Articles

Oakland teachers strike
Domestic News

Oakland teachers strike is over but the fight continues

March 27, 2019 fwstaff
By Terri Kay Following the inspiration of teachers in West Virginia, Oklahoma, Los Angeles and more, Oakland teachers, organized by the Oakland Education Association (OEA), went out on strike on February 21 with four major […]
International News

Communist Workers League stands in solidarity with Muslims following the Christchurch massacre

March 24, 2019 fwstaff
By Communist Workers League Communist Workers League declares its solidarity with all of our Muslim sisters and brothers all over the world. We especially condemn and grieve the senseless massacre of 50 Muslims in Christchurch, […]
Rasmea Odeh
International News

Communist Workers League statement in solidarity with Rasmea Odeh after being banned from speaking in Germany

March 21, 2019 fwstaff
By Communist Workers League Rasmea Odeh, a Palestinian activist, freedom fighter and former political prisoner, was recently banned from carrying out a speaking engagement in Germany and ordered to leave the European country. We, as […]
protesters for kaepernick
Domestic News

Karl Marx and the case for reparations

March 21, 2019 fwstaff
By Chris Fry “Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman’s 250 years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the […]
Graphic: Haiti Action Committee by nia
International News

Open letter in solidarity with the people of Haiti on the 15th anniversary of the U.S.-backed coup

March 14, 2019 fwstaff
By Haiti Action Committee The following is a statement issued by the Haiti Action Committee on March 2, 2019, in support of the Haitian people’s struggle for human rights and democracy in their own country. […]
Wright Museum Protest 03-12-2019
Domestic News

Jefferson exhibit generates racial controversy in Detroit

March 13, 2019 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikywe An historical exhibit designed to examine various aspects of the life and people of the Monticello plantation in Virginia during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, which was owned by Thomas […]
Maduro in a crowd of supporters
International News

Cuba condemns the terrorist sabotage against the power supply system in Venezuela

March 13, 2019 fwstaff
By The Republic of Cuba The Revolutionary Government strongly condemns the sabotage perpetrated against the power supply system in Venezuela, which is a terrorist action intended to harm the defenseless population of an entire nation […]
President Nicolás Maduro being interviewed by BBC's Orla Guerin i
International News

Interview with Maduro on BBC

March 6, 2019 fwstaff
Interview reprinted from BBC News 12 February 2019 Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro interview: Full transcript The BBC’s Orla Guerin has interviewed Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in Caracas. Here is the full transcript. Orla Guerin, BBC […]
Maria Stewart
Domestic News

Further reflections on women’s suffrage and African emancipation

February 26, 2019 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe A cursory re-examination of the early years of what became known as the women’s suffrage movement and abolitionism represented the embryonic phases of self-organization and mass struggle politics within United States society. […]
Lt Christopher Hasson of the US Coast Guard with weapons.
Domestic News

The Coast Guard Nazi: A symptom of the system

February 26, 2019 fwstaff
By Cassandra Devereaux A man in Kentucky shoots two Black customers in a grocery store parking lot after he is unable to enter a historically Black church to carry out a planned massacre. Another in […]