Fighting Times (eBook)

Organising on the Front Lines of the Class War

Jon Melrod (Autor)

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2022
352 Seiten
PM Press (Verlag)
978-1-62963-980-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Deeply personal, astutely political, Fighting Times: Organizing on the Front Lines of the Class War recounts the thirteen-year journey of Jonathan Melrod to harness working-class militancy and jump start a revolution on the shop floor of American Motors. Melrod faces termination, dodges the FBI, outwits collaborators in the UAW, and becomes the central figure in a lawsuit against the labor newsletter Fighting Times, as he strives to build a class-conscious workers' movement from the bottom up. A radical to the core, Melrod was a key part of campus insurrection at the University of Wisconsin Madison. He left campus for the factory in 1973, hired along with hundreds of youthful job seekers onto the mind-numbing as sembly line. Fighting Times paints a portrait of these rebellious and alienated young hires, many of whom were Black Vietnam vets. Containing dozens of archival photographs, Fighting Times captures the journey of a militant anti-racist revolutionary who rose to the highest elected ranks of his UAW local without compromising his politics or his dedication to building a class-conscious workers' movement. The book will arm and inspire a new generation of labor organizers with the skills and attitude to challenge the odds and fight the egregious abuses of the exploitative capitalist system.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.9.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: 1960s • New Communist Movement • Revolutionary Youth Movement • Student activism • union organizing
• ISBN-10: 1-62963-980-X / 162963980X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-62963-980-2 / 9781629639802