Dispatches From Durban: Firsthand Commentaries on the World Conference Against Racism and Post-September 11 Movement Strategies

Dispatches from Durban is a book of firsthand commentaries by long-term organizer and movement strategist Eric Mann written during the World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa. Mann, a front line organizer for CORE, SDS, the United Auto Workers and the LA Bus Riders Union, analyzes the U.S. walkout at WCAR, the strategic significance of the Reparations Movement and the Palestine struggle for self determination, the South African Left’s lessons for a reconstructed U.S. Left, the United Nations and NGOs as sites for international movement organizing, an organizer’s assessment of the current challenges of U.S. imperialism, and Post September 11 movement strategies to challenge the Bush & Democrats’ War Against the World.

Mann has been a major voice on the U.S. Left and movement organizer for nearly four decades. He is the author of Comrade George: An Investigation into the Life, Political Thought, and Assassination of George Jackson; Taking on General Motors: A Case Study of the UAW Campaign to Keep GM Van Nuys Open; and L.A.’s Lethal Air: New Strategies for Policy, Organizing and Action.

Eric Mann is the author of Comrade George: An Investigation into the Life, Political Thought, and Assassination of George Jackson; Taking on General Motors: A Case Study of the UAW Campaign to Keep GM Van Nuys Open; and L.A.’s Lethal Air: New Strategies for Policy, Organizing and Action. Mann has been a civil rights, anti-Vietnam war, labor, and environmental organizer for 35 years with the Congress of Racial Equality, the Students for a Democratic Society, the United Auto Workers, and the Bus Riders Union