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Eugene Puryear
The Realities of Temp Work
16 Feb 2022
Poverty, wage theft, injuries, and even death are features of the temporary employment system.
Brian Shuffler
Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly
28 Apr 2021
The struggle for workers’ rights in this country has been an ongoing battle for hundreds of years.
Joseph B. Atkins
Organizing in the South
15 Apr 2021
Strong condemnations from the NAACP and Black Congressional Caucus of Amazon’s treatment of its workers might have made a difference in the strike vote,
Robin D.G. Kelley
The Freedom Struggle Is a Labor Struggle, Then and Now
06 Jan 2021
Black labor militants, many of whom were Communists, were the key to building the CIO in the South.
Ken Morgan
The UAW Strike, Blacks, Unions, and Capitalism
16 Oct 2019
The current strike is driven by gross inequalities in earnings among workers, as well as between labor and management.
Paul Prescod
Defend the Post Office, Defend Black Workers
10 Jul 2019
The history of black postal workers demonstrates the critical importance of government employment and a robust public sector.
Tamara Lee
An Intersectional Labor Movement Must Resist “Colorblind” Approaches to Organizing
19 Jun 2019
We must explicitly reject “melting pot” approaches to class solidarity.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
New Yorkers Can’t Trust Amazon
19 Nov 2018
Amazon, the world’s biggest company, “is not a trustworthy corporation,” said Maritza Silvs-Farrell, of Align, an alliance of labor and community groups that opposes awarding Amazo
The Public Archive
Labor and Liberation: An Interview with Margaret Stevens
11 Jul 2018
“Black working class militancy is THE essential precondition for the fight against racism, but it is not sufficient.”