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Labor for Palestine is rapidly growing across the United States
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The Labor for Palestine Movement

February 22, 2024 fwstaff
By Gerry Scoppettuolo The United Electrical Workers union (UE) is today the only remaining international union to have survived the soul crushing anti-communist CIO purge of 1949-50 which expelled nine other unions, among them those […]
Revels Cayton - Communist labor and anti-racism activist.
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Revels Cayton – Unsung African American Hero of Labor History – African American History Month Series #4

February 20, 2024 fwstaff
By Gerry Scoppettuolo In the revolution I found the liberation that I needed and that meant so much to me – a Nicaraguan lesbian commenting on the significance of the Sandinista revolution in 1984 interview. […]
UAW President Shawn Fain
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EVs, batteries, and union organizing: the class struggle heats up

December 31, 2023 fwstaff
By Chris Fry If 2023 was described as having the “summer of strikes” (which stretched into the fall and winter), then 2024 may become known as the “year of union organizing drives”. 2023 saw more […]
WGA and SAG-AFTRA picketers
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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
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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 […]
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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 […]