League of Revolutionary Black Workers

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The League of Revolutionary Black Workers was a radical, Detroit-based Black labor organization in the late 1960s and early 1970s that organized Black autoworkers and linked workplace struggles to broader Black liberation and socialist politics.

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League of Revolutionary Black Workers canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Black liberation organization
political organization
radical labor organization
socialist organization
activeIn early 1970s
late 1960s
country United States
dissolvedIn 1970s
ethnicFocus African Americans
linked to: Black Americans
focus Black autoworkers
Black liberation
workplace struggles
formedFrom Revolutionary union movements in Detroit auto plants
goal Black self-determination
socialist transformation of society
workers' control of production
historicalContext deindustrialization in Detroit
urban uprisings of the 1960s
ideology Black nationalism
Marxism
socialism
knownFor Detroit auto industry organizing
critique of mainstream unions
militant shop-floor organizing
revolutionary politics
linked Black liberation to socialist politics
labor struggles to Black liberation politics
workplace struggles to community struggles
location Detroit, Michigan
linked to: Detroit
movement Black Power movement
civil rights movement
labor movement
opposed bureaucratic union leadership
capitalism
racism in the workplace
organized Black workers in auto plants
rank-and-file workers
wildcat strikes
sector automobile industry
industrial labor
strategy political education of workers
rank-and-file democracy
shop-floor direct action
timePeriod 20th century
viewedAs one of the most important Black labor organizations of the late 20th century

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Black Power movement hasKeyOrganization League of Revolutionary Black Workers
James Forman memberOf League of Revolutionary Black Workers