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WGA and SAG-AFTRA picketers
Domestic News

SAF-AFTRA Reachest Tentative Agreement

December 3, 2023 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe On November 24, the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) national board leadership made public the full text of a tentative contract agreement. The union had been on […]
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The US Labor Movement Calls for Ceasefire in Israel and Palestine

November 25, 2023 fwstaff
In mid-October, UE and UFCW Local 3000 unions initiated a labor call for a ceasefire in Israel and Palestine. The call and the link to sign is below: We, members of the American labor movement, […]
International News

Stand With Palestinian Workers: Cease the Genocide Now—Stop Arming Israel!

November 19, 2023 fwstaff
  PLEASE SIGN AND FORWARD WIDELY! To endorse the following statement please click here. The list of signers will be updated periodically. Contact: info@laborforpalestine.net Website: laborforpalestine.net Labor for Palestine, October 24, 2023 “We need you […]
Detroit United Workers March through Downtown, Thurs. Oct. 19, 2023
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Detroit “Strike City” Mobilizes Thousands of Workers in United March for Economic Justice

October 28, 2023 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff A mass demonstration for Workers Rights and Economic Justice was held on Thursday,. October 19, 2023 where striking union members from Blue Cross-Blue Shield, the three casinos and the automakers joined […]
Detroit Casino workers walk the picket line on Wed. Oct. 18, 2023
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Detroit Unions Walk the Picket Lines Against Blue Cross-Blue Shield and Three Detroit Casinos

October 25, 2023 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff These photographs were taken during the early morning hours of Wednesday, October 18, 2023 as thousands of workers are on strike for a living wage in Detroit. UAW Local 2500, representing […]
Tampa 5 activist Chrisley Carpio under attack for protesting reactionary Florida education policies at University of South Florida
Domestic News

Defend the Tampa 5

October 11, 2023 fwstaff
By Committee to Defend the Tampa 5 On March 6, 2023, Tampa Bay Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) held a protest to fight back against DeSantis’s anti-diversity bill HB 999/SB 266 at the University […]
Domestic News

A Different Lens interview on AI and the class struggle

October 5, 2023 fwstaff
    A Different Lens, an audio podcast produced by the Hampton Institute, interviewed Fighting Words editor Chris Fry on the topic of Artificial Intelligence and the Class Struggle. Listen to the interview by clicking […]
Auto workers battle the Big 3 auto companies across the U.S.
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Capitalist Politics and the Auto Workers’ Strike

October 5, 2023 fwstaff
By David Sole The rush to Detroit by President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump just two weeks into the United Auto Workers strike exposes deep problems in the political arena of the capitalist […]
MI Rent is Too Damn High demonstartion in Lansing, MI on Sept. 5
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Rent Too Damn High Coalition holds statewide demonstration in Lansing

September 22, 2023 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff A statewide demonstration took place on Sept. 5, 2023, in Lansing, Michigan demanding solutions to the housing crisis. Organized by the MI Rent Is Too High Coalition, the demonstration drew more […]
Detroit UAW strike solidarity rally, Fri. Sept. 15, 2023
Domestic News

Detroit UAW March in Solidarity with “Stand Up Strike”

September 17, 2023 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff On Fri. September 15, 2023, thousands of UAW members and their supporters marched through downtown Detroit outside the Annual International Auto Show in solidarity with the recently called strike against Stellantis, […]