racism

Lesotho Founder King Moshoeshoe I
International News

POTUS Ridicules Historic Kingdom of Lesotho in Rambling Address Before Joint Session of Congress

March 22, 2025 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe In his first speech before the House of Representatives and the Senate during his second bifurcated term of office on March 4, United States President Donald Trump falsely claimed that the Kingdom […]
October 27, 1951 - Speakers at the Cincinnati founding convention of the National Negro Labor Council. Paul Robeson second from left
Domestic News

Labor Insurgencies: Past, Present and Future

November 18, 2024 fwstaff
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 […]
Reconstruction vote
Domestic News

Implications of a Second Trump Term for Working Class and Oppressed Peoples

November 14, 2024 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe There are numerous arguments being advanced as to the reasons behind the outcomes of the November 5 presidential and congressional elections which resulted in the declaration of former President Donald Trump as […]
Britain car burns in unrest in Middlesbrough
International News

Racists Riot in Britain and Northern Ireland

August 13, 2024 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Right-wing racist and fascists have staged violent attacks against suspected migrants, Muslims and people of color in Britain and Northern Ireland. () The violent groupings spread false rumors on social media involving […]
Abayomi Azikiwe, Tahira Kemet and Yvonne Jones outside MFCU
Domestic News

Help Save Yolanda Chambers’ Home

July 14, 2024 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff Moratorium NOW! Coalition Helps Widow Fighting to Save Her Home. Yolanda Chamber’s Civil Rights Violated by Michigan First Credit Union (MFCU) DEMAND MICHIGAN FIRST CREDIT UNION RETURN YOLANDA CHAMBERS’ HOME! Yolanda […]
Protests like the 2011 takeover of the Wisconsin State Capitol will continue to confront the right-wing, racist forces
Domestic News

Capitalists Choose Milwaukee for the RNC Because Wisconsin is THE Austerity Model

July 9, 2024 fwstaff
By Dorothy Brown The legacy of unions and community advances in Wisconsin is deep and has often been led by socialists and communists and other militants. This people’s resistance is continuing during the Republican National […]
Palestinian children view the destruction in Gaza
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Dreams Are Stronger Than Drones | Poetic Petition to Genocide Joe Before He Eats His Turkey | Delivery Failed | For Those Who Bear Witness to the Genocide in Palestine

December 3, 2023 fwstaff
Dreams Are Stronger Than Drones a long time ago one of my children asked me where do dreams go when they die but i was too young to know what to reply today i would […]
Six year-old Wadea al-Fayoume killed in Illinois anti-Palestinian hate crime
International News

BEHEADED CHILDHOOD – a poem by Julia Wright

October 18, 2023 fwstaff
By Julia Wright July 22 1941 the girl next door is getting married so Anne Frank leans out of her Amsterdam window to get a peek and tosses her hair in childish excitement – it […]
African American journalism Professor Kathleen McElroy
Domestic News

Ban on Affirmative Action Part of Broader Wave of Racism in Education

August 22, 2023 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe When the conservative-dominated United States Supreme Court on June 29 ruled 6-3 that any program implemented in a higher educational setting which facilitates racial diversity and inclusion was a violation of the […]
Nahel (l) and his mother
International News

NAHEL’S FRANCE: NEO COLONIALIZED AND PAN AFRICAN VOICES SPEAK UP

July 15, 2023 fwstaff
By Julia Wright Two days ago, my client told me he was thinking of committing suicide because his profession has been attacked for two to three weeks now even though he is convinced he acted […]