Wisconsin Bail Out the People Movement

ThomasSankara.net Introduction On the fourth of August of 1983, a group of young officers, led by Captain Thomas Sankara, seized power in Upper Volta (today known as Burkina Faso), after having destroyed–by means of a military, grassroots movement–a reactionary regime controlled by neo-colonial interests. From that moment, the National Council of the Revolution presided over […]

In the tradition of jazz and to maintain it’s legacy, Where We Are was recorded live at the historic Minton’s Playhouse in Harlem New York, at the peak of the pandemic.

The Southern Workers Assembly is excited to invite you to join an upcoming webinar series led by Communiversity, an educational partner of Black Workers for Justice, that will explore and discuss the nine points of the Southern Workers Power Program. The series begins on Monday, September 5, at 7pm eastern and will continue every following […]

Southern Workers Assembly has endorsed an important day of action on September 30 to protest the lack of reproductive justice. The Workers Program developed by SWA includes a demand for control of our bodies and free access to reproductive health. SWA is encouraging people to participate in this day of action and will have additional […]

https://bit.ly/3RqOHPF Introduction Part I The global context of restructuringFactors in the post-war growth of the capitalist economies. Isolation of the USSR. U.S. efforts to sabotage gas pipeline. Hewett on the “mystery” of Soviet success. Why are imperialists today positive about perestroika? Regressive changes in economic system. Glasnost today and in the Lenin period. How the […]

This week’s Labor History Today podcast: Mother Jones and Fannie Sellins. Last week’s show: Scabby The Rat; Smoking at Work; Which Side Are You On? (Encore).  August 31 10,000 striking miners began a fight at Blair Mountain, W.Va., for recognition of their union, the UMWA. Federal troops were sent in, and miners were forced to withdraw 5 days […]

October 24, 2020 Stephen Millies Every five days, a police dog bites someone in Indianapolis. Just as Black people are twice as likely to be unemployed, 55 percent of those bitten in Indianapolis are African American. That’s double their percentage of the city’s population. These and other facts were revealed in a remarkable investigation by […]