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Letter to the Phoenix: Teachers, the front line revolutionaries
Note: The Red Phoenix does not edit the content of letters and reproduces them as a glimpse into the minds of working people in the United States. The Red Phoenix received the following letter from A. Dewy, a public school teacher in the South who has growing concerns over legislation in our country and its…
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Economic problems and elections dominated May Day rallies in Turkey
The economic crisis, poor working conditions and the presidential and parliamentary elections to be held on May 14 dominated the May Day rallies. Published in Evrensel Daily. May Day, International Day of Unity, Struggle and Solidarity of the Working Class was celebrated with mass rallies in dozens of cities across Turkey. The economic crisis, poor…
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Paddy Whalen: Tribune of the People
By the Maryland Division of the American Party of Labor. The American Party of Labor is proud to announce the foundation of a Maryland state Division, headquartered in the Baltimore metropolitan area. After a period of deliberation, the Maryland comrades are here resolved to declare their presence to the Old Bay State, the Mid-Atlantic, and…
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Unionized Starbucks workers strike again
By Sofia D., Red Phoenix correspondent, Minnesota. On April 27, Starbucks workers at 300 Snelling Ave S. in St. Paul, Minnesota, returned to the picket line after the nationwide strike on March 2022, demanding a return to the regular 20-person staff, their right to display openly their union bulletin board, coverage for transgender healthcare, and…
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Hollywood Blacklist: “Objective, Burma!”
By Ed Rampell, Red Phoenix guest contributor, California. (Note: This is the unedited text for the introduction to the April 23 screening of Objective, Burma! at the Academy Museum for this series commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Hollywood Blacklist.) Who attended our screening of 1944’s None Shall Escape? Like today’s movie, Objective, Burma!, it’s…
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Remembering the Italian partisans who ended Mussolini’s violence
By John Palameda, Red Phoenix correspondent, Illinois. On the anniversary of Mussolini’s death, online left spaces are often filled with the pictures of il duce and his closest allies strung up in the Piazza Quindici Martiri in Milan. As an Italian-American, and an ancestor of those who fought bitterly against Mussolini even before the allies…
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Hollywood Blacklist: The Duke, draft-dodging opportunist
By Ed Rampell, Red Phoenix guest contributor, California. (Note: This is the unedited text for the introduction to the April 16 screening of “Three Faces West,” at the Academy Museum for this series commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Hollywood Blacklist.) The Duke and the “Commies” John Wayne and Marlon Brando were both in movies…
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May 1 Manifesto: Let’s unite the struggles for wages to the fight for social revolution
By the CIPOML Coordinating Committee The International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations (CIPOML) greets the workers all over the world on the occasion of May Day, emblematic date that symbolizes the struggle waged by the international proletariat against capitalist exploitation, to conquer their social emancipation, for revolution and socialism. This commemoration takes place in…
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Hollywood Blacklist: “Cloak and Dagger” and “None Shall Escape”
By Ed Rampell, Red Phoenix guest contributor, California. (Note: This is the edited text for the introduction to the April 14 screening of “Cloak and Dagger” by Ed Rampell and to “None Shall Escape” by Roger Memos, the director and co-writer of the 2015 documentary “Marsha Hunt’s Sweet Adversity,” at the Academy Museum for this…
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Hollywood Blacklist: “Tender Comrade” and “Sahara”
By Ed Rampell, Red Phoenix guest contributor. This is the edited text for the introduction to the April 13 screening of Tender Comrade and Sahara at the Academy Museum for this series commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Hollywood Blacklist. The double feature included a discussion with screenwriter John Howard Lawson’s granddaughters Andrea Lawson and…
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