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Lakeland Correctional Facility
Domestic News

Prison Suspends Feeding in Crowded Dining Hall During COVID-19 Crisis

April 27, 2020 fwstaff
By Efrén Paredes, Jr. After publicly making repeated warnings about the danger of feeding people in crowded prison dining halls at tables less than two feet apart during the COVID-19 pandemic, Lakeland Correctional Facility (LCF) […]
South African soldiers enforce lockdown amid COVID-19 pandemic
International News

Africa Responds to the COVID-19 Pandemic

April 25, 2020 fwstaff
  By Abayomi Azikiwe There are 55 member-states within the African Union (AU) where 1.2 billion people reside. Governments throughout the continent have taken initiatives to reduce the threat of COVID-19 cases which have been […]
Amazon worker demonstrates against lack of safety and adequate pay
Domestic News

Detroit, COVID-19 and the Worsening Capitalist Crisis

April 24, 2020 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Detroit still remains at the center of the COVID-19 pandemic as infection rates continue at unacceptable levels amid the rapidly declining economic situation. Although the rate of people entering hospitals suffering from […]
Rosa Parks in May 1971
Domestic News

Mrs. Rosa Parks Was A People’s Freedom Fighter That Would’ve Opposed the Right-Wing ‘Reopen’ Anti-Worker Racists Funded by the Bradley Foundation

April 24, 2020 fwstaff
By Wisconsin Bail Out The People Movement The right-wing anti-worker racists attempting to organize white supremacist shock troop recruitment rallies in Wisconsin (and across the United States) are now trying to use the heroes of […]
Domestic News

Langston Hughes Poems on Lenin

April 22, 2020 fwstaff
By Langston Hughes Lenin Lenin walks around the world. Frontiers cannot bar him. Neither barracks nor barricades impede. Nor does barbed wire scar him. Lenin walks around the world. Black, brown, and white receive him. […]
Medical worker with Cuban flag
International News

The COVID-19 pandemic makes clear the need to cooperate despite political differences

April 22, 2020 fwstaff
Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs Statement The impact of COVID-19 can already be measured and will be assessed in the future by the striking numbers of people infected, the unacceptable numbers of deaths, the unquestionable […]
Housing is a Human Right
Domestic News

Coronavirus: Workers and oppressed face monster wave of evictions and foreclosures

April 20, 2020 fwstaff
By Jerry Goldberg In the midst of the Covid-19 crisis, housing activists have shown tremendous initiative in raising demands for moratoriums on eviction and rental payments during the emergency and in the months to come. […]
No Picture
Domestic News

Coronavirus: Capitalist chaos, workers resistance and the dictatorship of the proletariat

April 19, 2020 fwstaff
By Chris Fry On April 14, as the death count in the U.S. from the terrible coronavirus pandemic raced past 25,000, the New York Times published an article by Scott Paul, head of the American […]
World Health Organization Director General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Domestic News

Trump Administration Suspends Funding to WHO amid Global Pandemic

April 17, 2020 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe After a series of verbal attacks against the World Health Organization (WHO) and its Director General, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the United States administration of President Donald Trump has announced that funding […]
Mumia apr 10 demo
Domestic News

Pennslyvania Department of Corrections condemned for cruel hoax

April 17, 2020 fwstaff
Mobilization4Mumia PRESS RELEASE April 16, 2020 Press Conference condemns PA DOC cruel hoax that claimed Mumia Abu-Jamal was ill with COVID19 When a PA Department of Corrections official falsely claimed Mumia Abu-Jamal was being hospitalized with […]