Guerrilla USA: The George Jackson Brigade and the Anticapitalist Underground of the 1970s

By Daniel Burton-Rose

Book Overview

"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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520264290
• ISBN13: 9780520264298
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"