Month: June 2023

Could Ukraine be planning a “false flag” attack on Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant to justify NATO escalation and direct participation
International News

Russia Quells Wagner Group Mutiny – Ukrainian Offensive Still Stalled

June 30, 2023 fwstaff
By David Sole News outlets around the world focused on a short lived mutiny inside Russia by the “private” Wagner military group while the bigger story is that Ukraine’s much touted offensive is stalled in […]
Sudan and South Sudan border crossing still open
International News

Fighting Continues in Sudan as Humanitarian Crisis Worsens

June 30, 2023 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe In a recent report published by the South African-based Institute for Security Studies (ISS), an argument was made for the mobilization and deployment of an African Union (AU) peacekeeping force in the […]
Free Walid Daqqah
International News

Take Action to Free Walid Daqqah

June 28, 2023 fwstaff
By Palestinian Youth Movement The Palestinian Youth Movement is inviting you to participate in signing and circulating our petition to Free Walid Daqqah. This petition is the first step of our Free Walid Daqqah Campaign. […]
ILWU Local 10 members shut down the ports of Oakland and San Francisco on Feb. 16 to demand that political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal be given a new trial. Clarence Thomas, left, speaking Feb. 16, 2023.
Domestic News

Longshore workers to review proposed contract

June 28, 2023 fwstaff
By Lallan Shoenstein In June, the union contract dispute between 22,000 longshore workers in 29 ports on the West Coast — members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) — and the port bosses […]
International News

Statement from banned Ukrainian communist group on developments in Russia

June 28, 2023 fwstaff
Statement by Borotba (Struggle), revolutionary Marxist organization banned by the Ukrainian government. Stop the armed conflict in the rear! The unity of anti-fascist forces is the key to our common victory June 24 — The […]
Elizabeth Detention Center
Domestic News

Elizabeth Detention Center Could Close This Summer

June 28, 2023 fwstaff
By Kathy O’Leary, Pax Christi NJ and Jenny Garcia, Detention Watch Network June 19, 2023 Elizabeth, New Jersey – Local New Jersey groups gathered Saturday in front of the Elizabeth Detention Center (EDC) taking turns […]
Members and supporters of SJP at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign demonstrate their support for a Free Palestine
Domestic News

Palestinian UIUC Law Alum Testimony Against the Dangers of IHRA

June 28, 2023 fwstaff
By Palestine Legal June 09, 2023 Palestine Legal is publishing the following testimony by Rifqa Falaneh, a Palestinian law graduate from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, about the dangers of the distorted definition of antisemitism […]
Boston Rejects Zionist Pinkwashing
Domestic News

June 26, 2023 fwstaff
By Boston activists We are writing as queer, trans, Two Spirit, non-binary, Palestinian, Arab, Black, Indigenous, white, Latinx, and Jewish people living in the Boston area on occupied Massachusett, Wampanoag, Nipmuc, and Wabanaki lands. We […]
U.S. Supreme Court again ruled against workers in Glacier Northwest v Teamsters Local 174 case
Domestic News

Supreme Court attacks labor’s right to strike

June 26, 2023 fwstaff
By Chris Fry On June 1, the Supreme Court made another decision eroding the rights of workers to struggle for better pay and working conditions. “Another” is the appropriate word because the Supreme Court, of […]
International News

World Refugee Day Marked by 108 Million Being Displaced

June 23, 2023 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe June 20th of every year is commemorated as World Refugee Day, an acknowledgment of those who have fled their countries of birth to seek relief from dangerous conditions which are human in […]