COVID-19

Atlanta Wendy's turned into memorial for Rayshard Brooks gunned down by white cop
Domestic News

Ballots, Bullets and the African American Struggle in Georgia

June 22, 2020 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe “This is why I say it’s the ballot or the bullet. It’s liberty or it’s death. It’s freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody. America today finds herself in a unique situation. […]
Milwaukee WI demo-june-7-2020
Domestic News

They Ain’t Peaceful: The Rich Violently Loot Wisconsin 24/7!

June 13, 2020 fwstaff
By Wisconsin Bail Out the People Movement “Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.” — Comandante Assata […]
Abayomi Azikiwe
Domestic News

Trump Fueling Racial Animosity to Stay Another 4 Years in Office: US Analyst

June 2, 2020 fwstaff
 By FW Editorial Staff TEHRAN (Tasnim) – An American political analyst based in Detroit said US President Donald Trump is seeking to divide the country through fueling racial animosity between African Americans and whites in […]
Henry Reeve brigade
Domestic News

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. […]
International News

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
International News

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
Domestic News

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 […]
Domestic News

Government Fails to Prevent a Worsening Economic Downturn

May 18, 2020 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe As leaders of the Democratically-controlled House of Representatives in the United States attempt to pass new legislation introduced on May 12 costing $3 trillion aimed at providing assistance to state and local […]
Meat processing plant
Domestic News

Coronavirus: Meatpacker workers told: “Work and die, or we’ll starve your families”

May 15, 2020 fwstaff
By Chris Fry On Sunday, April 26, John Tyson, chairman of the $40 billion Tyson Foods Inc, had his “open letter” published in several major newspapers, including the New York Times and the Washington Post. […]
Influenza pandemic of 1918-1920 where women workers wear masks
Domestic News

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 […]