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Domestic News

Workers vote on UAW contract with GM

October 22, 2019 fwstaff
By Thomas Michalak For over a month United Auto Workers (UAW) members employed by General Motors have been on a countrywide strike after a breakdown at the negotiation table between the union and the company. […]
Protestors demanding that GM pay state and federal taxes
Domestic News

Make G.M. Pay Taxes – Support the UAW Strike

October 21, 2019 fwstaff
By FW Detroit Staff With the UAW strike against General Motors in its 30th day, community activists gathered on October 15 at the State of Michigan Building to show their support. The target of this […]
International News

Turkey Manbij offensive begins as Trump preps sanctions on Ankara

October 21, 2019 fwstaff
By Jim Carey October 14, 2019 The situation surrounding Syria is proving to be as complicated as ever as day six of Turkey’s Operation Peace Spring in northeast Syria comes to a close. Despite the […]
Trump and Erdogan
International News

Trump outsources Syria destabilization to Turkey in bid to ease tensions

October 18, 2019 fwstaff
By Jim Carey About two months ago now, it seemed as if NATO allies Turkey and the United States had finally reached some kind of agreement over the situation in northern Syria with a rough […]
Philly Trans March, Saturday, October 12, 2019
Domestic News

When trans women die

October 17, 2019 fwstaff
  By Mumia Abu-Jamal (with permission) In recent weeks, we have seen naked violence unleashed against trans women directed against them by the state in the form of police beatings and by rightist forces in […]
A sign demanding PG&E to turn the power back on.
Domestic News

PG&E’s shutoff: at the intersection of electric and ruling class power

October 16, 2019 fwstaff
By Cassandra Devereaux On Tuesday, October 9 Pacific Gas & Electric, the publicly traded monopoly that supplies most of Northern California’s power needs, announced that they would be shutting off power for much of their […]
A contingent from UNITE HERE union joins the picket line outside the General Motors Tech Center in Warren
Domestic News

Demand for a Short Work Week – 30 hours work for 40 hours pay

October 16, 2019 fwstaff
By Jerry Goldberg UAW Vice President and chief negotiator Terry Dittes, has correctly articulated that the critical issue in the current UAW/General Motors strike, in addition to ending the wage disparities among the members, is […]
Domestic News

Invader or invaded

October 16, 2019 fwstaff
By Cassandra Devereaux Vicente Guerrero was the first descendant of African slaves to serve as a North American head of state. He was a general in the war for Mexico’s independence from the Spanish Empire, […]
Detroit Moratorium NOW! Coalition demonstration at Prudential in Farmington Hills MI
Domestic News

“No Detention Centers in Michigan” Demonstration Held by Moratorium NOW! Coalition

October 11, 2019 fwstaff
By Detroit FW Staff Moratorium NOW! Coalition and the Michigan Emergency Committee Against War & Injustice (MECAWI) held a noon-time demonstration in Farmington Hills, Michigan, a suburb right outside Detroit at the Prudential Financial office […]
Detroit Climate Strike march on Fri. Sept. 20, 2019
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Detroit responds to call for Global Climate Strike

October 9, 2019 fwstaff
By Detroit FW Staff These photographs were taken at the Detroit Global Climate Strike rally and march on Fri. Sept. 20, 2019. The activities began at Grand Circus Park with a rally. The rally opened […]