Year: 2019

International News

Anniversary of the victory of the Chinese Revolution

October 3, 2019 fwstaff 0
  By Chris Fry October 1 marks the 70th anniversary of the announcement by Mao Zedong, the leader of the Communist Party of China (CPC), of the victory of the Chinese Revolution in 1949. This […]
Detroit facial recognition spying comes under scrutiny by the public
Domestic News

Detroit Struggle to End Facial Recognition Spying Continues

October 3, 2019 fwstaff 0
By Abayomi Azikiwe After a long-delayed vote by the Detroit Board of Police Commissioners (DBOPC), a resolution to essentially endorse the existing facial recognition technology being utilized in the city was passed by a margin […]
ILWU Local 10. | Photo: Terri Kay
Domestic News

Coalition Led by ILWU Fights for Jobs and Against Gentrification

September 27, 2019 fwstaff 0
By Terri Kay A community/labor meeting was held in West Oakland on Saturday, September 21, as part of a series of meetings which have been held on the greedy land grab planned by the billionaire […]
National Trade Union Central of Brazil
Domestic News

International solidarity will help beat GM

September 27, 2019 fwstaff 0
By Jerry Goldberg A recent bourgeois commentary on Market Watch, predicted that the UAW strike against General Motors could not win. Why? Because “Today GM carries large stockpiles of inventory, and its suppliers and assembly […]
Domestic News

Corruption charges used to undermine workers resolve

September 27, 2019 fwstaff 0
By Jerry Goldberg On a daily basis, the bourgeois media attempts to undermine the UAW/GM strike with unrelenting articles on corruption within a significant sector the UAW leadership. There is no doubt that seeing these […]
Detroit Annual Labor Day Parade where trade unionists held a banner in solidarity wiith injured Colombian GM workers, Mon. Sept. 2, 2019
Domestic News

GM robs both workers and communities

September 27, 2019 fwstaff 0
By Detroit FW Staff The community at large has a material interest in solidarity with the UAW-GM strike and its battle to reverse General Motors illegal plant closings and lay-offs. In 2009, GM received $68.1 […]
UAW workers walk the picket line at GM's Detroit/Hamtramck Assembly plant
Domestic News

UAW strikes GM

September 26, 2019 fwstaff 0
By Jerry Goldberg The national strike by 49,000 United Auto Workers (UAW) workers against General Motors that started on September 15, 2019, has captured the enthusiasm of the working class. There have been numerous mass […]
Stop State Violence in Columbia by artist Erin Yoshi
International News

People’s Travel Advisory on Colombia

September 24, 2019 fwstaff 0
By Coalition for Peace in Colombia (Press Release) People’s Travel Advisory on Colombia by North American Coalition for Peace in Colombia and Observatorio de los Derechos Humanos del Pueblo On Friday, September 27th, international activists […]
Detroit Solidarity with UAW strike against General Motors 09-18-2109
Domestic News

Solidarity Picket at Detroit/Hamtramck Poletown Joins Striking UAW Workers

September 23, 2019 fwstaff 1
By FW Detroit Staff Almost 50,000 UAW workers are on strike against General Motors demanding better pay, improved working conditions and enhanced benefits. Members of Moratorium NOW! Coalition, some of whom previously worked in the […]
Zimbabwe President Robert G. Mugabe casket carried by soldiers to Rufaro Stadium on September 12, 2019.
International News

Zimbabwe Proclaims Former President Mugabe (1924-2019) a National Hero

September 19, 2019 fwstaff 0
By Abayomi Azikiwe During the early morning hours of September 6, a news item shook the international community saying that President Robert Gabriel Mugabe, known affectionately as “Gushungo”, had passed away at the age of […]