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Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio September 6, 2024
06 Sep 2024
In this week’s segment we hear about the exploitation of ride share workers and a labor action in Tennessee, a state hostile to worker organizing. But first we discuss organizing on behalf of…
Julia Wright
Ten Reasons the National Security State is Worried
22 May 2024
Recent global and domestic events have put the United States in a defensive posture that presents an opportunity for the movement to step up.
Essam Elkorghli
When Arab Workers Stood Against Zionism
17 Jan 2024
In the 1960s Arab workers united and resisted reactionary regimes and the state of Israel.
Essam Elkorghli
Labor and Resistance for Palestine
15 Nov 2023
Workers around the world can play a role in mobilizing action against the apartheid Israeli state.
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.”