Mobilizing in Our Own Name: Million Worker March

An Anthology by Clarence Thomas

Today’s workers can no longer continue to depend on bourgeois politicians to address issues of systemic racism, income inequality, corporate greed, workers’ rights, universal health care, slashing the military budget, and ending the murder of African Americans, and people of color by police. The initiators of the Million Worker March (MWM) understood this, which is why they challenged the Democratic Party, the officialdom of labor, and others to organize the MWM.

This anthology is about radical African American trade unionists from one of the most renowned radical labor organizations in the world …

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Author Clarence Thomas presents Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. historian, filmmaker, and public intellectual with a copy of Mobilizing in Our Own Name: Million Worker March, at Arizona State University (ASU). Professor Gates spoke at an event titled “Past Connections That Bind Us All,” April 30, 2022.

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Clarence Thomas

Addresses Juneteenth audience in 2020 at Oscar Grant Plaza, Oakland, CA

This is a call to working people to unite and mobilize around our own agenda. We have been subject to an unrestrained corporate assault. This is the moment; this is the time for us to advance our own demands, our own needs, and to proclaim a political agenda in our own vital interests.

—Clarence Thomas, ILWU Local 10, co-convenor of the MWM

The Million Worker March has to be built from the ground up. The majority of workers are not unionized and need to be mobilized.

—Brenda Stokely, AFSCME DC 1707, Local 205, NYC co-convener of the MWM

Meet the Author

Clarence Thomas is a 3rd generation retired member of International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 10 in San Francisco and a leading radical African American trade unionist. Past-secretary-treasurer and executive board member of his local, he has led or been a part of many historical rank-and-file struggles and solidarity actions at the point of production.

A labor and community activist, Thomas has championed the struggles of African Americans, the oppressed, and the working class at home and abroad.