Join Michael Honey for an expert examination of Dr. King’s relationship to the struggles of working-class people. He will also discuss what we can learn from Dr. King’s experiences about building coalitions and organizing social movements. Dr. Honey authored the Robert F. Kennedy award–winning Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King’s Last Campaign and To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice. He also edited the recommended reading for the evening, Dr. King’s All Labor Has Dignity.
Recommended reading: All Labor Has Dignity by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Presented on Sunday, January 16, 2022
Image: Martin Luther King Jr. at the 1963 March for Jobs and Freedom via National Park Service (CC BY 2.0), colorized using palette.fm
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The Communist Party USA is a revolutionary working-class political party founded in 1919 in Chicago, IL.
The Communist Party stands for the interests of the American working class and the American people. It stands for our interests in both the present and the future. Solidarity with workers of other countries is also part of our work. We work in coalition with the labor movement, the peace movement, the student movement, organizations fighting for equality and social justice, the environmental movement, immigrants rights groups and the health care for all campaign.
But to win a better life for working families, we believe that we must go further. We believe that the American people can replace capitalism with a system that puts people before profit — socialism.
We are rooted in our country's revolutionary history and its struggles for democracy. We call for "Bill of Rights" socialism, guaranteeing full individual freedoms.
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