Chris Smalls and his best friend, Derrick Palmer, led the first successful drive to unionize an Amazon warehouse. He believes that labor must decouple from the Democratic Party, as he explains in his new book. Chris Smalls, author of When the Revolution Comes: A Fight for the Future of the Working Class has hip hop flash and a half. He comes from working class Hackensack, New Jersey, enjoyed a short career as a rapper, and never stopped dressing like one.