Notes and review on Captive Genders
Some notes and a review of the book Captive Genders: Transembodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex by a First of May Anarchist Alliance member from Detroit.
Jerome Jackson Remembered (1955-2014)
An obituary by First of May Anarchist Alliance of Jerome Jackson, a Detroit anti-foreclosure and disability rights activist.
Review: Chris Rhomberg, The Broken Table: The Detroit Newspaper Strike and the State of American Labor (2012)
A critical review of Chris Rhomberg's The Broken Table: The Detroit Newspaper Strike and the State of American Labor.
No water, no peace! States of emergency and water shut-offs in Detroit
Submitted by Ramona on Aug 31 2014 16:39
After a month-long moratorium, water shut-offs in Detroit have started again this week, leaving indebted households across the city with no access to running water.
1967 Detroit riots photo gallery
Submitted by Juan Conatz on Jul 5 2014 03:25
Images from the 1967 Detroit riots, which started after a police raid on an unlicensed bar and happened within the context of a nationwide civil rights movement that was met by white and government resistance and seen by many blacks as moving too slow.
The great Flint sit-down strike against GM 1936-37 - Walter Linder
Submitted by Steven. on Feb 16 2014 15:40
A history of the Flint sit-in strike by Walter Linder, slightly abridged by Solidarity and published as Solidarity pamphlet 31 on 1 November, 1969. Walter Linder was a member of the Maoist Progressive Labor Party, whose politics are rejected by both Solidarity and libcom.org, however Solidarity published the pamphlet due to the wealth and value of the factual historical information.
White supremacy and the looting of Detroit
Submitted by ideas and action on Jan 30 2014 18:14
Mike Kolhoff on right wing politics and its effects on the current situation in Detroit.
The American worker and the Forze Nuove: Turin and Detroit at the twilight of Fordism
Nicola Pizzolato on the commonalities between Detroit and Turin, Italy in the 1960s.
Detroit: I do mind dying. A study in urban revolution - Dan Georgakas and Marvin Surkin
Submitted by wojtek on Jun 2 2013 20:53
Detroit: I Do Mind Dying tracks the extraordinary development of the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, as they became two of the most vital political organizations of the 1960s and 1970s. Widely heralded as one the most important books on the black liberation movement and labor struggles in U.S. history.
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