Martin Glaberman

Glaberman, Martin

Libertarian Marxist autoworker from Detroit, MI, who was close to CLR James and highly influential amongst various radical car industry workers' organisations.

1911-1970s: Unions and workers: limitations and possibilities, by Martin Glaberman

Detroit auto-worker Martin Glaberman analyses the bureaucratisation and decline of the US trade union movement. An interesting article interspersed with historical information and personal reminiscences

Consider these two units of time: 36 seconds, the rest of your life. The job that takes 36 seconds to do that you're going to do for the rest of your life. I don't know a better definition of alienation than that...

An open letter to rank and file labor activists

An open letter by the IMPACT group in Ohio, USA, to rank-and-file workers. The letter cointains short accounts of sell-outs and closed-door deals done by union leaders, as well as suggestions for grassroots activity.

Working for Wages

Note: This article was originally published in Red and Black Notes.

Working for Wages: The Roots of Insurgency

Martin Glaberman and Seymour Faber, General Hall Inc: New York, 1998

The Working Class and Social Change

Glaberman discusses different notions of class consciousness, based partly on his experiences as both a factory worker and, later, an academic.

The workers have to deal with their own reality and that transforms them

Based on his experience in auto factories, Glaberman discusses the contradictions of the union's role.

A Review of Walter Reuther, Social Unionist

A Review of Walter Reuther, Social Unionist by Martin Glaberman

Nelson Lichtenstein, The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit: Walter Reuther and the Fate of American Labor (New York: and Chicago: Basic Books, 1995), 575 pp., $35.00, cloth.

Interview with Martin Glaberman

Marty Glaberman discusses his many years of political experience as a factory worker, comrade of CLR James and, in later years, an academic.

Black Cats,White Cats,Wildcats: Auto Workers in Detroit

EDITORS' NOTE: This article originally appeared in 1969 in SPEAK OUT, a socialist periodical published in Detroit. We thought it would be a good introduction to the article which follows, an account of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers and its activity in a Detroit.