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Nurses demand better contracts at University of Illinois

December 3, 2018 fwstaff

By Fighting Words Staff Dozens of Licensed Practical Nurses from the Illinois Nurses Association went on strike November 15 against Chicago’s University of Illinois Hospital to demand that management bargain in good faith for a […]

Coastal Georgia celebrates RiceFest amid racist voter suppression

November 29, 2018 fwstaff

By Johnnie Stevens Thousands gathered in Riceboro, Georgia, from November 3 to November 10 for the 12th annual RiceFest. The parade and festival celebrate the culture, heritage and resistance of the Gullah Geechee people, a […]

Georgia gubernatorial candidates Democrat Stacey Abrams and Republican Brian Kemp debate in an event in Atlanta, Georgia, on October 23, 2018.

Midterm elections generate further polarization in the U.S.

November 18, 2018 fwstaff

By Abayomi Azikiwe November 6 was a day in which people across the United States, and indeed the world, were watching for some indications of the future political prospects for the leading capitalist state. It […]

Workers disrupt the National Conference of Governors in Traverse City, MI, to demand a moratorium on plant closings. (1987)

Revolutionary Approach to the Workers’ Struggle – Reviving the Transitional Program

November 16, 2018 fwstaff

By Jerry Goldberg The current period of capitalist development is characterized by the imposition of austerity by the capitalist class against the working class worldwide. Austerity means the direct rule by finance capital over cities, […]

Elena Herrada stands at an ofrenda honoring five men whose lives were unfairly taken from them by their employer.

Dia de los Muertos: Remembering Fallen Workers in the Promised Land

November 14, 2018 fwstaff

By Elena Herrada The Day of the Dead is a Mexican tradition made increasingly popular each year through globalization. One of the benefits of the North American Free Trade Agreement is migration of culture, customs, […]

A section of the painting "Los Repatriados: Exiles from the Promised Land" by Nora Chapa Mendoza depicts Mexican immigrants traveling together in a caravan.

The Caravan Returns: From Sorrow to Hope

November 7, 2018 fwstaff

By Elena Herrada The story I heard from my father was that the welfare lady knocked on the door and told my grandfather that the family would have to leave, that they were not able […]

Detroit protest for trans rights, October 26.

‘Justice’ Department wants transphobia enshrined

November 2, 2018 fwstaff

By Cassandra Devereaux Three days after the leak of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services memo outlining its plan to narrowly define people’s sex (and gender) based on genitals at birth, another front […]

Justice for Kionte Spencer, dead at cops’ hands

November 1, 2018 fwstaff

By Jason Lambert Roanoke, Virginia — The struggle for justice for Kionte Spencer exposed the entire system. It showed us in Roanoke how things really run in this system, as well as the power of […]

Demanding pay justice for tomato workers

October 30, 2018 fwstaff

By Anne Pruden Two Wendy’s fast food restaurants in New York City’s West Village appeared to have more people picketing outside than they had customers inside on the rainy Saturday night of October 27. A […]

‘Trans people won’t be erased!’

October 29, 2018 fwstaff

By Fighting Words staff Detroit — Some 150 people rallied October 26 at the Ruth Ellis Center in Highland Park, Michigan, for transgender rights and lives, letting it be known loud and clear: Trans people […]

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