Dancin' in the streets! : anarchists, IWWs, surrealists, Situationists & Provos in the 1960s as recorded in the pages of The rebel worker & Heatwave / edited with introductions by Franklin Rosemont & Charles Radcliffe.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rosemont, Franklin.

Radcliffe, Charles, 1942-

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Sixties series ; 3.

The sixties series ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anarchism--United States.

Anarchism.

Anarchism--Great Britain.

Revolutionary literature.

Rebel Worker.

Heatwave.

Great Britain.

Illinois--Chicago.

United States.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xi, 447 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Charles H. Kerr, 2005.

Summary:

Most books on the 1960s focus on large liberal organizations and reformist politics. This one is unabashedly devoted to the far left of the far left. The Rebel Worker was a mimeo'd magazine started by young members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) in Chicago, 1964. Unlike the lily-white, upper- and middle-class New Left, the Rebel Worker group was multi-racial and workingclass. Their goals: to abolish wage-slavery and the state by means of direct action, collective creation, and solidarity. Inspired not only by the hobo wisdom of their Wob mentors, but also by surrealism, these young men and women also drew on a wide range of anti-capitalist thinkers as well as subversive currents in pop culture. In their view, making the Revolution and having a good time were not contradictory!

While square critics derided them as "the left wing of the Beat Generation," The Rebel Worker and its sister journal Heatwave in London became well known for their highly original revolutionary perspective, innovative social/cultural criticism, and uninhibited class-war humor. Rejecting traditional left dogma, and proudly affirming the influence of Bugs Bunny and the Incredible Hulk, these playful rebels against work expanded the critique of Capital into a critique of daily life and developed a truly radical theory and practice, rooted in poetry, provocation, blues, jazz and the pleasure principle. Active in strikes, free-speech fights and other tumults, they also introduced countless readers to important writings by and about surrealists, situationists, IWWs, anarchists, libertarian Marxists, Provos, the Japanese Zengakuren, and other political/cultural revolutionary-minded individuals and movements from all over the world.

Contents:

A Note on the Texts

Part I. The Rebel Worker

To Be Revolutionary in Everything: The Rebel Worker Story, 1964-1968 / Franklin Rosemont

Rebel Worker 1

Why Rebel? / Fred Thompson

Editorial: The Wobblies Return in Chicago

A Longshoreman's Call / Jimmy Jewers

Education-What Is It? / Jack Sheridan

The Great Magician / Rene Daumal

Will We All Go Together When We Go? / Barbara Garson

Introduction to T-Bone Slim / Franklin Rosemont

T-Bone Slim: Selections

Rebel Worker 2

Editorial: On the Job

Organizing Blueberries / Torvald Faegre

Shorty: The Kitten in the Wheat

Thoughts on Bureaucracy / Bob Potter

Starvation Army 1964 / Daniel R. Thompson

Letters from Guy B. Askew, Bruce Elwell, Abraham Wuori, George Slavchuk, Hyatt Bache, Bernard Marszalek

Rebel Worker 3

The Unfree Child / A.S. Neill

The Victims of the Benefactors of the Poor / Torvald Faegre

Egyptian Trouble-A Story / Murray Steib

Harlem Journal-Homage to Pandemonia / Robert S. Calese

The Fleas of the Field / Benjamin Peret

Mods, Rockers and the Revolution / Franklin Rosemont

Conditioning for Bureaucracy / Robert Green

Storming Heaven in Hungary / Penelope Rosemont

Note: A "Labor Leader" Speaks

Anarchism as Seen from an Ivory Tower Through Opaque Lenses / Bernard Marszalek

Letters from Guy B. Askew, Tom Hillier, Judith Kaplan, Ian Bedford, Marc Prevotel, Alan Graham

Rebel Worker 4

How to Make Friends and Influence No Owe / Craig T. Beagle

Modern Capitalism and Revolution / Cornelius Castoriadis

Zengakuren-Perspective of the Revolutionary Movement of Japan / Joji Onada and Torum Kurokawa

Berkeley Was Only the Beginning / Penelope Rosemont

Everything Must Be Made Anew / Franklin Rosemont

Malatesta / Bernard Marszalek

Letters from Deri Smith, Barton Stone, Ken Weller, I. Shigeo, O.N. Peterson, Martin Glaberman, Judy Kaplan

Rebel Worker 5

Watching the War / Torvald Faegre

On the Unwholesomeness of Honest Toil / Louise Crowley

Black Intervention in America's Dreams / Peter Allen

Popularly Applauded and Sciolistically Obfuscated / Bernard Marszalek

5 O'Clock World-Pop Music and Propaganda / Jim Evrard

Windy City Emergency / Jonathan Leake

London Bluesletter / Charles Radcliffe

Letters from Jim Evrard, Judi Sigler, Brooks Lewis Erickson, Arthur Mendes-George

Rebel Worker 6

Editorial (London edition): Freedom: The Only Cause Worth Serving

Editorial (Chicago edition): Lost Whispers

A Very Nice, Very Respectable, Very Useless Campaign / Charles Radcliffe

Souvenirs of the Future-Precursors of the Theory and Practice of Total Liberation / Franklin Rosemont

Humor or Not or Less or Else! / Penelope Rosemont

The Who-Crime Against the Bourgeoisie / Charles Radcliffe

The Haunted Mirror / Franklin Rosemont and Penelope Rosemont

I Am Not Angry: I Am Enraged! / Archie Shepp

I Hate the Poor / Kenneth Patchen

Letter from Chicago / Bernard Marszalek

Rebel Worker 7

Wild Celery / Bernard Marszalek and Franklin Rosemont

I Saw It On TV and Then We Proved It at Home / Bernard Marszalek

Post No Bills / Benjamin Peret

Vengeance of the Black Swan: Notes on Poetry and Revolution / Franklin Rosemont

The Colors of Freedom / Andre Breton

Elementary Structures of Reification / Jean Garnault

Delight Not Death / Lawrence DeCoster

Reminiscences of T-Bone Slim / Guy B. Askew

5 O'clock World 2-Workers' Hobbies / Jim Evrard

White Rabbits / Leonora Carrington

A Plea to All / Robert D. Casey

Prophetic Mutterings / James W Cain

Not Every Paradise Is Lost- Andre Breton, 1896-1966 / Franklin Rosemont

Letters from Mike Everett, Linda Kopczyk, Madrid Daniele, Lester Dore, Nicolas Calas, Charles Radcliffe

From the Rebel Worker Pamphlets

Pop Goes the Beatle (from Mods, Rockers & the Revolution) / Charles Radcliffe

Blackout-24 Hours of Black Anarchy in New York / Robert S. Calese

Consciousness and Theory (from Revolutionary Consciousness / Jim Evrard

Reflections on Invisibility (from Revolutionary Consciousness) / Walter Caughey

Surrealist Ambush (Preface to Surrealism and Revolution) / Franklin Rosemont

The Surrealist Group in Paris: Open the Prisons! Disband the Army! (from Surrealism and Revolution)

The Surrealist Group in Paris: Declaration of 27 January, 1925 (from Surrealism and Revolution)

The Surrealist Group in Paris: Letter to the Directors of Lunatic Asylums (from Surrealism and Revolution)

The Surrealist Group in Paris: Inaugural Break (from Surrealism and Revolution)

Introduction and Epilogue to The Decline and Fall of the Spectacular Commodity-Economy / Bernard Marszalek

Other Rebel Worker Documents

In Defense of the Roosevelt University Wobblies / Paul Goodman

The Meaning of it All: Introduction to the Solidarity Bookshop catalogue

High School Students! Why Stay in School?

Ztangi! (Some Texts that Might Have Been Included in a Journal that Never Appeared)

The Poverty of Piety / Bernard Marszalek

Malcolm, Semper Malcolm / Charles Radcliffe

Beyond Coition-Thoughts on the Man Question / Louise Crowley

A Black Power Wildcat in Chicago / Franklin Rosemont

Earth Music-The AACM / Anthony Braxton

History as Hallucination / Jonathan Leake

Toward a Counter-Society / Bernard Marszalek

Mushroom Country / Charles Willoughby Smith

Mommy in Toyland / Sharon Freedman

The Jimi Hendrix Experience / Franklin Rosemont

Surrealism-By Any Means Necessary / Bernard Marszalek

Ice Palace / Penelope Rosemont

On the Situationists' "Intellectual Terrorism" / Jim Evrard

Letter from California / Jonathan Leake

Introduction to The Incredible Hulk / Franklin Rosemont

Letters from Tony Allan, Her de Vries, Schlechter Duvall, Deri Smith, Russell Jacoby

Part II. Heatwave

Two Fiery Flying Rolls-The Heatwave Story, 1966-1970 / Charles Radcliffe

Heatwave 1

The Provotariat Acts / Charles Radcliffe

The Great Accident of England / John O'Connor

Extract from The Expanded Journal of Addiction / Paul Garon

Only Lovers Left Alive / Charles Radcliffe

The Seeds of Social Destruction / Charles Radcliffe

The Long Hot Summer in Chicago / Bernard Marszalek

Daytripper! A Visit to Amsterdam / Charles Radcliffe

Heatwave 2

All or Not at All! / Christopher Gray and Charles Radcliffe

The Provo Riots / Christopher Gray and Charles Radcliffe

The Almost Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp / Uel Cameron

Landscape With Moveable Parts / Franklin Rosemont

A New International for the Total Overthrow of Everything / Charles Radcliffe

Guerrilla Manifesto / Walter Caughey and Jonathan Leake, et al.

The Forecast is Hot! / Chicago Surrealist Group, et al.

Notes:

At head of title: Critical theory at its Bugs Bunnyist best! Dialectics in the spirit of the Incredible Hulk!

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0882863010

9780882863016

0882863029

9780882863023

OCLC:

58928861