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A Healthcare Worker Speaks on Potential Vaccine Mandate
Isabelle B is a healthcare worker in the Northwest, and member of the American Party of Labor. She wrote to the Phoenix with her thoughts on the need for a vaccine mandate given her experience working in healthcare. The question of vaccine mandates has been hotly contested within healthcare labor unions, with the largest nurses…
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Unionist On Trumka’s Legacy: A Life Lived for the Workers, But More Democratic Unions Needed
By: Mark Han Mark Han is a union organizer in the Pacific Northwest, and member of the American Party of Labor. With the unexpected passing of AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, the American Party of Labor joins the American Labor Movement in reflecting on Trumka’s legacy. As a longstanding and influential president of the AFL-CIO, it…
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Final Declaration of the XXV International Seminar on the Problems of the Revolution in Latin America
The following statement was composed at the 25th International Seminar on the Problems of the Revolution in Latin America. The American Party of Labor signed this declaration, and The Red Phoenix carried extensive coverage of the presentations on our twitter. The Social Struggle and the Role of the Left in Latin America A new period…
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APL Presentation at the 25th SIPRAL: The United States—An Empire in Crisis
The Secretariat of the American Party of Labor prepared the following presentation that was given in Spanish by Spokesperson Alfonso Casal at the 25th International Seminar on the Problems of the Revolution in Latin America held by the ICMLPO in Quito, Ecuador. You can read our coverage of the presentations at the seminar here. While…
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Members of the APL: What a Revolutionary Pride Means to Us
We asked members of the American Party of Labor from across the country to tell us what pride means to them, as Marxist-Leninists in the heart of US imperialism. We give their answers here, without revision. June Vass, California For me, Pride means righteous anger. My celebration for the incremental progress we have made is…
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A Socialist Autopsy on Biden’s First Hundred Days
By: Red Nesbitt The first 100 days have shown us what a Biden presidency will look like—abandoned promises, and the continuing separation of American political life from the desires of working people. The first 100 days of an American president’s term can set the tone of the entire administration, it can be a crucial litmus…
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PCOF — On the 150th Anniversary, Let Us Follow in the Footsteps of the Communards
150 years ago, the Communards “stormed heaven,” as beautifully penned by Marx, an event indelibly etched in the collective memory of the international workers’ movement. In his book The Civil War in France, Marx drew lessons from this first socialist revolutionary experience, notably that “the working class cannot simply lay hold of the ready-made state…
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Israeli War Crimes, Not “Tension,” On the Rise in Palestine
By: Jack Thallman, Red Phoenix Correspondent, New Jersey Like all incidents of large-scale violence within the borders of Israel and Palestine, these hostilities are the result of the systematic ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people. The violence in Palestine continues to escalate as Israel carries out massacres and provocations. At the time of writing, over…
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ICMLPO: Solidarity With The Struggle of the Colombian People
A new social outburst against the anti-popular policies of the bourgeoisie has taken place, this time in Colombia. Millions of workers, peasants, youth, women, unemployed, artists, retirees, neighborhood residents have paralyzed the country with a combative protest that began last April 28, and is still continuing despite the dozens of fighters murdered by the forces…
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What Florida Bill HB1 Means for Protesters
By: Andrea Johnson, Red Phoenix Correspondent Florida On April 19 of this year, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed House Bill 1 (HB1) into law. Make no mistake, HB1 is the most authoritarian and legitimately fascist law that has ever been passed in Florida legislature. The linear movement of this bill like clockwork through the state…
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