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The Dali trapped in the wreck of the Key Bridge
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Deadly bridge collapse exposes capitalist decay

April 9, 2024 fwstaff
By Sharon Black Baltimore — In the very early morning hours of March 26, while it was still dark and most people were asleep, the massive 984-foot-long, 213-million-pound container ship Dali lost power, veered off […]
Dearborn Land Day youth and adult march
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Palestine Land Day Commemorated from Detroit to Dearborn and Around the World

April 9, 2024 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff March 30, 2024 was Palestine Land Day which has been a focus for mass demonstrations around the world. In Detroit and Dearborn, Michigan, demonstrations were held downtown and outside the western […]
Detroit demonstration in 2020 to count all the votes
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Electoral Redistricting Battles Rage Across the U.S.

March 31, 2024 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe A controversial redistricting map drawn up in 2021 by a supposedly independent commission resulted in the domination of the Michigan State Legislative seats and Gubernatorial office by the Democratic Party after the […]
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On International Workers Day Urgent Appeal from the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions

March 30, 2024 fwstaff
Brothers and Sisters of unions and other labor organizations in the United States of America: In the midst of pain and blood, in the displacement camps, amidst the rubble, and the ruins of our homes, […]
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The Emerging Grassroots Labor Anti-Zionist Struggle

March 25, 2024 fwstaff
  By Gerry Scoppettuolo On February 16 seven U.S. International Unions announced the formation of the National Network for a Ceasefire in Palestine (https://www.laborforceasefire.org/). Most of these internationals had signed the earlier labor call issued […]
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SO YOUNG BACK IN ACCRA | BREAKING SILENCE | DEAD CHILD WALKING

March 25, 2024 fwstaff
SO YOUNG BACK IN ACCRA to the Free Mumia Youth movement in memory of my one and only meeting with W.E.B. DuBois i was so young back in Accra so young that learning journalism at […]
Gaza resistance ongoing
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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
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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
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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 […]
Detroit Palestine solidarity march mobilized thousands on Oct. 28, 2024
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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 […]