Month: February 2023

Taipei’s mayor hosts dinner for delegation from Shanghai
International News

Blinken attacks China for seeking peace in Ukraine

February 22, 2023 fwstaff
By Chris Fry Unable to intimidate the leadership of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) over its balloon being shot down by U.S. Air Force jets along with three other balloons in a missile-firing frenzy, […]
Domestic News

Alliance for Global Justice Has Been Attacked

February 21, 2023 fwstaff
  AfGJ press release Alliance for Global Justice and our fiscally-sponsored projects are under attack by right-wing media. They’re doing their best to intimidate and silence us in order to neutralize our effectiveness in growing […]
Southern Tenant Farmers Union meeting in Arkansas
Domestic News

African American Resistance in the Rural South from the Great Depression to World War II

February 21, 2023 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe African American History Month Series No. 5 During October 1929, the United States economic system was plunged into an unprecedented depression where tens of millions were thrown out of work and their […]
African American Farmers Alliance of the late 19th century
Domestic News

African American Resistance in the Rural South

February 20, 2023 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe African American History Month Series No. 4 “The new industry had a vision not of work but of wealth, not of planned accomplishment, but of power. It became the most conscienceless, unmoral […]
Domestic News

The Police Murder of Tyre Nichols: The Sad, Yet Foreseeable Result of a Policing System Based on the “Slave Patrols”

February 18, 2023 fwstaff
By National Conference of Black Lawyers The National Conference of Black Lawyers extends its deepest sympathy to the family of Tyre Nichols, the 29-year-old son and father who was viciously murdered by Memphis police officers. […]
Housing activists protest Munoz Realty
Domestic News

Free Speech under attack by landlords

February 13, 2023 fwstaff
By Mike Shane As in many cities across the U.S., the residents of Detroit face a deepening crisis in obtaining access to equitable housing that is affordable, healthy, safe and in good repair. Affordable housing […]
White House, Congress and Pentagon whip up war hysteria against Chinese weather balloon.
International News

Balloon Shootout: Pretext for War with China

February 13, 2023 fwstaff
By Chris Fry A stealth F22 fighter, costing some $350 million, managed to shoot down its first aircraft on February 4, a large Chinese balloon off the South Carolina coast. The People’s Republic of China […]
Natural gas released from Nord Stream pipelines following U.S. covert sabotage
International News

The Wider War – U.S. Exposed for Blowing Up Russia’s Pipelines

February 13, 2023 fwstaff
By David Sole Award winning journalist Seymour Hersh has written a detailed expose on how the United States government planned and carried out the bombing of Russia’s Nord Stream pipelines on September 26, 2022. Hersh’s […]
French CGT banners very much in evidence on January 31, 2023
International News

French Unions Stage Third Day of General Strikes Against Pension Reform

February 10, 2023 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe President Emmanuel Macron of France has introduced a bill within the National Assembly which would make significant changes to the pension system established as a result of working class struggles over the […]
African American prison contract labor
Domestic News

Reversing Reconstruction, the Rise of Tenant Agriculture and the Great Migration

February 9, 2023 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe African American History Month Series No. 3 “By an act of April 16, 1862, which abolished slavery in the District of Columbia, Congress made an appropriation of $100,000 for voluntary Negro emigrants […]