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You Say You Want A Revolution: SDS, PL and Adventures in Building A Worker-Student Alliance I am pleased (actually thrilled) to announce the publication of this collective memoir by student activists of "the sixties" and their adventures in Students for a Democratic Society, the Worker-Student Alliance, and the Maoist group, Progressive Labor Party. I provided some research assistance to the people involved in putting this thing together and was given the exalted (and wholly unwarranted) title of "Research Director." Here's a brief description, along with advance praise from author-activists Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. Max Elbaum, and Aaron Leonard. The contributors in this book were mostly members of the Workers Student Alliance, whose formation was initiated by the Maoist Progressive Labor Party. Here they recount and evaluate their participation in their struggles of the sixties, from trips to revolutionary Cuba defying the US travel ban to student strikes, labor and community alliances, and campaigns against the war and racism across the country, from Columbia and Harvard, Texas and Iowa, to San Francisco State and UC Berkeley. The stories they tell speak across the years, as a new generation— from #BlackLivesMatter to Fight for $15 to the Parkland students—faces decisions about how to organize and build alliances to stop wars abroad, confront racial oppression at home, fight for immigrant rights, and end violence and neoliberal exploitation. “This is … a jewel of a collection of US revolutionaries’ memoirs that captures and recreates the period like no other. Each story is unique and mesmerizing, as well as being heartbreaking and funny, which taken as a whole clarifies the overall failure of revolutionary goals while suggesting what is to be done. This is truly political literature at its best, rarely seen in the United States.” Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of Outlaw Woman: A Memoir of the War Years, 1960–1975 and An Indigenous People’s History of the United States “An important component of 1960s radical history, thoughtfully recounted by the activists who lived it.” Max Elbaum, author of Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che “In this collection of SDS memoirs, the Progressive Labor Party, an essential player of sixties history too often stepped over, is critically put back into the center of things. If there is lasting inspiration to be had here, it is the expansive humanity of those who were part of PL and its associated groups, brought to life in these candid, insightful, and thoughtful recollections.” Aaron J. Leonard, author of Heavy Radicals: The FBI’s Secret War on America’s Maoists I don't yet know about bookstore availability, but it is available at Amazon (oh well) https://www.amazon.com/You-Say-Want-Revolution-Worker-Student/dp/0578406543 Great photos at facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/yousayyouwantarevolution/ (Never thought I'd say _this_: Like us on facebook!) more photos via instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/you_say_you_want_a_revolution_/p/BqvltfgHS4X/ _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
