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Deeply personal, astutely political, Fighting Times: Organizing on the Front Lines of the Class War recounts the thirteen-year journey of Jon Melrod to harness working-class militancy and jump start a revolution on the shop floor of American Motors. Melrod faces termination, dodges the FBI, outwits collaborators in the UAW, and becomes a central figure in a lawsuit against the rank-and-file newsletter Fighting Times, as he strives to build a class-conscious workers’ movement from the bottom up.

A radical to the core, Melrod was a key part of campus insurrection at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He left campus for the factory in 1972, hired along with hundreds of youthful job seekers onto the mind-numbing assembly line. Fighting Times ...more

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message 1: by Ronald

Sep 26, 2023 08:41AM

My next book, “Home at the Edge,” will be out Oct 13, about my time in jail with the Weathermen in 1969, and a stint in the booby hatch. I can't post the link here but I have an ARC link for pre-release read I can send if you'd like to review.
I'd appreciate it!

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