Month: April 2025

AFGE rally says Hands off My SSA
Domestic News

Detroit AFGE Rally Against Cutbacks and Layoffs

April 20, 2025 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff Federal government workers have been a major target of the current administration. President Donald Trump has established an illegal Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) which is carrying out a campaign of […]
WSU Medical School rally holds sign for Doctors Against Genocide
Domestic News

Wayne State University Medical School Demonstration Against Genocide and Repression

April 20, 2025 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff Faculty members and community activists gathered outside the Wayne State University Medical School and the Veterans Administration (VA) Hospital in the Midtown District in Detroit to protest the ongoing genocide in […]
Abayomi Azikiwe speaks at the Detroit Public Library event. | Cameron Harrison / People's World
Domestic News

Coalition forming in Detroit to resist rising fascist threat

April 20, 2025 fwstaff
By Cameron Harrison ”The MAGA movement wants to return to the days of legalized segregation, gender discrimination, the elimination of trade unions, civil rights organizations, and anyone in opposition to the fascist trajectory of the […]
AFOC Forum Yvonne Chairing
Domestic News

Why We Must Fight the Fascist Threat Facing Us Today

April 20, 2025 fwstaff
  Note: These remarks were made at the “Detroit Fights Back! Community Forum which took place on Saturday April 12, 2025. The gathering was hosted by the Anti-Fascist Organizing Coalition (AFOC). This forum was chaired […]
UK Unite members picketing over labor dispute
International News

Birmingham Sanitation Strike Spawns Public Health Emergency in England’s Second Largest City

April 20, 2025 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe A sanitation workers’ strike in the second largest city in England, Birmingham, has prompted the local authorities to declare a major incident in the municipality. Reports indicate that approximately 17,000 tons of […]
Monther Abed, a volunteer paramedic with the Palestinian Red Crescent, is the only survivor of the Israeli massacre in Rafah
International News

Sole Survivor of ‘Paramedics Massacre’ in Rafah Exposes Israeli War Crime

April 10, 2025 fwstaff
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Monther Abed, the sole survivor of the Israeli attack on paramedics in Rafah, reveals the details of the crime in which 15 humanitarian workers were killed. Monther Abed, a volunteer paramedic […]
International News

Call from the General Federation of Trade Unions in Gaza to Labor Unions in the United States on the Eve of International Workers’ Day

April 10, 2025 fwstaff
  By General Federation of Trade Unions in Gaza (PGFTU-Gaza) April 4, 2025 To the Free Trade Unions in the United States of America and to every free worker and trade unionist fighting for justice, […]
Siwar Al-Jamasi
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FOR LITTLE SIWAR JAMASI | WHAT DO YOU WANT TO EAT? | DO NOT BE AFRAID

April 10, 2025 fwstaff
FOR LITTLE SIWAR JAMASI For Siwar Jamasi she is small-limbed not more than eight years old but she fills every inch of an old pink velvet armchair with the confidence of a family’s beloved child […]
Zionist attacks and denial of food, water and medicine constitute genocide against Palestinians in Gaza
International News

Urgent call to action Re.: Extermination by starvation and collapse of life in Gaza

April 10, 2025 fwstaff
By PAL Commission on War Crimes, Justice, Reparations, and Return and Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor Since 18 March 2025, the Israeli government has intensified its total blockade on humanitarian aid, air and ground assaults, and […]
Arturo Schomburg quote
Domestic News

Attacks on African American History Continues

April 10, 2025 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe All recognitions and acknowledgements of African people in the United States and world history have come under vicious attack by the White House under President Donald Trump. Both Trump and the MAGA-dominated […]