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APK: Condemn Israel’s criminal attack on Jenin!
Solidarity with the struggle of the Palestinian people By Workers’ Communist Party (APK), Denmark. APK expresses its full solidarity with the heroic struggling of the Palestinian people. We strongly condemn and abhor apartheid Israel’s latest criminal attack against Jenin and the refugee camp. It is a violent military attack and massacre in the long series…
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Central Appalachia: Sacrifice zone of capitalism
By M. A. Booth, Red Phoenix correspondent, Kentucky. The Central Appalachian region of the US has a long history of coal mining going back nearly two centuries. The region itself encompasses approximately 29,773 square miles of land in five states: Eastern Kentucky, West Virginia, Southwestern Virginia, East Tennessee, and Western North Carolina. Nicknamed the “coal…
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Police brutality riots in France, Eurocommunists nowhere to be found!
By Leon V., Red Phoenix correspondent, Florida. France has erupted into riots after the police killing of Nahel Merzouk, a 17 year old French-African, during a traffic stop. The protestors — who are composed of European French, French-Africans, and immigrants — are calling for justice for Nahel and their demands and anger have exploded into…
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Hazy skies, the smoking gun of capitalism’s effects on climate
By Anna I., Red Phoenix correspondent, Ohio. Since the first week of June, toxic smoke has blanketed cities in the Midwest and on the East Coast. This smoke, wafting from wildfires burning in Quebec and Ontario, Canada, has caused air quality alerts across the eastern United States. Inhalation of the fine particulates in this smoke…
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On the recent Supreme Court rulings
By Keegan D., Red Phoenix correspondent, Illinois. Every year liberal bourgeois think tanks and NGOs (non-governmental organizations) release reports that claim to rank and determine the levels of democracy within countries around the globe. Somehow the US ranks near the top consistently, with only a few of these democracy ratings being bold enough to knock…
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Gov. Abbott attacks Texas worker safety regulations, water breaks
By Ian Ocx, Red Phoenix correspondent, Texas. Texas Governor Greg Abbott recently signed HB 2127 into law which will take effect September 1, 2023. The publicly stated purpose and goal for this bill, which held broad Republican Party support, is to create a statewide regulatory system in relation to business practices and commerce regulations, which…
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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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