International News

July 4 Veterans for Peace display on Michigan war dead from Afghanistan and Iraq at Grand Circus Park
Domestic News

Leaving Afghanistan: Why Not Iraq and Syria?

July 23, 2021 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe President Joe Biden announced several months ago that the United States would end its two decades-long occupation of the Central Asian state of Afghanistan. Since the attacks on the World Trade Center […]
Haiti’s people have never stopped fighting for an end to corrupt, U.S. backed regimes
International News

In the Wake of Jovenel Moise’s Assassination: Building Solidarity with Haiti’s Popular Movement

July 23, 2021 fwstaff
By Robert Roth,  Haiti Action Committee Today, in Haiti, the violent rule of Jovenel Moise has come to a violent end.  Moise himself had recently said he had “about a million enemies”, and that was […]
Cuba First Secretary of the Communist Party outgoing and incoming
International News

Washington Continues to Destabilize Haiti and Cuba

July 23, 2021 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Haitian President Jovenal Moise was assassinated in his private residence during the early morning hours of July 7 in Port-au-Prince. The circumstances surrounding his death continue to unfold within various news agencies […]
International News

Guyana Finally Admits Walter Rodney Was Assassinated

July 11, 2021 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Dr. Walter Rodney (1942-1980) was an acclaimed Pan-African historian and Marxist theoretician from the time he graduated from the London School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in 1966. Rodney soon took […]
International News

Pentagon Official Warns of War with China

July 6, 2021 fwstaff
[This  editorial  was one of two open letters to President Biden by retired Marine Colonel Franz Gayl, now a civilian working at the Pentagon. Although he is certainly not anti-military, his letter is so staunchly […]
Domestic News

International Block the Boat Campaign

June 28, 2021 fwstaff
BTB Shows the way to move BDS actions beyond individual consumer activism, striking blows with costly community/labor mass direct action initiatives By Terri Kay, a community organizer with Block the Boat Oakland and Block the […]
Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda and China leader Chairman Mao Zedong
International News

Kenneth Kaunda, 97, Played a Major Role in the African Liberation Struggle

June 28, 2021 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe A leading light in the campaigns to overthrow white minority rule and to foster African unity, Dr. Kenneth Kaunda, has died in Zambia at the age of 97. Kaunda was born on […]
Ghana-Guinea-Mali Union of 1960 with Nkrumah, Toure and Keita
International News

Malian Whirlwinds: AFRICOM and the Military Presidency

June 28, 2021 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe In the aftermath of a second military coup within nine months in the West African state of Mali both the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the African Union (AU) […]
Detroit Says Block the Boat rally in Romulus on June 8, 2021
Domestic News

Detroit Says “Block the Boat”

June 17, 2021 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff There was a demonstration on Tuesday, June 8, 2021 in Romulus, Michigan, located west of Detroit and near the Metropolitan Airport. The location of the protest was at an office of […]
Palestinian refugees in flee in the aftermath of the 1948 war
International News

Einstein Warned About Zionist “Fascism”

June 15, 2021 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff This is a letter written and signed by Albert Einstein and several other prominent Jews to the NY Times on December 4, 1948 about the massacre at Deir Yassin that same […]