BY Gage Lacharite | Tampa, FL | 2/07/23
On February 6, Tampa community members packed the North Tampa branch library for a Black History Month panel hosted by the Tampa district of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO).
BY staff | United States | 2/04/23
One of the most important communists in U.S. history, Harry Haywood, was born 125 years ago today, on February 4, 1898. On his 125th birthday, here are excerpts of a speech Haywood gave at Howard University in Washington D.C. in 1978 on the topic of Black power and the fight for socialism.
BY staff | Chicago, IL | 1/31/23
300 Chicagoans braced against the cold night, January 30, to protest the brutal police slayings of Tyre Nichols, Keenan Anderson and Manuel “Tortuguita” Teron.
BY staff | Detroit, Michigan | 1/22/23
On January 16, Martin Luther King Jr Day, the Detroit MLK Day Committee organized a large gathering, which took place at Historic Saint Matthew's-Saint Joseph's Episcopal Church with the theme of “Six Decades of Mass Movements, The Struggle Continues.”
BY J. Sykes | United States | 7/24/22
As we have seen in our previous article, capitalism’s origins are largely based upon “primitive accumulation” - the theft of land and resources during the colonial period.
BY staff | Tijuana, Mexico | 6/12/22
Fight Back! interviews Josh Higginbotham, Organizer and Director of Research and Development for Black Lives Matter-Oklahoma City, at the Workers’ Summit of the Americas which took place June 10-12 in Tijuana, Mexico.
BY Richard Berg | Chicago, IL | 5/17/22
Kobi Guillory will be the first feature guest on our new podcast Fight Back! Radio.
BY Edward Hollified | Tallahassee, FL | 4/02/22
The $27 million in regressive sales tax money diverted from potentially legitimate Blueprint projects to enhance the football experience of powerful white friends of the Chamber of Commerce and Florida State University (FSU) trustees who could care less about poor people in general and Black and brown people in particular, represents a betrayal.
BY Siobhan Moore | Minnesota | 2/19/22
On February 16, Students for a Democratic Society at the University of Minnesota rallied and marched to demand justice for Amir Locke, a 22-year-old Black man murdered by the Minneapolis police in a relative’s apartment earlier this month.
BY Joshua Parks | Charleston, NC | 2/16/22
Throughout the months of January and February, there were over 20 bomb threats directed towards historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and Black churches, most of which were in the South.
