British join the DARC side in push to militarise Space

Written by: Nick G. on 30 September 2026

 

British imperialism announced two days ago that it was establishing its third space squadron capable of taking offensive and defensive space missions, according to Harv Symth, UK Chief of the Air Staff.

The announcement comes almost immediately after the US imperialists announced that they had already placed weapons in Space.

Britain currently has the No. 1 Space Ops Squadron that teams with the National Space Operations Centre to track hazardous objects, and the No. 2 Space Warning Squadron, established to provide missile warning and space tracking capabilities. Neither is equipped with weapons.

However, the 3rd squadron will be equipped with weapons in space.

“To help our nation fulfil the control of space requirement, UK defence is now developing capabilities for orbital warfare,” Smyth said.

This is the second imperialist power to openly commit to “orbital warfare”. 

The Russian and Chinese imperialists have sought prohibitions on the placement of weapons in space, but must be assumed to be developing their own in competition with the US and UK.

Australian complicity in UK-US plans

Australia, meanwhile, is busy praising the Lord and passing the ammunition, providing facilities that serve US and UK space war operations.

One of those facilities is the Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability (DARC) at Exmouth in WA. It was completed in December 2024. 

U.S. Space Force Guardians from Mission Delta 2 and the 20th Space Surveillance Squadron, headquartered at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, currently operate the Australian sensor under an early-use agreement.

Deep-Space Advanced Radar Capability, Site 1, Exmouth | Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability

In December 2023, top defence officials from the United States, United Kingdom and Australia announced a raft of new initiatives associated with the AUKUS security pact’s second pillar. Included in the new items is an announcement that the US, Australia and the UK are creating a joint radar network for enhancing space domain awareness, with each home to one of three planned sites for the US Deep-Space Advanced Radar Capability (DARC). 

“In the coming years, our nations will be creating a global radar network, bringing together three ground base stations, one in each of our countries,” U.K. Defence Secretary Grant Shapps said. “Radars more sensitive, more accurate, more powerful and agile than anything that has gone before giving us the ability to see beyond the clouds to detect, identify and track in space, up to 22,000 miles away.” 

DARC is being developed under US Space Force leadership by Northrop Grumman under a February 2022 contract to provide global monitoring of geosynchronous orbit 24/7 in all kinds of weather and during daylight. The trilateral network is apart from but will support Pillar II of the AUKUS agreement, and help the allies keep tabs on Chinese and Russian satellites and spacecraft.

According to the UK Ministry of Defence, the DARC program sits at “the cornerstone” of Britain’s space capability.

The UK selected the Cawdor Barracks site in Pembrokeshire, Wales, for its DARC base. It has planning approval but is the subject of strong community opposition.  

The US Space Force announced on September 9 that it had selected Lake Kickapoo (seriously!) in Texas as the site for its DARC base. It is intended to begin construction next year and become operational in 2030.

The demand to keep weapons out of space, to prevent orbital warfare, and to withdraw from the US “Alliance” must be heard in our unions, community organisations and political movements.

For anti-imperialist independence and socialism, no weapons in space!

Book Review-WHY WE FEAR AI

 Written by: Duncan B. on 29 September 2026

 

Among the many new books about AI that are coming out every week, I consider this book, written by two AI insiders, to be important because it stresses the need to look at AI from a class perspective. The authors urge us to look past the “doomsday” scenarios promoted by some people in the AI industry. 

The “doomsday” predictions about AI wiping out the human race divert attention from the real threats posed to workers by AI in the hands of the capitalist class. As the authors say, “It isn’t an AI superintelligence that is destroying us-it is the capitalist way of organising the world.”

Capitalism must keep growing or it will die. New technology allows the capitalist to lower the price of his products and increase the exploitation of the workers to boost profits. The introduction of steam engines made it possible for capitalists to bring large numbers of workers together in one place to produce goods on a large scale. 

The steam engine took away the control of the work process which workers had enjoyed with hand-operated machines such as spinning wheels and hand looms. Now the capitalists controlled the speed of work by controlling the speed of the steam engine.

AI is a new form of technology which also allows the capitalists to control the speed of work. The authors point to Amazon’s warehouses where workers are closely monitored by cameras connected to AI technology which monitors their speed and accuracy and any errors they make. Workers deemed by the system to be “too slow” can be fired.

The introduction of machinery allowed the capitalists to de-skill workers. An unskilled worker, often a child or woman, could now do work formerly done by a skilled worker, but for much lower wages. In the same way, AI allows many skilled jobs to be down-skilled, so they can be transferred to the gig economy or even eliminated.

 White collar jobs in areas such as banking and insurance are especially susceptible to being affected by AI. Generative AI which produces text, images or audio output is already wreaking havoc on the jobs and livelihoods of journalists, artists, writers, musicians, actors and other creative people.

The authors give examples of how AI is harming people in many ways. AI-based facial recognition systems used in policing are often wrongly accusing black people of crimes. AI systems are making decisions as to whether people can access benefits, often denying benefits to eligible people. AI is increasingly being used by employers to sort through job applications, often rejecting suitable applicants within seconds. We could list many more examples of the misuse of AI by capitalism.

The authors conclude by calling on workers to unite to oppose capitalism to build a world where technology serves the workers, instead of the workers serving technology and its owners.

 

British imperialism: sinking below the waves

Written by: Nick G. on 30 September 2026

 

(Above Extinction Rebellion members oppose AUKUS at ALP National Convention in Adelaide July 2026.  Photo supplied)

British imperialism’s decline as the power that once “ruled the waves” has been demonstrated by what the UK Daily Mail newspaper called “an extraordinarily protracted construction process” for its latest nuclear-powered attack submarine.

Its completion comes 13 years after construction began.

Commissioned in 2013, the UK Ministry of Defence expected the Astute class sub to be an active part of its nuclear fleet by 2022.

Four years late, the £1.65billion (A$3.12 bn) sub will be the only one of the UK’s six Astute class submarines in the water: the other five are currently laid up awaiting maintenance and other repair work.

The submarine was built by BAE Systems at their submarine site at Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, the same company that has been awarded the Australian government’s contract to build the five SSN-AUKUS submarines under the AUKUS arrangements.

Lord West, former First Sea Lord and Labour security minister, said 'The fact that there has not been money invested in dry docks, in the maintenance facilities, in the men required to maintain and repair the submarines, in the spare parts for those submarines is why we have got to this position.”

Australia has already begun payment of A$4.6 billion (£2.4 billion) to allow the expansion of Rolls Royce's Derby site where the SSN-AUKUS nuclear reactors will be built.

It is planned that the five SSN-AUKUS boats will be built at SA’s Osborne shipyard. Construction is due to begin by the end of the 2030s with the first sub delivered in the early 2040s. However, if BAE runs true to form, and the construction process takes 13 years, delivery could be made in the early 2050s. 

Again, if BAE runs true to form, most of the SSN-AUKUS subs will be laid up for maintenance for much of their operational life.

Of the more than 1000 submissions to the AUKUS Public Inquiry, all but those that could be counted on your fingers and toes are opposed to AUKUS. 

The challenge for us is to turn that into a sustained campaign with a heightened level of struggle, to stop AUKUS and break the hold that the US has on Australia.

 

Australians mobilise to Cancel AUKUS and End the US Alliance

 Written by: Alice M. on 23 September 2026

(Photo supplied)

 

On the International Day of Peace and National Day of Action people from many walks of life and organisations across the country called for scrapping AUKUS and ending the US alliance, declaring that for the ordinary people there’s No Peace without Justice.

In every state, major city, and some regional communities, rallies and events were held simultaneously over the week of 12-21 September - in  Northern Territory (Darwin and Alice Springs), WA (Rockingham), SA (Adelaide), NSW (Wollongong, Sydney and Blue Mountains),  ACT (Canberra), Tasmania (Hobart), Victoria (Melbourne, Geelong), and Qld (Brisbane).
In Naam Melbourne, more than 250 people held a lively rally outside the United States Consulate, sending a strong message to the US and its subservient Australian government to cancel AUKUS, pack their bags and leave. The rally showcased their determination to continue building and mobilising a united movement against war, end the US control of this country, and solidarity with the people’s struggles across the globe opposing US imperialism.

Rally participants and speakers came from wide range of organisations, reflecting many struggles and issues that unite people against the effects of US imperialist domination over this country and its subservient government. Public housing tenants facing evictions and demolition of their homes demanding public funds for people’s housing, not AUKUS; health workers demanding funding for underfunded public hospitals, not AUKUS and war;  Palestinian groups demand ending US-Australian support for Israel;  Environment groups calling for Earth Care not Warfare ; unionists carrying their union flags opposed to AUKUS and war, pledging their support for Peace is Union Business. The common thread running through many struggles of the people is US imperialism.

One of the speakers pointed out that the day before the rally the US flag was removed from the heavily guarded multistorey building housing the US consulate, fearing the wrath of the people.  Another speaker pointed out that the floor below the US consulate for many years was occupied by the ABCC – the draconian anti-worker Australian Building and Construction Commission.

Yaraan Couzens Bundle, a proud Gunditjmara Djabwurrun Youin Bidjera woman opened the rally with a powerful Acknowledgement.  Pointing to US consulate behind her she demanded scrapping AUKUS and to end the US occupation of Australia which is poisoning the country and her people.  She told the rally that as the Custodians of this land and continent for tens of thousands of years, the First People have the responsibility and duty to look after and protect the Country and people.

Speaker and after speaker denounced the war mongering AUKUS, the US Alliance and the servile Australian government which surrendered Australian sovereignty.  Speakers stressed that there can be no peace without real justice for the oppressed and exploited.

Speakers from various groups included PEN Writers for Peace, Free Marwan campaign (an empty chair for Marwan Baghouti), Medical Association for the Prevention of War, a retired diplomat, Free Palestine Melbourne, MUA, BAYAN, No AUKUS Coalition Vic, Anti-Militarism Action Network (AMAN), Latin America Solidarity Network, and Labor Against War.

Combined Choir for Purpose and the Riff Raff Radical Band performed lively renditions of Bella Ciao and anti-war songs.  Many joined singing new lyrics to Beatles ‘“We all live in a Yellow Submarine” - AUKUS submarines.

(Photo supplied)

Towards the end, the rally was interrupted by the unexpected arrival of a nuclear submarine captained by a US Navy Admiral sent from the US to defend his country’s consulate from the pesky protesting Australians. The Admiral had lost his way because he couldn’t find the US consulate which had removed the US flag from its building. To make matters worse for the Admiral his map showed this continent empty of any life, except for wealth in natural resources ripe for exploitation and plunder by US corporations, and a strategically essential geo-political location for US military occupation in its preparation for war with China.

One speaker noted, “ AUKUS and nuclear submarines are a trojan horse for deeper US military and economic takeover of this country.  A second invasion and occupation, first started in 1788 with the British colonial genocide of the First People, 270 years ago – this time the second invasion and occupation by the US. In 1788 the First People started resistance to the occupation of this country.  They are now joined by many non-Indigenous people demanding sovereignty and justice for people of this country from US domination.”

The atmosphere at the rally was very positive. Several speakers pointed to the growing opposition to AUKUS and war in the general community, with more wanting Australia to get out of the US alliance. People want a genuinely independent Australia and a government that serves the people rather than apologists and puppets for the US global agenda.

 

Firming up on fictitious capital – Firmus and its capital raising

 Written by: Nick G. on 24 September 2026

 

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The proposed public float of Australian data centre company Firmus in late October is symptomatic of the speculative capital being drawn to the expansion of data centres.

The company hopes to raise $A7.7bn in the largest capital raising by an entrant to the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX), based on a market capitalisation of $A70bn. This will make it bigger than Telstra, whose market cap of $A43bn ranks as the ASX’s biggest listing. (Market capitalisation is the current value of a publicly traded company, based on the total dollar amount that all of its outstanding shares are worth.)

Firmus’s three founders are Oliver Curtis, his father Nick, and Tim Rosenfield who own 13 per cent, 5.6 per cent and 5.4 per cent respectively. US private equity Blackstone owns 6.7 per cent. US technology giant Nividia owns 7.2 per cent.

Firmus' three founders will be able to sell hundreds of millions of dollars of shares 12 months after the data centre developer lists in the largest ASX float on record, and can offload another 30 per cent of their stake a year later.

The Firmus prospectus reveals Mr Curtis and Mr Rosenfield are paid $US1.6m annually in fixed salary, are entitled to receive a short-term incentive of up to 180 per cent of their base salary for next year and long-term incentive worth up to 270 per cent of base salary up to June 2029.

Investors who will be putting their money into Firmus shares will be making a claim on future profits from the surplus value accruing to the company. How that surplus value is created in an industry with few employees whose labour power is the sole source of surplus value will be investigated in a later article.

The investor speculation gambles on Firmus’s ability to grow quickly as a publicly listed company.

Its only two operational data centres at present are a 5 megawatt facility in Singapore and a 42MW centre operating in a building owned by CDC Data Centres in Melbourne. It has received development approvals from the Tasmanian government for two more. Two other centres in SA are proposed for Stirling North (near Pt Augusta), and Tailem Bend on the Murray River.

Investors will need to be convinced that the community supports, or at least tolerates, the existence of data centres in their backyards. The Australian reported that “There’s talk that all of its support so far has come from the US, with Asian investors as equally wary of the deal as Australians. Sources say American investors are willing to take a bet on the transaction because gaining data centre development consent is becoming increasingly more difficult across the United States as the population pushes back on construction of data centres near residential areas and as excess power supply to operate them becomes more limited.”

Firmus claims it can achieve pre-tax profit margins of 90 per cent across its artificial-intelligence data factories, far eclipsing those of powerhouse mining giants BHP and Rio Tinto.

Reserve Bank governor Michele Bullock is not yet convinced, saying on Tuesday that central banks around the world were “all a little bit worried” that the AI investment boom could be a bubble. That is, there is the strong likelihood that what Marx termed “fictitious capital” – capital placed into shares and bonds separated from actual production – will be massively devalued if later surplus value creation fails to materialise.

Capitalism is an inherently anarchic economic system and is incapable of systematic planning to meet the real needs of the people.

Socialism will put an end to the speculative waste of capital that should be employed for socially useful purposes.

Further reading: Financialisation: fictitious capital and its real impact. (booklet)

Press Statement by Nepal Communist Party (Mashal)

 Written by: Communist Party Nepal (Mashal) on 24 September 2026

 

Our comrades in the Nepal Communist Party (Mashal) have issued a statement which refers to a possible Australian involvement in the mining of uranium in Nepal’s Mustang region. At this stage, no Australian company has been positively identified as planning to become involved, but the possibility certainly exists. In 2025, Australia was one of the original seven signatories to the US State Department’s Pax Silica focused on securing supply chains for advanced technologies such as semiconductors, artificial intelligence (AI), and rare earth elements. Last April, the Nepalese People’s Review, a political and business weekly, reported that leaked government documents referred to a 30-square-kilometer area in Lo Manthang, Upper Mustang, which would be designated as a “Mustang Special Zone,” giving the U.S. and Australia exclusive processing rights under the so-called “Pax Silica” coalition.

At the end of June 2024, 197,800 Nepalese−born people were living in Australia. This is almost 5 times the number (42,900) at 30 June 2014. This is the eighth largest migrant community in Australia, so general awareness of events in Nepal helps unify the Australian working class – Eds.

 

Press Statement by Nepal Communist Party (Mashal)

This statement is being issued to inform about the decisions made at today's meeting of the Central Office of Nepal Communist Party (Masal), attended by available PVM (Politburo) members and office staff.

1.Some media outlets have revealed that during the tenure of the previous Sushila Karki government, an agreement was reportedly made—reportedly involving certain senior officials—to hand over the mining of Mustang's uranium deposits to the United States and Australia. That agreement has not been made public. Nevertheless, our party takes seriously the information that has come out about it. It points to a serious threat to Nepal's national sovereignty and to the growing danger of American imperialism in Nepal. 

Our party had earlier publicly expressed concern about the possibility that Trump's government in America had its eye on Mustang's uranium mines. The information now brought forward by some media has raised serious suspicion about this matter. Since the current government of Nepal is a puppet government of the United States, the possibility cannot be ruled out that it has begun secretly conspiring to hand over Mustang's uranium to American imperialism. According to available information, some companies from the US and Australia, working together, are trying to establish ownership over the uranium in Mustang.

In this connection, there is also a strong possibility that American CIA and military personnel may go there disguised as technicians. In that sensitive area bordering China, such activity carries a strong possibility of creating serious tension and unrest in the country. Is Prime Minister Balen's visit to Mustang not connected to this very conspiracy? This question, too, cannot go unasked. Even the activists and ordinary people of the so-called independent party who support the Balen government need to pay attention to such anti-national steps. Our party wants to draw the attention of all patriotic Nepali people, political parties, social organizations and intellectuals to demand that the government bring out the truth in this matter, and to adopt heightened vigilance against such dangers.

2. The massive loss of life and property caused by the Bhote Koshi flood in Nepal is not merely a natural disaster; although the high Himalayan mountain ranges along the Nepal-China border area and their geographical and geological structure are also largely responsible for it. In addition, the rising temperatures caused by industrialization in imperialist countries are polluting the environment of the entire world. This effect is also being felt in the Himalayan region, increasing the danger of glacial lake outbursts, floods and landslides. The catastrophic Bhote Koshi flood and the destructive damage caused by it are the result of all these factors. In this context, it is also worth noting that the danger created by the recent Bhote Koshi flood poses a serious threat to the entire Himalayan region and mountain range. It is certain that such danger would directly harm both Nepal and China. Besides this, there is also a strong possibility of great danger to the whole of South Asia, including India, as well as to countries around the oceans due to rising sea levels from melting snow. According to various environmentalists and geologists, the danger arising from environmental degradation has increased the risk that floods or landslides many times greater than the Bhote Koshi flood could damage large parts of the country.

3. In the above circumstances, paying attention to protecting the environment of the whole world, of Nepal, and of the Himalayan region has become both an international and national necessity today. For this, our party has decided to organize an international seminar on the subject of the environment in the coming days. We had earlier organized such an international environmental program in Kathmandu as well. After the crisis brought upon the country by the Bhote Koshi flood, the need for such a program has grown many times greater than before. The date and venue of that program will be announced later.

4. As mentioned above, the news that has come out about a secret agreement made with America during the tenure of the previous Karki government regarding Mustang's uranium is making it increasingly clear that the current puppet government was installed as part of America's strategic plan to advance that very effort. The matter will not remain limited to that alone. America has also established the current puppet government in order to turn Nepal into a battleground for fulfilling its strategy of reinstating Dalai Lama in Tibet. 

Since its very establishment, that government has been moving in a fascist direction. According to information received from certain sources, in order to suppress all opposition to its imperialist policy and its strategy regarding the Dalai Lama, America has also made plans to eliminate those who oppose such policies. Given America's background of carrying out campaigns of violence and assassination against opponents in many countries, the possibility that it may adopt a similar approach in Nepal cannot be entirely ruled out. Even the President of America himself has been pursuing such a terroristic policy at the global level since coming to power. 

However, we must also pay attention to another aspect connected to this. At the global level, and even within America itself, its position is growing weaker day by day. Therefore, rather than being frightened by such a terroristic policy of American imperialism, we need to wage an even harder struggle against it. It is only through such uncompromising struggle that we must, and can, defeat imperialism. This is certainly not only a national question for Nepal but a serious question connected internationally as well. Therefore, we must try to move such a movement forward effectively by uniting with all forces around the world who oppose imperialist war and fascism and who favor world peace.

5. The puppet government currently established in Nepal is working in a planned manner to implement America's imperialist policy, while also attempting to establish fascist rule in the country. Accordingly, it is working in the direction of completely rewriting the constitution. It would not be surprising if, in that process, they also attempt to strike at republicanism and secularism. This is not hard to infer from the reality that the very person who wrote "Come King, Save the Country" as a status update has been made the coordinator of the task force formed for constitutional debate.

6. In the above situation, widespread public awakening and a united movement in favor of the country's national sovereignty, republicanism, secularism, and the progressive demands of the people have become today's national necessity. For this, broad working unity or alliance is needed among all left and democratic forces. But this task, too, is not easy. On one hand, various unclear, wavering, or compromising attitudes found among different left or democratic political forces regarding imperialism, national sovereignty, republicanism, and secularism have repeatedly caused problems for the united movement. If these forces cannot free themselves from such thinking, the united movement in the country will not be able to move forward powerfully, and the possibility cannot be ruled out that this would affect not only the country's sovereignty and democracy but even its very existence. In addition, the widespread populist thinking that has emerged among the people has also been of great help to reactionary and imperialist forces. Therefore, it has become today's historic and national necessity for all left and democratic political forces and patriotic people of the country to strive to move the united movement forward through broad working unity on the vital questions facing the country, despite all their differences.

7. In this context, we must also pay attention to another fact. In any country, the role of the people is decisive for revolutionary and progressive change. If reactionary forces succeed in suppressing public opinion, or if populist sentiment comes to dominate among the people, the country is more likely to move toward regression. Therefore, the work of raising a high level of political consciousness among the people always carries immense importance. Public consciousness can be raised only by struggling against the misleading ideas spread among the people by various domestic or foreign reactionary or opportunist elements; therefore, this work of raising public consciousness is of decisive importance for any revolutionary or progressive movement. We must pay serious attention to this task of raising public consciousness.

31 Bhadra 2083 (16 September 2026)
Mohan Bikram Singh
(General Secretary)

 

Book Review: Motown and the making of working-class revolutionaries…

Written by: “Contributed - Craig Brittain” on 23 September 2026

 

A reader has sent us his review of a book on the League of Revolutionary Black Workers who were organised in the Detroit auto plants in the late 1960s. Rank and file workers in America, led by oppressed minority groups (Black workers and immigrant workers from Central and South America) have a proud history of waging the class struggle. This continues today, but is concealed by the US mainstream media and the two Party system of Republicans and Democrats - Eds.

"Working Class Marxists"

Review of: Jerome Scott and Walda Katz-Fishman (2025), Motown and the making of working-class revolutionaries: the story of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, University of Georgia Press

Of all the radical groups to emerge in the U.S. in the 1960’s one of the most interesting was the League of Revolutionary Black Workers that began organising in the car industry in Detroit. 

Motown and the making of working-class revolutionaries is based on extensive interviews done with the surviving members of the League

Before and after the Second World War large numbers of Blacks had moved north from the southern states to escape segregation and police violence, and in search of the $5 a day Henry Ford was promising in his factories, when they were used to earning about $6 a week.

However, what they discovered in the car plants wasn’t the utopia they’d hope for - as usual, whites got the pick of the jobs, and Blacks did the dirty work. Management were white and so was the union. Both were racist.

Those who went north might not have experienced the legally sanctioned discrimination they’d experienced in the South, but there was plenty of discrimination nonetheless; in housing, education and employment. And the police were just the same.

In 1967 things came to a head in the Detroit Rebellion, which the media naturally referred to as “race riots”. President Johnson called in the National Guard and the military, which opened fire with machine guns upon ordinary Americans. 45 died in the street.

Finally, Black workers in Detroit had had enough. They started organising in their work places. A few student workers got together and created the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement or DRUM in May 1968 at the Chrysler Hamtramck Assembly Plant. Later on other RUMs (Revolutionary Union Movement) were set up in other plants and industries  - FRUM (Ford) and ELRUM (Chrysler Eldon Avenue), UPRUM (UPS United Parcel Service). They were formed in opposition to the United Auto Workers (U.A.W.). which like so many unions, then and now, had effectively become another branch of management. The U.A.W and the company had come to a convenient arrangement whereby the union would give advance notice of a strike. The companies would prepare and plan around it, effectively undermining the reason for going on strike in the first place. The union got financial and other kickbacks for this service.

The first thing the DRUM workers did was stage a wildcat strike over speedups on the assembly line. They were also protesting against the racist practices of the company and the union. 4000 workers walked off the job which stopped the production of 3000 cars.

Wildcat strikes became their main tactic.

The League of Revolutionary Black Workers was established to bring the various RUMs together and coordinate their activity. The leadership were Marxist-Leninist, but most of the production-line workers didn’t start out that way, they became Marxist on the shop floor.  

None of the white officials had counted on the fact that Blacks had learned strategies and tactics in the Civil Rights movement, the Black nationalist movement, and a range of socialist groups many had belonged to. They were experienced in mass meetings, collective decision-making, and direct action, and believed strongly in grass-roots leadership. And they knew how to put what they’d learnt to good use. 

Right at the beginning they set up newspapers to communicate with workers and the Black community at large. The Inner City Voice and South End became major sources of information.

As a group they were prepared to use whatever methods worked. It didn’t matter whether they’d originally come from the I.W.W., the Communist Party, the anarcho-syndicalists or the Maoists. 

They held demonstrations and rallies; issued plant bulletins and leaflets; picketed union headquarters and forced union executives to listen to their demands; boycotted nearby bars that refused to hire blacks. They also worked out how to quickly move pickets from one plant to another to outsmart the police… Two of the standard texts they studied were Mao’s “On Practice” and “On Contradiction”, which helped them analyse situations dialectically, and then decide what to do.

The League of Revolutionary Workers lasted two years (1969 - 1971) before it split. But it achieved a remarkable amount in that time. The split, when it occurred, was primarily over a difference of opinion about priorities. There were those like General Baker and Jerome Scott who felt that they should stick with what they’d set out to do - improve conditions for Blacks in the car industry; but others, like Mike Hamlin and Ken Cockerel wanted to broaden the focus to include areas like education and health care, publishing and film making. By-and-large the production-line workers thought that the Executive Branch were separating themselves from the workers and no longer listening to their grievances. They wanted more democracy; as it had been in DRUM at the beginning, when everyone had a say, and there wasn’t a gap between the “thinkers” (the Executive Branch) and the “workers” on the shop floor. Eventually, some of them, like Ernie Allen, were expelled for complaining, and the organisation didn’t last long much after that.

What is reassuring however (and true of most old leftist I know) is that they didn’t give up and become born-again capitalists or move to a commune in the country - they, each in their own way, kept up the struggle. Some members of the League, like Jerome Scott and General Baker, joined the Communist Labor Party, which eventually became the League of Revolutionaries for a New America, with the die-hard old radical, Nelson Peery.  They stuck with production workers in the factories and then, as automation and offshoring took over, increasingly concentrated on organising and educating the unemployed and under-employed. The other group went into community work, legal support, health work and local government. Both groups have made long-standing contributions. 

As one of the original League members, Luke Tripp, said in 2017: “The system in this country keeps me in a revolutionary orientation. The criminality and immorality of the system. Billionaires just sucking up all the wealth - super greedy, selfish and mean spirited. That’s what keeps me in a fighting spirit - a lot of outrage and anger.  Revolutionaries are fighters” p.155

The class struggle goes on. 

Another excellent book about the League is: Dan Georgakas’ and Marvin Surkin’s Detroit: I do mind dying: a study in urban revolution, St Martin’s Press, N.Y. 1975, available at the Internet Archive 
https://archive.org/details/detroitidominddy0000geor/page/n5/mode/1up

A documentary made by the group at the time is called Finally got the news and is available at the Internet Archive:
 https://archive.org/details/finally-got-the-news-1970