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Lista negra de Hollywood: “¡Objetivo, Birmania!”
By Ed Rampell, Red Phoenix guest contributor, California. (Note: This is the unedited text for the introduction to the April 23 screening of Objective, Burma! at the Academy Museum for this series commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Hollywood Blacklist.) Who attended our screening of 1944’s None Shall Escape? Like today’s movie, Objective, Burma!, it’s…
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Recordando a los partisanos italianos que pusieron fin a la violencia de Mussolini.
By John Palameda, Red Phoenix correspondent, Illinois. On the anniversary of Mussolini’s death, online left spaces are often filled with the pictures of il duce and his closest allies strung up in the Piazza Quindici Martiri in Milan. As an Italian-American, and an ancestor of those who fought bitterly against Mussolini even before the allies…
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Lista negra de Hollywood: El Duque, un oportunista que evadió el servicio militar.
By Ed Rampell, Red Phoenix guest contributor, California. (Note: This is the unedited text for the introduction to the April 16 screening of “Three Faces West,” at the Academy Museum for this series commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Hollywood Blacklist.) The Duke and the “Commies” John Wayne and Marlon Brando were both in movies…
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Manifiesto del 1 de mayo: Unamos las luchas por salarios a la lucha por la revolución social.
By the CIPOML Coordinating Committee The International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations (CIPOML) greets the workers all over the world on the occasion of May Day, emblematic date that symbolizes the struggle waged by the international proletariat against capitalist exploitation, to conquer their social emancipation, for revolution and socialism. This commemoration takes place in…
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Lista negra de Hollywood: “Cloak and Dagger” y “None Shall Escape”
By Ed Rampell, Red Phoenix guest contributor, California. (Note: This is the edited text for the introduction to the April 14 screening of “Cloak and Dagger” by Ed Rampell and to “None Shall Escape” by Roger Memos, the director and co-writer of the 2015 documentary “Marsha Hunt’s Sweet Adversity,” at the Academy Museum for this…
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Lista negra de Hollywood: “Tender Comrade” y “Sahara”
By Ed Rampell, Red Phoenix guest contributor. This is the edited text for the introduction to the April 13 screening of Tender Comrade and Sahara at the Academy Museum for this series commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Hollywood Blacklist. The double feature included a discussion with screenwriter John Howard Lawson’s granddaughters Andrea Lawson and…
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República Dominicana: No habrá reelección ni regreso al modelo de gobierno del PLD.
By the Communist Party of Labor (PCT), Dominican Republic. Notes on the situation In this political period in the country, leaders of the PLD (Party of Dominican Liberation1), former officials of the government of Danilo Medina (2012-2020), have been arrested on charges of corruption by the Attorney General’s Office. This is the most relevant political…
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Las dos academias: una respuesta a la ilusión de movilidad ascendente en la educación superior.
When I first saw the headline for Amos Dewy’s article “The illusion of upward mobility in higher education,” I was excited to read it. A sober, class analysis of the US university is desperately needed to cut through right wing claims that teaching empathy is brainwashing, and liberal romanticism that sees college as the great…
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Minneapolis intenta apaciguar a los civiles con un acuerdo policial.
By Sofia D., Red Phoenix correspondent, Minnesota. Minneapolis has just agreed to a settlement with its Department of Human Rights to “eliminate” racist practices in the police force. This agreement goes further than the now-dead HF 1078 by targeting various common racist practices, such as Stop-and-Frisk, Use of Force, Lack of Accountability, and Training to…
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Mes Nacional de la Poesía: Pablo Neruda (1904–1973)
“I have always wanted the hands of people to be seen in poetry.” By Hari Kumar, Red Phoenix international correspondent. Introduction and short precis of Neruda’s life Recent reports about Neruda’s death have re-sparked interest in this great Chilean poet. A short precis of his life is followed with details of his death and legacy.…
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