General Baker

General Gordon Baker Jr. (September 6, 1941 – May 18, 2014 ) was an American labor organizer and activist.

Biography General Baker was born in Detroit, Michigan, where his parents had relocated from Georgia so that his father could find work in the automotive industry. Baker graduated from Southwestern High School in 1958.

As a student at Wayne State University, Baker studied the work of Karl Marx and became involved in socialism and Black nationalism.

In the late 1960s, Baker was a co-founder of the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement (DRUM) and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers (LRBW).

Baker twice ran for public office, as a candidate for the Michigan House of Representatives in the late 1970s.

A leading member of the League of Revolutionaries for a New America (LRNA) for two decades beginning in the 1990s, Baker was chair of its steering committee.