International News

W.E.B. Du Bois and Shirley Graham Du Bois in China with Mao in 1959
International News

Building Unity Against Imperialism in the 21st Century

February 28, 2023 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe African American History Month Series No. 8 Note: These remarks were prepared for and delivered in part at a panel discussion sponsored by the Michigan Peace Council. The event was held at […]
Openly nazi units operate for past 9 years in Ukraine after U.S. engineered 2014 coup
International News

On the 9th Anniversary of the Ukraine War

February 27, 2023 fwstaff
By David Sole The media here in the United States is awash in stories about the “First Anniversary” of the war in Ukraine. Even President Joe Biden made a secret trip to Kiev followed by […]
ILWU Local 10 holds Stop Work action in Oakland and San Francisco to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal
Domestic News

Worldwide Solidarity to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal

February 27, 2023 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff February 16, 2023 was a powerful International Day of Action demanding freedom for Mumia Abu-Jamal. The day was led by labor activists from ILWU Local 10 in Oakland and San Francisco, […]
Toxic cloud rises over East Palestine, Ohio after train derailment
Domestic News

Train wrecks, earthquakes and profits

February 22, 2023 fwstaff
By Stephen Milles What’s the connection between the earthquake in Syria and Turkey with the train wreck in East Palestine, Ohio? More than 41,000 people, including thousands of children, have been killed by the Feb. […]
Taipei’s mayor hosts dinner for delegation from Shanghai
International News

Blinken attacks China for seeking peace in Ukraine

February 22, 2023 fwstaff
By Chris Fry Unable to intimidate the leadership of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) over its balloon being shot down by U.S. Air Force jets along with three other balloons in a missile-firing frenzy, […]
White House, Congress and Pentagon whip up war hysteria against Chinese weather balloon.
International News

Balloon Shootout: Pretext for War with China

February 13, 2023 fwstaff
By Chris Fry A stealth F22 fighter, costing some $350 million, managed to shoot down its first aircraft on February 4, a large Chinese balloon off the South Carolina coast. The People’s Republic of China […]
Natural gas released from Nord Stream pipelines following U.S. covert sabotage
International News

The Wider War – U.S. Exposed for Blowing Up Russia’s Pipelines

February 13, 2023 fwstaff
By David Sole Award winning journalist Seymour Hersh has written a detailed expose on how the United States government planned and carried out the bombing of Russia’s Nord Stream pipelines on September 26, 2022. Hersh’s […]
French CGT banners very much in evidence on January 31, 2023
International News

French Unions Stage Third Day of General Strikes Against Pension Reform

February 10, 2023 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe President Emmanuel Macron of France has introduced a bill within the National Assembly which would make significant changes to the pension system established as a result of working class struggles over the […]
Government financed RAND Corporation suggests U.S. get out of Ukraine war
International News

Some in U.S. Ruling Class Question Ukraine Prospects

February 9, 2023 fwstaff
By David Sole With the Ukraine-Russian Federation war approaching its one year anniversary, some elements of the United States ruling class are questioning how to make the best of a bad situation. After many months […]
Cotton industry and African enslavement
Domestic News

Antebellum Agriculture and the World Capitalist System

February 9, 2023 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe African American History Month Series No. 2 “It was the Black worker, as founding stone of a new economic system in the nineteenth century and for the modern world, who brought civil […]