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Letter: As A Former Soldier, Today I Remember the Victims of Imperialism
The Red Phoenix received the following letter from Hannah, a former soldier now working as a nurse, on her thoughts on this Veteran’s Day. The Red Phoenix reproduces letters without editing their content. This letter contains graphic accounts of US war crimes in Iraq. Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi was a 14 year old girl who…
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Kamala Harris and Her Circumstances: Virtudes Alvarez (Communist Workers Party) on the Election of Harris
By Virtudes Alvarez, Translated by J. Palameda // November 8, 2020. The recently concluded electoral process in the United States of America is an obligatory topic in the analysis of international politics. All its aspects are important, including the election of Kamala Harris as Vice-President. She is the first woman vice president-elect in the United…
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Class Consciousness and the Fight for Civil Rights in the NBA
By Frank Nawrot, Edited by R.E. Rule “[Racism] is a product of the system and…is the intention of the way this system was built…in order for things to change…there needs to be some dismantling of how things are currently.” -Malika Andrews, ESPN reporter on Get Up The shutdown of the NBA season on March 11th…
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Battle for the Battleground State: Voters in Florida Speak Out
Red Phoenix correspondent Kallista Mirobel spoke to several Floridians on how they felt going into the 2020 election in the state that is often the nexus of national attention on November 3rd. By Kallista Mirobel A month before the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election is set to take place, across the country, hundreds of thousands have…
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Letter to the Phoenix: Why Does Voting in the Presidential Elections Seem So Important?
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 US. The Red Phoenix received the following letter from G. Green on the nature of the 2020 election. G. Green is a “matriarch and worker bee, career bartender, and mom/head…
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In Albertville, Alabama, a Bold New Working Class Movement Confronts Entrenched White Supremacy
By: Jay Hyde, Red Phoenix Correspondent Alabama In, Albertville, Alabama, my lifelong home, which has a population of around 22,000, there is a growing struggle against a Confederate monument and a Confederate flag that sit outside the Marshall County Courthouse. Local protesters in favor of moving the monument have been clashing with Neo-confederate, Klu Klux…
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NAARPR Calls for Protests November 4, 2020 — After the election, the peoples mandate for change must be carried out!
In this triple pandemic of racism, COVID-19, and recession our National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression is issuing a call to all the democratic forces presently engaged in the struggle against racist injustice, the economic slaughter of our communities and the utterly unspeakable failure at all levels to use its full capacity to stop…
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Elections Won’t Defeat Fascism, Only We Can
The Greatest Enemy of Fascism is and Always Has Been a United Working Class Movement. The Secretariat of the American Party of Labor– The whole world watches the upcoming elections in the United States. While there are other powerful imperialist nations in the post-cold war world, the U.S. remains at its center. Speculation on the…
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International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations: “Transform the Discontent of the Masses into Organization and Struggle!”
On the International Situation: The world economy is trapped in a new capitalist crisis, which occurs within the framework of the general crisis that affects the existing system. This crisis is more acute than that of the years 2008-2009, which was more serious than that of the 1970s. It is a constant in the development…
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Labor Organizer: “Remove Police From Our Unions Now!”
By: Kjell Sivertsen, Uber/Lyft Worker Organizer In the wake of the police-sanctioned murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and the attempted murder of Jacob Blake, members from multiple labor unions across trade are calling for the expulsion of police. These calls have been met with hostility both from police and from liberal union executives, highlighting…
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