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Tax Increment Financing (TIF) districts in Chicago — A new tool for the same bourgeoisie
By Keegan D., Red Phoenix correspondent, Illinois. Chicago has long been a city with a rich working class culture of music, food, art, and diverse communities. The city had several waves of both foreign immigration and domestic emigration. This was eased by industry and intersections of both rail and water routes. Chicago, of course, also…
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Coast Guard neglect results in migrant deaths
By Sofia D., Red Phoenix correspondent, Minnesota. On June 14, a fishing boat containing around 750 refugees from Syria, Egypt, Pakistan, and Palestine capsized off the coast of Greece, killing up to 650 people on board. The blame for the massacre lies squarely with the Greek authorities, representing the larger fascistic and capitalistic factors which…
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Putin, Prigozhin, two peas in a pod — what just happened in Russia?
By Hari Kumar, Red Phoenix international correspondent. The oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin, who founded the armed mercenary group called “Wagner,” is today’s Coriolanus. Similar to that Roman general in an arrogant hubris fueling a spectacular turn-coat-ism, he now only awaits his own murder. As the chagrined Ukrainian Mykhailo Podolyak (advisor to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine)…
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The myth of Stalin’s ‘demoralisation’ in 1941
Written by Bill Bland for the Communist League. First published in Compass No. 135, April 2000. Note from editor June Vass: Bland led the Communist League as a founding member until his death in 2001. This article was one of the last in his long series exposing the lies around Stalin emanating from all manner…
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Hollywood Blacklist: “Salt of the Earth” and a demand for political reckoning
By Ed Rampell, Red Phoenix guest contributor, California. June 19, 2023 is the 70th anniversary of the electrocution of the so-called “atomic spies” Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Believed to be members of the Communist Party USA, the Rosenbergs were convicted of violating the Espionage Act by helping to pass atomic secrets to the Soviets and…
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Morocco: A political system without accountability
By Democratic Way, Morocco. Originally published in Democratic Path #507. English translation provided by Sofia D. for the Red Phoenix. Translator’s note: This article was produced by our comrades in Democratic Way (the Moroccan organization of the ICMLPO) concerning recent protests organized by the Moroccan Social Front (Le Front Sociál Marocain), of which Democratic Way…
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We cannot allow capitalism to sanitize Pride!
By Ian Ocx, LGBTQIA+ Commissioner of the American Party of Labor. Over the last year the LGBTQIA+ Commission of the American Party of Labor has been doing its best to cover, report on, organize within, and provide a Marxist-Leninist analysis to ongoing queer struggles across the United States. Much of this work became necessary to…
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Class struggle and identity politics: Strategy and tactics
By J. P. Galindo, Communist Party of Spain (Marxist-Leninist). English translation provided by Camilo Lazo for The Red Phoenix. One of the titanic tasks that Marx and Engels faced on their way to building a new materialist philosophy was to proclaim the end of the immutable concept of nature. From their earliest philosophical works, both…
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East Phillips Neighborhood Institute struggles for concessions
By Sofia D., Red Phoenix correspondent, Minnesota. In 2023, the East Phillips Neighborhood Institute (EPNI) in Minneapolis will purchase the Roof Depot, a vacant lot named by its most recent corporate inhabitant. EPNI is run by activists as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, with all of its tax statements easily accessible. The city had planned to demolish…
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U.S. Supreme Court undermines power of organized labor
By Leonard Zorfass, Red Phoenix correspondent, New Jersey. According to a recent Supreme Court ruling released on Thursday, June 1, 2023, companies are now granted the ability to sue unions for damages resulting from strikes. Damages resulting from strikes very much include financial damage and loss of profit. This decision strikes a blow at an…
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