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An extensive two-part article on factory workers in the US in 1947. In the first half, auto worker Phil Singer (using the pen name, Paul Romano) vividly describes factory life, and in the second, Grace Lee Boggs (using the pseudonym, Ria Stone) outlines a Marxist analysis.
From the end of the Second World War until the mid-'60s there was a wave of strikes in British East and West Africa, French West Africa, South Africa and Zimbabwe. The history of this class struggle has been neglected by both mainstream historians and most revolutionary tendencies based in Europe and the US.
Kimathi Mohammed gives a firsthand account of C.L.R. James' influence on the League. Beyond Measure was originally written in 1973 for the first Organization and Spontaneity conference. Two years prior, the League of Revolutionary Black Workers expelled members, including Mohammed, and quickly collapsed within a few weeks of attempting to become a vanguard organization.