Month: June 2021

Domestic News

Wisconsin People’s Power Summit

June 29, 2021 fwstaff
By Bryan Pfeifer In a tremendous display of unity and solidarity, participants from across North America joined the People’s Power Summit June 11-12 in Maribel, Wisconsin. “This is precisely the time when artists go to […]
Domestic News

Racist Thought Police Attack “Critical Race Theory”

June 28, 2021 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe An exchange between the United States Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark Milley, and several Republican Congressmen in Washington, D.C. on June 23, illustrates the level of hysteria prevalent […]
Restaurant workers demand better wages and working conditions
Domestic News

The General Strike of 2021

June 28, 2021 fwstaff
By David Sole In what can only be described as the General Strike of 2021, millions upon millions of workers across the United States are refusing to go back to work as the COVID-19 pandemic […]
Domestic News

International Block the Boat Campaign

June 28, 2021 fwstaff
BTB Shows the way to move BDS actions beyond individual consumer activism, striking blows with costly community/labor mass direct action initiatives By Terri Kay, a community organizer with Block the Boat Oakland and Block the […]
Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda and China leader Chairman Mao Zedong
International News

Kenneth Kaunda, 97, Played a Major Role in the African Liberation Struggle

June 28, 2021 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe A leading light in the campaigns to overthrow white minority rule and to foster African unity, Dr. Kenneth Kaunda, has died in Zambia at the age of 97. Kaunda was born on […]
Ghana-Guinea-Mali Union of 1960 with Nkrumah, Toure and Keita
International News

Malian Whirlwinds: AFRICOM and the Military Presidency

June 28, 2021 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe In the aftermath of a second military coup within nine months in the West African state of Mali both the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the African Union (AU) […]
Detroit Says Block the Boat rally in Romulus on June 8, 2021
Domestic News

Detroit Says “Block the Boat”

June 17, 2021 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff There was a demonstration on Tuesday, June 8, 2021 in Romulus, Michigan, located west of Detroit and near the Metropolitan Airport. The location of the protest was at an office of […]
Racial Profiling Across 8 Mile Rally & March, June 5, 2021
Domestic News

Stop Racial Profiling Across 8 Mile

June 16, 2021 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff A second annual rally and march to highlight the problem of racial profiling of Black and Brown motorists, cyclists and pedestrians by police was held in Detroit along the 8 Mile […]
Palestinian refugees in flee in the aftermath of the 1948 war
International News

Einstein Warned About Zionist “Fascism”

June 15, 2021 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff This is a letter written and signed by Albert Einstein and several other prominent Jews to the NY Times on December 4, 1948 about the massacre at Deir Yassin that same […]
Minneapolis demonstration calling for the removal of the head of the U.S. Marshal Service, June 8, 2021
Domestic News

Minneapolis Erupts Again

June 13, 2021 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Demonstrations have taken place in Minneapolis since June 3 when news quickly spread throughout the city saying yet another Black man was gunned down by law-enforcement. On June 3-4 numerous businesses were […]