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Fighting Times: Organizing on the Front Lines of the Class War
PM Press
ISBN13:
9781629639659
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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 University of Wisconsin Madison. He left campus for the factory in 1973, hired along with hundreds of youthful job seekers onto the mind-numbing assembly line, Fighting Times paints a portrait of these rebellious and alienated youthful 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.
- | Author: Jon Melrod
- | Publisher: PM Press
- | Publication Date: Sep 27, 2022
- | Number of Pages: 320 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback/Biography & Autobiography
- | ISBN-10: 1629639656
- | ISBN-13: 9781629639659
- Author:
- Jon Melrod
- Publisher:
- PM Press
- Publication Date:
- Sep 27, 2022
- Number of pages:
- 320 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback/Biography & Autobiography
- ISBN-10:
- 1629639656
- ISBN-13:
- 9781629639659