-
The Communists and the Bolivarian process
An editorial by the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Venezuela (PCMLV). Translated from Spanish by Camilo Lazo for the Red Phoenix. In this edition we want to address a topical problem, which is of great interest to the international and national communist movement. We want to start by saying that since the arrival of Marxist ideas…
-
Film review: “Glory” and the art of liberation
By Red Nesbitt, Red Phoenix correspondent, Maryland. The 1989 film Glory turns 34 years old this year, as the Battle of Fort Wagner, the climax of the movie, turns 160. In the milieu of tired, historical drama epics chasing after the tragic Great Man alongside franchise exhumations, it rewards the film-loving proletarian to turn an…
-
New offensive, same stalemate in Ukraine
By Red Nesbitt, Red Phoenix correspondent, Maryland. Recent developments From late July to early August, Ukrainian forces launched a new offensive in the Donbas and Zaporizhzhia region after months of a vicious stalemate in the surroundings of Bakhmut (Artemivsk), capturing the villages of Blahodatne, Makarivka, Neskuchne, Lobkove, and Levadne, among others. Trench warfare was even…
-
Clearing the air on infantile U.S. gun culture: Marx revisited
In the wake of the unprecedented increase in deadly mass shootings across the United States over the last decade we in the American Party of Labor found it necessary to put forward a dialectical materialist analysis of the ongoing gun violence problem within the US, demonstrating the connections between the social alienation intrinsic to capitalism,…
-
Ohio residents celebrate victory, but must continue to organize
By Anna I., Red Phoenix correspondent, Ohio. The Ohio State Constitution presently allows citizen referendums to take place with the assent of at least half (44) of Ohio counties, allows a ten-day period for correcting errors in collecting these signatures, and permits a simple majority in the popular vote to pass any citizen or legislative-initiated…
-
Keep your guard up, redouble your work!
Editorial by the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador (PCMLE). Published in En Marcha #2060, Aug. 9–11, 2023. Translated for the Red Phoenix by Red Nesbitt. Very few days remain until the finalization of the electoral campaign, and, far from the “odds being settled” there is still much to do for disputing the support of a…
-
A remembrance: Why did the USA drop its atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
By Hari Kumar, Red Phoenix international correspondent. Foreword: The anniversary of the USA dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima (August 6) and Nagasaki (August 9) recently passed. The horrific toll on the Japanese working people is still felt today. We should recall that these were dropped when it was quite clear that Japan was defeated and…
-
Book review: “Radicals in the Barrio”
By Ian Ocx, Red Phoenix correspondent, Texas. Radicals in the Barrio, originally published in June 2018, and written by Justin Akers Chacón, a labor rights activists and professor of Chicano History at San Diego City College, is a well researched and beautifully written history of labor radicalism within the Mexican-American community that spans from the…
-
Wherever APEC goes, the people fight back!
Unity Statement of the Pacific Northwest People Over Profit Coalition. Peoples’ Summit Against APEC, Seattle, Washington, July 29, 2023. The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum (APEC), like other so-called “free trade” institutions like the World Trade Organization, exists to expand private control over more of the economy, and so it represents the interests of the…
-
Third meeting of Women of Latin America and the Caribbean
Published in Vanguardia Proletaria, No. 653 from August 1 to 15, 2023. By the central organ of the Communist Party of Mexico (Marxist-Leninist). The comrades of the Women’s Movement Olga Benario were responsible for hosting, in the facilities of the UB, University of Brasilia, in the fraternal people of Brazil, around a thousand delegates from…
The Red Phoenix
Real news for workers, by workers
