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Labor for Palestine is rapidly growing across the United States
Domestic News

The Labor for Palestine Movement

February 22, 2024 fwstaff
By Gerry Scoppettuolo The United Electrical Workers union (UE) is today the only remaining international union to have survived the soul crushing anti-communist CIO purge of 1949-50 which expelled nine other unions, among them those […]
Red Books Festival - Detroit Tenants Association
Domestic News

Detroit Red Books Festival Held

February 21, 2024 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff On Saturday, February 17, 2024, a coalition of progressive and community organizations joined together for an event to mark the 176th anniversary of the publication of the Communist Manifesto authored by […]
Hamtramck activists march for Palestine and Yemen
Domestic News

Hamtramck, MI Solidarity March for Palestine & Yemen

February 21, 2024 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff On Sunday, February 18, 2024, people gathered and marched through the city of Hamtramck, a municipal enclave surrounded by Detroit, in solidarity with the struggle in Palestine and the people of […]
Ukrainian troops have withdrawn from the ruins of Avdeyevka, putting the strategic city under Russian control
International News

Ukraine Stronghold Falls to Russians

February 21, 2024 fwstaff
By David Sole Just one week after Ukraine’s President Zelensky replaced his top military commanders, the Ukrainian military has been driven out of their eastern stronghold of Avdeyevka. That city has been in the hands […]
White supremacist Sisyphus
International News

PRISON BLOCKADE | WHITE SUPREMACIST SISYPHUS | OUR UNITY, A LOVE SUPREME

February 21, 2024 fwstaff
  PRISON BLOCKADE ‘there is a time when silence becomes betrayal”   Martin Luther King Jr   deathbyincarcerationistorture.com   For Mumia Abu-Jamal   hoaxers spinners corporate narrative controllers thin blue veilers hired magicians of the […]
Tanzania Maji Maji revolt
Domestic News

Pan-African Struggles Against Colonialism and the First Imperialist War: 1876-1919 – African American History Month Series #5

February 20, 2024 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Beginning in 1876, the monarchy in Belgium initiated a massive campaign to fully conquer the Congo where tremendous wealth existed in natural resources and labor power. King Leopold I pursued the riches […]
Revels Cayton - Communist labor and anti-racism activist.
Domestic News

Revels Cayton – Unsung African American Hero of Labor History – African American History Month Series #4

February 20, 2024 fwstaff
By Gerry Scoppettuolo In the revolution I found the liberation that I needed and that meant so much to me – a Nicaraguan lesbian commenting on the significance of the Sandinista revolution in 1984 interview. […]
Angola President Joao Lourenco and US Secretary of State
International News

Blinken Tour of Africa Highlights Failed War Policy of the United States

February 19, 2024 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe A recent four-nation trip by United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken was marked by efforts to denigrate China and Russia as development and security partners of the African Union (AU) member […]
Domestic News

Biden met by protestors in Michigan

February 19, 2024 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff On February 1, 2023, demonstrators opposing the ongoing genocide in Gaza protested outside of the offices of UAW Region 1 in Warren, Michigan. Inside the Region 1 headquarters, President Biden was […]
Ukraine’s Zelensky replaces top general in midst of Russian advances
International News

Ukraine Changes Horses Midstream

February 11, 2024 fwstaff
By David Sole It finally happened. Ukraine’s President Zelensky fired the commander of the Ukraine military, General Zaluzhny, on February 9. He was replaced by General Syrsky, another high ranking Ukrainian military figure. Zelensky also […]