Welcome to US with Dr Crystallee Crain.

I had the honor to come across a social media post regarding an amazing new book called Fighting Times: Organizing on the Front Lines of the Class War.

Authored by Jon Melrod, a long time activist and attorney for political refugees. What I’ve learned from this book is that Jon has made amazing contributions to the radical notions of community, shared power, as well as corporate and government accountability.

It’s an honor for me to sit with him today, as we discuss the connection between labor, dissent, and how the world has and must change.

Learn more at www.jonathonmelrod.com.

What others are saying about Fighting Times?

“Indeed, if one were to explain to a working person interested in organizing a union why they should read this book, the key word would be instructive. The tactics so vividly written down in this text remain useful and appropriate.”

Counterpunch | Ron Jacobs

“…Melrod is not a theoretician. But his book is now an indispensable chapter in the literature on the history of the American working class movement.”

Bulatlat | Prof. Roland Simbulan

“Under the capitalist system, we’re always at the disadvantage because we don’t control the means of production and we don’t control the market. That’s the ultimate contradiction of capitalism. It’s not in business to guarantee employment.”

Against The Current | Dianne Feeley

Chant read from the book

“When the unions inspiration through the workers blood shall run

There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun

Yet what force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one

For the Union makes us strong

In our hands is placed a power greater than their hoarded gold

Greater than the might of armies magnified a thousandfold

We can bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old

For the Union makes us strong”