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Francia: Un poderoso movimiento social contra la reforma de las pensiones.
By the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Workers of France, April 2023. Since January, a powerful workers’ and popular movement of strikes and demonstrations has shaken our country. The 10th day of mobilization took place on Tuesday, March 28. A new one has been scheduled by the inter-unions for April 6. How…
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Declaración de condena de los crímenes sionistas
By the Party of Labour of Iran – Toufan, Apr. 8, 2023. The revolutionary and progressive parties and organizations signed below, which follow with all anger the criminal Zionist aggression on the Palestinian people in Al-Aqsa Mosque, Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza, are in front of the open collusion of all allies and friends…
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¿Por qué el gobierno rescató a los ricos depositantes del Silicon Valley Bank?
By Hari Kumar, Red Phoenix international correspondent. The clientele of California’s failed Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) was the high tech “start-up” industry in Silicon Valley. Banking is a con industry. After all, if all depositors arrived at the bank at the same time to withdraw their funds, no bank could survive. Yet it is supposed…
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“Páginas de la vida de un trabajador”, de William Z. Foster.”
By Benjamin J. Rizzo, Red Phoenix correspondent, Florida. The Red Phoenix is proud to present this inspiring excerpt from “Pages From a Worker’s Life,” a volume of autobiography by William Z. Foster (1881-1961), originally published in 1939. Foster had a long and colorful career as a trade union organizer, labor leader, and member of many…
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Los residentes holandeses se oponen a los recortes en el transporte público.
By Allison P., Red Phoenix international correspondent. The tactics of the bourgeoisie are virtually universal regardless of country: privatization, cost cutting, reducing wages, and strikebreaking. In the Netherlands there have been strikes among public transport workers in recent months over a number of problems including salaries, working conditions, and workloads. In addition there have been…
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Los terremotos en Turquía: una fractura fundamental – "¿Dónde está el Estado?"“
By the Labour Party (EMEP) — Turkey. On February 6, two successive earthquakes, of 7.7 and 7.6 magnitude, occurred in the south-eastern city of Kahramanmaras, Turkey, affecting a large area and turning many cities, towns and villages into rubble. In provinces such as Hatay and Adiyaman and districts such as Elbistan, Nurdagi, Islahiye, Samandagi and…
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“La Ciudad de los Puentes” en mal estado a costa de la clase trabajadora.
By Ryan P., Red Phoenix correspondent, Pennsylvania. In the east end of Pittsburgh, the Fern Hollow Bridge collapsed on January 28, 2022, just before 7:00 a.m. Ten people were injured, four severely so. This would have been completely brushed under the rug like so many bridge collapses before it if it wasn’t for the fact…
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La militarización en México, parte de la fascistización y el fascismo.
By the Communist Party of Mexico (Marxist-Leninist). Translated from Spanish. In recent years, Mexico has experienced a process of militarization unprecedented in its recent history. The federal government has increasingly turned to the armed forces to combat organized crime and maintain public security throughout the country. Militarization in Mexico has its roots in the consolidation…
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Y una capucha blanca en cada esquina
By Leonard Zorfass, Red Phoenix correspondent, New Jersey. As protests against police brutality continue across the United States, it is important to understand the underlying systemic issues that have allowed for such atrocities to occur. One of the key factors in police violence and racial profiling is the history of white supremacist ideology within law…
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Defender las libertades democráticas es castigar a los golpistas de ayer y de hoy.
By Heron Barroso, Editorial Board of A Verdade, as published in #266, March 2023. Translated from Portuguese. For four long years, the Brazilian people ate the bread that the devil kneaded in the hand of the fascist Jair Bolsonaro. All his government did was to make workers’ lives worse: the minimum wage suffered the biggest…
