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Fight Back News Service is circulating the following declaration. Freedom Road Socialist Organization is among the signers.

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By Rasmea Defense Committee

Fight Back News Service is circulating the following call for action from the Rasmea Defense Committee.

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By staff

Iran’s FARS News Agency is reporting, Dec. 31, that Iran is planning a response to U.S. plans for new sanctions against companies and individuals that are allegedly working to develop Iran’s missile capacity.

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By staff

As 2015 comes to an end, we pause to look back at the 40 most viewed Fight Back! articles of the past year. Fight Back! published more than 1,000 articles this year. There were many excellent Fight Back! articles that aren’t listed here — you can see them all at the archive. (Also see the 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014 retrospectives).

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By Mao Zedong

To mark the 122nd anniversary of the birth of Chinese revolutionary Mao Zedong, Fight Back News Service is circulating his oft quoted 1945 speech at the Seventh Congress of the Communist Party of China.

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By Tom Burke

Grand Rapids, MI protest against Donald Trump

Grand Rapids, MI – Wall Street politician Donald Trump was expecting a friendly reception at the Deltaplex Arena on the outskirts of a Grand Rapids industrial park. Instead Trump faced the largest protest seen at a Republican campaign rally in Grand Rapids for more than a generation.

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By Michael Sampson

On Nov. 9, University of Missouri President Timothy Wolfe resigned, under intense pressure from Black student protesters and activists at the University of Missouri, Columbia campus. Black students formed the organization, Concerned Students 1950, demanding University President Wolfe step down over his mishandling of racist incidents on campus as well as calling for an increase in Black student enrollment and Black faculty representation at the predominantly white university. Jonathan Butler, an African American graduate student even went on hunger strike, demanding President Wolfe resign. The student uprising and struggled tipped to a boiling point and got national attention when the Black Missouri football players threatened to strike, not playing another game until President Wolfe stepped down. Such a strike would have cost the university at least $1 million dollars in fines as well as a loss in other revenue, negatively affecting their bottom line.

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By Students for a Democratic Society

Fight Back News Service is circulating the following Nov. 9 statement from Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).

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By Fight Back! Editors

The following statement from Fight Back! will be distributed at the Nov. 10, Milwaukee protest at the Republican presidential debates. The demonstration will take place at 5:30 pm outside the Milwaukee Theater, 500 W. Kilbourn Avenue. END THE WARS AND DEPORTATIONS!

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By staff

Speakers at U of MN immigrants rights event

Minneapolis, MN – On Nov. 3, a panel of three speakers at the University of Minnesota analyzed the phenomenon of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and how his anti-immigrant rhetoric affects the struggle for immigrant rights.

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