Jon Melrod
When a New Left Activist Departed Campus for the Factory Floor
by Guillaume Tremblay-Boily Jacobin After participating in 1960s progressive movements, Jon Melrod took his activism to the factory floor, becoming…
The American Organizer – A Review of Jon Melrod’s Fighting Times: Organizing on the Front Lines of the Class War
Fighting Times provides a vivid group portrait of the men and women who joined with him in the day-to-day struggles…
Lessons from Fighting Times in Labor Notes
By Jon Melrod Labor Notes June 2022
One organizer, two cities: Jon Melrod’s ‘Fighting Times,’ from Madison to Racine
By Jonah Raskin The Rag Blog April 7th, 2022 Jon Melrod recalls those heady days in his new memoir. The…