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For People’s Price Controls

September 16, 2022 fwstaff

By Chris Fry On September 13, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that the Consumer Price Index (CPI), the standard measure for inflation, showed that prices year-to-year rose 8.3 percent in August. As a New […]

Protests in Taiwan as U.S. escalates tensions with China using Pelosi visit

Editorial: Pelosi Visit to Taiwan – Prelude to Another Proxy War

August 6, 2022 fwstaff

By Fighting Words Staff Let’s be perfectly clear! Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s trip marks a huge step towards the Pentagon reestablishing nuclear armed U.S. military bases in Taiwan, an island just 100 miles […]

40 year record inflation devastates U.S. working class

Inflation and Recession: Roots in Imperialism – Part 3

August 6, 2022 fwstaff

By Chris Fry A July 28th article from the website “Business Insider” provides a succinct description of the billionaires’ solution to the spike in inflation that is devastating the living standards of the workers and […]

Sri Lankan demonstrators protest their removal from the encampment in Colombo

Sri Lanka Democracy Movement at the Crossroads

August 4, 2022 fwstaff

By Abayomi Azikiwe For several months the nation of Sri Lanka has been imperiled with the looming threat of complete economic collapse as fuel, food and other commodity prices skyrocketed. Former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa became […]

Sri Lanka protest over economic conditions

Protest Movement Rejects Parliamentary Appointment of Sri Lankan President

July 23, 2022 fwstaff

By Abayomi Azikiwe Sri Lanka, an island-nation of 22 million people, has been the center of political and economic turmoil since the United National Party government defaulted on $51 billion in foreign debt during May. […]

Inflation and recession: Roots in Imperialism – Part 2

June 27, 2022 fwstaff

By Chris Fry This article is a continuation from Part 1. which discussed the recent wave of inflation that has hit workers and the oppressed communities with devastatingly high prices. It also discussed the Federal […]

1980 - Detroit, June 1 - Peoples Energy Committee pot-luck dinner.

Inflation and recession: Rooted in Imperialism – Part 1

June 20, 2022 fwstaff

By Chris Fry On June 15, the Federal Reserve, the central committee of U.S. finance capital, announced an interest increase of .75 percent, the highest single rate increase since 1994. And they announced that they […]

Empty baby formula shelves but capitalists’ pockets are stuffed full.

The Baby Formula Crisis and the Failure of the Capitalist System

June 2, 2022 fwstaff

By Chris Fry Starting in September 2021 the CDC received reports of Cronobacter bacteria cases in infants in Minnesota, Ohio and Texas that resulted in four illnesses with two deaths. But since only the state […]

Capitalist Crisis: The Culture War is Class War

May 20, 2022 fwstaff

By Chris Fry In the aftermath of the Kennedy assassination in 1963, Malcolm X announced that the “chickens had come home to roost.” He was slandered for this by the corporate media and political establishment. […]

African Enslavement and the Rise of Capitalism in North America and Beyond

February 5, 2022 fwstaff

By Abayomi Azikiwe New York Times journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones has continued to make an impact with the revised publication of “The 1619 Project” as an extension of the original work which coincided with the 400th […]

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