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October 6 is World #CerebralPalsyDay. #CerebralPalsy is diagnosed in childhood, & some people think it can be outgrown or will get "better" over time. But it's a permanent disability from birth, and it can encompass a wide array of disabling symptoms that each vary in severity.
October 7, 2023 at 6:54 AM
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BREAKING: Earlier tonight, the Palestinian resistance began their first steps towards liberation from the fascist ethnostate of Israel. In a daring attack, coalition forces seem to have caught the IDF completely by surprise.

From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!
Breaking: Palestinian resistance launches surprise offensive against Israel
By Leon V., Red Phoenix correspondent, Florida. "Palestinians from the Gaza Strip take down the colonial fence alongside the borders of the occupied interior as they make their way into the lands libe...
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October 7, 2023 at 8:40 AM
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October 3, 2023 at 6:13 AM
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Community Control of the Police is not a defanged alternative to defunding the police, but rather its more complete and powerful realization. We are calling for a revolutionary restructuring of law enforcement.
Community control of police, a revolutionary restructuring of law enforcement
Thousands marched in downtown Chicago on July 11, 2016, protesting the police murders of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile and demanding community control of the police. By Sofia D., Red Phoenix cor...
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October 2, 2023 at 5:52 PM
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September 27, 2023 at 5:27 PM
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dude shut up she’s sleeping 😡
September 27, 2023 at 4:48 AM
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"I think that what’s really going on here is that back in 2008 and 2009... the upper tier of our union gave a lot of concessions to the Big Three to allow them to stay afloat. I think a really big part of this fight, is that they’re asking for a lot of those things back."
UAW: Fighting to win back concessions given in 2009
By Sofia D., Red Phoenix correspondent, Minnesota. Since Sep. 15, thousands of United Auto Workers (UAW) nationwide have been on strike against General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis, demanding higher w...
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September 26, 2023 at 3:17 PM
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Two proposed amendments to Florida’s Constitution would, if approved by voters in 2024, increase worker autonomy in the Sunshine State by adding the right to abortion and the right to use marijuana recreationally to that document.
Abortion and marijuana amendments would increase worker autonomy in Florida
Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody is pictured at a 2021 press conference with Gov. Ron DeSantis. (Ricardo Ramirez Buxeda / Orlando Sentinel / Tribune News Service via Getty Images) By Benjamin J. ...
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September 23, 2023 at 8:05 PM
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Guardian reporting on the mysterious change in social attitudes about trans people since 2016, when the Guardian started regularly demonising trans people.
September 21, 2023 at 12:31 PM
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"The Conspiracy and Murder of Mao’s Heir" deserves a second look in that it offers an interesting explanation not only for Lin Biao’s fall but for why, so many years after the fact, the details remain a closely guarded secret.
The Fall of Lin Biao (Hoxha, 1979)
Mao Zedong and Lin Biao on November 10, 1966. By Camilo Lazo, Red Phoenix correspondent, Illinois. A review of Yao Ming-Le's The Conspiracy and Murder of Mao’s Heir. In his political diary, Albanian...
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September 18, 2023 at 4:23 PM
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The AMDH notes the alarming extent and effect of the earthquake, so it addresses all officials, and demands that they deal with public opinion with the utmost transparency, by exposing the full extant of malpractice in the remnants of the earthquake.
The Moroccan Association for Human Rights offers condolences to the Moroccan people and all victims ...
Published by Democratic Way, Morocco. Translated by Sofia D. for the Red Phoenix. Statement of the AMDH. “Let us turn the tragedy of the earthquake into a moment of universal solidarity.” “Stand...
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September 19, 2023 at 6:26 PM
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The workers must not only have their own independent political party, but their own media as well! Few other tools are as important for the raising of the masses from this manufactured ignorance and confusion to a prepared, organized and rightfully-outraged army of labor.
Opinion: Labor strike news coverage suppressed by omission
Members of SAG-AFTRA, an American actors union, protest and strike on July 17, 2023. By Alan I., Red Phoenix correspondent, Ohio. The strikes of SAG-AFTRA and WGA continue to rage, but you likely woul...
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September 15, 2023 at 5:17 PM
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It’s important to understand that this is the way all capitalists think about all the “little people” they exploit; this one is just saying it with no filter, which happens every now and then with people who have become accustomed to thinking of their fellow human beings as food.
September 13, 2023 at 12:57 AM
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Today marks 50 years since the coup against Chile's democratically-elected Salvador Allende.

There is perhaps no better example in history of U.S. intervention bolstering an authoritarian government than the infamous reign of the fascist Augusto Pinochet.
Cold War Killer File: Augusto Pinochet
“Sometimes democracy must be bathed in blood.” – Augusto Pinochet “Not a leaf moves in this country if I'm not moving it.” - Pinochet, October 1981 Remember September 11th, 1973 During the h...
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September 11, 2023 at 3:39 PM
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Cuba has arrested 17 individuals that were part of an alleged human trafficking ring that lured Cuban citizens, under the pretext of securing employment overseas, to serve in the Russian military in the ongoing Ukraine conflict.
Cuba charges impressment of Cuban citizens to serve in Russian military
La Plaza de la Revolución, "Revolution Square," in Havana, Cuba. (Roberto Machado Noa/LightRocket/Getty Images) Over the past two days, numerous international press agencies have reported that Cuba h...
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September 10, 2023 at 1:55 AM
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Tennessee is confused.
September 8, 2023 at 10:33 PM
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Latin America and the Caribbean is the object of inter-imperialist contention. The massive presence of Chinese capital has gone hand in hand with the “progressive” governments that have fulfilled and are fulfilling the role of renegotiators of the external dependence of their countries.
The Struggles of the Working Class and Peoples, and Inter-Imperialist Disputes
By the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador (PCMLE), En Marcha #2063, Sep. 6—12, 2023. On September 1 and 2, 2023, the 27th International Seminar "Problems of the Revolution in Latin America"...
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September 7, 2023 at 10:44 PM
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The Red Phoenix print issue #29 is preparing to ship, and international subscriptions are now available! Order yours today to support our work!

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September 5, 2023 at 11:02 PM
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At least once a day I remind myself that American Jews were for so unprepared for the rise of antisemitism backed by a domestic oligarch that the head of the ADL responded to Elon buying Twitter by calling him “a modern-day Henry Ford” AS A COMPLIMENT.
September 4, 2023 at 9:44 PM
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what if we kissed on the garfield wave
September 2, 2023 at 9:35 PM
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Hot girl summer is over. It's time for opossum autumn.
September 2, 2023 at 1:26 AM
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The resolutions taken by the BRICS show the strengthening of the bloc within the framework of the contest between the imperialist powers. It is not the emergence of a counter-power to the hegemony of the North. It is an anchor of several countries to the imperialist powers such as China and Russia.
The BRICS meeting and the inter-imperialist struggles
Left to right: Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, China's President Xi Jinping, South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and Russia's Foreign Minister...
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September 1, 2023 at 7:32 PM
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Child labor laws are being repealed in the US in order to preserve profits, loosening previous restrictions. In a span of only five weeks this summer, three teens have died in industrial workplace accidents. Now the capitalists are working to make this the legal status quo.
Loosening child labor regulations result in deaths of teen workers
Left to right: Duvan Tomas Perez, 16; Michael Schuls, 16; Will Hampton, 16. (Photo: HuffPost) By Alan I., Red Phoenix correspondent, Ohio. Child labor laws are being repealed in the United States in o...
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August 31, 2023 at 5:55 PM