Schools for Struggle: For a Workers’ Education Movement Published August 5, 2024 IN DECEMBER OF 1936, A DAY INTO THEIR HISTORIC SIT-DOWN STRIKE AT a General Motors plant in Flint, Michigan, autoworkers set up a school. Surrounded by idle machines, freed from the foreman's gaze, they took classes in public speaking and labor journalism, in political economy, in the history of the labor movement. This was not a spontaneous idea.