League of Revolutionary Black Workers

Content by or about the League of Revolutionary Black Workers in Detroit in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

League of Revolutionary Black Workers.

League of Revolutionary Black Workers.

Dying from the inside: The decline of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers

A key account of the organizational issues of the LRBW, by Ernie Allen. From the book, They Should…

The Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement - Martin Glaberman

Martin Glaberman's analysis on the formation of the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement, a radical…

CLR James

Young Detroit radicals 1955-1965 - Dan Georgakas

Dan Georgakas's personal recollections of radicals in Detroit and the people who formed the League…

The League of Revolutionary Black Workers and the coming of revolution - Eric Perkins

Contemporary article on the League of Revolutionary Black Workers from Radical America which, though…

DRUM: vanguard of the black revolution

A short history of the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement, detailing their beginnings as well as their opposition to the United Auto Workers…

Arial photo of Dodge Main.

The butcher shop: Hamtramck Hospital

Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement's attack on the racist practices of the hospital at the Hamtramck Chrysler factory.

Philadelphia Black Panthers stripped and handcuffed, 1970.

From repression to revolution - speech by Kenneth V. Cockrel

Kenneth V. Cockrel's speech at a repression conference in Detroit outlining some problems with the…

The carrot and the stick: December 11, 1968

DRUM's attack on the spectacle of the Chrysler Corporation's "milestone agreement" to "pour $1,000,000 into colored-owned banks in three US…

1968-1971: The League of Revolutionary Black Workers - A. Muhammad Ahmad

A short history of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers - a radical union of black auto workers…

The workers have to deal with their own reality and that transforms them

Based on his experience in auto factories, Glaberman discusses the contradictions of the union's…

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…