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“The City of Bridges” in disrepair at the expense of the working class
By Ryan P., Red Phoenix correspondent, Pennsylvania. In the east end of Pittsburgh, the Fern Hollow Bridge collapsed on January 28, 2022, just before 7:00 a.m. Ten people were injured, four severely so. This would have been completely brushed under the rug like so many bridge collapses before it if it wasn’t for the fact…
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Militarization in Mexico, part of fascistization and fascism
By the Communist Party of Mexico (Marxist-Leninist). Translated from Spanish. In recent years, Mexico has experienced a process of militarization unprecedented in its recent history. The federal government has increasingly turned to the armed forces to combat organized crime and maintain public security throughout the country. Militarization in Mexico has its roots in the consolidation…
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And a white hood on every corner
By Leonard Zorfass, Red Phoenix correspondent, New Jersey. As protests against police brutality continue across the United States, it is important to understand the underlying systemic issues that have allowed for such atrocities to occur. One of the key factors in police violence and racial profiling is the history of white supremacist ideology within law…
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To defend democratic freedoms is to punish the coup plotters of yesterday and today
By Heron Barroso, Editorial Board of A Verdade, as published in #266, March 2023. Translated from Portuguese. For four long years, the Brazilian people ate the bread that the devil kneaded in the hand of the fascist Jair Bolsonaro. All his government did was to make workers’ lives worse: the minimum wage suffered the biggest…
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Nashville and the need for revolutionary change in the United States
By the LGBTQIA+ Commission of the American Party of Labor. On the morning of March 27, 2023 in Nashville, Tennessee, an armed individual named Aiden Hale forcibly entered The Covenant School and proceeded to murder three children and three staff members before being killed by police. This school shooting is yet another of many acts…
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“The Trotskyist World Movement”
By Klaus Riis, Workers Communist Party (APK), Denmark. Translated from Danish. In the current situation, with the national and international class struggle sharpening, the political and ideological class struggle sharpens as well. In our country we see not only the revisionist currents trying to reinvent themselves, but we also see Trotskyism again being promoted after…
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Is Cuba a dictatorship? A look at the Cuban electoral system
By Savio Peres, Pinar del Río, Cuba.Published in A Verdade #267, March 2023. One of the countries that fascists and liberals attack most in Latin America is Cuba. They shout that Cuba is a dictatorship and that the Castro family owns the island. They even say that in Cuba there are no elections. However, in…
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Starbucks worker: “I was fired four days ago for being a union organizer”
Isabelle Bernardi | Red Phoenix correspondent | Oregon– Starbucks Workers United has been organizing for over a year for the purpose of unionizing Starbucks stores around the country. Since their launch, over 300 stores have successfully unionized in the United States. Meanwhile, Starbucks has racked up hundreds of labor violations documented by the NLRB. Amidst…
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Let’s fight for the unity of the working class of Iran!
By the Party of Labour of Iran (Toufan) Class governments and capitalists are afraid of workers’ strikes. We saw an example of this during the revolution of 1979 in Iran. We saw the changes that were created by the potential power of the workers’ guild. They were able to send the Shah’s regime to the…
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Changes in forms of imperialism over stages of capitalist development
By Hari Kumar, Red Phoenix international correspondent– 1. Introduction As Engels noted: “Everything moves, changes, comes into being and passes away.” Imperialism has changed in form over the years. For example, the form may vary by the relative positions of the great powers. Even though the content of the exploitation of the colonial, or dependent,…
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