U.S. elections

Detroit demonstration demands votes be counted in New Center area on Nov. 4, 2020
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Demonstrations Demand All Votes Be Counted While Celebrating Trump Defeat

November 14, 2020 fwstaff
By Detroit Fighting Words Staff A demonstration was held in the New Center area of Detroit on Wed. Nov. 4, 2020, just one day after voting concluded. Various organizations and activists spoke out against the […]
Detroit demonstration carrying banner saying Black and Brown voices matter on Nov. 4, 2020
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Trump Defeated at the Polls by Mass Sentiment

November 10, 2020 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe All of the major United States based corporate news networks finally called the national presidential elections in favor of former Vice President Joe Biden on Saturday morning, November 7. President Donald J. […]
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What happens if Trump tries to steal the election?

November 2, 2020 fwstaff
  By David Sole With only days left before the November 3 U.S. elections many are focused on turning out voters for their preferred candidates. However some groups and individuals are making plans on what […]
Georgia lines up in early voting during Oct. 2020 AJC photo
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Voter Suppression and Right-wing Threats Fail to Keep Millions Away from the Polls

October 27, 2020 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Efforts aimed at thwarting the fundamental bourgeois democratic rights of the majority of people in the United States are well underway. President Donald J. Trump has said repeatedly that mail-in voting and […]
The AFL-CIO labor federation, headed by Richard Trumka, is seeing the terms general strike and resistance against tyranny, bandied about.
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Community groups, Unions Taking Fascist Threats Seriously

October 26, 2020 fwstaff
By David Sole With less than two weeks left before the November 3 U.S. elections there are signs that some sectors of the population are taking Donald Trump’s threat seriously to refuse to recognize an […]
Trump supporters try to intimidate early voters in Fairfax, VA on Sept. 20.
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Call to Create People’s Committees to Defend Democratic Rights

September 30, 2020 fwstaff
By David Sole Donald Trump is making it clearer every day that he will not peacefully give up the office of president if he loses the election. Now, it is possible that Trump will “win” […]
Hands Off USPS union worker holds postal workers sign
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Trump: Hands Off the United States Postal Service!

August 24, 2020 fwstaff
By Detroit Fighting Words Staff Attacks by the Trump administration in Washington D.C. on the essential role of the USPS has drawn condemnation across the country. In Detroit on Thurs. Aug. 20, 2020 a demonstration […]
Biden and Trump
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What does the U.S. ruling class want from the 2020 elections?

August 22, 2020 fwstaff
By David Sole On August 11 the Democratic Party announced their candidate for Vice-President of the United States to be California’s Senator Kamala Harris. Harris, a former prosecutor and Attorney General for California, joins former […]
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp
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Racial Politics in Georgia and the Presidential Elections

July 26, 2020 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe A contested gubernatorial election in 2018 involving Republican Secretary of State Brian Kemp and former Georgia State House Minority Leader Stacey Abrams highlighted problems related to voter suppression based upon the national […]
FCA Warren Truck plant workers returned to work amid COVID-19 pandemic
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COVID-19 Infection Rates Surge While Millions Are Forced Back to Work

July 7, 2020 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe There were more than 55,000 new COVID-19 cases reported in the United States on July 2. These figures represent a pattern of a rapid escalation of people being sickened by the potentially […]