by Southern Workers Assembly | Mar 24, 2025 | News
“As the South goes, so goes the nation.”—W.E.B. DuBois “One thing we do not need is more labor unions. We have gotten where we are without them, and we do not need them now.”— Henry McMaster, Governor of South Carolina, 2024 State of the State...
by Southern Workers Assembly | Nov 11, 2024 | News
The Southern Workers Assembly is republishing this piece by our late co-founder, Saladin Muhammad, originally published in May 2006. The system of national oppression is anchored by African-American national oppression; not because it was the first experience of...
by Southern Workers Assembly | May 30, 2024 | News, Workers School
Southern politicians have gone out of their way in word and action to make clear they stand on the side of big business and racism as they’ve recently lamented that the “Alabama [ie – Southern] model for success is under attack” and vowing to “fight unions to...
by Southern Workers Assembly | Dec 5, 2023 | News
The Southern Workers Assembly is re-publishing and sharing the following resolutions calling for a ceasefire in the Israeli/U.S. war on Palestine, and encouraging other workers and unions to share these statements widely. We encourage other central labor councils,...
by Southern Workers Assembly | Nov 29, 2023 | News
“This convening is called a worker school, but in many ways it’s really an organizing conference,” Ajamu Dillahunt, a member of the SWA Coordinating Committee and Black Workers for Justice, addressed the crowd during the opening session of the Fall 2023 Southern...
by Southern Workers Assembly | Nov 19, 2023 | News, Statement
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. noted that “war is the enemy of poor and working people,” and that the triple evils of racism, poverty, and militarism were to blame for the suffering of workers in the United States. The Southern Workers Assembly stands in full solidarity...