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Union workers in solidarity: “We’re all fighting for the same thing”
Labor Day, 2023. Portland, OR. New Seasons Market is a local grocery store chain whose workers have unionized in several stores over the last two years, forming the New Seasons Labor Union (NSLU). The Red Phoenix interviewed a bargaining member of the union while supporting the Powell’s Books workers on strike. RP: Could you introduce…
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The Struggles of the Working Class and Peoples, and Inter-Imperialist Disputes
By the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador (PCMLE), En Marcha #2063, Sep. 6—12, 2023. On September 1 and 2, 2023, the 27th International Seminar “Problems of the Revolution in Latin America” was held virtually, with the participation of seventeen organizations, under the theme, “The struggles of the working class and peoples, and inter-imperialist disputes.” They…
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The BRICS meeting and the inter-imperialist struggles
By the Central Organ of the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador (PCMLE). En Marcha #2062, Aug. 30 — Sep. 5, 2023. Between August 22 and 24, the XV BRICS Summit was held in Johannesburg, South Africa, a bloc made up of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. This association of countries that emerged in…
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Loosening child labor regulations result in deaths of teen workers
By Anna I., Red Phoenix correspondent, Ohio. Child labor laws are being repealed in the United States in order to preserve profits, loosening previous restrictions in order to allow younger minors to work in dangerous settings. In a span of only five weeks this summer, three teens have died in industrial workplace accidents: Duvan Tomas…
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Tribute to Tomás Martínez Pinacho, communist journalist slain in Mexico
By Red Nesbitt, Red Phoenix correspondent, Maryland. On August 25, 2020, activist, journalist and organizer Tomás Martínez was assassinated at a restaurant in the town of Miahuatlán de Porfirio Diaz, in the state of Oaxaca. Martínez was a member of the Revolutionary Popular Front (FPR) of Mexico, a founding leader of the Union of Poor…
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Trump booked, commands followers, “Never surrender!”
By Leon V., Red Phoenix correspondent, Florida. Attempted putschist Donald Trump surrendered and was booked at Fulton County Jail in Georgia yesterday for a criminal racketeering and conspiracy charge, and although he was immediately released, the outrage and fervor of his fanbase must not be underestimated. This comes after his fourth case this year, as…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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