Month: October 2023

War criminals Benjamin Netanyahu and Joe Biden embrace on October 18
International News

PFLP: Disinformation on hospital bombing is another crime against victims

October 25, 2023 fwstaff
By Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Oct. 18: The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) confirmed today that the occupation government and its army committed the crime of bombing the Al-Ahli […]
Che Guevara and Amilcar Cabral remembered
International News

The Country Where Children Are Charged of Bringing It Upon Themselves | October Seventh – The Day That Shook Our World

October 25, 2023 fwstaff
The Country Where Children Are Charged of Bringing It Upon Themselves “Mumia is a country” Gabriel Bryant, March 11, 2023 “The children [ of Gaza ] brought it on themselves” Meirav Ben Ari. “liberal centrist” […]
Detroit Casino workers walk the picket line on Wed. Oct. 18, 2023
Domestic News

Detroit Unions Walk the Picket Lines Against Blue Cross-Blue Shield and Three Detroit Casinos

October 25, 2023 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff These photographs were taken during the early morning hours of Wednesday, October 18, 2023 as thousands of workers are on strike for a living wage in Detroit. UAW Local 2500, representing […]
Detroit rally in support of Palestine, Oct. 16, 2023
Domestic News

Detroit Demonstrations in Solidarity with Palestine

October 25, 2023 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff On Monday, October 16, 2023, a demonstration was held at the McNamara Federal Building in Detroit demanding that Senator Gary Peters support the call for a cease fire. The action was […]
Gaza solidarity demonstrations around the world after the IDF bombing of al-Ahli hospital
International News

United States Facilitates Dire Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza

October 18, 2023 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe President Joe Biden of the United States has emphasized daily that the principal foreign policy objective for Washington in West Asia and North Africa is to defend and bolster the State of […]
Nelson Mandela imprisoned 27 years for terrorism for opposing apartheid in South Africa
International News

Terrorism in the eyes of the imperial beholder – a poem by Julia Wright

October 18, 2023 fwstaff
By Julia Wright the French word for rabies is la rage – rage or outrage and the French have a saying – a man who wants to get rid of his dog accuses it of […]
Six year-old Wadea al-Fayoume killed in Illinois anti-Palestinian hate crime
International News

BEHEADED CHILDHOOD – a poem by Julia Wright

October 18, 2023 fwstaff
By Julia Wright July 22 1941 the girl next door is getting married so Anne Frank leans out of her Amsterdam window to get a peek and tosses her hair in childish excitement – it […]
Nat Turner's Insurrection Marker
International News

Nat Turner and Gaza

October 16, 2023 fwstaff
By David Sole The Zionist settlers of Israel have never needed an excuse to kill Palestinians. The very act of seizing and occupying someone else’s land demands violence toward the victims of the displacement. The […]
Gaza Palestinians under massive bombing attack by Zionist Israel
International News

Gaza Blues – a poem

October 15, 2023 fwstaff
By Julia Wright For Eric Garner, George Floyd and so many others – all lynched like Gaza today. For Henry Hagains who reminded me in Gaza the rubble reluctantly yields loved ones there is no […]
Jordan demonstration in support of Gaza
International News

Palestine Solidarity Grows Amid Israeli Siege of Gaza

October 15, 2023 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe As the Israeli government issued a declaration demanding that 1.1 million Palestinians must leave northern Gaza within 24 hours, protest demonstrations were carried out within several areas of the West Bank including […]