Forum on reparations in Detroit

Monica Moorehead

Monica Moorehead, managing editor of Workers World newspaper, spoke Oct. 20 in Detroit on “Marxism, Reparations and the Black Freedom Struggle.” After the meeting Moorehead, who is a central organizer of the WW Party Nov. 17-18 national conference, signed copies of the beautiful illustrated anthology by the same name, which she had edited.

Her presentation explained the integral links between the wars abroad and the war at home, something that is not well understood by the traditional anti-war movement because racism and the national question keep the working class divided.

Moorehead’s talk was illustrated by a riveting video prepared for the Common Ground Collective in New Orleans’ Algiers community. The unity between Black and white volunteers working together to provide for the people as Hurricane Rita bore down is contrasted with racist violence perpetrated on Black men and gentrification. A short video tour of the lower Ninth Ward showed the current devastation and the remembrance of a survivor who lost his small child, mother and other family members in the catastrophe.

—Report and photo by Cheryl LaBash