Year: 2024

South African GNU
International News

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa Secures Second Term Under ANC-led Government of National Unity

June 24, 2024 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe South Africa held its seventh national and provincial elections in late May where approximately 58 percent of the eligible voters cast ballots. The democratic breakthrough of 1994 led to the first non-racial […]
U.S. political prisoner Leonard Peltier
Domestic News

A PAN ABOLITIONIST PRAYER FOR LEONARD PELTIER | WHAT DOES PEACE SOUND LIKE? | INTER-TIME

June 24, 2024 fwstaff
A PAN ABOLITIONIST PRAYER FOR LEONARD PELTIER “The only accounts we owe are to our children, the ancestors and those not yet born” -Amilcar Cabral whom I was honored to meet in Accra just as […]
NLC members rally demanding higher minimum wages and cost cuts for electricity
International News

Nigerian Labor Unions Stage Strike to Raise Minimum Wage

June 24, 2024 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe During late May, the Nigerian Labor Congress (NLC) called upon its members to stay away from work in order to demand a raise in the minimum wage and for a price cut […]
POP Chair, Lawrence Hamm at White House protest June 12, 2024
Domestic News

POP Chairman Demands Biden Halt Aid to Israel

June 24, 2024 fwstaff
By People’s Organization for Progress Lawrence Hamm, Chairman, People’s Organization For Progress, protested U.S. support for Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza at the White House, Washington D.C. yesterday, Tuesday, June 11, 2024. His reasons for […]
Gaza massacre in Nuseirat
International News

Pentagon Involved in Nuseirat Massacre

June 23, 2024 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Nearly 300 Palestinian people were massacred at a refugee camp in central Gaza on June 7 under the guise of rescuing captives held by resistance forces since the beginning of the Al-Aqsa […]
Walid Daqqa - Palestinian prisoner who died in zionist prison. He was able to smuggle his sperm out of prison to father his daughter Milad in 2020
International News

 TO MILAD DAQQA | A CHILD ASLEEP IN RAFAH | WHAT IS POETRY TO ME | WORDS DIE TOO | ECOLOGY OF IMPERFECTION

June 23, 2024 fwstaff
TO MILAD DAQQA “Even when conducted legally, war is ugly. It is possible to kill children legally, if for example one is being attacked by an enemy who hides behind them.” The Atlantic, Graeme Wood, […]
China has developed sodium ion batteries to replace lithium ions which are more expensive and much less available
Domestic News

Biden’s Tariffs on China: A Unionist Response – Part 2

June 23, 2024 fwstaff
By Chris Fry Part 1 discussed how Biden has undermined his own publicized campaign to fight global warming by imposing huge tariff increases on China. Part 2 explores how the billionaire ruling class, patrons to […]
Biden used the D-Day commemoration to promote his proxy war in Ukraine
International News

Biden Promotes Ukraine Proxy War in Trip to Normandy

June 19, 2024 fwstaff
By David Sole U.S. President Joe Biden traveled to France to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landing which created the long delayed “second front” in World War II. For 3 long years the […]
WSU Medical School Professor Ijeoma Nnodim Opara
Domestic News

Detroit Wayne State U Faculty/Staff for Justice in Palestine Formed

June 19, 2024 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe On June 4, hundreds of students, faculty, alumni and community members rallied on the campus of Wayne State University located in the Midtown District of Detroit. The purpose of the gathering was […]
Citibank - profiting off genocide against Paletinian people
Uncategorized

Citibank – Partner in Genocide

June 19, 2024 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff Protests have been scheduled from June 10 to 14 against the giant Citibank which has assets of $2.9 trillion and which is a major financial supporter of the Israeli settler state. […]