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Gidimten Checkpoint
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Wet’suwet’en Water Protectors Evade RCMP

January 8, 2022 fwstaff
Gidimt’en Checkpoint Press Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 4th, 2022 – Unceded Gidimt’en Territory, Smithers (BC): Two weeks after Wet’suwet’en water protectors evicted Coastal GasLink workers and occupied a key pipeline drill site, water protectors […]
Strong shift to support socialist candidates in recent elections across Latin America, including Venezuela’s United Socialist Party
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Latin American Elections Show a Leftward Shift

January 3, 2022 fwstaff
By Chris Fry Recent elections in Nicaragua, Venezuela, Honduras, and Chile show a definite shift of popular support for socialist candidates, in open defiance of U.S. imperialism. But since the 2019 Bolivian coup, supported by […]
mage by Mohammed Sabaaneh
Domestic News

The Great Palestinian Escape of 2021

January 2, 2022 fwstaff
By Diana Block, CounterPunch magazine Reprinted from https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/12/24/the-great-palestinian-escape-of-2021-reflections-from-the-u-s-abolitionist-landscape/ On September 6, 2021, six Palestinian political prisoners escaped from Gilboa prison, one of the highest security prisons of the Israeli apartheid state.  They escaped through a […]
Sudan women demonstrate for revolutionary democracy
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Sudanese Masses Pressure Military Regime to Relinquish Power

December 31, 2021 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Since the October 25 coup by the military in the oil-rich state of Sudan, the democratic movement has held protests almost on a daily basis. Interim Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, a technocrat […]
USS Theodore Roosevelt and USS Makin Island meet in the South China Sea
Domestic News

Biden Administration Must Halt War Provocations Against China and Russia

December 29, 2021 fwstaff
The following statement was issued by the Moratorium NOW! Coalition and the Michigan Emergency Coalition Against War & Injustice (MECAWI) in response to the belligerent behavior of the United States towards China and Russia. The […]
Ethiopia and Eritrea says No More
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Ethiopian Offensive Prompts Retreat by Western Backed Rebels

December 29, 2021 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia has returned from the frontline in the battle to halt the advances of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF). TPLF rebels […]
Domestic News

Jersey City Municipal Council Unanimously Passes Resolution Supporting Human Rights in the Philippines

December 22, 2021 fwstaff
The New Jersey for the Philippine Human Rights Act Coalition held a vigil at Grove Street, Jersey City, to honor victims of human rights violations committed by the Philippine government under President Rodrigo Roa Duterte […]
International News

Africa-China Relations Could Serve as Bulwark Against Imperialist Hegemony

December 16, 2021 fwstaff
Note: These remarks were prepared and delivered in part for a webinar held on Sunday December 12 entitled “China/Africa Relations: Challenges of Cooperation and Development.” The event was sponsored by the International Manifesto Group and […]
Once ROC troops arrived in Keelung, they began to immediately slaughter anyone they encountered
Domestic News

Taiwan: Flashpoint for War

December 9, 2021 fwstaff
By Chris Fry On November 23, in a decision remarkable for its hypocrisy, President Biden invited Taiwan to a December 13 virtual “Democracy Summit”. The 119 nations invited to this event were all hand-picked by […]
Southern Africa Travel Ban Led by Western Countries
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Southern Africa Travel Ban Led by Western Countries Draws Condemnation

December 3, 2021 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe South Africa has been at the center of the struggle against the COVID-19 pandemic since its beginning during the first quarter of 2020. At the time of this writing, nearly 90,000 people […]