Leland House Tenants Union rally at Detroit's Coleman A. Young Municipal Center on March 10, 2026
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Leland House residents fight back

By Fighting Words Staff The Leland House Tenants Union continues to fight back against the unjust lockout from their residences. On March 10, Leland House Tenants Union members and their supporters marched from the Leland […]
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Broadside Lotus Press Commemorates 60th Anniversary

  By Abayomi Azikiwe On Sunday September 21, 2025, a capacity audience gathered at Trinosophes Hall on Gratiot Avenue near Detroit’s Eastern Market to honor six decades of publishing by an independent African American institution […]
Detroit No Kings Day No Kings No Nazis sign
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“No Kings Day” Brings Out Thousands in Detroit

By Fighting Words Staff Saturday,  June 14, 2025 was coined “No Kings Day” in response to the domestic and foreign policies of the administration of President Donald Trump. An estimated two thousand demonstrations were held […]
Detroit May Day 2025 Sheet Metal workers for Garcia release
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Detroit May Day Rally Attracts Crowd for International Workers Day

By Fighting Words Staff On May 1, 2025, people gathered at Roosevelt Park in Detroit to rally and march in defense of the rights of workers and oppressed peoples locally, nationally and internationally. The event […]
Abayomi Azikiwe speaks at the Detroit Public Library event. | Cameron Harrison / People's World
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Coalition forming in Detroit to resist rising fascist threat

By Cameron Harrison ”The MAGA movement wants to return to the days of legalized segregation, gender discrimination, the elimination of trade unions, civil rights organizations, and anyone in opposition to the fascist trajectory of the […]
Detroit MLK Day audience at St. Matthew's -St. Joseph's Church
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Detroiters unite to resist Trump, celebrate legacy of MLK

  By Cameron Harrison DETROIT—“I don’t know what will happen now. We’ve got some difficult days ahead,” Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., said in his final speech before he was assassinated. The words of […]
October 27, 1951 - Speakers at the Cincinnati founding convention of the National Negro Labor Council. Paul Robeson second from left
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Labor Insurgencies: Past, Present and Future

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 […]
NCBL hearing group photo
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