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Rail companies, profit, and the neglect of public safety
By Ian Ocx, Red Phoenix correspondent, Texas. On Friday, February 3rd, the city of East Palestine, Ohio experienced the result of corporate greed when a train derailed in the area, igniting a fire that burned tons of toxic vinyl chloride into the region’s atmosphere in what will certainly be a devastating environmental and ecological tragedy…
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Inflation and recession, the cyclical crisis of capitalism
The prices for things keep rising: why? Nothing is untouched by inflation, not even books. The Economist recently reported that some publishers are actually starting to shrink the white space between characters and run text closer to the ends of the pages in books printed for popular consumption. This is in order to cut costs,…
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Los Angeles jury stands up to killer cop
By V. Valentino, Red Phoenix correspondent, California. The family of Cesar Rodriguez, a police brutality victim in Los Angeles, forced a civil jury trial and won on January 20th after a grueling fight that lasted five long years. Despite what should be considered a victory with a unanimous decision by the jury, Long Beach officer…
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SWANs protecting abortion rights by all means necessary
By Benjamin J. Rizzo, Red Phoenix correspondent, Florida. Long-established rights to abortion and reproductive healthcare are under attack as never before in America. The U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision of June 2022, which overturned its 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that had established a right to the safe, legal termination of a pregnancy, has left…
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EMEP: People are waiting for help and solidarity, Erdoğan declares state of emergency!
via Evrensel Daily. Criticizing President Tayyip Erdoğan’s decision to declare a state of emergency in 10 provinces devastated by earthquakes, EMEP said, “The people’s need is not a state of emergency but the organization of emergency aid and solidarity.” In the statement made by the Labour Party of Turkey (EMEP) calling for the withdrawal of…
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City of Portland workers on strike
Isabelle Bernardi | Red Phoenix correspondent | Oregon– The COVID-19 pandemic has been hard on workers everywhere, especially those essential workers on the front lines. Short staffing, stagnant wages, and inflation have been creating miserable conditions for the working class, but these conditions have been agitating and activating people as well. For the workers of…
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The Battle of Stalingrad and the German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact of 1939
By Hari Kumar, Red Phoenix international correspondent. Today is the anniversary of the USSR final victory of the Battle of Stalingrad (August 23, 1942 — February 2, 1943). It was after this battle that the tide turned in the Second World War against fascist Nazi Germany. Without the extraordinary heroism of the peoples of the…
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Declaration of the IX Plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Colombia (M-L)
By the Central Organ of the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador (PCMLE). En Marcha #2035, February 1-7, 2023. At the beginning of January of this year, in the supplement of the newspaper “Revolución,” central organ of the Communist Party of Colombia (Marxist-Leninist), the IX Plenum of the Central Committee published a communiqué through which it…
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Why It Matters: The new balance of power in the American government
By Mike B, Red Phoenix correspondent, Ohio. The dust has settled from the farcical election of Kevin McCarthy to the position of Speaker of the House. That left the current state of the American government more dysfunctional than ever. McCarthy’s Republican Party, cascading ever farther to the right, is now beholden to a small clique…
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The police system subverts the oppressed to assist in ongoing oppression
By Hari Kumar, Red Phoenix international correspondent. From all the untold and unnamed before and in between these names — Emmett Till, Rodney King, Eric Garner, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd — in 2023, add Tyre Nichols. After George Floyd’s death progressives the world over hoped things for Black people in the hands of American police…
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