Truth and Revolution

A History of the Sojourner Truth Organization, 1969–1986

Michael Staudenmaier

In the 1970s and 1980s, as the movements of the sixties receded from view, the revolutionary left in the United States went through a series of profound political, demographic, and cultural...

68

Paco Ignacio Taibo

On the night of October 2, 1968, there occurred a bloody showdown between student demonstrators and the Mexican government in Tlatelolco Square. At least 200 students were shot dead and many more...

Dream

Re-imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy

Stephen Duncombe

The problem comes down to reality. Progressives believe in it, Bush's people believe in creating it. The ideological inheritors of the May '68 protest slogan, "Take your desires for reality," are...

Revolution in the Air

Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che

Max Elbaum

Revolution in the Air is the first in-depth study of the long march of the US New Left after 1968. It tells the story of the "new communist movement," which was the most racially integrated...

Citizens of the Empire

The Struggle To Claim Our Humanity

Robert Jensen

Hard working antiwar, pro-feminist author, activist and lecturer Robert Jensen probes into the sense of disempowerment that has resulted from the Left's inability to halt the violent and repressive...

No Surrender

Writings From An Anti-Imperialist Political Prisoner

David Gilbert

A founder of Columbia University SDS, and a veteran of the Civil Rights and anti-Vietnam War Movements, David Gilbert joined the Weather Underground Organization in the late í60's. After...

Louder than Bombs

The Progressive Interviews

David Barsamian

Alternative Radio founder and the "Studs Terkel of our generation," Barsamian's latest volume brings together over 20 interviews culled from The Progressive magazine. Here he talks with luminaries...

Rebel

A Personal History Of The 1960s

Tom Hayden

"As one of the early leaders of the Students For A Democratic Society (SDS), Tom Hayden struggled to bring about equal rights for African Americans and later, to end the US involvement in the...

Letters From The Underground - To America With Love

Abbie Hoffman

"In the spring of 1974, Abbie Hoffman - civil rights activist, Yippie, author and media artist - went 'underground' to avoid a long prison sentence for allegedly selling cocaine to a police...