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Participant reflections of the tumultuous 1960s student upsurge and the anti-Vietnam War movement are always a welcomed contribution to those interested in mid-20th century U.S. radical history. The collection of essays that constitute You Say You Want a Revolution: SDS, PL, and Adventures in Building a Worker-Student Alliance enlarge the historical lens – perhaps, intentionally, perhaps unintentionally – by focusing laser-like on just one of the myriad of groups that emerged during this time. Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), was for a short period in radical history the largest, most vibrant student organization of the mid-to-late 1960s. PL, or the Progressive Labor Party (PLP), was a Maoist group that initiated the 1964 May 2nd Movement (M2M) protests against escalating U.S. involvement in Vietnam; the Worker-Student Alliance was PLP’s youth front that for a time worked to take over SDS. You Say You Want a Revolution is full of interesting personal accounts, anecdotes that throughout the course of the book emerge into a larger narrative of youthful optimism, activism, excitement and often times disillusionment with PLP and its undemocratic decision-making structure, ultra-leftism, and eventual sectarian isolation. full at https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/participants-in-the-radical-student-upsurge-speak-out-in-this-volume/ _________________________________________________________ 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
