La Botz (born August 9, 1945) is a prominent American labor union activist, academic, journalist, and author.
He was a co-founder of Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU) and has written extensively on worker rights in the United States and Mexico.
He is a member of the socialist organization Solidarity, which describes itself as "a democratic, revolutionary socialist, feminist, anti-racist organization," which comes out of the Trotskyist tradition.
La Botz ran in 2010 for a seat in the United States Senate for the Socialist Party.
He is also a member of the Brooklyn branch of the Democratic Socialists of America and a co-editor of the socialist journal New Politics.