Black Liberation

Saladin Muhammad: a life dedicated to organizing Southern Black workers − a WW commentarySaladin Muhammad: a life dedicated to organizing Southern Black workers − a WW commentary

Saladin Muhammad: a life dedicated to organizing Southern Black workers − a WW commentary

Saladin Muhammad, a revolutionary Black union organizer and propagandist, died on Sept. 19 in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, at age…

September 22, 2022
On her 75th birthday – Assata Shakur: ‘I am a 20th century escaped slave’On her 75th birthday – Assata Shakur: ‘I am a 20th century escaped slave’

On her 75th birthday – Assata Shakur: ‘I am a 20th century escaped slave’

In honor of Assata Shakur’s 75th birthday on July 16, Workers World is reprinting this slightly edited version of her…

July 15, 2022
‘The future is in the people, and the people can’t wait’‘The future is in the people, and the people can’t wait’

‘The future is in the people, and the people can’t wait’

These edited remarks were made at the July 3 Free Mumia rally in Philadelphia.  I owe my start in political…

July 8, 2022
Atlanta: ‘What’s the Call? Free them all!’Atlanta: ‘What’s the Call? Free them all!’

Atlanta: ‘What’s the Call? Free them all!’

Atlanta The defense committees for Mutulu Shakur, Imam Jamil Al-Amin (formerly H. Rap Brown) and Kamau Sidiki, three Black liberation…

June 17, 2022
A Black Liberation Movement Forces joint statement on UkraineA Black Liberation Movement Forces joint statement on Ukraine

A Black Liberation Movement Forces joint statement on Ukraine

Dismantle NATO Now!  Rescind the $16 billion U.S. allocations sent to support the war in Ukraine!  U.S. imperialism is the…

April 7, 2022
‘By any means necessary, Black Liberation will matter!’‘By any means necessary, Black Liberation will matter!’

‘By any means necessary, Black Liberation will matter!’

By Erica Mines Philadelphia represents the epitome of state-sanctioned violence at the hands of police: the so-called race riots of…

June 29, 2015
An eyewitness report from Columbia, S.C.An eyewitness report from Columbia, S.C.

An eyewitness report from Columbia, S.C.

Columbia, S.C., June 27 -- As Bree Newsome climbed the pole in the early morning of June 27, James Tyson…

June 28, 2015
The atrocity in Charleston: ‘Let this trauma drive the struggle for Black Liberation’The atrocity in Charleston: ‘Let this trauma drive the struggle for Black Liberation’

The atrocity in Charleston: ‘Let this trauma drive the struggle for Black Liberation’

When nine defenseless people are killed in a church, it’s not a “shooting,” it’s a massacre. When a 21-year-old white…

June 24, 2015
What is the Left going to do about the government’s plan to crush the Black Lives Matter uprising?What is the Left going to do about the government’s plan to crush the Black Lives Matter uprising?

What is the Left going to do about the government’s plan to crush the Black Lives Matter uprising?

WW analysis The government is planning to crush the Black Lives Matter uprising that swept the country in the aftermath…

May 30, 2015
Why Mumia is a hero to young peopleWhy Mumia is a hero to young people

Why Mumia is a hero to young people

The following is a reprint of an April 16, 2008, commentary from the youth group Fight Imperialism, Stand Together (FIST)…

April 6, 2015