Kent Wong’s life and work constitute a legacy of vision and integrity. He built bridges—between labor and the academy, immigrant and native-born workers, nations long divided by ideology. He challenged labor to live up to its ideals of solidarity.
Although labor education educates the individual, it also organizes the individual. It’s a kind of learning that progresses in sudden leaps and bounds, as people get the idea of the power of concerted collective activity and the whole group changes.
Throughout the entire history of left-wing and working-class organizing in the United States, the participation in and building of institutions of political education has been key.
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Frank Emspak, anti-war activist and labor leader, spent his life advancing workers’ rights.
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