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Illinois Hospitals, and Health Care Workers, Strain Under Omicron
By: John Palameda, Red Phoenix Correspondent Illinois With the recent surge of the omicron variant, hospitals in every part of the US are reaching and surpassing capacity levels. Across the country, about 75% of all intensive care unit beds are in use, with only four states below 70% capacity. About 30% of those beds are…
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APL on 2021: With Paralysis at the Top, Working Class Movements Rising to the Task
The American Party of Labor wishes a happy end of the year to all working class and oppressed people in the United States and around the world, and a happy celebration of all religious and secular holidays marked at this time of year. At the end of this tumultuous year of struggle, we bring attention…
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Midwestern Tornadoes Stress Need for Workers Power, Ecological Action
By: The APL Labor Commission. To join our commissions, visit bit.ly/JoinTheAPL From December 10th to the 11th, a large tornado storm swept across the five states of Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee, Kentucky and Illinois. The storm claimed the lives of 88 people, counting only those known at this time. In the state of Kentucky alone, there…
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On The Rittenhouse and Arbery Verdicts: Our Despair Will Be Ended Only By the Broadest Unity of the People
By: Louie B. Parker, New York, New York, December 14th No matter what characterizes the Jan. 6th events, it was clear that the Jan. 6 will be utilized as a platform for more attacks on socialist, anarchist and progressive activists, oppressed nationalities, women, LGBTQ+ communities, and the working class in general. It has reached the…
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Gender, Gender Roles, and the Unity of the Working Class
By: The APL LGBTQIA+ Commission. To join our organizing commissions, click here. “Marxist-Leninists are not conservatives. On the contrary, they are the most progressive of people. Resolute fighters against all that is backward and outdated.” -Enver Hoxha There is an absence of principled, Marxist-Leninist analysis on gender, gender norms and sex in the present discourse,…
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APL Labor Commission: An Authentic Labor Movement Cannot Be Busted by Corporations
From the APL Labor Commission. To join our commissions, visit here. On November 29th, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ordered a new vote for the Amazon workers of Bessemer, Alabama after finding that Amazon employed illegal union-busting methods to successfully undermine the union drive. From 2016 to 2017, 41.5% of union drives collapsed under…
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APL Statement on the Rittenhouse Ruling: Enough is Enough
The American Party of Labor, alongside all progressive forces in the United States, condemns the outrageous acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse for the murder of two people and the wounding of another fighting for justice in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The entire nation saw the open miscarriage of justice conducted by the Wisconsin courts, and the obvious bias…
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Statement of Fraternal Greetings to the Communist Party of Albania
The American Party of Labor sends its deepest and most heart-felt fraternal greetings to the Communist Party of Albania on the occasion of its 16th party congress. The heroic centuries long struggle waged by the Albanian people against foreign domination, feudo-patriarchy, and imperialist aggression, and for national sovereignty and social and economic progress is a…
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November 2nd Elections Reveal Increasing Distrust in Electoral Solutions
By: Red Nesbitt, Red Phoenix Correspondent Baltimore In the last week, several local elections have been held throughout the country that saw democrats pushed back in Virginia most notably, and in other elections across the country. In Seattle and New York City, “progressive” candidates saw defeats. The measure to defund the police in Minneapolis was…
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Striketober 2021: Another Chapter in the US Labor Struggle
By: Bobby Gallagher, Red Phoenix Correspondent Ohio Bobby Gallagher is a union organizer and member from Youngstown, Ohio, and member of the American Party of Labor’s Labor Commission. Though the October strikes that garnered national and international media attention were not the largest strikes the country has seen even in recent years, and despite 2020…
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