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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Generate an image of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers (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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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 ⓘ
Third World Left in the United States → includesOrganizations → League of Revolutionary Black Workers ⓘ