In the late 1960s, militant Black workers in Detroit's auto industry tried to combine radical socialist politics with rank-and-file union activism, to "take the uprising into the factories". The result was DRUM: the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement.
According to a now-infamous open letter published in Harper's magazine, "the free exchange of information and ideas... is daily becoming more constricted". Is it, though?
In 2017, I helped organise an anti-racist protest in Flemington. Public housing residents joined in. The police were completely out of control. Sending them in to besiege residents during a public health crisis is unnecessary, punitive and wrong.
