Guerrilla USA

[Dave Monroe]

Guerrilla USA
The George Jackson Brigade and the Anticapitalist Underground of the 1970s
Daniel Burton-Rose

Available worldwide

Paperback, 358 pages
ISBN: 9780520264298
June 2010
$21.95, £14.95

Hardcover, 358 pages
ISBN: 9780520264281
June 2010
$55.00, £37.95

“We are cozy cuddly/armed and dangerous/and we will/raze the fucking
prisons/to the ground.” In an attempt to deliver on this promise, the
George Jackson Brigade launched a violent three-year campaign in the
mid-1970s against corporate and state institutions in the Pacific
Northwest. This campaign, conceived by a group of blacks and whites,
both straight and gay, claimed fourteen bombings, as many bank
robberies, and a jailbreak. Drawing on extensive interviews with
surviving members of the George Jackson Brigade, Guerrilla USA
provides an inside-out perspective on the social movements of the
1970s, revealing the whole era in a new and more complex light. It is
also a compelling exploration of the true nature of crime and a
provocative meditation on the tension between self-restraint and anger
in the process of social change.

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