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No To APEC Unity Statement
No To APEC Steering Committee At the close of our People’s Counter Summit Against APEC, we issued a unity statement to summarize the positions of the No To APEC Coalition during our 2023 campaign culminating in the 800+ person Counter Summit. The statement is titled “People and Planet against Profit and Plunder: Towards a World…
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Two-state solution no longer practical in Palestine
By Sofia D., Red Phoenix correspondent, Minnesota. Since Hamas’ Operation Al-Aqsa Flood commenced on Oct. 7, Israel has escalated the continuous genocidal war against Palestinians. Many of the facts of this genocide are already well known, but let us review some of the prominent facts since Oct. 7: This genocide has been funded and supplied…
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Union-led Amazon strike expands to Baltimore warehouses
By Victor Vaughn, Red Phoenix correspondent, Maryland. Striking Amazon workers led by members of the Teamsters union picketed two Amazon warehouses in Baltimore (BWI2 and BWI5) on the evening of Wednesday, Nov. 8, joining the nationwide protest initiated by unionized Amazon drivers in Palmdale, California. Dozens of other union workers and members of the Baltimore…
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Transgender Day of Remembrance 2023: Up with Liberation
By Ian Ocx, LGBTQIA+ Commissioner of the American Party of Labor. Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance, a day that all of us in the LGBTQIA+ community and its allies use to bring attention to the previous and ongoing struggles faced by our transgender and gender-nonconforming comrades. Over the years, gender — and other subjects…
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Communist Palestinian citizen of Israel arrested for organizing protest
By Artyom S., Red Phoenix correspondent, Maryland. On the morning of November 9, 2023, leading member of the Israeli Communist Party (Maki), former leader of Hadash, and chairman of the High Follow-Up Committee for Arab Citizens of Israel, Mohammad Barakeh, was arrested alongside members of the Balad party: Sami Abu Shehadeh, Mtanes Shehadeh, Haneen Zoab,…
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The forces that nearly murdered me are meeting in San Francisco today
I was almost killed by Philippine troops upholding the global economic order on display at this week’s APEC Summit. Brandon Lee via The Nation Today, I will come face to face with the forces who nearly killed me. In 2019, members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines attempted to assassinate me in response to…
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Economic growth, a double-edged sword
By Leonard Zorfass, Red Phoenix correspondent, New Jersey. Without a curtain to hide behind, or significant opposition to fear, the capitalist system finds itself grappling with soaring inflation even as the economy experiences relentless growth — including the job market, which boasts 33 consecutive months of expansion. Yet, paradoxically to “classical” bourgeois understanding, the Federal…
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Christian fundamentalist becomes Speaker of the House
By Anna I., Red Phoenix correspondent, Ohio. After nearly a month of infighting, the Republicans in the House of Representatives finally elected a new speaker, diehard Christian fundamentalist Mike Johnson. The fiasco surrounding the election of this individual represents not only a profound dysfunction at the top of capitalist government, but also yet another GOP…
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“Victims of Communism Day” attempting to co-opt October Revolution anniversary
By Allison P., Red Phoenix international correspondent. November 7 marks another silly holiday for American students: National Victims of Communism Day. On this day, students from a number of states (including Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Virginia, Texas, Idaho, and Utah) will receive 45 minutes of education on the horrors of communism. In the State of Florida,…
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On Palestine, the Palestine Liberation Movement, and USA Imperialism: A Marxist-Leninist View
In response to the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack prompting the wholesale slaughter of the Palestinian people By Hari Kumar, Red Phoenix international correspondent. Introduction The history of the Palestinian liberation movement is very convoluted and long. Furthermore the many tomes that have been published on it over the years do not make for an…
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