Author: Sharon Black

 Sept. 22 — At 10 a.m., the United Auto Workers announced a major expansion of the current stand-up strike to 38 parts and distribution sites across 20 states at General Motors and Stellantis. Both […]

 September 15 — At midnight, United Auto Workers struck the Big Three companies — Ford, GM, and Stellanis — in what is being called a “Stand Up Strike.”  Striking at all three companies simultaneously […]

Interview with Oct. 7 organizer Transgender activist Melinda Butterfield is one of the key organizers for the Oct. 7 National March to Protect Trans Youth and Speakout for Trans Lives in Orlando, Florida. She is […]

A strike by 150,000 workers at automakers Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis (formerly Chrysler) looks imminent.   In a recent Facebook Live event, United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain declared the Stellantis proposal trash, tossing it […]

The bourgeois media, from the New York Times to Reuters, have gleefully though somewhat prematurely hyped stories of a “potential second Arab Spring” in Syria.  In August, demonstrations broke out in response to the lifting […]

[su_row] [su_column size=”1/3″] [/su_column] [su_column size=”1/3″] [/su_column] [su_column size=”1/3″] [/su_column] [/su_row] Crimes of capitalism: New Orleans 2005, Lāhainā 2023. Aug. 27 — As many people prepare for last-minute summer outings and back-to-school shopping this Labor […]

 The recent ouster of elected Tennessee House Representatives Justin Jones and Justin Pearson, both young and Black, stunned and angered people everywhere, especially in the Black community. It effectively disenfranchised 200,000 voters in Memphis […]