Detroit

A Review of Walter Reuther, Social Unionist

A Review of Walter Reuther, Social Unionist by Martin Glaberman

Nelson Lichtenstein, The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit: Walter Reuther and the Fate of American Labor (New York: and Chicago: Basic Books, 1995), 575 pp., $35.00, cloth.

Black Cats, White Cats, Wildcats: Auto Workers in Detroit, 1969

Introductory article and account of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers and its activity in a Detroit in the 1960s and 70s.

The historiography of the mass worker - Steve Wright

Steve Wright's historical study of the development of the mass worker across the world and the effect it had on working class struggle.

This article by Steve Wright appeared in The Commoner, No.5, in 2002. It is also reproduced here in its original pdf format (100kb).

The Historiography of the Mass Worker

(Chapter 8 of Storming Heaven: Class composition and struggle in Italian autonomist marxism)

Levine, Philip, 1928-today

Anarchist poet - Philip Levine

A short biography and information about the politics of American anarchist poet, Philip Levine.

Philip Levine was born in the industrial city of Detroit to parents of Russian Jewish origin in 1928. Detroit was the home of Father Coughlin, a notorious anti-Semitic Catholic priest who broadcast on the radio every Sunday. He spent most of his childhood and adolescence fighting people who wanted to beat him up because he was Jewish.

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