Month: August 2022

At least 39 killed when fascists burned the Odessa House of Trade Unions in 2014
Domestic News

U.S. Ukraine Puppet Regime Attacks Unions

August 31, 2022 fwstaff
By David Sole The “Solidarity Center” is an organization affiliated with the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO). Its stated goal is to “help build a global labor movement by strengthening the economic […]
Algeria President Abdelmadjid Tebboune holds talks with French counterpart Emmanuel Macron
International News

French Energy Firm Seeks Deal to Increase Algerian Natural Gas Supply

August 31, 2022 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Since the beginning of the Russian special military operation in neighboring Ukraine, the United States and the European Union (EU) have imposed unprecedented economic sanctions against Moscow. These draconian measures were designed […]
Migrants deported from Texas arrive in New York City.
Domestic News

Texas Governor Guilty of Mass Kidnapping

August 28, 2022 fwstaff
By David Sole Since April it has been reported that Texas Governor Greg Abbott and his administration have deported over 7,000 migrants from southern Texas to New York City. Buses have been filled with migrant […]
Swearing-in process of street speakers in Zulia state. Photo YVKE Mundial
International News

United Socialist Party of Venezuela Organizes Almost 267,000 Peoples’ Assemblies

August 28, 2022 fwstaff
By Narkys Blanco On Monday, August 22, vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello, announced, that 266,927 assemblies were organized at the national level last weekend. Cabello described the process, […]
Nehanda Abiodun 1950-2019
Domestic News

Nehanda Abiodun and the Legacy of Resistance to the Prison-Industrial Complex – Black August Series #4

August 28, 2022 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Since the early 1980s, the prison population in the United States has grown exponentially with African Americans, Latin Americans and other working class people making up the majority of those incarcerated in […]
US Secretary of State visit to RSA
International News

Blinken Returns Empty Handed from Africa Tour

August 27, 2022 fwstaff
 By Abayomi Azikiwe United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited three African Union (AU) member-states during early August in an attempt to enhance the presence of Washington on the continent. This tour came amid […]
International News

Joint Statement from Designated Palestinian Organizations Raided, Closed and Pillaged by Israeli Occupying Forces

August 22, 2022 fwstaff
In the early morning of 18 August 2022, Israeli Occupying Forces (IOF) forcibly entered, raided, ransacked and damaged properties of six designated Palestinian civil society organizations: Al-Haq, Addameer, the Bisan Center for Research & Development, […]
No Ukraine counteroffensive in sight against Russian Federation forces
International News

What Ukrainian Counteroffensive?

August 20, 2022 fwstaff
By David Sole Day in and day out the western corporate mass media had been proclaiming the long awaited Ukrainian counteroffensive against Russian forces in the south of Ukraine. The Merriam-Webster online dictionary defines a […]
Assata Shakur
Domestic News

Assata Shakur, Black Liberation Struggles and the Cuban Revolution – Black August Series #3

August 18, 2022 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe As far back in history as the period of enslavement of African people in North America, resistance and rebellion has been met with retaliatory repression from the ruling interests. Freedom fighters such […]
Mumia Abu-Jamal as a youth member of the Black Panther Party in Philadelphia
Domestic News

Mumia Abu-Jamal Remains the Voice of the Voiceless – Black August Series #2

August 18, 2022 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe During the late 1960s, Mumia Abu-Jamal became a youth activist in the city of Philadelphia where a succession of racist police chiefs engaged in widespread abuse against the African American community. Philadelphia […]