This workshop will critically examine 40 years of global economic transformation and its impact on the Black working class in the US. It will specifically examine the rise of neo-liberalism as an ideology and program, the centrality of disaster capitalism as a fundamental tactic of this program, the utilization of the Gulf Coast catastrophe as a means to unleash the totality of this program in the US, and the interrelation of this program with white supremacy, national oppression, and patriarchy.