Iraq

Detroit Panel on Palestine and West Asia with Julia Kassem
International News

Detroit Panel on Palestine, Lebanon, Syria and the Struggle Against Imperialism in West Asia

December 23, 2024 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff On Monday, December 16, 2024, a capacity audience in person and online attended an important discussion featuring speakers well versed on the historical and contemporary crises in West Asia. This event […]
Lebanon Resistance leader Sayeed Hassan Nasrallah killed by IDF
International News

Imperialism Makes Mockery of UN General Assembly

October 8, 2024 fwstaff
  By Abayomi Azikiwe Next year will represent the 80th anniversary of the formation of the United Nations Organization in San Francisco which took place in the immediate aftermath of World War II. Since 1945 […]
Yemen security forces
International News

White House Denies Genocide in Gaza as Massacres and Targeted Assassinations Continue

January 4, 2024 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Former Republic of South Africa President Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) said during his lifetime that the people of his country would not be free until Palestine was liberated. Mandela, who spent over 27 […]
July 4 Veterans for Peace display on Michigan war dead from Afghanistan and Iraq at Grand Circus Park
Domestic News

Leaving Afghanistan: Why Not Iraq and Syria?

July 23, 2021 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe President Joe Biden announced several months ago that the United States would end its two decades-long occupation of the Central Asian state of Afghanistan. Since the attacks on the World Trade Center […]
Detroit MECAWI demonstration against war provocations against Iran, Jan. 4, 2020.
Domestic News

Detroit Demonstration Against Threats on Iran Descends on Financial District

January 18, 2020 fwstaff
By FW Detroit Staff These photographs were taken at a demonstration in downtown Detroit opposing the recent targeted assassinations in Iraq of Iranian Lt.Gen. Qasam Soleimani and a Deputy Commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis of the […]
David Sole, a MECAWI spokesperson, speaks to Channel 4 TV
Domestic News

Condolence letter to Iraq and Iran

January 18, 2020 fwstaff
On Tuesday, January 7,  a delegation of 8 Detroit anti-war and community activists delivered the following letter to the Iraq Consulate in metro-Detroit. A number of media figures were given the letter and some interviews […]
Major General Qassem Soleimani, commander the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (L), and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy head of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units
International News

CWL statement condemning the assassination of Iranian General Qassim Soleimani

January 5, 2020 fwstaff
By Fighting Words staff The Communist Workers League condemns the Trump regime’s assassination of Iranian General Qassim Soleimani, commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and one of the top  officials in Iran, by a drone […]