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International News

The Hong Kong protests are an attack on socialism

August 29, 2019 fwstaff
By FightBack News Staff This is an August 17th article reprinted from the FightBack News blog. There’s a tendency among progressives in the United States to support big crowds of people protesting in other countries. […]
Jesse of Colectiva Brown Berets de la Bahia speaks at rally at San Francisco Federal Building, where Nancy Pelosi has her district office. Pelosi was in town, but didn’t come out to speak to us.
Domestic News

Rally Tells Pelosi: “Impeach Trump for Hate Crimes”

August 28, 2019 fwstaff
By Terri Kay On the second anniversary of Charlottesville, as part of a national call for Days of Action to Smash White Supremacy and Impeach Trump for Hate Crimes, a rally was held on Saturday, […]
Detroit Demonstration on Second Anniversary of Charlottesville Racist Attacks
Domestic News

Detroit Demo commemorates Charlottesville

August 27, 2019 fwstaff
By Detroit FW staff On Sat. Aug. 10, 2019 at Campus Martius in downtown Detroit, a demonstration was held to commemorate the second anniversary of Charlottesville, where anti-racist activist Heather Heyer was killed by a […]
El Paso people hold march the day after the shooting,
Domestic News

CWL condemns Trump for racist massacres

August 16, 2019 fwstaff
By Fighting Words staff The Communist Workers League (CWL) condemns the recent racist massacres that occurred in Gilroy, CA; El Paso TX; and Dayton, OH. Our hearts go out to the victims, their families, their friends, […]
Domestic News

Demonstration Held Condemning Police Killing of African American in Detroit Suburb

August 16, 2019 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Over 100 people gathered outside police headquarters in a suburban municipality east of Detroit to demonstrate against the failure of local authorities to hold several police officers accountable in the shooting death […]
Domestic News

Demonstrations surround Democratic debates in Detroit

August 11, 2019 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe On July 30 and 31 the attention of the national media in the United States was focused on the Fox Theater in downtown Detroit where 20 Democratic Party candidates for the presidency […]
Puerto Rico General Strike
Domestic News

Puerto Rican general strike wins

August 9, 2019 fwstaff
By Chris Fry A 12-day long uprising by the people of Puerto Rico, culminated on July 22 in a massive general strike and demonstrations so huge that they shut down the entire island. Just before […]
Domestic News

Trumpism: the Nature of the Beast – Part 3

August 9, 2019 fwstaff
By Cassandra Devereaux It is no coincidence that reactionary movements never fail to denounce communism. While the Klan was marching, the Black League murdering, the American Bund tossing up Nazi salutes, communists were hard at […]
NAACP Picket against Birth of a Nation
Domestic News

Trumpism: The Nature of the Beast – Part 2

August 9, 2019 fwstaff
By Cassandra Devereaux By 1913, the Klan had a vocal supporter in the White House in Woodrow Wilson. Wilson screened the detestable Klan “origin” film Birth Of A Nation. This was the film which directly inspired […]