Alabama

Alabama warehouse workers take on Amazon

Amazon workers at a Bessemer, Ala., warehouse took a big step toward organizing the first union ever in that behemoth…

December 23, 2020

Free Alabama Movement calls ‘economic blackout’ on prison system

Occupied Muscogee Creek, Choctaw, Cherokee, Shawnee, Yuchi lands The Free Alabama Movement, led primarily by Black men who are incarcerated…

December 4, 2020

Alabama clinic bought by abortion rights group

On May 15, 2019, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed into law one of the most restrictive anti-abortion bills in the…

May 26, 2020

‘Vigilando el útero’ en Alabama

El ataque intensificado contra las mujeres, la justicia de género oprimida y la justicia reproductiva, denunciada como “vigilancia policial” por…

July 18, 2019

‘Policing the womb’ in Alabama

The intensified attack on women, the gender-oppressed and reproductive justice, denounced as “policing the womb” by reproductive rights advocate and…

July 9, 2019

Thousands protest in Alabama: Working class and oppressed fight abortion ban

#StopTheBans actions are called for May 21, noon local time, at statehouses, town squares and courthouses across the U.S. Other…

May 21, 2019

Alabama People’s Tribunal: ‘Food, water, health are human rights’

Montgomery, AL - Advocates for a wide range of struggles in Alabama met with a new generation of health activists…

January 2, 2019

40 years of LGBTQ Pride in Alabama

Birmingham, Ala. — More than 1,000 people rolled, walked, watched and cheered on the night of June 9 as Alabama celebrated 40…

June 13, 2018

Lessons of ‘The Hammer & the Hoe: The Alabama Communist Party 1928-1951’

  An earlier version of this article originally appeared on Dec. 14 in The Forge, a socialist newspaper for the…

December 21, 2017

Mass organizing defeats bigot in Alabama election

African-American leadership decisive People far and wide celebrated the defeat of arch-bigot Judge Roy Moore in Alabama’s Senate race on…

December 18, 2017