U.S. wars

Women will continue the decades long fight to protect their rights.
Domestic News

Afghanistan and the Texas Fanatics

September 9, 2021 fwstaff
By David Sole The United States government suffered a humiliating defeat as it finally withdrew from Afghanistan on August 31, 2021. For over 20 years, 1979 to 2001 the CIA and State Department financed and […]
Oct7-antiwar demo1_taken by Kim DeFranco
Editorials

United States Withdraws from Afghanistan After Humiliating Defeat

August 29, 2021 fwstaff
Fighting Words Editorial We welcome the defeat of U.S. imperialism in the Central Asian state of Afghanistan in the aftermath of a two decades-long occupation. This completely unnecessary war since 2001 was initiated under the […]
July 4 Veterans for Peace display on Michigan war dead from Afghanistan and Iraq at Grand Circus Park
Domestic News

Leaving Afghanistan: Why Not Iraq and Syria?

July 23, 2021 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe President Joe Biden announced several months ago that the United States would end its two decades-long occupation of the Central Asian state of Afghanistan. Since the attacks on the World Trade Center […]
Stop U.S. bombings of Syria and everywhere!
International News

No Bombs in Syria or Anywhere Else!

March 9, 2021 fwstaff
By Moratorium NOW! Coalition and Michigan Emergency Committee Against War & Injustice (MECAWI) Two Detroit-based community organizations, the Moratorium NOW! Coalition and MECAWI, have been following the events inside the United States military in recent […]
Darnell Summers speaks at press conference on Nov. 13, 2020
Domestic News

Press Conference Demands That Darnell Summers Remains Free

November 20, 2020 fwstaff
By Detroit Fighting Words Staff Longtime African American revolutionary and cultural worker, Darnell Summers, is once again being threatened with prosecution in the death of a Michigan State Police Red Squad officer in Inkster, Michigan, […]
President Ronald Reagan met with Afghani guerrilla fighters promising money and weapons to kill Russian (Soviet) troops.
Domestic News

Editorial: “If you believe that, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you”

July 12, 2020 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff George C. Parker (1860-1936) became famous in New York City as the great con-man who repeatedly sold the Brooklyn Bridge, the Statue of Liberty and Madison Square Garden to gullible victims. […]
Venezuelan authorities foiled a mercenary incursion to topple Maduro
International News

Venezuela Smashes U.S. Based Invasion Plot

May 10, 2020 fwstaff
By David Sole With their strategy to foment internal opposition to achieve regime change in Venezuela faltering badly, it appears that U.S. imperialism is shifting to overt external force to overthrow the socialist path followed […]
sample of the suspected contaminated face masks Saudi Arabia air dropped into Yemen’s Hodeidah province
International News

Saudis Air Drop Masks Suspected to be Contaminated with COVID-19 into Yemen

April 16, 2020 fwstaff
By Randi Nord Sana’a (GPA) – The Saudi coalition continues weaponizing disease in Yemen — this time capitalizing on the novel coronavirus — in a disturbing and barbaric fashion. Saudi planes have air dropped suspicious […]
AFRICOM in the Sahel -
Domestic News

United States Continues Imperialist Policies Despite COVID-19 Pandemic

April 5, 2020 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Countries throughout the globe are focusing on the eradication of the COVID-19 pandemic which has infected nearly a million people and killed over 45,000. During the early phase of the detection of […]
Poster memorializing those massacred in Odessa Ukraine.
Domestic News

Biden, Ukraine and the Nazis

March 4, 2020 fwstaff
By Russ Bellant Author’s Note: To anticipate questions about my claim to know what I have written, my research and writing on post-WWII emigre nazis goes back to the early 1980s. I wrote a book […]