trumpism

Part of the threat of fascism is the ultra-right Project 2025
Domestic News

Anti-Fascist Organizing Committee Launched

January 27, 2024 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff The new year was marked by the formation of a new Anti-Fascist Organizing Committee that seeks to begin discussions among unions and community organizations on how to fight back against the […]
Congressman Thaddeus Stevens helped draft the 14th Amendment
Domestic News

Proposed campaign to disqualify Trump, force Biden to step down while forcing Israel into a cease fire

January 23, 2024 fwstaff
By Chris Fry On December 19 the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that Donald Trump was disqualified from that state’s 2024 ballot because he engaged in the January 6, 2021, insurrection, which, according to Section 3 […]
January 6, 2021 was the dress rehearsal. The working class must prepare now for a possible Trump fascist coup
Domestic News

Tasks of the Progressive Movement for 2024

December 26, 2023 fwstaff
By David Sole Concerns are widespread with what Donald Trump may do if he is elected president in November 2024. People are rightly worried about Trump’s fascist tendencies and the storm troopers who support him. […]
Big battle shaping up as Trump and his criminal gang face numerous charges in Atlanta
Editorials

Fulton County Georgia indictments: Atlanta Black community strikes back

August 27, 2023 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff On August 5, the world was thrilled to see members of the Black community exercise their “Black Panther Party right of self-defense” on a dock in Montgomery, Alabama. When a group […]
Brazil pro-democracy demonstration
International News

Brazil President Lula Seeking Prosecution of Attempted Coup Leaders

January 18, 2023 fwstaff
  By Abayomi Azikiwe Just one week after the Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was inaugurated for another term of office, right-wing elements aligned with the former neo-fascist head-of-state, Jair Bolsonaro, attacked government […]
2019 New York City Labor Day Parade.
Domestic News

Biden Warns of Fascism, but Democrats Can’t Stop It

September 14, 2022 fwstaff
By David Sole On August 25 President Joe Biden publicly warned that Trump supporters “have made their choice to go backwards, full of anger, violence, hate and division.” He characterized the Trump movement saying “it’s […]
Mass mobilizations along with legal action can stop the fascists.
Domestic News

Lawsuits filed against Trump and neo-Klan groups using Reconstruction’s anti-Klan Law

March 7, 2021 fwstaff
By Chris Fry On November 20, 2020, the Detroit NAACP filed a lawsuit in Washington District Court on behalf of the Michigan Welfare Rights Organization against the Michigan Trump Campaign. Utilizing the 1871 Ku Klux […]
Low wage workers march in Detroit for $15 minimum wage
Domestic News

The Fracture Lines in U.S. Politics

February 19, 2021 fwstaff
By David Sole It has been long and widely acknowledged that the Republican Party could not be a serious contender in national U.S. politics without building a mass base. The “party of big business”, as […]
Ida B. Wells-Barnett - The Red Record
Domestic News

1898 to 2021: From Wilmington to Washington and the Role of Racism in Right-wing Coups

February 16, 2021 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe At the time of this writing (Feb. 1q0, 2021 – editor) the Senate impeachment trial was well underway where evidence was being presented aimed at convicting former United States President Donald J. […]
Domestic News

14th Amendment: a tool Congress should use to oust neo-Klan Reps and Senators

February 5, 2021 fwstaff
By Chris Fry In the aftermath of the ferocious January 6th attack on the Capitol building as well as the vote by most of the Republican House members and many of their Senators to discard […]