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Domestic News

MLK Day Manitowoc, Wisconsin Conducts MLK Freedom School

October 2, 2021 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff The first of a series of four classes of the MLK Freedom School was held at the Manitowoc Public Library. Titled “All Labor Has Dignity! (Si Se Puede!, Union, Yes!, No […]
Detroit demonstration welcoming the defeat of Trump on Nov. 7, 2020 (Photo by Abayomi Azikiwe)
Domestic News

African Americans and the Democratic Presidency

October 2, 2021 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe There can be no doubt that the African American electorate played a decisive role in the ascendancy of the current administration led by Democratic President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. […]
Shanghai’s Nanpu Bridge
International News

U.S. Cold War with China Heats Up

October 2, 2021 fwstaff
By Chris Fry When the Chinese giant privately-owned Evergrande property developer company failed to pay its bondholders on Sept. 23 some $83 billion that was due, financial analysts around the capitalist world called this China’s […]
ECOWAS delegation to Guinea on Sept. 17, 2021
International News

Guinea Coup Leader Rejects ECOWAS Initiatives

October 2, 2021 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe A delegation of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), a 15-member regional organization, visited the Guinean capital of Conakry on September 17 in a bid to have the leaders of […]
Domestic News

Emergency Week of Actions for Haitian Refugees!

September 23, 2021 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff Emergency Week of Actions for Haitian Refugees! Biden: Halt Your Racist Border Patrol and Stop the Whippings and Racist Deportations NOW! When: Friday September 24 – October 2nd Who/What: Progressive organizations […]
Sudan woman demonstrator protests against lack of democracy
International News

Sudan Interim Regime Says It Has Thwarted a Military Coup

September 22, 2021 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe People in the Republic of Sudan and across the world awoke on September 21 to an announcement by Interim Prime Minister Abdulla Hamdok that the security forces had prevented a coup by […]
September 18. 2021 satellite photo of the KNP wildfire in northern California
Domestic News

Unnatural Disasters: Hurricane Ida, Western Wildfires and Carnegie’s Johnstown Flood

September 22, 2021 fwstaff
By Chris Fry Part 1 described how rich capitalists like Andrew Carnegie successfully managed to deflect blame in the corrupt courts for the Johnstown flood of 1889, which they said was caused by an “act […]
Afghanistan withdrawal by the Pentagon portrayed in Global Times
International News

Post-occupation Afghanistan Seeks to Build International Relations

September 19, 2021 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe After twenty years of direct military engagement and over four decades of destabilization, the United States has left a trail of devastation in Afghanistan. The crises of food deficits, economic underdevelopment and […]
Johnstown, PA flood of 1889
Domestic News

Unnatural Disasters: Hurricane Ida, Western Wildfires and Carnegie’s Johnstown Flood

September 19, 2021 fwstaff
By Chris Fry 1889 was a long time ago, 132 years to be precise, spanning many generations. Yet the terrible Johnstown Pennsylvania flood of that year and the climate-change spawned firestorms in the West and […]
Guinea coup leader Col. Mamady Doumboya
International News

Guinea Coup Deepens Crisis of Governance in West Africa

September 15, 2021 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Members of the Special Forces in the West African state of Guinea-Conakry seized power from the government of President Alpha Conde, 83, on September 5. There were reports of heavy gunfire surrounding […]