The Motor City Labor League or Motor City Labor Coalition was a labor organization based in Detroit, Michigan, U.S. It adhered to a form of Marxism–Leninism and operated under the principle of democratic centralism.
It was the white counterpart of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers.
Besides work in among Detroit's working class, it focused on organizing against the war in Vietnam, supporting radical organizing in local unions, opposition to STRESS, a Detroit police unit known for police brutality. Electorally, it successfully worked to get one of its members, lawyer Justin C. Ravitz, to Detroit's Recorder's Court.
References
- Harris, Paul (1999). Black Rage Confronts the Law. NYU Press. p. 112. ISBN 978-0-8147-3592-3.
- "The Political Line of the Motor City Labor League, Introduction". www.marxists.org. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
- Defunct Marxist–Leninist parties in the United States
- Organizations established in 1969
- 1960s in Detroit
- 1970s in Detroit
- Allies (social justice)
- Anti-fascist organizations in the United States
- Anti-racist organizations in the United States
- Defunct American political movements
- Far-left politics in the United States
- Organizations based in Detroit
- White American culture in Michigan
- White American organizations
- 1969 establishments in Michigan