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Immigrants deported to El Salvador prison without due process
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New Steps on the Road to Fascism

March 23, 2025 fwstaff
By David Sole We are only 58 days into the current Trump regime. From day one there have been numerous outrageous, overreaching and downright illegal actions by the chief executive and his minions. Now we […]
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WINTER’S END | PLAYING THE NUMBERS BLUES | IF THE SPRING IS SILENT

March 22, 2025 fwstaff
  WINTER’S END this leafless tree is alive with the dance of birds this drizzle reminds me of dew the silence of this bell is probably just a sleight of sound this absence of Light […]
Mahmoud Khalil
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Columbia complicit in Trump arrest of student leader Mahmoud Khalil

March 13, 2025 fwstaff
By Ali Abunimah Update A federal judge in New York issued a ruling on Monday afternoon that the government cannot deport Mahmoud Khalil “unless and until the Court orders otherwise.” US District Judge Jesse M. […]
Boston protest against Trump's layoffs and cutbacks
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Organized Labor and the Federal Employee Purge

March 13, 2025 fwstaff
By Gerry Scoppettuolo, District 65, Distributive Workers of America (retired) Trump’s assault on the federal civil service, USAID, the Center for Disease Control, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) […]
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Moratorium NOW! Coalition Activities During February

March 10, 2025 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff These photographs were taken over the last month at three events held by the Moratorium NOW! Coalition and in conjunction with other organizations. On February 1, we visited the Detroit Repertory […]
Viola Fletcher is the oldest living survivor of the Tulsa Massacre
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Justice Department Abandons Investigation of Tulsa Race Massacre

March 10, 2025 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe One of the major failures of the previous administration of Joe Biden was not following through on policy mandates aimed at ameliorating the historical phenomenon of institutionalized racist violence in the United […]
Malcolm X assassination sixty years ago
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Lawsuit Filed Against Intelligence Agencies Involved in Assassination of Malcolm X

March 2, 2025 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe On Sunday afternoon February 21, 1965, Malcolm X (El Hajj Malik El Shabazz) was gunned down as he stood at the podium of the Audubon Ballroom to address hundreds of people attending […]
On the day of the vote on the Enabling Act, giving Hitler absolute power, the Nazi leadership sent Storm Troopers into the Kroll Opera where the parliament was meeting. March 23, 1933
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Frustrated Trump May Turn to Stormtroopers

February 28, 2025 fwstaff
By David Sole President Donald Trump is being described as angry and frustrated by what he considers the slow rate of deportations after only a few weeks into his new administration. NBC News headlined, on […]
Malcolm X and African American expatriates in Ghana during May 1964
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Malcolm X, Pan-Africanism and the Cold War (Part II)

February 28, 2025 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe On June 4, 1964, Malcolm X (El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz) gave an interview with Philadelphia talk show host Joe Rainey over W-DAS where he discussed various aspects of his evolving worldview influenced by […]
Malcolm X in Nigeria and the University of Ibadan in 1964
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Malcolm X, Pan-Africanism and the Cold War (Part I)

February 28, 2025 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe At the height of the state-directed campaigns against revolutionaries and dissidents in the United States after 1946, an atmosphere of apprehension and fear was induced through the utilization of law-enforcement, legislative and […]