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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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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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