s1e5: Tactics for Worker Solidarity with Loren Branch

“To me, the Beloved Community is a realistic vision of an achievable society, one in which problems and conflict exist, but are resolved peacefully and without bitterness.”

Coretta Scott King

In this episode of Radicals for Good, we discuss different tactics, like boycotting and strikes, we can use to build solidarity in the working class with Loren Branch (Nyerere Omowale), an organizer with the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), writer, street drummer and popular political educator.

Loren Branch (aka Nyerere Omawale) is a New Afrikan Revolutionary Socialist from the westside of Detroit, Joy Road to be exact. From Chicago to Detroit, Loren has been building independent working class power across liberation struggles including Black liberation, Palestine Solidarity movement, queer liberation, immigrant rights, police murder, anti-war, and more. Rooted in Marxism, the Black Radical tradition, and Pan-Africanism—Loren is a product of UAW Local 600 and the Republic of New Afrika.

His ultimate life goals are to become a father and to build the world dignity and self-determination we need and deserve. To play a role in advancing the unfinished revolution of his ancestors and elders—ending capitalism and building a new socialist system run for and by The People. To see Detroit and the global working class liberated in our lifetime.

Sources

1. https://geezmagazine.org/magazine/article/waawiyatanong-land-acknowledgement

2. Socialist Reconstruction: A Better Future: https://1804books.com/products/socialist-reconstruction-a-better-future

3. Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880: https://1804books.com/products/black-reconstruction-in-america-1860-1880

4. Assata: https://www.commabookstore.com/shop/p/assata-an-autobiography

5. Motown and the Making of Working-Class Revolutionaries: The Story of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers: https://www.ugapress.org/9780820374307/motown-and-the-making-of-working-class-revolutionaries

6. The Civil Rights Revolution & Montgomery Bus Boycott: https://liberationschool.org/civil-rights-and-the-u-s-revolution/

7. Debunking the myth that “we’re not ready” for a general strike in the U.S.: https://liberationnews.org/debunking-the-myth-that-were-not-ready-for-a-general-strike-in-the-u-s/

8. Alkebu-lan Village & Inner City Sub Center: https://liberationnews.org/dc-to-detroit-30-years-later-million-man-march-black-liberation/

9. The Republic of New Afrika: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/521c580a15244ad0bee5e33f121c2bff

10. Peaches Anderson (my grandmother): https://www.congress.gov/114/crec/2016/06/09/162/91/CREC-2016-06-09-pt1-PgE867.pdf

11. Learn more about PSL and get involved in the socialist movement: https://www2.pslweb.org/action

12. PSL Detroit: https://www.instagram.com/psldetroit

13. https://liberationnews.org/07-11-20-revolutionary-optimism-socialist-html/?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio&fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMjU2MjgxMDQwNTU4AAGn-xR0Yw1QZiLgUtZJiAghqwsCjPObvdLxZMWzgAZBQoG1fTgdmf_SJcL_qe0_aem_EaFPq1Uqvl0IhHdwIw9A8g

14. https://radicalreads.com/black-panthers-favorite-books/