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Cuban on hunger strike in Eswatini
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Legal Challenges to Third Country Deportations of Africans Continue

November 1, 2025 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe United States President Donald Trump has been persistent in deploying Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and National Guard troops to various regions of the country to arrest, detain and deport migrants. […]
Protesters in Chicago
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Chicago Mayor Proposes General Strike to Fight Trump

November 1, 2025 fwstaff
By David Sole On Saturday, October 18 Chicago’s Mayor Brandon Johnson responded to the military occupation of his city with a call for a nationwide General Strike. His words took on added importance as he […]
Detroit No Kings Day says Let Gaza Live
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7 Million People Mobilized for “No Kings Day II”

October 27, 2025 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe All across the United States millions gathered in large municipalities, suburbs, small towns and rural areas to protest the domestic and foreign policies of the administration of President Donald Trump and his […]
POP’s Chairperson, Larry Hamm
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No Kings protest in Newark, NJ October 18

October 18, 2025 fwstaff
By People’s Organization For Progress (POP) A No Kings II March And Rally to protest policies of the Trump administration will take place on Saturday, October 18, 2025, 1:00pm, at the Lincoln Statue, 12 Springfield […]
Thousands marched in Chicago on June 10, 2025 against outrageous ICE raids
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Trump targeting protesters as “Domestic Terrorists’

October 18, 2025 fwstaff
By Russ Bellant In the most recent developments of executive authority, Donald Trump has now explicitly identified non-violent political groups as targets for suppression by federal forces. This update is presented to explain the evolving […]
Injured GM workers in Colombia protest outside U.S. embassy
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The UAW, Internationalism and May Day 2026

October 18, 2025 fwstaff
By Frank Hammer Just two months ago, my union – the United Automobile Workers (UAW)– did a remarkable thing. It made public its pledge to fight for the rights of autoworkers – not its own […]
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Assata Shakur (1947-2025), A Revolutionary Life

October 6, 2025 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe On Thursday September 25, 2025, indications began to appear over social media that Assata Shakur, a longtime activist in the Black Liberation Movement, had died while living in exile in the Republic […]
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Broadside Lotus Press Commemorates 60th Anniversary

September 29, 2025 fwstaff
  By Abayomi Azikiwe On Sunday September 21, 2025, a capacity audience gathered at Trinosophes Hall on Gratiot Avenue near Detroit’s Eastern Market to honor six decades of publishing by an independent African American institution […]
Malcolm X commemoration committee
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Anthology film archives Malcolm X series continues

September 29, 2025 fwstaff
By The Malcolm X Commemoration Committee “I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand under its weight…” – […]
Ghana president accepts Trump's racist deportation policy
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Lawsuit Exposes White House Secret Agreement to Deport Migrants to Ghana

September 21, 2025 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe A fifth African state, the Republic of Ghana, has been subjected to widespread criticism for its participation in illegal deportations from the United States. The other four governments, Eswatini, South Sudan, Uganda […]