Year: 2022

Domestic News

Support Grows for Solidarity Day for UAW Local 180 Strikers

December 15, 2022 fwstaff
UAW Local 180 Press Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Yasin Mahdi at: 262-498-8217 or president@uawlocal180.com Bryan G Pfeifer: 313-559-7074 Ric Urrutia: 720-207-8313 https://www.facebook.com/uawlocal180 https://www.facebook.com/werisefightinglaborpodcast https://www.facebook.com/buildingunitywi Labor-Community Participants Across Wisconsin, the Midwest and Beyond Are Organizing […]
Peru workers in support of Pedro Castillo after coup
International News

Peruvian President Pedro Castillo Ousted and Jailed in Coup

December 15, 2022 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe In a highly controversial move in the South American state of Peru, President Pedro Castillo was impeached and later placed in a detention facility after he called for the dissolution of the […]
Supporters of the Interfaith Campaign for Just Closures rally in front of courthouse in downtown Elizabeth, NJ
Domestic News

Rally to Shutdown the ICE Immigrant Detention Center in Elizabeth, New Jersey

December 14, 2022 fwstaff
By Terri Kay December 10, 2022 – On International Human Rights Day, about 40 supporters of the Interfaith Campaign for Just Closures rallied at the Union County Courthouse in downtown Elizabeth, New Jersey, demanding the […]
Casualties mount month after month in Battle for Bakhmut
International News

Bakhmut a Kill Box for Ukraine Forces

December 14, 2022 fwstaff
By David Sole The city of Bakhmut in the Donetsk People’s Republic region annexed into the Russian Federation on September 30 has been the scene of heavy fighting in the Russia-Ukraine conflict for many months. […]
Detroit press conference demands paratransit quality
Domestic News

Detroit Activists Force Mayor to Commit to Quality Paratransit Services

December 14, 2022 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff A press conference was held outside City Hall on Thurs. December 1, 2022. Several community organizations spoke on behalf of thousands suffering due to the abysmal failure of the city administration […]
Coup ringleader “Prince” Heinrich XIII arrested in Germany
International News

German Nazi Coup Plan Thwarted

December 14, 2022 fwstaff
By David Sole Police across Germany carried out raids against Nazis who reportedly were planning an armed overthrow of the government of that nation. Twenty-five ultra-rightists were arrested as 3,000 police officers searched 130 locations […]
Domestic News

Momentum Growing for UAW Solidarity Day in Racine, WI

December 14, 2022 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff Members of the United Autoworkers Locals 180 and 807 are sponsoring a labor and community Solidarity Day in Racine December 17. About 1,100 workers at CNHi in Racine, Wisconsin and Burlington, […]
Thousands of Palestinian students at Bir Zeit University take part in the funeral procession of Jawad and Zafer Al Rimawi, two brothers murdered by lsraeli occupation forces Nov. 29 near Ramallah Photo Times of Gaza
International News

75 years after partition, U.S. guns and dollars still murder Palestinians

December 10, 2022 fwstaff
  By Bill Dores Seventy-five years ago, on Nov. 29, 1947, the United Nations partitioned the land of Palestine against the wishes of its people. The chief architect of this crime was the U.S. Truman […]
Death and destruction as Ukraine fights U.S.-NATO proxy war.
International News

Difficulties Mount for Ukraine – Rhetoric Won’t Save Them

December 5, 2022 fwstaff
By David Sole The military situation for Ukraine’s forces continues to deteriorate. This reality is difficult for some in the West to understand because the two offensives carried out by Ukraine against Russian Federation forces […]
Domestic News

Democrats, Then Republicans Smite Rail Labor

December 5, 2022 fwstaff
By Railroad Workers United Date: December 2nd, 2022 For Immediate Release Railroad Workers United (RWU) finds it despicable – but not surprising – that both political parties opted to side with Big Business over working […]