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C.B.P. leaves disabled refugee to die
Shakti L. & Meyer K. | Red Phoenix correspondents | New York– Buffalo, NY – On Feb. 24, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) pigs claimed another working-class life. Nurul Amin Shah Alam was a 56-year-old disabled refugee in Buffalo who was first detained and then abandoned five miles from his home in the freezing…
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Trump regime aids corporations via tax dodges, gambling the future of U.S.
Thomas K. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Ohio– In global trade news, U.S. multinational corporations will be exempt from paying new global minimum taxes. Avoiding this minimum tax requirement will deeply affect the United States competitiveness in the global trade market. As a result, consumer costs will rise and the economy will stagnate, creating the…
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Oregon’s record low snowpack is a symptom of capitalist greed
Ilektra M. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Oregon– While late January saw much of the eastern half of the United States get pummeled by a massive and frigid winter storm, knocking out power for nearly 200,000 people and leaving at least 85 dead, the west coast is experiencing the opposite. An atypically warm and dry…
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I.C.E. seeks to place Kansas City at heart of planned network of concentration camps
Marina S. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Kansas– On the morning of Jan. 13, residents of the Kansas City Northland reported that dozens of vehicles displaying ICE logos were found in a parking lot within sight of a popular local amusement park. The placement of the vehicles, so close to such a popular attraction for…
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I.W.A.: Counter Rising Fascism with Working Women’s Unity!
International Women’s Alliance | March 7, 2026— The first months of 2026 have laid bare the reality of the crisis in the global capitalist system: that conflict between imperialist powers will result in war and economic instability, and that the most vulnerable in society will endure the brunt of the crisis. Already in 2026 women…
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Success of Bread and Roses Strike of 1912 demonstrates value of workplace organizing, community solidarity
Thomas K. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Ohio– The Bread and Roses Strike of 1912 was one of the most significant labor struggles in U.S. history. Often grossly misunderstood as a spontaneous action, this strike was but one of many at this workplace, and built upon years of depraved exploitation by the mill owners, and…
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Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, Archbishop of Chicago: “A Call to Conscience”
Editor’s note: In the early hours of Feb. 28, 2026, U.S. and Israeli forces launched a series coordinated military attacks against the Islamic Republic of Iran. As of March 13, 2026, the war is still ongoing with thousands of Iranian civilian and military causalities and dozens of U.S. military causalities and counting. Although the Trump…
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“Red Aid” Service to the People Program builds connections in communities, labor movement
Shakti L. & Meyer K. | Red Phoenix correspondents | New York– As the contradictions of capitalism reach a critical point with homelessness, food insecurity, poverty, debt, unemployment and wage exploitation; and as the ruling class resorts to fascism to defend its interests, the working class and homeless are forced to bear the full weight…
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Left-right divide among Ohio union workers manufactured by capitalist class
Thomas K. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Ohio– A recent news report attempted to shed light on the current Ohio labor political landscape, where unions are shifting rightward. It highlights two “labor leaders” inside of the state and they both share their perspectives on the growing divide in union labor. The report both correctly and…
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