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Biden and Trump
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What does the U.S. ruling class want from the 2020 elections?

August 22, 2020 fwstaff
By David Sole On August 11 the Democratic Party announced their candidate for Vice-President of the United States to be California’s Senator Kamala Harris. Harris, a former prosecutor and Attorney General for California, joins former […]
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Cities Need Bailouts Not More Usurious Bond Deals

August 21, 2020 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe On August 14, the final abandoned home was demolished with the more than $265 million in Hardest Hit Homeowners Funds initially designed to preserve neighborhoods as opposed to their destruction in the […]
Demonstrators begin march in Dearborn, MI on Aug 8
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Palestinian and Black Lives Matter

August 21, 2020 fwstaff
By Detroit Fighting Words Staff Hundreds marched and rallied in Dearborn, Michigan on August 8 to show solidarity between the Black Lives Matter movement and the Palestinian struggle against U.S. financed Israeli occupation. The Palestinian […]
Hundreds protest Trump in Oshkosh, WI August 17, 2020
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Hundreds Protest Trump – the Anti-Worker Racist Bigot – in Oshkosh, WI

August 19, 2020 fwstaff
By Wisconsin Bail Out the People Movement OSHKOSH, WISCONSIN AUGUST 17, 2020 — A diverse crowd of people’s fighters from across Wisconsin rallied and marched here to protest the racist, anti-worker bigot and war criminal […]
Indian Village Detroit
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Detroit: Native People Campaign for Neighborhood Name Change

August 18, 2020 fwstaff
Native people have begun a campaign to change the name of a Detroit eastside neighborhood called “Indian Village” and its community newsletter “Smoke Signals.” Below is a letter delivered to the neighborhood association by a […]
Eviction crisis has been a longterm problem in Detroit where this demonstration was held during 2016
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Massive Evictions Will Compound the Public Health Crisis

August 17, 2020 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Since March of this year the United States has been plunged into the worst outbreak of an infectious viral disease since the influenza pandemic of 1918-1920. The impact of the COVID-19 outbreaks […]
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Detroit Factory Target of “Black Workers’ Lives Matter”

August 17, 2020 fwstaff
By Unite All Workers for  Democracy, Autoworkers Caravan and Moratorium Now Flex-N-Gate Detroit, a parts supplier for Ford, was built off the backs of Black community members on Detroit’s east side.  Many lost their property […]
WI Bailout the People Movement demo 08-09-2020
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Waupaca Wisconsin demo demands equality and builds unity

August 16, 2020 fwstaff
By Wisconsin Bail Out The People Movement Waupaca, Wisconsin August 9, 2020 — Dozens from across Wisconsin came to defend Black Lives Matter community activists while building a broad based People’s United Front to oppose […]
Federal agents in Portland
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Trump’s Storm Troopers

August 9, 2020 fwstaff
By David Sole On June 1 President Donald Trump spoke to state governors across the United States. He denounced them saying “most of you are weak.” And he demanded that they respond to the massive […]
Nashville Mayor West with C.T. Vivian and Diane Nash in 1960
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Legacies of C.T. Vivian and John Lewis Secured While Ruling Class Promotes Revisionist History

August 9, 2020 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Two luminaries in the African American struggle which emerged during the 1950s and 1960s, Rev. C.T. Vivian and Congressman John Lewis, passed away on July 17. Both figures played a prominent role […]