About me
A third-generation political activist, and a revolutionary socialist since the 1960s, Michael Letwin has participated in movements against the Vietnam War, apartheid South Africa, and U.S. imperialism in Iran, Central America, the Middle East, and around the world. In 1971, he was a founding member of the Red Tide, a Marxist high school underground newspaper in Los Angeles that later became the youth organization of the International Socialists, with which he relocated to Detroit in 1975. He is a former New York City public defender (1985-2002) and former president of the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys-UAW 2325 (1990-2002), and is a cofounder of New York City Labor Against the War (2001), Labor for Palestine (2004), Labor for Standing Rock (2016), and UAW Labor for Palestine (2023).
