Year: 2024

So many children killed or wounded in Gaza - made in USA
International News

PHANTOM PAIN BLUES | A MEMORIAL LULLABY | ANEMOIA

July 18, 2024 fwstaff
PHANTOM PAIN BLUES a young boy now missing one hand waves his bandaged stump and managing a smile says “my hand is in heaven it beat me there” a young girl still wincing tries to […]
US-NATO Summit - leaders dream of Ukraine victory in face of their proxy war losses
International News

Wishful Thinking Can’t Reverse Ukraine’s Losses

July 18, 2024 fwstaff
By David Sole Printed to coincide with the 75th NATO Summit in Washington, D.C. the New York Times ran a piece of pure propaganda designed to calm growing fears in the West that Ukraine may […]
Israel causes Shejaiya destruction
International News

Zionist Occupation Forces Continue Massacres While Biden Promises Ceasefire Deal

July 18, 2024 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe For several weeks officials from the United States administration of President Joe Biden have led the international community to believe once again that an end to the fighting in Gaza was imminent. […]
Abayomi Azikiwe, Tahira Kemet and Yvonne Jones outside MFCU
Domestic News

Help Save Yolanda Chambers’ Home

July 14, 2024 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff Moratorium NOW! Coalition Helps Widow Fighting to Save Her Home. Yolanda Chamber’s Civil Rights Violated by Michigan First Credit Union (MFCU) DEMAND MICHIGAN FIRST CREDIT UNION RETURN YOLANDA CHAMBERS’ HOME! Yolanda […]
From Juneteenth to Freedom Summer & Beyond
Domestic News

From Juneteenth to Freedom Summer

July 11, 2024 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe On June 18 in Detroit at the St. Matthew’s-St. Joseph’s Episcopal Church, five veteran women organizers from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Northern Student Movement, spoke on the significance […]
Protests like the 2011 takeover of the Wisconsin State Capitol will continue to confront the right-wing, racist forces
Domestic News

Capitalists Choose Milwaukee for the RNC Because Wisconsin is THE Austerity Model

July 9, 2024 fwstaff
By Dorothy Brown The legacy of unions and community advances in Wisconsin is deep and has often been led by socialists and communists and other militants. This people’s resistance is continuing during the Republican National […]
Sudan refugees in neighboring Chad
International News

Political Deadlock Continues in Efforts to Open Peace Talks in Sudan

July 9, 2024 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe A United Nations Security Council resolution was passed on June 13 calling for an end to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) siege upon the North Darfur capital city of El Fasher. In […]
International News

NATO Summit Won’t Be Able to Save Ukraine

July 8, 2024 fwstaff
Footage of a Russian missile attack on the Dolgintsevo airfield in the Krivoy Rog region. The strike destroyed one ukranian MiG-29 fighter and damaged two attack aircraft.#UkraineWar pic.twitter.com/WyLpbW65E1 — Johan Andersson (@halsamorsan) July 4, 2024 […]
Kenya young people demonstrate demanding the resignation of President Ruto
International News

Demonstrations Continue in Kenya as Youth Call for the Resignation of President Ruto

July 8, 2024 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Protests erupted again on July 2 across Kenya against the worsening economic crisis and the impunity exemplified by President William Ruto. Since June 18, youth-led demonstrations have been met with repression resulting […]
Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, finally free
Domestic News

A Pan-Abolitionist View on Julian Assange’s Release

July 8, 2024 fwstaff
By Julia Wright As freedom fighters who have seen many wars from Vietnam to Algeria, from Palestine to Kanaky, we do not take the good news that comes our way lightly. First, because we fought […]