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Montgomery Bus Boycott, Bessemer, prisons – Class struggle then and now
By Monica Moorehead posted on February 16, 2021
Fifty years after the end of the U.S. Civil War and during the height of horrific lynchings of Black people in the Deep South by KKK terror the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History was founded in 1915 by Dr. Carter Woodson and Rev. Jesse E. Moorland to research and promote the individual contributions of people of African descent, both inside the U.S. and throughout the African diaspora.
The ASNLH launched a national “Negro History Week” in February 1926. Fifty years later in 1976, due to the influence of the Civil Rights Movement, this “Week” officially evolved into Black History Month in the U.S.
Brutal Alabama prison attack on incarcerated workers
By Devin Cole posted on February 3, 2021
Occupied Muscogee Creek Land
Events in this report happened on the next to last day of a month-long strike and “economic black-out” of Alabama state prisons, led by incarcerated workers and called by the Free Alabama Movement. For more on the strike, see Workers World, Dec. 4, 2020.
On the morning of Jan. 30, Alabama correctional officers and sergeants beat and critically injured two incarcerated workers, one of whom was having a mental health crisis, and injured a third. A fourth was beaten by a CERT (Community Emergency Response Team) squad.
Swift Justice: ‘A fight from the inside out’
By Devin Cole posted on December 18, 2020
These slightly edited comments are from a Dec. 10 webinar organized by the Prisoners Solidarity Committee of Workers World Party. Swift Justice is currently incarcerated within the Alabama Department of Corrections system. For more on prison stoppage by the Free Alabama Movement, see Workers World, Dec. 4.
Co-moderator Devin C.: What is the Free Alabama Movement? Some have deemed the Alabama prisons as the most inhumane in the U.S. Can you shed some light on some of the conditions there? Why is it important for people on the outside to show solidarity with these imprisoned workers’ January month-long work stoppage and economic blackout?