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Jon Jeter
Understanding the White Supremacy at the Center of the 'Class Over Race' Debate
20 Sep 2023
Any talk of discussing class instead of racism is disingenuous in a country which uses every opportunity to indulge in anti-Black racism. The history of racism in the labor movement is just one…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
SPEECH: “I’ll Be Damned if I Go Back to Work Under Those Conditions!” Lucy E. Parsons, May 1, 1930
03 May 2023
A 1930 speech by Black anarchist and labor organizer, Lucy Parsons, recalls the radical origins of May Day.
Abayomi Azikiwe
Unjust Measures Imposed on Labor and African Americans After Midterm Elections
07 Dec 2022
The Biden administration and congress forced railroad workers to accept a contract without paid sick leave and Jackson, Mississippi residents face an administration consent decree on water services.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Joe Biden and the Democrats Have Nothing to Offer Organized Labor, the ALU Included
11 May 2022
The Biden administration pays lip service to the trade union movement but has done nothing to break the Democratic Party’s long tradition of betraying workers. Joe Biden's photo op with Christian…
Lauren Kaori Gurley
Amazon Launches Anti-Union Website to Derail Alabama Union Drive
27 Jan 2021
The drive at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama marks one of the few times in the company's history that workers will have the opportunity to vote in a union election.
Chris Wright
Could Unions Have Liberated Dixie from Racist Rule?
16 Dec 2020
The right-wing leadership of the CIO refused to seriously confront white supremacy in the South. “The demand to abolish the police needs to be sharpened.”
Mike Elk
How Black and Brown Workers Are Redefining Strikes in the Digital COVID Age
15 Jul 2020
White labor leaders are failing to understand non-traditional organizing that has developed from viral social media movements.
Mindy Isser
Why I’m Voting No On UAW’s Deal With GM: A “Third-Tier” Worker
23 Oct 2019
How can a union tolerate three or four different “tiers” of workers, with different pay scales and rights, and then call for “solidarity”?
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Peter Cole’s “Dockworker Power”
31 Jul 2019
The author examines how ordinary workers in multiracial societies simultaneously challenged racism and their bosses.
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: The Defeat of American Workers
09 Aug 2017
Capital is winning every round of the class war. Nissan scared Mississippi auto workers out of joining a union, and Foxconn extorted $3 billion to locate a plant in Wisconsin. Republicans cheered.