Old Left, New Left, What's Left? - Paul Mattick, Jr.
Paul Mattick Jr. takes a look at the 'New Left' and student movement at the end of the 1960s.
NB this is a longer version of the text that appeared in Root & Branch #1.
The Origins of Collective Decision-Making by Andy Blunden
A history of majority and consensus decision-making structures used by direct-democratic assemblies of the sort advocated for by libertarian socialists
Review: ‘Revolution in the Air’ by Max Elbaum - Loren Goldner
Loren Goldner reviews Max Elbaum's 'Revolution in the Air', and in the process critically examines Maoist and Third Worldist politics.
Students for a Stalinist Society - James W. Cain
A 1969 article about the dominance and factional fights of various Stalinist sects within Students For A Democratic Society.
SDS and the Wobblies: memories and observations - Paul Buhle
An article by Paul Buhle about the commonalities and limited crossover between the 1960s radical group, Students For A Democratic Society (SDS) and the revolutionary union, the Industrial Workers of the World.
The new radicals in the multiversity and other SDS writings on student syndicalism - Carl Davidson
A manual for budding student organisers from one of the leaders of Students for a Democratic Society, the biggest student organisation in the US in the radical upsurge of the late 1960s. Much of its contents are still of use to students today.
Radical America, 1967-1999
Submitted by Juan Conatz on Oct 10 2012 04:56
A history of the magazine Radical America, which emerged out of, and eventually outlasted, Students For A Democratic Society.
Toward a student syndicalist movement
Position paper by Carl Davidson delivered at the August 1966 Students For A Democratic Society (SDS) Convention in Clear Lake, Iowa.
SDS: The rise and development of the Students for a Democratic Society
Submitted by Juan Conatz on Oct 8 2012 12:49
Kirkpatrick Sale's massive book on Students For a Democratic Society, a student activist movement in the United States that was one of the main representations of the country's New Left.
The way the wind blew: A history of the Weather Underground
A detailed history of the US left-wing urban guerrilla group the Weather Underground, or Weathermen.
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