotomy for refractory cases of psychosis. Dec. 9, 1950 — Less than one year later, the USSR becomes…
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Solidarity with the Palestinian people!
After the operation Al Aqsa Flood launched on Oct. 7 by different groups of Palestinian resistance, the Zionist state of Israel leaded by the fascist government of Netanyahu started a terroristic bombing on Gaza Strip and West Bank with its powerful military forces killing about 15 thousand Palestinians, two-third of which are children and women.…
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Fascist Governor arrests Unidade Popular president in São Paulo for fighting water privatization
Editor’s note: The dealings of corporate overlords to privatize the water utilities of São Paulo are atrocious. We are proud of our Brazilian comrades in Unidade Popular pelo Socialismo for standing up against this crime against the people. It is unacceptable that four UP protestors were brutalized and arrested by police for their action of…
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Framing Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera: Mexico’s greatest revolutionary painters ride again in new opera
Ed Rampell / Red Phoenix guest contributor. If ever there was an operatic couple absolutely ideal for immortalization in the musical medium of maestros Mozart, Puccini, Rossini, Wagner, and company, it’s Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. They are indelibly iconic as Mexico’s premiere artists, communists and legendary lovers. Their romance and marriages were marked by…
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All monopolies and the imperialists are the enemies of the peoples
International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations (CIPOML) The bloody conflicts all over the world re-emphasize every day the importance and urgency of raising the flags of struggle against imperialism. The working class and peoples of the world must shoulder this struggle, because the imperialists are directly attacking the working class and peoples in order…
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Frustrations with neoliberalism leading to growth of far-right in Netherlands
Allison P. / Red Phoenix international correspondent. On Nov. 22, the far-right Party for Freedom (PVV) won the plurality of the vote in the Dutch election. This was not an inevitable result of history, but the result of deliberate acts by previous liberal governments to put profits above people. The PVV is expected to take…
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