Articles by fwstaff

Detroit retirees and supporters fought cuts to pension in 2013
Domestic News

Detroit Retirees Fight for Pension Booster

January 12, 2022 fwstaff
By David Sole The COVID-19 pandemic year 2021 has seen the highest rate of inflation in about 40 years in the United States. The rapid increase in prices for all sorts of consumer goods is […]
Assange, Snowden and Manning exposed US war crimes
Domestic News

Pentagon Drone Attacks Killed Many Innocent People with Impunity

January 11, 2022 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe A frontpage New York Times Magazine report on Sunday January 2 revealed in chilling detail the systematic targeting of peoples in territories where the United States government had declared a frontline battlefield […]
Political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal continues to fight for his freedom.
Domestic News

Take a Walk at the Crime Scene

January 8, 2022 fwstaff
By Michael Schiffmann If you happen to live in Philadelphia, I’d like to suggest that you take a walk at the crime sce ne of one of the most famous murder cases of our time […]
Gidimten Checkpoint
International News

Wet’suwet’en Water Protectors Evade RCMP

January 8, 2022 fwstaff
Gidimt’en Checkpoint Press Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 4th, 2022 – Unceded Gidimt’en Territory, Smithers (BC): Two weeks after Wet’suwet’en water protectors evicted Coastal GasLink workers and occupied a key pipeline drill site, water protectors […]
New filing in case of political prisoner, Mumia Abu Jamal
Domestic News

New Filing in Mumia’s Case

January 8, 2022 fwstaff
By Johanna Fernandez, Campaign to Bring Mumia Home Dear Friends: In her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston wrote, “There are years that ask questions and years that answer.” With continued pressure […]
Strong shift to support socialist candidates in recent elections across Latin America, including Venezuela’s United Socialist Party
International News

Latin American Elections Show a Leftward Shift

January 3, 2022 fwstaff
By Chris Fry Recent elections in Nicaragua, Venezuela, Honduras, and Chile show a definite shift of popular support for socialist candidates, in open defiance of U.S. imperialism. But since the 2019 Bolivian coup, supported by […]
mage by Mohammed Sabaaneh
Domestic News

The Great Palestinian Escape of 2021

January 2, 2022 fwstaff
By Diana Block, CounterPunch magazine Reprinted from https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/12/24/the-great-palestinian-escape-of-2021-reflections-from-the-u-s-abolitionist-landscape/ On September 6, 2021, six Palestinian political prisoners escaped from Gilboa prison, one of the highest security prisons of the Israeli apartheid state.  They escaped through a […]
Sudan women demonstrate for revolutionary democracy
International News

Sudanese Masses Pressure Military Regime to Relinquish Power

December 31, 2021 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Since the October 25 coup by the military in the oil-rich state of Sudan, the democratic movement has held protests almost on a daily basis. Interim Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, a technocrat […]
USS Theodore Roosevelt and USS Makin Island meet in the South China Sea
Domestic News

Biden Administration Must Halt War Provocations Against China and Russia

December 29, 2021 fwstaff
The following statement was issued by the Moratorium NOW! Coalition and the Michigan Emergency Coalition Against War & Injustice (MECAWI) in response to the belligerent behavior of the United States towards China and Russia. The […]
Ethiopia and Eritrea says No More
International News

Ethiopian Offensive Prompts Retreat by Western Backed Rebels

December 29, 2021 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia has returned from the frontline in the battle to halt the advances of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF). TPLF rebels […]