COVID-19

Hunger increasing in the U.S..
Domestic News

Coronavirus: The K-shaped recovery and the rise of zombie capitalism

August 25, 2020 fwstaff
By Chris Fry From an August 19 CNBC report: Nearly 40% of Americans who lost a job or had a reduction in take-home pay due to Covid-19 can’t last more than a month on savings […]
Reinstate a Moratorium on Evictions picket line outside 36th District Court
Domestic News

Detroiters Protest Looming Mass Evictions

August 25, 2020 fwstaff
The following is a programmatic leaflet issued by the Moratorium NOW! Coalition to Stop Evictions, Foreclosures & Utility Shutoffs in Detroit distributed at a demonstration outside 36th District Court on August 17, 2020. By Moratorium […]
Reinstate a Moratorium on Evictions in Michigan
Domestic News

Reinstate the Moratorium on Evictions!

August 23, 2020 fwstaff
By Detroit Fighting Words Staff A demonstration was held outside the 36th District Court in Detroit on Mon. August 17, 2020 protesting the lifting of the moratorium on evictions imposed by both Gov. Gretchen Whitmer […]
Eviction crisis has been a longterm problem in Detroit where this demonstration was held during 2016
Domestic News

Massive Evictions Will Compound the Public Health Crisis

August 17, 2020 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Since March of this year the United States has been plunged into the worst outbreak of an infectious viral disease since the influenza pandemic of 1918-1920. The impact of the COVID-19 outbreaks […]
Trump and Fauci cartoon
Domestic News

Coronavirus: Trump attacks Dr. Fauci and public health

July 25, 2020 fwstaff
By Chris Fry On April 22, 1857, the New York Daily Tribune, the newspaper at the time with the largest circulation in the world, published an article titled “Condition of Factory Laborers.” It was written […]
Tampa demonstration against school reopening amid COVID-19 pandemic
Domestic News

Reopening Schools amid the Continuing Pandemic

July 25, 2020 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe There is tremendous pressure emanating from the United States ruling class and the White House to resume in-person schooling in all levels of educational instruction. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has been […]
African women in Tanzania wash hands during COVID-19 pandemic
International News

COVID-19 Cases in Africa Rising Sharply

July 10, 2020 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Concerns are mounting across the African continent and internationally over the exponential growth in COVID-19 infections. At the time of this writing (07/08/20) the African Center for Disease Control and Prevention (ACDC) […]
FCA Warren Truck plant workers returned to work amid COVID-19 pandemic
Domestic News

COVID-19 Infection Rates Surge While Millions Are Forced Back to Work

July 7, 2020 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe There were more than 55,000 new COVID-19 cases reported in the United States on July 2. These figures represent a pattern of a rapid escalation of people being sickened by the potentially […]
Domestic News

CWL COVID-19 program

June 30, 2020 fwstaff
  By the Communist Workers League Why a transitional program specifically for the COVID-19 crisis? Normally a socialist program is a more or less general and permanent outline of how an organization aims at initiating […]
George Floyd's brother addresses the UN Human RIghts Council on June 18, 2020
International News

United Nations Human Rights Council Holds Session on Racism in the United States

June 30, 2020 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe “We beseech independent African states to help us bring our problem before the United Nations, on the grounds that the United States Government is morally incapable of protecting the lives and the […]