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“we will fly colorful banners billowing with the titles of our assaulted books” - Julia Wright about Trump banning books in Pentagon libraries
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THE TRUTH WILL NOT BE BLURRED | CONNECTING THE BULLET DOTS | GIVING BIRTHDAY | UNDERGROUND BOOKROAD

April 26, 2025 fwstaff
  THE TRUTH WILL NOT BE BLURRED For little Mira whose poignant story of survival after being targeted in the head by a quadcopter was told in Josh Rushing’s “Kid’s Under Fire” Al-Jazeera – for […]
AFGE rally says Hands off My SSA
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Detroit AFGE Rally Against Cutbacks and Layoffs

April 20, 2025 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff Federal government workers have been a major target of the current administration. President Donald Trump has established an illegal Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) which is carrying out a campaign of […]
WSU Medical School rally holds sign for Doctors Against Genocide
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Wayne State University Medical School Demonstration Against Genocide and Repression

April 20, 2025 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff Faculty members and community activists gathered outside the Wayne State University Medical School and the Veterans Administration (VA) Hospital in the Midtown District in Detroit to protest the ongoing genocide in […]
Abayomi Azikiwe speaks at the Detroit Public Library event. | Cameron Harrison / People's World
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Coalition forming in Detroit to resist rising fascist threat

April 20, 2025 fwstaff
By Cameron Harrison ”The MAGA movement wants to return to the days of legalized segregation, gender discrimination, the elimination of trade unions, civil rights organizations, and anyone in opposition to the fascist trajectory of the […]
AFOC Forum Yvonne Chairing
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Why We Must Fight the Fascist Threat Facing Us Today

April 20, 2025 fwstaff
  Note: These remarks were made at the “Detroit Fights Back! Community Forum which took place on Saturday April 12, 2025. The gathering was hosted by the Anti-Fascist Organizing Coalition (AFOC). This forum was chaired […]
Arturo Schomburg quote
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Attacks on African American History Continues

April 10, 2025 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe All recognitions and acknowledgements of African people in the United States and world history have come under vicious attack by the White House under President Donald Trump. Both Trump and the MAGA-dominated […]
Targeting of US donated HIMARS weapons was entirely in US military control.
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A Peek Behind the Curtain

April 3, 2025 fwstaff
By David Sole The New York Times has finally pulled back the curtain, just a bit, that has hidden the true nature of the Ukraine war as a proxy war directed by and for US […]
Detroit women letter carriers say no to privatization
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Postal Workers Lead Fightback

April 1, 2025 fwstaff
  By Gerry Scoppettuolo On Sunday, March 23 thousands of rank and file letter carriers and their supporters rallied at close to 300 cities and post offices across the U.S. to protest the threatened privatization […]
Protesters at Trump Tower in New York City demand release of Mahmoud Khalil, facing deportation for supporting Palestine
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The Other Dangers of Trumpworld

April 1, 2025 fwstaff
By Russ Bellant The following is a guest commentary being republished in Fighting-Words.net with permission of the author. The social needs cuts, the blatantly unconstitutional restructuring of government, the dismantling of disease prevention, the lawless […]
Sean Fain, UAW President
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“Free Trade” and Trump’s Tariffs: A Response to Shawn Fain

April 1, 2025 fwstaff
  By Chris Fry Elon Musk and his puppet “King Donald Trump” have laid a political trap against the United Auto Workers (UAW) leadership and the U.S. working class as a whole with their escalating […]