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October 27, 1951 - Speakers at the Cincinnati founding convention of the National Negro Labor Council. Paul Robeson second from left
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Labor Insurgencies: Past, Present and Future

November 18, 2024 fwstaff
By Gerry Scoppettuolo The AFL-CIO’s top labor bureaucracy has often opposed rank and file labor insurgencies, especially where imperialist foreign policy or racism is brought up. In the 1980’s AFL-CIO head Lane Kirkland’s support of […]
Reconstruction vote
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Implications of a Second Trump Term for Working Class and Oppressed Peoples

November 14, 2024 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe There are numerous arguments being advanced as to the reasons behind the outcomes of the November 5 presidential and congressional elections which resulted in the declaration of former President Donald Trump as […]
Some of Trump’s billionaire backers: Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Bill Ackman
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Ruling Class Factions Battled Over Trump’s Election

November 12, 2024 fwstaff
By David Sole It would be a great mistake to think the election of Donald Trump on November 5 was “the will of the people.” Certainly, he garnered a majority of votes nationwide along with […]
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United Electrical Workers Statement on the Election

November 12, 2024 fwstaff
By UE Officers For over half of a century, working people in the U.S. have seen stagnating wages, worsening working conditions, the loss of good jobs, and constant increases in the cost of living. This […]
NCBL hearing group photo
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National Conference of Black Lawyers (NCBL) Hold Public Hearing on Repression Against the Palestinian Solidarity Movement on Campuses

October 31, 2024 fwstaff
  By Abayomi Azikiwe These photographs were taken at a public forum held on Thursday, October 24, 2024 in Detroit. This event followed the release of a public letter from the Michigan Chapter of the […]
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The Bradley Foundation, Project 2025 and the “Wisconsin Austerity Model”

October 30, 2024 fwstaff
By A Union Worker We honor the Indigenous whose stolen land we are on today. And we raise up the latest call from September 2024 by the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions: “We write […]
Italian auto workers strike on October 18, 2024
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Imperialism fails to quash China’s EV revolution

October 28, 2024 fwstaff
By Chris Fry On October 18 tens of thousands of Italian auto workers held a nationwide strike and marched through the streets of Rome. Organized by three unions, this action was led by workers from […]
Joseph Amrine former death row inmate speaks against the execution of Marcellus Williams in Missouri
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Race, Class and the Death Penalty in the United States

October 22, 2024 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Even though the United States government praises itself for representing what is claimed to be the “leading democracy” in the world, the character of the legal and criminal justice system is largely […]
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October 7 – Commemorating a Year of Palestinian Resistance and Struggle

October 14, 2024 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff A public forum on Oct. 7, 2024 was organized by Moratorium NOW! Coalition and the Michigan Emergency Committee Against War & Injustice (MECAWI) to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the Al-Aqsa […]
Detroit solidarity march marking one year of genocide
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Detroit Joins the World in Solidarity with Palestine and Lebanon

October 11, 2024 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff People took to the streets in downtown Detroit on Sat. Oct. 5, 2024 in commemoration of the one-year anniversary of the beginning of the Al-Aqsa Storm and the genocide being waged […]