International News

International News

Sumud Cannot Be Disarmed | My Tsundoku – a poem in praise of unread books | The Poet’s Dome | Blood Chokes – from 9 minutes 29 seconds to 790 days

December 26, 2025 fwstaff
Sumud Cannot Be Disarmed the young amputees of Gaza deprived by the zionist siege of the materiality of medical prosthetics replace them with plastic pipes they fit on their stumps the people of Gaza, the […]
Autoworkers from 11 countries came together from far and wide as part of an international conference held in Pune, India on November 20-24
International News

Report from the International Automotive Workers’ Conference

December 25, 2025 fwstaff
By Frank Hammer, Retired President, UAW Local 909 The International Automotive Workers Conference (IAWC) is a global gathering for automotive workers and unions, focusing on worker unity against multinational corporations, industrial transformation, environmental threats, and […]
Brazil climate march Nov. 2025
International News

COP30 in Brazil Marked Again by Tensions Over Methods to Address Climate Change

December 14, 2025 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Brazil hosted the United Nations Climate Conference (COP30) in the city of Belem in the north of the country and the gateway to the Amazon. The conference lasted from November 10-21 and […]
South Africa G20 delegates
Domestic News

Trump Continues Disinformation Campaign Against South Africa

December 14, 2025 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe A recent meeting of the annual Group of 20 (G20) Summit held in the Republic of South Africa was not attended by United States President Donald Trump who continues to make false […]
International News

What has sea-changed in Palestine? | No words to say it | When will happiness happen? | The lost land of language – a tribute to all Palestinian poets | Letting my poems go

December 1, 2025 fwstaff
  What has sea-changed in Palestine? “Money, money, money …” The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht , lyrics by Kurt Weill sung by Lotte Lenya ” L’argent ne fait pas le bonheur” ” Money does […]
UN security council votes for Resolution 2083
International News

Arab states betray Palestine as UN hands Gaza to Trump

December 1, 2025 fwstaff
By Eli Gerzon International institutions and world governments “have again betrayed the Palestinian people,” former United Nations human rights official Craig Mokhiber told The Electronic Intifada Livestream for 20 November. On 17 November, the UN […]
A UNSC meeting
International News

A Mandate for Force: What the UNSC’s Gaza Resolution Means in Practice

December 1, 2025 fwstaff
Preview (opens in a new tab) By Robert Inlakesh The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) passed a regime change resolution against Gaza this Monday, effectively issuing a mandate for an invasion force to enter the […]
International News

Three Haikus for Gaza | The Rubble of Imperial Delusion | A Tale of Two Halloweens | No Man’s Land of Horror | Their Voices May Have No Echo But the Ancestors Hear Them

December 1, 2025 fwstaff
Three Haiku for Gaza [ Old Japanese style haiku are 3-line poems of either 17 syllables ( 5-7-5 ) or 11 syllables ( 3-5-3 ). These are the shortest known poems in the world ideally […]
European officials gathered November 24 to discuss Trump’s 28 point peace plan
International News

War and Peace in Ukraine

November 30, 2025 fwstaff
By David Sole Recent reports from the front lines in Ukraine confirm what the Russian Ministry of Defense and President Putin announced several weeks ago – thousands of Ukrainian troops have been surrounded and are […]
Sudan displaced women cooking in North Kordofan
International News

Sudan Internal Conflict Continues Despite Pledges to End Fighting by Imperialism and its Allies

November 30, 2025 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe During the visit of the Saudi Arabia Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud to the White House during mid-November to purportedly discuss some $600 million in investments in the United States, the […]