Articles by fwstaff

Red Bougainvillea in Gaza
International News

SUSAN ABULHAWA’S HUMILITY AND HOPE | SUSAN ABULHAWA’S CONTRABAND OF LOVE | THE PAPER BIRDS OF GAZA | THE MATHEMATICS OF IMPERIAL DEATH

March 14, 2024 fwstaff
SUSAN ABULHAWA’S HUMILITY AND HOPE “I didn’t register the absence of greenery until I happened upon a red bougainvillea. Its flowers were dusty and alone in a deflowered world, but still alive. The incongruity struck […]
South African legal team at the ICJ in case filed against Israel
International News

African Union Summit Condemns Israeli Genocide in Gaza

March 13, 2024 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe In opening up its proceedings for the African Union (AU) Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in mid-February, the continental organization denounced the ongoing genocidal onslaught by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in […]
U.S. supplied Abrams M-1 tank burning on Ukraine battlefield west of Avdeyevka
International News

Ukraine’s defeats creating crisis for proxy masters

March 13, 2024 fwstaff
By David Sole The magnitude of the defeat suffered by Ukraine in the battle for Avdeyevka on February 17 is creating a military crisis for Ukraine. It is also causing alarm and panic among the […]
Gaza resistance ongoing
Domestic News

Shifting Rhetoric Cannot Conceal Genocidal Policy on Gaza

March 13, 2024 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe One of the critical historical conjunctures within the mass Civil Rights Movement took place in Selma, Alabama during the early months of 1965. Although local activists and members of the Student Nonviolent […]
Labor uprisings led to the NLRA. Overturning it could lead to the opposite of what Amazon and the Supreme Court intend
Domestic News

Corporate Giants Attack National Labor Relations Act

March 6, 2024 fwstaff
By Gerry Scoppuotello Recently Amazon, Starbucks and Trader Joe’s have filed legal challenges to the constitutionality of  the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), which was enacted in 1935 and whose constitutionality was upheld in 1938 […]
Commemoration for Aaron Bushnell
Domestic News

Aaron Bushnell – A Love Supreme

March 6, 2024 fwstaff
By Julia Wright “She gave up as much of her life as she could before they took it from her” Richard Wright. Uncle Tom’s Children. Bright and Morning Star As abolitionists, we distinguish between corporate […]
UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini meets with displaced people in southern Gaza
International News

Aid Entering Gaza Reduced by Half this Month – UNRWA

March 6, 2024 fwstaff
By Palestine Chronicle Staff UNRWA says February registered a 50 percent reduction of humanitarian aid entering the besieged Gaza Strip compared to January. Humanitarian aid entering the Gaza Strip dropped by half this month, the […]
Detroit Palestine solidarity march mobilized thousands on Oct. 28, 2024
Domestic News

Pan-Africanism and Palestine Solidarity, Then and Now (Part II): African American History Month Series #10

March 5, 2024 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe When the Al-Aqsa Storm began on October 7, 2023, the corporate and government-controlled media in the United States and European countries utilized their resources to justify the Israeli genocidal assaults on the […]
Edward Wilmot Blyden on Africa and Palestine
Domestic News

Pan-Africanism and Palestine Solidarity, Then and Now (Part I): African American History Month Series #10

March 5, 2024 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe 19th century theorist and educator Edward Wilmont Blyden (1832-1912) viewed the struggle for African redemption as being comparable to the Zionist movement, then in its infancy. As the founders of the World […]
German generals taped plotting attack on Russia’s Kerch Strait Bridge
International News

West Threatens Direct Intervention as Ukraine’s Front Collapses

March 5, 2024 fwstaff
By David Sole Now into its third year of war, there are growing predictions of a collapse of the Ukrainian military in the face of growing pressure from the Russian Federation forces. The Ukrainian government, […]