Slavery

Nat Turner’s rebellion – a blow against slavery

In honor of Black August, Workers World newspaper is reprinting and updating the following article that first appeared online on…

August 20, 2024

Anatomy of America’s wasteful prison-industrial complex

Bryant Arroyo is a jailhouse lawyer, environmental activist and outspoken advocate for aging and elderly prisoners. He was a rank-and-file…

August 14, 2024

The legacy of Juneteenth

The following article was originally posted at workers.org on June 20, 2022. Juneteenth was implemented as a federal holiday for…

June 19, 2024

Prisoners sue Alabama, charging ‘modern day slavery’

By Zoe Johnson A group of current and former inmates sued the state of Alabama on Dec. 12, 2023, challenging…

March 13, 2024

Black labor: From chattel slavery to wage slavery – Part 1

The following is excerpted from Chapter 2 of  Sam Marcy’s “High Tech, Low Pay: A Marxist analysis of the changing…

February 7, 2024

Black labor: From chattel slavery to wage slavery – Part 2

The following is excerpted from Chapter 2 of Sam Marcy’s “High Tech, Low Pay: A Marxist analysis of the changing…

February 7, 2024

Taking on the national anthem, Jill Scott sings truth about U.S. racism

“Oh, say, can you see, by the blood in the streets, that this place doesn’t smile on you, colored child.…

July 11, 2023

‘Mothers of Gynecology’ monument exposes horrors of slavery 

A righteous tidal wave of anger followed people seeing the nine-minutes-plus videotaped police lynching of George Floyd in Minneapolis late…

July 22, 2022

Haiti needs reparations, not sanctions

This slightly edited article first appeared in Workers World on July 17, 2003. The writer, Pat Chin, was a contributing…

May 30, 2022

From chattel slavery to modern prisons

The following remarks were given during the 50 Years of Resistance: Black August & Attica live broadcast hosted by the…

September 7, 2021