Articles by fwstaff

Week of Solidarity with Haiti Dec 10-16
International News

Week of Solidarity with Haiti

December 12, 2020 fwstaff
By Haiti Action Committee Schedule of Events December 10th: International Human Rights Day  WATCH “How the Mangrove Nine Won,” a Global Women’s Strike Fundraiser for the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund. HERE: https://bit.ly/36CsQim December 10th–16th: Social […]
International News

Regional Dimensions and Imperialist Interests in the Ethiopian Tigray Conflict

December 11, 2020 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe With the intervention of Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF) troops into the northern Tigray region of the Horn of Africa nation, aimed at dislodging the provincial leadership and establishing firm administrative control, […]
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Domestic News

A Specter is Haunting Wall Street

December 10, 2020 fwstaff
By David Sole Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, the founders of the theory scientific socialism, noted in their 1848 classic work, the Communist Manifesto, that “a specter is haunting Europe – the specter of Communism.” […]
Ethiopia Maj Gen Mohammed Tessema
International News

Ethiopian Government Says Mekelle Has Been Retaken by Federal Forces

December 3, 2020 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe On November 4, the Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF) came under attack by the provincial government in the northern Tigray region. Reports indicate that numerous ENDF personnel were killed while the Tigray […]
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International News

Stop the massacres in Haiti: End US and UN support for the criminal regime of Jovenel Moise

December 3, 2020 fwstaff
By Haiti Action Committee The human rights crisis under the US-backed dictatorship of Jovenel Moise has continued to widen and deepen with the proliferation of “Tonton Macoutes” style death squad repression across the country. In […]
Lessie Benningfield Randle, Tulsa African American woman and survivor of the 1921 massacre
Domestic News

Scientists and Historians Uncover Further Details of Racist 1921 Tulsa Massacre

December 3, 2020 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe During World War I (1914-1918) and the immediately following years (1919-1921), racial tensions escalated inside the United States resulting in numerous efforts by white racists to contain and in many cases remove […]
Night March participants on Nov. 13, 2020 demanding the resignation of Detroit police chief
Domestic News

Night March Reiterates Chief Craig Must Resign

November 25, 2020 fwstaff
By Detroit Fighting Words Staff On Fri. Nov. 13, 2020 there was an evening rally and demonstration called by Detroit Will Breathe to reissue the demand for the removal of Detroit Police Chief James Craig. […]
Darnell Summers speaks at press conference on Nov. 13, 2020
Domestic News

Press Conference Demands That Darnell Summers Remains Free

November 20, 2020 fwstaff
By Detroit Fighting Words Staff Longtime African American revolutionary and cultural worker, Darnell Summers, is once again being threatened with prosecution in the death of a Michigan State Police Red Squad officer in Inkster, Michigan, […]
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Domestic News

Trump, Biden and the Tasks of the Progressive Movements

November 19, 2020 fwstaff
By David Sole For months President Donald Trump has been talking publicly about refusing to accept defeat in the November 3 election. And since his resounding loss to the Democrat Joe Biden he has refused […]
Racial Profiling billboard on 8 Mile Road
Domestic News

Racial Profiling Across 8 Mile Billboard Launched

November 19, 2020 fwstaff
By Detroit Fighting Words Staff A press conference was held on Friday November 6, 2020 to announce the beginning of a billboard campaign protesting the long documented problems facing African Americans on the border between […]