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Detroiters Demand: Allow Emergency Medical Aid from Cuba

June 2, 2020 fwstaff
By Jason Tschantre As quarantine-weary crowds flocked to beaches over Memorial Day weekend, scientists and health-conscious people in the United States had to face, once again, the well-founded fear that COVID-19 is far from over. […]
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Resisting COVID-19 in Haiti

May 28, 2020 fwstaff
By Pierre Labossiere from the Haiti Action Committee On March 19, 2020, shortly after international institutions made known that millions of dollars would be available to impoverished countries with COVID-19 cases, Haitian authorities finally addressed […]
Africa Day 2020 graphic from portraying peacekeeping woman soldier
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Africa Liberation Day 2020: Continental Imperatives and the Global Healthcare Crisis

May 27, 2020 fwstaff
May 25 represents the 57th anniversary of the formation of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), later renamed the African Union (AU) in 2002. By Abayomi Azikiwe This year the continental organization of 55 member-states […]
Diego Rivera Detroit Industry Murals North Wall
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Lessons from a lowly virus

May 23, 2020 fwstaff
By David Sole Severe stress on an individual organism will often expose weaknesses in its physiology. But that same stress may often also bring out hidden strengths. What is true of the individual is also […]
Communist Party of Germany (KPD) headquarters, 1932
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The dangerous theory of social fascism

May 19, 2020 fwstaff
  By David Sole Revolutions against oppressive conditions have taken place throughout recorded history. Revolutions that have challenged the economic foundations of society are rarer. And revolutions that have succeeded are rarer still. Individuals who […]
Influenza pandemic of 1918-1920 where women workers wear masks
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COVID-19 Pandemic: A Socialist View on the Capitalist Crisis

May 14, 2020 fwstaff
Note: The following remarks are excerpted from the Detroit Marxism Class held via teleconference on Saturday May 9, 2020. The course was sponsored by the Communist Workers League (CWL). By Abayomi Azikiwe At present the […]
Lilya Litvyak, born Lydia Vladimirovna Litvyak, 1921-1943, flying ace who shot down 9 Luftwaffe pilots, the greatest number of kills by a female fighter pilot.
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How the War was won

May 12, 2020 fwstaff
By L. Ross 75 years ago Naziism was defeated, after a six year war and immense sacrifice.  The Trump White House, ever self-congratulatory, recently tweeted: “On May 8, 1945, America and Great Britain had victory […]
Venezuelan authorities foiled a mercenary incursion to topple Maduro
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Venezuela Smashes U.S. Based Invasion Plot

May 10, 2020 fwstaff
By David Sole With their strategy to foment internal opposition to achieve regime change in Venezuela faltering badly, it appears that U.S. imperialism is shifting to overt external force to overthrow the socialist path followed […]
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and Nigerian counterpart Muhammadu Buhari on state visit
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Africa, IMF Conditionality and the COVID-19 Pandemic

May 9, 2020 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe African states across the continent have enacted stringent measures aimed at containing the spread of COVID-19. From Kenya, to Egypt and South Africa, governmental leaders, labor unions, community organizations and professional groupings […]
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Haiti: We are Lavalas

May 3, 2020 fwstaff
By Haiti Action Committee 4/23/2020 Fanmi Lavalas sends greetings to Haitians here and abroad during this coronavirus pandemic and takes this opportunity to be in solidarity with all the victims of the coronavirus and their […]