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Biden met by protestors in Michigan

February 19, 2024 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff On February 1, 2023, demonstrators opposing the ongoing genocide in Gaza protested outside of the offices of UAW Region 1 in Warren, Michigan. Inside the Region 1 headquarters, President Biden was […]
Congressman Thaddeus Stevens helped draft the 14th Amendment
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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
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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. […]
POP leader Lawrence Hamm, longtime activist now running for the U.S. Senate
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Statement by Lawrence Hamm, New Jersey Senate Candidate, on Palestine

November 12, 2023 fwstaff
By Committee to Elect Lawrence Hamm COMMITTEE TO ELECT LAWRENCE HAMM POST OFFICE BOX 25414 NEWARK, NEW JERSEY 07101 (973)332-6195 OCTOBER 26, 2023 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE U.S. SENATE CANDIDATE CALLS FOR CEASEFIRE IN GAZA   […]
Big battle shaping up as Trump and his criminal gang face numerous charges in Atlanta
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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 […]
Why is Trump indicted for boxes of documents but not the January 6 insurrection
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What to do about Trump?

June 22, 2023 fwstaff
By David Sole If we had a government run by and for workers and oppressed people there would be no question and no delay in delivering justice to Donald J. Trump. In fact the vile […]
UAW President Shawn Fain
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New UAW President Holds Off Endorsing Biden Until Workers Get Decent Pay in EV transition

May 16, 2023 fwstaff
By Chris Fry On May 3, newly elected United Auto Workers (UAW) President Shawn Fain posted a letter to the union’s 400,000 members that the union will not give its usual endorsement to President Biden, […]
African American voting advocates hold signs
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Election Results Affirm Continuing Far Right Threat

December 4, 2022 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Stewart Rhodes, the national leader of the far-right Oath Keepers, along with his Florida chapter chief, Kelly Meggs, were both convicted of seditious conspiracy on November 29 in connection with the attempted […]
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar
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Midterm Election Results Will Further Polarize U.S. Politics

December 4, 2022 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Although the Democratic Party leadership has praised the electorate for maintaining their razor-thin majority in the United States Senate, the administration of President Joe Biden will have an even more difficult period […]
Protesters march down 5th Avenue in New York City in Black Lives Matter demonstration on June 10, 2020
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Elections: The Empire Strikes Back

November 9, 2022 fwstaff
By Stephen Milles Whatever happens in the midterm elections, a mudslide of racist and bigoted filth is pouring down from the heights of capitalist society. Teaching Black history is under attack by labeling it Critical […]