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Orange Haze: The Historical, Capitalist Roots of the California Wildfires
By: Peter Charles Kraljev, Red Phoenix Correspondent Sacramento Dusk fell at 10am in northern California on September 9th as clouds of smoke blocked out the sun leaving the state with only a dimly light sky that was accompanied by an orange haze of smoke limiting line of sight and a snowing of ash that created…
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9/11/1973: The Day Neo-Liberalism Showed Its Fascist Face
On this day, September 11th, 1973, the democratically-elected government of Chile, headed by President and leader of the Socialist Party, Salvador Allende, was violently ousted in a coup led by a US-backed, military junta. The Presidential Palace, La Moneda, was bombed by aircraft and army columns moved through the capital of Santiago, seizing government buildings…
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In Remembering Baseball’s Racist Past and Present, Today’s Players Continue the Fight for a Radical Future
Major league baseball players recently displayed powerful class and racial unity during the sport’s annual celebration of Jackie Robinson’s courageous legacy. Just as Robinson’s story reflected the history of postwar America, today’s players understand that the game has been and is intimately connected with the tenor of the country’s racial relations.
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Austerity, Imperialism at the Heart of Beirut Disaster
On Tuesday, August 4th, a massive explosion comparable in its explosive power to a low yield nuclear gravity bomb, erupted in the Port of Beirut, Lebanon, killing at least 137 people and wounding more than 5,000. The explosion is sourced from a cargo ship fire in the city’s port igniting a nearby silo full of…
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Chicago Teachers Fight Back, and Win, Against Reckless Reopening
As school districts and universities across the country are being pressured into opening by Trump, and even liberal ally Anthony Fauci, teachers in Chicago have already begun to fight back, and win, against school administrators and reckless reopening. The Chicago Public School system announced today that it will now be fully remote at the beginning…
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George Floyd’s Death Reignites Uprising In Hoover, Alabama: First Hand Accounts
By: Jay Hyde, Red Phoenix Correspondent, Alabama As George Floyd’s murder at the hands of the police is igniting uprisings across America, and creating international solidarity and demonstrations in opposition to police violence abroad, protests against the Hoover Police Department over the murder of Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford Jr. have hit a new fever pitch. In…
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“A Lot of People Are Going to Die, and It’s Because of Capitalism:” First Hand Accounts from Florida
By Kallista Mirobel As Governor Ron DeSantis prepares to fully reopen the state of Florida in spite of the surging number of cases in the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of workers across Florida who have already been on the front lines of the virus’s first wave brace for yet another one as the death toll worldwide…
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The Banner of Black Lives Matter: Summer 2020
Originally published in Evrensel Daily: US student Toivo Asheeke wrote on the ongoing protests: “It was the first time to discuss the financial resources of the police, who emerged as slave hunters.” Toivo ASHEEKE Student at Binghamton University. With protests, mass rallies, occupations, and armed militant actions taking place across over 100 cities and towns…
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Expect Nothing: Police Collaboration and the Liberal Left in St. Louis.
Following the murder of George Floyd by the Minneapolis Police Department, militant protests have broken out across the United States around the issue of police brutality against Black people. From California to New York, there have been hundreds of rallies condemning police brutality and many have turned into local militant uprisings against the system that…
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ICMLPO: Social Outburst at the Heart of the Imperialist Capitalist System.
Statement of the International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organization on the uprisings in the United States. In the United States of America there has been a social outburst unprecedented in many years, both because of the extent of the protests and because of their expressions of combativeness. The assassination of George Floyd by the…
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