Paul Le Blanc is a professor of history at La Roche College, has written on and participated in the US labor, radical, and civil rights movements, and is author of such books as Marx, Lenin, and the Revolutionary Experience, A Short History of the U.S. Working Class, and Work and Struggle: Voices from U.S. Labor Radicalism. In addition, he has coauthored, with economist Michael Yates, the highly acclaimed A Freedom Budget for All Americans: Recapturing the Promise of the Civil Rights Movement in the Struggle for Economic Justice Today.