A new dawn for the New Left : Liberation News Service, Montague Farm, and the long sixties / Blake Slonecker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Slonecker, Blake, 1981-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Liberation News Service (Montague, Mass.).

Liberation News Service (New York, N.Y.).

New Left--United States--History.

New Left.

Radicalism--United States--History--20th century.

Radicalism.

History.

United States.

Social movements--United States--History--20th century.

Social movements.

Liberation News Service (New York, N.Y.)--History.

Liberation News Service (Montague, Mass.)--History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 267 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Summary:

In the summer of 1968, with political violence on the rise in the United States and new protest movements blossoming worldwide, Liberation News Service-a news agency for leftist underground media-split into warring factions, encapsulating the ambitions and tensions that were roiling the New Left. As both sides fought for control of the Movement's information infrastructure, acrimony continued to deepen, until a decisive break occurred: the organization's old guard raided their own offices and fled to Montague Farm, a commune in western Massachusetts, leaving behind a determined coterie of upstarts who remained engaged with the world of New York radical politics. Over the next decade, activists on both sides would continue to battle, not only for social justice, but for personal liberation. This lively narrative traces the entwined histories of Liberation News Service and Montague Farm, providing an intimate look at how New Left institutions founded on the utopian ideals of the 1960s adapted their politics to survive in the 1970s. Book jacket.

Contents:

Morning Liberation News Service, 1967-1968

1 Magic! Uniting the Underground Press 13

2 "Hello, Goodbye": The LNS Split 31

Noon, Part 1 Montague Farm, 1968-1973

3 Down on the Farm: Privacy and Community 47

4 Liberation Limited: Sexuality and Tragedy 59

5 Karass: Family 71

Noon, Part 2 Liberation News Service, 1968-1973

6 Good Politics: The SDS Split and Third World Marxism 85

7 The Ratio: Women's Liberation 99

8 The Collective Will: Gay Liberation and Cubaphilia 111

Evening, Part 1 Montague Farm, 1973-1981

9 Lovejoy's Nuclear War 127

10 Montague's Nuclear War 137

11 New England's Nuclear War 147

12 Springsteen's Nuclear War 159

Evening, Part 2 Liberation News Service, 1973-1981

13 Hard Times 169

14 A Mirror for the Movement 177

15 Left Behind 187.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137280824

1137280824

OCLC:

794708886