“Can’t Do Nothin’ If You Ain’t Bad”‘: The League Of Revolutionary Black Workers

The League of Revolutionary Black Workers was formed in 1969 in Detroit, Michigan. The organisation united a number of different Revolutionary Union Movements (RUMs) that were growing rapidly across the auto industry and other industrial sectors. The formation of the League was an attempt to create a more cohesive political organ guided by the principles of Black liberation and Marxism-Leninism in order to gain political power and articulate the specific concerns of Black workers through political action.

Includes a showing of the contemporary film about the League Finally Got the News (1970).

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