On today’s show, host Cat Brooks explores the history of the automotive industry in Detroit, the 1967 Detroit Rebellion, the 1969 formation and history of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, one of the most important working-class movements in U.S. history. These workers in the Detroit automobile industry developed into working class revolutionaries who studied and struggled for social transformation at the point of production and beyond. They took on the exploitative automobile industry and embedded themselves in the worldwide class struggle against white supremacy and imperialist capitalism.
Guests:
Walda Katz-Fishman is a scholar activist and professor of sociology at Howard University. A founding member and former board chair of Project South: Institute for the Elimination of Poverty & Genocide, she is a contributing author or editor of popular education toolkits and books, including The United States Social Forum: Perspectives of a Movement and The Roots of Terror, among others
Jerome Scott is a former autoworker, labor organizer in Detroit auto plants, and member of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers. The founding director of Project South: Institute for the Elimination of Poverty & Genocide, he is a contributing author or editor of popular education toolkits and books, including The United States Social Forum: Perspectives of a Movement and The Roots of Terror, among others.
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