Beneath the Surface: The Hidden Crisis of Exploitation and Resistance in Alabama’s Black Belt

In the shadow of gleaming college football stadiums and the rhetoric of American exceptionalism, a stark reality festers—one that powerful interests would rather keep buried. Alabama, a state rich in resources and labor, is home to some of the most severe poverty in the industrialized world.

Condemning Israel's Invasion of Gaza: Murdering Civilians with Money Stolen from US Workers

A new horror has begun. Just hours ago, the world watched as the Israeli military launched a massive, full-scale ground invasion of Gaza. This is not a targeted operation; it is the bloody next chapter in a campaign that has already leveled neighborhoods, shattered entire families, and created a humanitarian hellscape. For working people here in the American South, watching this unfold on shaky phone screens and grainy news feeds, it feels both a world away and terrifyingly close. Because our silence—and more damningly, our government’s unwavering complicity—is paid for with our own dignity and our own paychecks.

Alabama’s ICE Crackdown: A System Built to Break Workers and Protect Profits

Behind the rhetoric of “law and order” lies a brutal truth: these raids are not about protecting Americans. They are about maintaining a system that thrives on exploited labor, fractures solidarity, and props up the powerful at the expense of the vulnerable.‍