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President Nicolás Maduro
Venezuela: Maduro wins in a landslide
Milwaukee, WI - In Venezuela's first presidential election since 2013, President Nicolás Maduro was re-elected in a landslide, receiving 67% of the vote in an election where the opposition was...
Chicago: Victims of dirty cop challenge their convictions
Chicago, IL - Juan and Rosendo Herndandez have been prisoners for 21 years. The two brothers were falsely accused of a murder by the notorious Detective Reynaldo Guevara, once head of the Gang Crimes Unit in...
Minnesota: 18 arrested at Whipple Federal Building demanding end to deportations
Minneapolis, MN - The Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee (MIRAC) and the Minnesota Poor People’s Campaign rallied, May 22, while 18 individuals blocked both traffic into the building and also the light rail...
Rally at Minnesota Capitol targets deportations and Columbus statue
Saint Paul, MN - On May 21 the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee (MIRAC) and Minnesota Poor Peoples Campaign held a rally outside the Minnesota State Capitol.
Large Chicago protest condemns Israeli massacres
Chicago, IL - More than 1000 people rallied and marched in Chicago, May 15, in an emergency response to Israel’s brutality, and a rejection of the Trump administration’s dangerous and illegal U.S. embassy move to...
Minnesotans to show solidarity with Palestine during Ramadan
Minneapolis, MN - The Anti-War Committee is organizing a bannering to show solidarity with Palestinians facing repression from the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) in Gaza. It will take place on May 23 at 7:30 p.m. at the...
Mercedes Martínez, President of the Puerto Rican Teachers Federation
Interview with Mercedes Martínez, President of the Puerto Rican Teachers Federation
Mercedes Martinez was interviewed on Oct. 22 in San Juan, just over a month after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico. Martinez is president of...
Frank Chapman
People’s Thanksgiving 2017 - FRSO speech by Frank Chapman
We are circulating the text of Frank Chapman’s Dec. 3 speech at Chicago’s 26th annual People’s Thanksgiving event. Frank Chapman is a veteran of the...
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Book review: A Threat of the First Magnitude, FBI Counterintelligence & Infiltration from the Communist Party to the Revolutionary Union 1962-1974
With 'A Threat of the First Magnitude', Leonard and Gallagher have done an important service in teaching us about who these people are and...
Karl Marx
Marx at 200: A renewed interest in the critique of capitalism
Fight Back! will be running a number of articles to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx.
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