Finally a Stamp for Paul
Victory. There is no other way to describe the US Postal Service’s decision to honor the life of Paul Robeson with a commemorative stamp. After eight years of struggle and with the support of a quarter of a million signatures from Robeson supporters, the USPS relented and decided to honor the life of this working-class giant.
Making the Dream Real: A Conversation with Bill Fletcher, Jr.
Bill Fletcher is the president of TransAfrica Forum, a founder of United for Peace and Justice and the Black Radical Congress. This interview was conducted by Debbie Bell.
Our Best Defense: Labor and the Anti-war Movement
The world’s working class and people had no side in the war in Iraq and nothing to gain. George Bush, with his narrow band of extreme right-wing ideologues, corporate interests, military fanatics and racists, was willing to spill gallons of other people’s blood for economic and political domination.
Uniform Justice: Laundry Workers Organize
'Don't get surprised when you see a nice Cintas truck on the road. Keep in mind that behind that truck are workers fighting for their rights. Support them. Behind that nice truck is a labor dispute where workers are fighting for their right to belong to a union.' -- Victor Hidalgo, Cintas worker
Portraits in RED, White and Blue
We have been too long deluded by those who live in ease and grow rich by our productions, and have been blindly led to support men for office whose interest in the present state of society is directly opposed to our own. All our legislators and rulers are nominated by the accumulating class and controlled by their opinions. We have too long been deceived by designing men of both political parties … How long, my fellow workingmen, will we allow ourselves to be deceived?
So spoke William Heighton in an address to workers at a Universalist Church in Philadelphia in 1827.
