Arthur Shaw is retired organizer and labor union activist who now resides in Houston, Texas. He has taught Marxist and Leninist theory at informal schools for workers and others in Nashville, New York City, Tampa, and Houston. In 1942, he was born in St. Louis, Mo. and has resided in Houston for the last twenty years. In addition to union issues, Shaw has been active in a number of solidarity movements, beginning in the 1960s with the US civil rights struggle. He fought in the US solidarity struggle against US aggression against Vietnam and against the 1980s US aggression in several Central American countries. He worked against the vile racist regime that once oppressed South Africa and against other former racist regimes in southern Africa. For many years in Houston, Shaw was a member of the Sierra Club, the environmental organization. Shaw has withdrawn from most organizational and most pedagogical activity and limits himself today mostly to ideological and propaganda work performed entirely online, dealing mostly with the Latin American Revolution and the battle against AIDS worldwide. Shaw is the author of over a 1000 articles on the various struggles in which he has been involved, either in solidarity or as direct combatant. From time to time, Shaw serves as a political consultant for electoral campaigns in which progressive candidates are running for public office.

Arthur Shaw