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Biden Redeploys Pentagon Troops to Somalia

May 20, 2022 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe President Joe Biden of the United States has announced through the Department of Defense the redeployment of Pentagon troops to the Horn of Africa state of Somalia. This is not the first […]
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Capitalist Crisis: The Culture War is Class War

May 20, 2022 fwstaff
By Chris Fry In the aftermath of the Kennedy assassination in 1963, Malcolm X announced that the “chickens had come home to roost.” He was slandered for this by the corporate media and political establishment. […]
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Massacre in Buffalo Highlights Legacy of Racist Violence

May 20, 2022 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe On May 14 a white racist gunman targeted and killed 10 African Americans in a supermarket in an African American community in Buffalo, New York. The 18-year-old shooter, Payton Gendron, has been […]
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Self-Determination – But not in the service of imperialism

May 16, 2022 fwstaff
By David Sole The right of oppressed nations to self-determination was a concept argued for and implemented by the great Russian revolutionary V. I. Lenin. Some socialist contemporaries of Lenin in the early 1900s argued […]
Protest against the israeli Dance Theater in Detroit
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Palestine on my mind

May 13, 2022 fwstaff
By David Sole I was born just eight days before “Al Nakba” – the Palestinian Catastrophe of May 15, 1948. I was born in New York City, a child of Hungarian Jewish immigrants who had […]
Detroit demonstration at Wayne County Treasurer against tax foreclosures
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Detroit’s Fiscal Budget: A Case Study in Corporate Domination

May 13, 2022 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe A recent debate over the fiscal budget for 2022-2023 for the City of Detroit revealed the political character of the current administration and City Council. The budget was approved for $2.4 billion […]
Detroit demonstration takes the street in defense of reproductive freedom
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Detroit Women March for Reproductive Freedom

May 13, 2022 fwstaff
Photos: Abayomi Azikiwe, Pan-African News Wire By Fighting Words Staff Joining thousands of others across the United States, women and their allies rallied and marched through downtown Detroit on Saturday, May 7, 2022. The protests […]
In plazas across the island, five million Cubans demonstrated their commitment to the Revolution and our struggle to build a socialist society based on social justice and international solidarity
Domestic News

May Day Rallies Held in Detroit and Worldwide

May 7, 2022 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff Activists from various labor and mass struggles shared their perspectives on the campaigns for raising the minimum wage, environmental justice against climate change, youth workers organizing a union in the Starbucks […]
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Justice Taney and Justice Alito

May 7, 2022 fwstaff
By David Sole The right-wing dominated United States Supreme Court is moving to overturn the historic 1973 Roe v Wade decision that recognized a woman’s right to choose abortion. On May 2 a copy of […]
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NLG Statement on Overturning Roe v. Wade

May 7, 2022 fwstaff
By National Lawyers Guild This statement is about a draft opinion on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, meaning that it is not yet an official SCOTUS opinion and has not yet had any legislation […]