Month: July 2022

Domestic News

Beyond Abortion – A Struggle to Win Our Future

July 11, 2022 fwstaff
By Cheryl LaBash Havana, Cuba — When you have touched a woman you have struck a rock, says a South African proverb. It continues, you have dislodged a boulder, you will be crushed. The U.S. […]
Detroit 40 Cities for Mumia Abu-Jamal banner, Sun. July 3, 2022
Domestic News

Detroit Holds Mumia Rally – Part of 40 Cities for Mumia

July 11, 2022 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff July 3, 2022 marks the 40th anniversary of the conviction of African American journalist and political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal in the city of Philadelphia. Activists from around the country and the […]
Patrice Lumumba remains returned to DRC
International News

Belgium Returns the Remains of Congolese Leader Patrice Lumumba

July 11, 2022 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Since January 17, 1961, the circumstances surrounding the kidnapping and assassination of Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba have remained a symbol of the legacy of colonialism on the African continent. Lumumba rose […]
The mass protest by garment workers on Feb. 17, 2022, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, won a 54% wage increase
International News

Haiti: The Ransom is Still Being Paid

July 10, 2022 fwstaff
By Robert Roth, Haiti Action Committee Reprinted from the San Francisco Bay View National Black Newspaper On May 20th, The New York Times published a meticulously documented series entitled, “The Ransom,” detailing the devastating impact […]
VT AFL-CIO Executive Director Liz Medina calls on national labor conference to form Anti-Fascism Task Force on June 14.
International News

VT AFL-CIO calls for creation of anti-fascist taskforce at national AFL-CIO convention

July 5, 2022 fwstaff
From VT AFL-CIO Facebook page Today Vermont AFL-CIO Executive Director Liz Medina, a UAW member) spoke from the floor of the National AFL-CIO Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in order to call on the labor federation […]
Domestic News

Coeur d’Alene and a Legacy of Hate – Part Four

July 5, 2022 fwstaff
By Cassandra Devereaux Looking through the history of white nationalism and fascism in the U.S. and beyond, it’s striking that it is always married to anti-communism. While they tend to be unclear on what communism […]
NATO target of anti-militarism protest in Spain
International News

Europeans Protest NATO Summit as Russia Gains in Donbas

July 4, 2022 fwstaff
By David Sole On June 26 thousands of demonstrators marched through Madrid to say no to militarism, imperialism and the U.S./NATO Ukraine proxy war. They gathered from across Spain, with additional delegations from other European […]
International News

GABRIELA USA Rejects the Inauguration of Marcos, Jr.

July 4, 2022 fwstaff
GABRIELA USA Press Release GABRIELA USA joins Filipino women across the country in protest to reject the inauguration of both Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and Sara Duterte. Marcos Jr. took over the Presidential office in the […]
The Aryan Nations compound is demolished after a jury's verdict against the group forced it to go bankrupt in September 2000.
Domestic News

Coeur d’Alene and a Legacy of Hate – Part Three

July 4, 2022 fwstaff
By Cassandra Devereaux n the days before the destruction of the Aryan Nations compound, leader Richard Butler and a Michigan-based former Klan Grand Dragon, Robert E. Miles, contrived a vision of the Pacific Northwest as […]
Ecuador rebellion by Indigenous communities, June 2022
International News

Indigenous Groups in Ecuador Lead National Rebellion Over Escalating Fuel and Food Prices

July 4, 2022 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe An alliance of Indigenous organizations in Ecuador has held daily demonstrations after sharp increases in the costs for fuel and food. The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) began their general […]