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ILWU Local 10 members shut down the ports of Oakland and San Francisco on Feb. 16 to demand that political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal be given a new trial. Clarence Thomas, left, speaking Feb. 16, 2023.
Domestic News

Longshore workers to review proposed contract

June 28, 2023 fwstaff
By Lallan Shoenstein In June, the union contract dispute between 22,000 longshore workers in 29 ports on the West Coast — members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) — and the port bosses […]
International News

Statement from banned Ukrainian communist group on developments in Russia

June 28, 2023 fwstaff
Statement by Borotba (Struggle), revolutionary Marxist organization banned by the Ukrainian government. Stop the armed conflict in the rear! The unity of anti-fascist forces is the key to our common victory June 24 — The […]
Elizabeth Detention Center
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Elizabeth Detention Center Could Close This Summer

June 28, 2023 fwstaff
By Kathy O’Leary, Pax Christi NJ and Jenny Garcia, Detention Watch Network June 19, 2023 Elizabeth, New Jersey – Local New Jersey groups gathered Saturday in front of the Elizabeth Detention Center (EDC) taking turns […]
Members and supporters of SJP at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign demonstrate their support for a Free Palestine
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Palestinian UIUC Law Alum Testimony Against the Dangers of IHRA

June 28, 2023 fwstaff
By Palestine Legal June 09, 2023 Palestine Legal is publishing the following testimony by Rifqa Falaneh, a Palestinian law graduate from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, about the dangers of the distorted definition of antisemitism […]
Boston Rejects Zionist Pinkwashing
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June 26, 2023 fwstaff
By Boston activists We are writing as queer, trans, Two Spirit, non-binary, Palestinian, Arab, Black, Indigenous, white, Latinx, and Jewish people living in the Boston area on occupied Massachusett, Wampanoag, Nipmuc, and Wabanaki lands. We […]
U.S. Supreme Court again ruled against workers in Glacier Northwest v Teamsters Local 174 case
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Supreme Court attacks labor’s right to strike

June 26, 2023 fwstaff
By Chris Fry On June 1, the Supreme Court made another decision eroding the rights of workers to struggle for better pay and working conditions. “Another” is the appropriate word because the Supreme Court, of […]
International News

World Refugee Day Marked by 108 Million Being Displaced

June 23, 2023 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe June 20th of every year is commemorated as World Refugee Day, an acknowledgment of those who have fled their countries of birth to seek relief from dangerous conditions which are human in […]
Russia's President Putin shakes hands with South Africa's President Ramaphosa at the BRICS summit in Johannesburg
International News

Ukraine Offensive – Week Three

June 23, 2023 fwstaff
By David Sole As the Ukrainian offensive, now in its third week, seems to have stalled, new revelations expose how the U.S. torpedoed a signed peace agreement back in March 2022. Battlefield reports from both […]
Why is Trump indicted for boxes of documents but not the January 6 insurrection
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What to do about Trump?

June 22, 2023 fwstaff
By David Sole If we had a government run by and for workers and oppressed people there would be no question and no delay in delivering justice to Donald J. Trump. In fact the vile […]
Russian President Putin and Foreign Minister Lavrov meet with President Ramaphosa and other African leaders
International News

African Peace Initiative Seeks to End War in Eastern Europe

June 22, 2023 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe African Union (AU) member-states have refused to remain silent on the crisis between the Russian Federation and Ukraine since the beginning of the special military operation in late February 2022. As founding […]