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The following can also be found on the SWA website here “We heard from the rail workers. We heard from the truckers. We’ve got the longshoremen in the house, too,” said Leonard Riley, a longshore worker with the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) Local 1422 and member of the SWA Coordinating Committee, addressing a packed house…

Greetings Southern Workers Assembly friends! The Southern Workers Assembly is kicking off our school weekend in Charlotte tonight with this super exciting panel discussion. Hope to see you all there (even if you can't make the school this weekend!) Southern Workers on a Move! Panel Discussion + Free dinner Friday, April 21 6:00pm - Food…

Black workers are more affected by pretty much every category than other racial groups, notably by global health concerns – 41.6% of Black workers (compared to 14.8% of white workers) were very concerned about this, compared office in many cases, against their will.

Black Unemployment Rate Hits Record Low of 5%

Southern Workers Assembly Event: https://fb.me/e/2rM4vQsis From fast food and retail, to the public sector, throughout the logistics industry, and beyond, workers across the South are in motion and fighting back. Join us for a public discussion between worker leaders in mostly non-collective bargaining workplaces from some of these key sectors to discuss the current political…

Will historic gains for Black workers be eroded by the economic downturn?

The lawsuit claimed that black workers regularly faced racist slurs on the factory floor, and racist graffiti in bathrooms at the Tesla facility

WASHINGTON —There was one big agreement by a panel of top Labor Department officials, union leaders, and rank-and-file Black workers: Unions are the road to a decent standard of living and good jobs for Black Americans and critical to the struggle to overcome the impact of centuries of ingrained r...

Written by ex-Black Panther turned anarchist Lorenzo Komboa Ervin, Anarchism and the Black Revolution is both an easy-to-read introduction to the fundamental principles of class struggle anarchism and an analysis of their relevance to the black liberation movement. Also contains a good section on why the author is an anarchist and why non-class struggle anarchists are useless.

Massachusetts ended the practice of slavery in 1783. But as author and historian Jacqueline Jones points out in her new book, "No Right To An Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era," while the city didn't practice slavery after that point, it didn't practice equality either.