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Momentum Growing for UAW Solidarity Day in Racine, WI

December 14, 2022 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff Members of the United Autoworkers Locals 180 and 807 are sponsoring a labor and community Solidarity Day in Racine December 17. About 1,100 workers at CNHi in Racine, Wisconsin and Burlington, […]
Thousands of Palestinian students at Bir Zeit University take part in the funeral procession of Jawad and Zafer Al Rimawi, two brothers murdered by lsraeli occupation forces Nov. 29 near Ramallah Photo Times of Gaza
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75 years after partition, U.S. guns and dollars still murder Palestinians

December 10, 2022 fwstaff
  By Bill Dores Seventy-five years ago, on Nov. 29, 1947, the United Nations partitioned the land of Palestine against the wishes of its people. The chief architect of this crime was the U.S. Truman […]
Death and destruction as Ukraine fights U.S.-NATO proxy war.
International News

Difficulties Mount for Ukraine – Rhetoric Won’t Save Them

December 5, 2022 fwstaff
By David Sole The military situation for Ukraine’s forces continues to deteriorate. This reality is difficult for some in the West to understand because the two offensives carried out by Ukraine against Russian Federation forces […]
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Democrats, Then Republicans Smite Rail Labor

December 5, 2022 fwstaff
By Railroad Workers United Date: December 2nd, 2022 For Immediate Release Railroad Workers United (RWU) finds it despicable – but not surprising – that both political parties opted to side with Big Business over working […]
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Unjust Measures Imposed on Labor and African Americans After Midterm Elections

December 5, 2022 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe United States President Joe Biden, while running for office in 2020, pledged to become the most pro-union head-of-state in the history of the government. However, many within the labor movement are incensed […]
African American voting advocates hold signs
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Election Results Affirm Continuing Far Right Threat

December 4, 2022 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Stewart Rhodes, the national leader of the far-right Oath Keepers, along with his Florida chapter chief, Kelly Meggs, were both convicted of seditious conspiracy on November 29 in connection with the attempted […]
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar
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Midterm Election Results Will Further Polarize U.S. Politics

December 4, 2022 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Although the Democratic Party leadership has praised the electorate for maintaining their razor-thin majority in the United States Senate, the administration of President Joe Biden will have an even more difficult period […]
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Rail Workers Unhappy with Biden Call to Subvert Strike, Mandate Contract

December 3, 2022 fwstaff
Date: Tuesday, November 29th, 2022 For Immediate Release Rail Workers Unhappy with Biden Call to Subvert Strike, Mandate Contract Unfortunately, the “most labor-friendly president” has opted to side with Big Business and call for a […]
Capitalism in decline promotes bizarre, divisive ideas
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Capitalism Needs Irrational Thought

November 27, 2022 fwstaff
By David Sole Many people are wondering why right-wing politics has gone off the deep end into utterly bizarre directions. Theories are proclaimed by political figures and echoed by millions. Social media surges with one […]
A march to free Mumia Abu-Jamal and all political prisoners
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Judicial Persecution Corrupts the Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal

November 27, 2022 fwstaff
    By Linn Washington Philadelphia Common Pleas Court Judge Lucretia Clemons is the latest addition to an odious list of appellate court jurists who craftily construct legal barriers specifically to bludgeon evidence that undermines […]