International News

Ships of the U.S. Seventh Fleet threaten China
International News

Wall Street’s Drumbeat for War with China Continues Under Biden

May 4, 2021 fwstaff
By Chris Fry In March 2016, alt-right chief Trump adviser Steve Bannon announced: We’re going to war in the South China Sea in five to 10 years. There’s no doubt about that. They’re taking their […]
African Union Conference on COVID-19 vaccination production held on April 12-13, 2021
Domestic News

Vaccinations and the COVID-19 Surges from Africa to the United States

April 26, 2021 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe As the world experiences another spike in COVID-19 infections, the African continental 55-member states regional organization has held a conference on the necessity of establishing vaccination manufacturing centers. The African Union (AU) […]
Mumia
Domestic News

USA: Shackling of aged inmate, Mumia Abu-Jamal, is deplorable – UN experts

April 25, 2021 fwstaff
By United Nations Human Rights Commission GENEVA (20 April 2021) – UN human rights experts* expressed serious concerns about the treatment and welfare of Mumia Abu-Jamal, an African-American man who has been in jail for […]
Protest in Bogota, Colombia of the massive assassinations
International News

Colombia: A Glimpse into a Sad Reality

April 16, 2021 fwstaff
By Alice Loaiza When people ask me if it is safe to visit Colombia, I always answer that it is fine if you don’t speak Spanish and stay on the well-guarded tourist trail. But you […]
Migrants in Colombia seeking to enter Central America
Domestic News

Biden Administration Strikes Deal with Mexico and Central America

April 16, 2021 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe A crisis of migration into the United States from Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras has resulted in negotiations by the White House with the governments of these countries aimed at preventing people from […]
Feb. 14, 2021 over 100,000 denouce Jovenel Moise dictatorship in Port-au-Prince
International News

Fanmi Lavalas Press Release – March 2, 2021

April 8, 2021 fwstaff
Haiti Action Committee is honored to share this unofficial translation of a recent press release from Fanmi Lavalas Political Organization, the people’s party in Haiti.  The statement was issued at a moment of massive protests […]
Segunda Marquetalia announce their formation — Vazquez is third from the right
International News

Colombia’s insurgency resumes

March 29, 2021 fwstaff
Inside a base in the Catatumbo mountains, OLIVER DODD speaks to Comandante Villa Vazquez in the first ever face-to-face interview with a senior figure in the recently re-established guerilla army. By Oliver Dodd – morningstar.co.uk […]
Feb. 14, 2021 over 100,000 denounce Jovenel Moise dictatorship in Port-au-Prince.
International News

Stand With Haiti!

March 17, 2021 fwstaff
This statement has been endorsed by the Communist Workers League By Haiti Action Committee (HAC) Ten years ago on March 18, 2011, former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, his wife and colleague, Mildred Trouillot Aristide, and their […]
April 21, 2019 protest outside Philippine Embassy in Washington, D.C.
International News

Stop the Attacks in the Philippines! Activism is Not Terrorism!

March 10, 2021 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff Fighting Words is reprinting this statement on the massacre of now reportedly 9 community activists in the Philippines. Michigan Emergency Committee Against War & War (MECAWI) is a member organization of […]
Stop U.S. bombings of Syria and everywhere!
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No Bombs in Syria or Anywhere Else!

March 9, 2021 fwstaff
By Moratorium NOW! Coalition and Michigan Emergency Committee Against War & Injustice (MECAWI) Two Detroit-based community organizations, the Moratorium NOW! Coalition and MECAWI, have been following the events inside the United States military in recent […]