tactics for worker solidarity
May 3, 2026
In this episode of Radicals for Good, we discuss different tactics, like boycotting and strikes, we can use to build solidarity in the working class with Loren Branch (Nyerere Omowale), an organizer with the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), writer, street drummer and popular political educator.
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Who’s in this episode?
Loren branch (Nyerere Omawale)
Organizer, Party for Socialism and Liberation
Loren Branch (aka Nyerere Omawale) is a New Afrikan Revolutionary Socialist from the westside of Detroit, Joy Road to be exact. An organizer with the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), writer, street drummer and popular political educator. A husband, son, brother, and uncle.
From Chicago to Detroit, Loren has been building independent working class power across liberation struggles including Black liberation, Palestine Solidarity movement, queer liberation, immigrant rights, police murder, anti-war, and more. Rooted in Marxism, the Black Radical tradition, and Pan-Africanism—Loren is a product of UAW Local 600 and the Republic of New Afrika.
Shayla Zimmerman
Host, Producer
Shay is a Detroit-based community organizer, storyteller, and activist whose work centers community power, collective care, and everyday acts of resistance. From leading regional climate resilience and water justice initiatives to building grassroots emergency response efforts on Detroit’s East Side, she uses her platform to amplify grassroots voices.
sources
https://geezmagazine.org/magazine/article/waawiyatanong-land-acknowledgement
Socialist Reconstruction: A Better Future: https://1804books.com/products/socialist-reconstruction-a-better-future
Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880: https://1804books.com/products/black-reconstruction-in-america-1860-1880
Assata: https://www.commabookstore.com/shop/p/assata-an-autobiography
Motown and the Making of Working-Class Revolutionaries: The Story of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers: https://www.ugapress.org/9780820374307/motown-and-the-making-of-working-class-revolutionaries
The Civil Rights Revolution & Montgomery Bus Boycott: https://liberationschool.org/civil-rights-and-the-u-s-revolution/
Debunking the myth that “we’re not ready” for a general strike in the U.S.: https://liberationnews.org/debunking-the-myth-that-were-not-ready-for-a-general-strike-in-the-u-s/
Alkebu-lan Village & Inner City Sub Center: https://liberationnews.org/dc-to-detroit-30-years-later-million-man-march-black-liberation/
The Republic of New Afrika: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/521c580a15244ad0bee5e33f121c2bff
Peaches Anderson (my grandmother): https://www.congress.gov/114/crec/2016/06/09/162/91/CREC-2016-06-09-pt1-PgE867.pdf
Learn more about PSL and get involved in the socialist movement: https://www2.pslweb.org/action
PSL Detroit: https://www.instagram.com/psldetroit
