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Angola MPLA founding President Agostino Neto
International News

Former Angolan President, Jose Eduardo dos Santos, Dead at 79

July 19, 2022 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe One of the most important heads-of-state in the struggle to end Portuguese domination in Africa died in a Spanish hospital on July 8. Jose Eduardo dos Santos served as president of the […]
Domestic News

Beyond Abortion – A Struggle to Win Our Future

July 11, 2022 fwstaff
By Cheryl LaBash Havana, Cuba — When you have touched a woman you have struck a rock, says a South African proverb. It continues, you have dislodged a boulder, you will be crushed. The U.S. […]
Peoples Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles
International News

Summit of the Americas Reaffirms Decline of U.S. Influence

June 20, 2022 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe A failed Summit of the Americas convened by the United States administration of President Joe Biden further revealed the waning geopolitical authority of Washington and Wall Street. This event held between June […]
International News

Global Afrikan Congress on the Summit of the Americas

May 28, 2022 fwstaff
By Global Afrikan Congress As members of the Global Afrikan Congress or GAC, we were immensely proud of the initial stance of CARICOM governments, that they would have boycotted the Summit of the Americas if […]
China President Xi Jinping meets with Fidel Castro
International News

Along the Belt and Road: Breaking the Cycle of Underdevelopment in Latin America

March 12, 2022 fwstaff
 By Carlos Martinez The last few months have seen a significant expansion of the Belt and Road Initiative in Latin America and the Caribbean. Although this region of the world is not the most obvious […]
Cuba and China, both targets of U.S. imperialism, strengthen ties
International News

Biden fails to isolate Cuba

August 24, 2021 fwstaff
By Chris Fry With U.S. officials and their Afghan collaborators engaged in a mad scramble to escape from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, now is the time to note another huge international failure by the Biden Administration: i.e., […]
Domestic News

Detroit Says “Hands Off Cuba”

July 28, 2021 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff A rally was held in solidarity with the Cuban Revolution outside Detroit’s Coleman A. Young Municipal Center on Monday, July 26, 2021. Scores of activists and organizers gathered and spoke on […]
Cuba First Secretary of the Communist Party outgoing and incoming
International News

Washington Continues to Destabilize Haiti and Cuba

July 23, 2021 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Haitian President Jovenal Moise was assassinated in his private residence during the early morning hours of July 7 in Port-au-Prince. The circumstances surrounding his death continue to unfold within various news agencies […]
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 […]
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. […]