state repression

Malcolm X assassination sixty years ago
Domestic News

Lawsuit Filed Against Intelligence Agencies Involved in Assassination of Malcolm X

March 2, 2025 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe On Sunday afternoon February 21, 1965, Malcolm X (El Hajj Malik El Shabazz) was gunned down as he stood at the podium of the Audubon Ballroom to address hundreds of people attending […]
On the day of the vote on the Enabling Act, giving Hitler absolute power, the Nazi leadership sent Storm Troopers into the Kroll Opera where the parliament was meeting. March 23, 1933
Domestic News

Frustrated Trump May Turn to Stormtroopers

February 28, 2025 fwstaff
By David Sole President Donald Trump is being described as angry and frustrated by what he considers the slow rate of deportations after only a few weeks into his new administration. NBC News headlined, on […]
April 2024 encampment at University of Texas, Austin in support of people of Palestine
International News

Israel: Gateway to U.S. Fascism and War

November 11, 2024 fwstaff
By Chris Fry The Heritage Foundation is a rightwing think-tank that is one of the main authors of the infamous “Project 2025”, a guidebook for Trump to implement the gutting of women’s rights, voting rights, […]
NCBL hearing group photo
Domestic News

National Conference of Black Lawyers (NCBL) Hold Public Hearing on Repression Against the Palestinian Solidarity Movement on Campuses

October 31, 2024 fwstaff
  By Abayomi Azikiwe These photographs were taken at a public forum held on Thursday, October 24, 2024 in Detroit. This event followed the release of a public letter from the Michigan Chapter of the […]
Asa Winstanley
International News

EI hires UK lawyers after police raid targeting Asa Winstanley

October 28, 2024 fwstaff
By Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada On Thursday, 17 October 2024, British police raided the London home and seized electronic devices belonging to our colleague Asa Winstanley on the pretext of an investigation into his […]
Joseph Amrine former death row inmate speaks against the execution of Marcellus Williams in Missouri
Domestic News

Race, Class and the Death Penalty in the United States

October 22, 2024 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Even though the United States government praises itself for representing what is claimed to be the “leading democracy” in the world, the character of the legal and criminal justice system is largely […]
Marcellus Khaliifah Williams, executed by the State of Missouri, September 24, 2024
International News

TO KHALIIFAH AND REFAAT | CHILDPOCALYPSE | OCTOBER 7TH AND THE SALT OF TRUTH

October 15, 2024 fwstaff
TO KHALIIFAH AND REFAAT Khalifah – they put you to death the day after the birth of the poet who also became their martyr – Refaat Alareer one of your last poems also wrote about […]
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International News

The meaning of October 7th

October 10, 2024 fwstaff
By Black Alliance for Peace Black Alliance for Peace will never abandon the Rights of Palestinian People to Resist Zionist Colonialism “By Any Means Necessary”  “Peace is not the absence of conflict, but rather the […]
University of Michigan Palestine encampment later torn down by police
Domestic News

NCBL Letter to University Heads on Repression of Encampments

October 8, 2024 fwstaff
By National Conference of Black Lawyers Dr. Kimberly Andrews Espy, President Wayne State University 656 W. Kirby 4200 Faculty/Administration Building Detroit, MI 48202 Dr. Santa J. Ono, President University of Michigan 3190 Ruthven Building 1109 […]
BAP joins widespread condemnation of convictions of Uhuru defendants for speaking against the US proxy war in Ukraine
Domestic News

Black Alliance for Peace Condemns US Convictions of Uhuru 3 as a Fascist Farce

September 15, 2024 fwstaff
By BAP Coordinating Committee After being forced to acquit Omali Yeshitela, Jesse Nevel, and Penny Hess – the “Uhuru 3” – on being agents of Russia, a U.S. federal court jury resorted to the sham […]