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No Ukraine counteroffensive in sight against Russian Federation forces
International News

What Ukrainian Counteroffensive?

August 20, 2022 fwstaff
By David Sole Day in and day out the western corporate mass media had been proclaiming the long awaited Ukrainian counteroffensive against Russian forces in the south of Ukraine. The Merriam-Webster online dictionary defines a […]
Assata Shakur
Domestic News

Assata Shakur, Black Liberation Struggles and the Cuban Revolution – Black August Series #3

August 18, 2022 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe As far back in history as the period of enslavement of African people in North America, resistance and rebellion has been met with retaliatory repression from the ruling interests. Freedom fighters such […]
Mumia Abu-Jamal as a youth member of the Black Panther Party in Philadelphia
Domestic News

Mumia Abu-Jamal Remains the Voice of the Voiceless – Black August Series #2

August 18, 2022 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe During the late 1960s, Mumia Abu-Jamal became a youth activist in the city of Philadelphia where a succession of racist police chiefs engaged in widespread abuse against the African American community. Philadelphia […]
The great union leader, Moranda Smith
Domestic News

Moranda Smith: An African American Revolutionary Trade Union Leader (1915-1950)

August 15, 2022 fwstaff
By Gerry Scoppettuolo On a hot dusty day in September 1949, 34-year-old Moranda Smith strode bravely down the main street of Apopka, Florida. The Klan was after her and she knew it. The night before, […]
Dr. Mutulu Shakur poster demanding his release
Domestic News

Nationwide Campaign Seeks Compassionate Release for Dr. Mutulu Shakur

August 15, 2022 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe During the 1970s, amid a draconian counter-intelligence program (COINTELPRO) launched by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) against African American organizations throughout the United States, a cadre of activists in New York […]
Amnesty International’s General Secretary, is under intense attack for report exposing Ukraine army’s violations of international law
International News

The First Casualty of War

August 14, 2022 fwstaff
By David Sole It has often been said that “Truth is the first casualty of war.” This is especially true in the case of the conflict between Ukraine and the Russian Federation which began February […]
Sudanese Communist Party leader Mohamed Mokhtar al-Khatib forms new alliance
International News

Sudanese Communist Party Forms New Alliance Committed to Ending Military Rule

August 14, 2022 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Since December of 2018, the Republic of Sudan has undergone general strikes, mass demonstrations, the forced removal of longtime former President Omar Hassan al-Bashir and the failed formations of several interim administrations. […]
Domestic News

Mutulu Shakur Files Suit Against U.S. Parole Commission

August 14, 2022 fwstaff
Press release August 8, 2022 CONTACTS: Brad Thomson, Attorney, People’s Law Office 1180 N. Milwaukee Ave. Chicago, IL 60642 Nyeusi Jami, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM), Atlanta Coordinator nyeusi.jami@protonmail.com Today, on Dr. Shakur’s 72nd birthday, […]
U.S. oil giant Chevron plunders natural gas from the stolen waters off Palestine.
International News

Biden and the U.S.-Israel-GCC axis: It’s not the oil, it’s the money

August 7, 2022 fwstaff
By Bill Dores Reprinted from Struggle – La Lucha Joe Biden didn’t go to Arabia in July to beg for oil. That’s not the nature of the U.S.-Saudi relationship. He didn’t go to Palestine to […]
Protests in Taiwan as U.S. escalates tensions with China using Pelosi visit
International News

Editorial: Pelosi Visit to Taiwan – Prelude to Another Proxy War

August 6, 2022 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff Let’s be perfectly clear! Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s trip marks a huge step towards the Pentagon reestablishing nuclear armed U.S. military bases in Taiwan, an island just 100 miles […]