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Solidarity going strong for striking Alabama mine workers

June 1, 2021 By Alan Collins

In an immense show of support from the community, Alabama union talk radio show The Valley Labor Report hosted a fundraiser which brought in $70,000 to support striking mineworkers.

Alabama right wing scapegoats LGBTQ people as crisis escalates

May 4, 2021 By People’s World Correspondents

New legislation joins anti-trans efforts across several states, including Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Texas.

Retail Workers Union loses in Amazon Bessemer vote count

April 9, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg

Union notes that the giant company broke countless labor laws during a vicious anti-union campaign and that it will challenge the final results.

Rev. Barber to Alabama union backers: ‘Bessemer is the new Selma’

March 24, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg

Civil rights leader brings the Poor People’s Campaign to a mass rally for unionizing 5,805 workers at Amazon’s giant shipping warehouse.

Montgomery, Alabama has first Black mayor in its two-century history

October 11, 2019 By John Wojcik

A historic election victory in Alabama this week shows that the “worst of times” in American politics can, if the people rise up, also become the “best of times.”