By Gerry Scoppettuolo The AFL-CIO’s top labor bureaucracy has often opposed rank and file labor insurgencies, especially where imperialist foreign policy or racism is brought up. In the 1980’s AFL-CIO head Lane Kirkland’s support of […]
By Abayomi Azikiwe On June 18 in Detroit at the St. Matthew’s-St. Joseph’s Episcopal Church, five veteran women organizers from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Northern Student Movement, spoke on the significance […]
UPDATE – LOCATION and TIME change: The celebration of the life of Debbie Johnson will take place on Saturday, July 6, 2024 at 10am at the North Rosedale Park Community House, 18445 Scarsdale St., Detroit, […]
By Abayomi Azikiwe “Up in French Indochina, those little peasants, rice-growers, took on the might of the French army and ran all the Frenchmen, you remember Dien Bien Phu! The same thing happened in Algeria, […]
By Fighting Words Staff Wisconsin labor and community organizations hosted “Stop the Hate: Build People’s Unity” rally on Saturday, Feb. 10, 2024 at 1 P.M. at Library Mall at UW Madison, which was followed by […]
By Gerry Scoppettuolo In the revolution I found the liberation that I needed and that meant so much to me – a Nicaraguan lesbian commenting on the significance of the Sandinista revolution in 1984 interview. […]
By Abayomi Azikiwe Shawn Fain, President of the UAW International, noted during his major policy address at the 21st Annual Detroit MLK Day Rally that the labor movement and the struggle for civil rights remains […]
By Abayomi Azikiwe January 15, 2024 marks the 95th birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968), a federally recognized holiday in the United States since 1986. Dr. King was the most well-known and respected […]
By Wisconsin Coalition for Justice in Palestine FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 30, 2023 Contact: Wiscoforpali.org 608-440-9587 wiscoforpali@gmail.com Event: https://fb.me/e/34CWuApJG “Wisconsin All Out For Palestine” Saturday, December 9, 2023, 1 p.m State Capitol, Madison, WI […]
By Fighting Words Staff On August 5, the world was thrilled to see members of the Black community exercise their “Black Panther Party right of self-defense” on a dock in Montgomery, Alabama. When a group […]
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