Organizing against the odds. Most of us at some point believed the illusion that our government was on our side or perhaps that it was neutral. But when governments clearly back the forces of white supremacist capital against labor, then we are organizing against the odds. Bill Fletcher Jr shares lessons from his life and work organizing for justice.

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Time stamps:
00:00 - Destroying the IWW
00:32 - Intro
02:00 - Early years
05:53 - Unions are not monolithic
08:55 - Black Power Movement
13:29 - Working, Welding and Learning
18:38 - Industrial Decline and the War on Workers
27:36 - Organizing, Law, Teaching and Obstacles
32:25 - A Socialist Working in a Capitalist World
40:19 - The Violence of Anti-Unionism
45:20 - Infiltration and Suspicion of US Internationalism
49:50 - Internationalism, Apartheid and TransAfrica
59:13 - "Unapologetic Marxist"
1:09:45 - Advice to Future Generations